applEcon is pleased to announce the affiliation of expert Dr. David Keiser. Dr. Keiser is an environmental economist with a focus on the economics of water resources. His work covers a wide-range of topics, including non-market valuation, damage estimation, and policy evaluation. Dr. Keiser has engaged as an expert witness and consultant on a number…
Dr. Brian C. Becker has served as an economic expert witness and consultant for more than thirty years on behalf of corporations, law firms, governments, and organizations. With a focus on quantitative valuations, Dr. Becker has provided written and oral testimony in disputes over transfer pricing, intellectual property, financial transactions, international trade, business valuations, and…
applEcon is pleased to announce the affiliation of expert Gabriel Lade. Dr. Lade specializes in environmental and natural resource economics. His areas of expertise include biofuels regulation, valuation of water and air quality, and utility conservation. His research has explored the economics and consumer impacts of renewable fuels regulations, the impacts of air pollution on…
applEcon is pleased to announce the affiliation of expert David G. Campbell. Dr. Campbell has more than twenty years of experience performing statistical and econometric analysis in consulting projects for corporate and government clients. His practice focuses on antitrust, statistical sampling, environmental economics and health care matters. Dr. Campbell has broad experience in a wide…
More than a decade ago, applEcon provided support for plaintiffs in Pro-Sys Consultants Ltd. and Neil Godfrey v. Microsoft Corporation and Microsoft Canada Co., one of the first indirect-purchaser antitrust class actions certified in Canada. Now, the landmark case is becoming the standard for antitrust class certification in British, as well as Canadian, courts.
applEcon Partner Janet S. Netz chaired the “How to Quantify Damages?” panel during the Fifth Annual Global Class Action Conference on April 27th in London. The Global Class Action and Mass Torts Conference is one of the largest international class action conferences for 2023. The panel discussed the issues of quantifying the overcharge rate and…
Dr. Jeffrey MacKie-Mason testified at trial as Plaintiff’s expert on antitrust liability in Valassis Communications, Inc. v. News Corp., 17-cv-7378 (PKC). The case focused on actions taken by News to maintain its monopoly for in-store promotions sold by third party suppliers. applEcon supported the testimony of Dr. MacKie-Mason on behalf of Valassis as well as…
applEcon Partner, Josh Palmer, published an article, “It’s High Tide Again in Internet Markets” in The Journal of the Antitrust, UCL and Privacy Section of the California Lawyers Association, Fall 2020, Vol. 30, No. 2. In his article, Dr. Palmer briefly reviews the antitrust cases against Microsoft in the mid-1990s and subsequent antitrust lessons economists drew from…
applEcon Partner Josh Palmer recently participated in The Knowledge Group’s webcast titled Antitrust Economics – Fundamental Concepts Practitioners Need to Know. Dr. Palmer discussed the ways an economist can assist with pre-litigation issues and class certification analyses, reviewed the effect of known or potential uninjured class members in addressing common impact, and proposed strategies and tips for…
Eric Fegan’s honors thesis, “The Effects of PFAS Contamination on the Michigan Housing Market”, was awarded the Henry Carter Adams Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Writing for economics. This honor is presented by the Department of Economics at the University of Michigan for “best undergraduate paper in economics”. Eric’s thesis investigates the causal relationship between…