Frederick (Rick) Warren-Boulton, PhD
Expert
Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics, Princeton University
M.P.A, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
B.A., in Economics, Yale University
Dr. Frederick R. (Rick) Warren-Boulton is an internationally recognized economics expert in the fields of antitrust and industrial organization, particularly in the economics of vertical restraints, mergers, price fixing, exclusion, and monopolization, and has testified and published extensively on those issues. Dr. Warren-Boulton served for six years as Chief Economist of the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice (DOJ), first as Director of its Economic Policy Office and then as the first Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economic Analysis, before cofounding MiCRA, an economic consulting firm specializing in applied microeconomic theory, industrial organization and econometrics, in 1991. He is a former Associate Professor of Economics at Washington University (St. Louis), a former Visiting Lecturer at Princeton University, a former Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and a former Research Professor of Psychology at American University.
Dr. Warren-Boulton has published and consulted extensively on mergers, price fixing, exclusion and other restrictive or collusive agreements. His publications on mergers concern the effect of mergers on prices, methods of antitrust analysis of mergers, and the U.S. Merger Guidelines. At the DOJ, he was a primary author of the US Sentencing Guidelines for criminal antitrust offenses such as price fixing and market allocation. He has lectured and written on related issues such as optimal fines, penalties, and leniency
Dr. Warren-Boulton has served as the testifying expert for a number of government agencies on landmark monopolization and merger cases, including for the Department of Justice in U.S. v. AT&T, U.S. v. Microsoft, and U.S. v. H&R Block, for the Federal Trade Commission in FTC v. Staples and Office Depot and FTC v. Ardagh Group et al, and for competition authorities in Canada and New Zealand on matters involving mergers, price fixing, and exclusion.
He has provided econometric estimates of harm for private parties negotiating fines and penalties with the DOJ and the antitrust agencies in Canada, the European Union, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand, and has been the expert for liability and damages for both defendant and plaintiffs in a number of class action and opt-out cases in the US involving price fixing or market allocation in a wide variety of industries, including air cargo, ocean car carriers and parcel shipping, auto parts, capacitors, computer software and hardware and generic and prescription drugs.
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