Curriculum Vitae

 

(updated 2011)

 

Katharine E. Rockett

 

Date of Birth: 26/12/58                              Home Address: 48 Belle Vue Road

Citizenship: USA, Belgium                                                  Wivenhoe

                                                                                       Essex C07 9LD

                                                                                       U.K.

                                                                Telephone: (01206) 827 901

Married, Two children (1/1/95 and 12/8/97)

 

Work Address: Department of Economics

                     University of Essex

                     Wivenhoe Park

                     Colchester

                     Essex C04 3SQ

                     U.K.

Telephone:  (01206) 873 559

Fax:            (01206) 872 724

Email: kerock@essex.ac.uk

 

Degrees:

 

Ph.D. in Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 1988

 

Fields of Concentration: Industrial Organisation

                                   Econometrics

 

Thesis Title: “Essays on the Licensing of Technology and on the International Coordination of Macroeconomic Policy”

 

B.A. in Economics and Russian Studies, with Honours, Magna Cum Laude, Brown University, 1980.

 

Research and Teaching Fields:

 

Technology Diffusion and R&D, Industrial Organisation, International Trade, Applied Microeconomics, Strategy

 

Courses Taught:

 

MBA level: Strategy and Organisations, Competitive Strategy, Strategic Management of Technology

 

Undergraduate Economics:  Intermediate Microeconomics,  Market Structure and Strategic Behaviour, Management of New Technology, Environmental Economics, Economics for Business

 

MSc level: International Trade

 

Professional Experience:

 

Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Essex, 2004-present

 

Associate Professor II in Economics, Department of Economics, Norwegian College of Fishery Science (Tromso), 2006-2010.

 

Dean, Social Sciences, University of Essex, 2010-2011.

 

Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Essex, 1999-2004

 

Visiting Assistant Professor, Instituto de Analisis Economico, CSIC, 1993-1994 and 1996-1999

 

Assistant Professor of Management and Strategy, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, 1988-1996

 

Consultant, Blue Cross of California, 1983.

 

Pension Analyst, Mutual of New York, 1980-1982.

 

Refereed Publications:

 

·         With Jeffrey Frankel, “International Macroeconomic Policy Coordination when Policymakers Disagree on the True Model”, American Economic Review, 78(3), June, 1988

·         “Choosing the Competition and Patent Licensing”, Rand Journal of Economics, Spring, 1990, pp. 161-171.

·         “The Quality of Licensed Technology”, International Journal of Industrial Organisation, December, 1990.

·         With Jeffrey Frankel and Scott Erwin, “International Macroeconomic Policy Coordination When Policymakers do not Agree on the True Model: Reply”, American Economic Review, 82(4), September, 1992, pp. 1052-1056.

·         With Carmen Matutes and Pierre Regibeau, “Compensation Schemes and Labor Market Competition: Piece Rate Versus Wage Rate”, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 3(2), Summer 1994, pp. 225-253.

·         With Alejandro Manelli and Pierre Regibeau, “Trademark Protection and Post-Patent Competition”, Cuadernos Economicos, 57(2), 1994, pp. 115-139.

·         With Neil Gandal, “Licensing a Sequence of Innovations”, Economics Letters, 47, 1995, pp. 101-107.

·         With Carmen Matutes and Pierre Regibeau, “Optimal Patent Design and the Diffusion of Innovations”, Rand Journal of Economics, Spring 1996, pp. 60-83.

·         With Pierre Regibeau, “The Timing of Product Introduction and the Credibility of Compatibility Decisions”, International Journal of Industrial Organisation, 1996, pp. 801-823.

·         With Jonathan Eaton, Eva Gutierrez, Samuel Kortum, Philippe Aghion, “European Technology Policy”, Economic Policy, 27, 1998, 405-438.

·         With Timothy Besley, Paul Seabright, Peter Birch Sorensen, “The Effects and Policy Implications of State Aids to Industry: An Economic Analysis”, Economic Policy, 28, 1999, 15-53.

·         With Thomas Gehrig and Pierre Regibeau, “Project Evaluation and Organisational Form”, Review of Economic Design, 5(2), June 2000, pp. 177-199.  Reprinted in Bhaskar Dutta and Matthew Jackson, Eds. Networks and Groups: Models of Strategic Formation.  Springer: Berlin.  2003.

·         With Dietmar Harhoff and Pierre Regibeau, "Some Simple Economics of GM Foods", Economic Policy 33,  October, 2001, pp. 263-299.

·         With David Besanko and Pierre Regibeau, “A Multi-task Principal-Agent Approach to Organisational Form”, Journal of Industrial Economics 53(4), December, 2005, pp. 437-467. Also CEPR Discussion Paper 2443. 

·         With Pierre Regibeau, "Administrative Delays as Barriers to Trade”, Contributions in Economic Policy and Analysis, Berkeley Economic Press, 5(1), Article 27, September, 2006.

·         With Pierre Regibeau, “Innovation Cycles and Learning at the Patent Office:  Does the Early Patent Get the Delay?”  Journal of Industrial Economics, 58(2), June 2010.

·         Microeconomics: An Integrated Approach (Study Guide).  Wiley: New York.  2002 (561 pp.). ISBN 0-471-39092-5. also Microeconomics, 2nd Edition (Study Guide), Wiley: New York. 2005. 573 pp with related web materials.  International Student Version, 2008.

·         With Pierre Regibeau, "The Relationship Between Intellectual Property Law and Competition Law: An Economic Approach," in Anderman, S. Editor,  The Interface between Intellectual Property Rights and Competition Law, Cambridge University Press, (ISBN 0521863163). February, 2007.  Also appears as University of Essex Discussion Paper 581, June, 2004.

·         With Pierre Regibeau, "Competition, Regulation and Intellectual Property Management in Genetically Modified Foods: Evidence from Survey Data" in Mazzucato, M. and G. Dosi, Eds., Knowledge Accumulation and Industry Evolution: The Case of Pharma-Biotech.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2006 (ISBN 13 978-0-521-85822-9)

·         “Property Rights and Invention”, Ch. 7 in Hall, Bronwyn and Nate Rosenberg, Editors, Handbook of the Economics of Innovation, V. 1, North Holland/Elsevier Handbook Series.  2010. 

·         With Jacek Prokop and Pierre Regibeau, “Minimum Quality Standards and Novelty Requirements in a One-Shot Development Race”,  Economics-ejournal, article 2010-15.    

·         With Pierre Regibeau, “Assessment of Potential Anticompetitive Conduct in the Field of Intellectual Property Rights and Assessment of the Interplay between Competition Policy and IPR Protection”, European Commission Competition Report (COMP/2010/16), available at http://ec.europa.eu/competition/consultations/2012_technology_transfer/study_ipr_en.pdf.

·         Book review:  “Topics in the Economics of Innovation”, Economica.  forthcoming.

·         With Pierre Regibeau, “Economic Analysis of Resilience: A Framework for Local Policy Response Based on New Case Studies”, mimeo. October, 2011. Journal of Innovation Economics, forthcoming.    

·         With Maurizio Conti and Pierre Regibeau, "How Basic is (Patented) University Research? The Case of GM Crop Innovation", University of Essex Department of Economics Discussion Paper 558, June, 2003.  Revised, September, 2007.  Currently under revision.

 

Work in Progress:

 

With Laurel Adams and Pierre Regibeau:  “Cross-Border Environmental Policy in the Presence of DFI and Internal Subsidy Competition”, mimeo.

With Laurel Adams and Pierre Regibeau: “Regional Development Policy in the Presence of DFI”, mimeo.

With Samra Maryam and Pierre Regibeau: “Innovation Importance and Patent Grant Delay: Evidence from the Development of Stents”, mimeo.

With Pierre Regibeau: “Grant-Backs and the ‘But For…’ Defence”, mimeo.

Introduction to Special Issue for Economics-ejournal  entitled “The Knowledge-Based Society: Transition, Geography and Competition Policy”, mimeo.

 

 

Citations:

 

RePec ranking: 12th percentile average citation-weighted rank score.   

 

Professional Activities:

Referee for: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, The American Economic Review, Berkeley Electronic Press, The Economic Journal, The International Journal of the Economics of Business, The International Journal of Industrial Organisation, The Journal of Development Economics, The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organisation, The Journal of Economics, The Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, The Journal of Industrial Economics, The Journal of International Economics, Management Science, The Rand Journal of Economics, The Review of Economic Studies, The European Economic Review, The Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Science and Public Policy, Information Economics and Policy, Oxford Economic Papers, The Manchester School, The Review of Economics and Statistics.

 

Editorial Board, International Journal of Economics and Business, 2004-present.

Associate Editor, Economics-ejournal, Kiel Institute, 2007-present.

 

Research Fellow, CEPR (1997-present)

 

·         Applied Industrial Organization Conference Organizing Committee, CEPR,  2004-

     present

 

Scientific Committee, EARIE, 2010

 

Member, Economic Policy Panel, 1997-1999.

 

iCES Fellow, University of Essex (2009-present)

 

Royal Economic Society Council, 2006-2011. (member, RES, 2005-present) Trustee: 2006-2010

 

Keynote/Plenary Sessions:  GAEL conference, Grenoble 2005.

                                       EPIP conference, Lund, 2007.

 

External Reviewer, Teaching Programme Review in Economics, University of Edinburgh, 2006.

 

LSE Summer School, External Examiner, 2006-2010.

Edinburgh Department of Economics, External Examiner, 2009-2011.

University of London, External Study, Third Year Industrial Organisation 

                                  examination setting and marking, 2009-present.

 

Listed, Who’s Who.

 

 

Honors:

 

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award (University of California, Berkeley, 1986), Apple for the Teacher Award (University of Essex, 2004)

 

Phi Beta Kappa (Brown University, 1980)

 

Languages:

 

English (native), French (fluent), Spanish (intermediate)

 

Grants

 

Principal investigator, ESRC grant Contract number L145251003, "GM Foods: Facts, Mergers, Business Practices and Intellectual Property".  October,2001 - March,2003 with Pierre Regibeau.  Reviewer marks "Good" and "Outstanding" with overall grade "Good". Amount of award: £32,719.56. 

 

Principal investigator, ESF Exploratory Workshop Fund grant number EW02-177, "The Impact of Institutions on Innovation: The Case of Biotechnology."  Workshop held September, 2003, with Pierre Regibeau.  Amount of award: £11,872.74.

 

Global Challenges “Local Resilience” (grant participant): total award £50,000.

 

The Knowledge Based Society:  Transition, Geography, and Competition Policy (grant participant):  total award 4Mm NOK.

 

With Pierre Regibeau (co-principals), “Assessment of Potential Anticompetitive Conduct in the Field of Intellectual Property Rights and Assessment of the Interplay between Competition Policy and IPR Protection  European Commission contract COMP/2010/16.

 

Post-Graduate Supervision and Seminars: list available upon request