Triangle Economics offers analytical economics services to parties involved in or considering adversarial matters involving competition or commercial damages. Our independent analyses help us to advise our clients, and can be used as the basis for expert testimony in a legal proceeding.
Triangle Economics serves as consulting economists or expert witnesses for antitrust litigation, or for clients considering litigation. Triangle Economics’ President, Craig Romaine, has decades of experience providing litigation consulting and expert witness services in a wide range of industries and types of matters. These include:
As part of our work, we often assist counsel in drafting discovery requests, preparing for depositions, and interviewing company personnel.
Triangle Economics provides economic analysis of the potential competitive effects of a proposed transaction. This may involve consideration of some or all of the following:
In carrying out these analyses, Triangle Economics uses a number of tools and analytical constructs, including the Hypothetical Monopolist Test, the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, upward pricing pressure indexes, vertical foreclosure arithmetic, and merger simulation.
In addition, Triangle Economics provides evaluation and estimation of cognizable and merger-specific efficiencies.
Triangle Economics can also help to respond to second requests by compiling and documenting datasets or drafting responses to questions. Throughout the analysis, we work closely with counsel and company personnel.
Triangle Economics can estimate monetary damages for a range of different circumstances, including price-fixing overcharge damages, other types of antitrust damages such as lost profits, and commercial damages for breach of contract or other types of matters. This typically involves modeling the counterfactual, and may employ before-during-after models, difference-in-difference or dummy variable regression models, yardstick, or other relevant approaches. Triangle Economics can also evaluate damage models put forward by other experts and perform a “red team” critique of a client’s damage model.