Rob Conners Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

Managing analyst at a leading economic consulting firm specializing in antitrust and competition economics. Help develop economic arguments made by academic economists in testimony before the Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, and Federal and state courts. Analyze large and complex databases produced by Fortune 500 companies and use regression analysis and other statistical methods to understand and estimate relationships within the data. Extensive experience within consumer electronics, pharmaceuticals, retroreflective sheeting, long-term care pharmacies, video games, and payment cards.Representative projects:- Estimated rates at which “direct” purchasers passed on alleged overcharges to “indirect” purchasers for more than 20 individual entities in a large and historic price-fixing case involving consumer electronics.- Critiqued substitutability study submitted by an opposing economist using kernel-weighted regression analysis in a simulation football video game case. Showed that the proposed model was ineffective in determining substitutability as it failed to identify even other simulation football games as substitutes.- Analyzed bidding data of two 3D printer manufacturers to prove to the FTC that the parties rarely competed directly for work and the proposed merger would not result in less vigorous competition in the industry. - Assisted in determining the most economically appropriate rate of interest to be applied to delayed compensation for regulatory takings by the federal government.