Dr. Buckberg directs projects in the areas of securities economics, finance, valuation, and regulation. She provides expert testimony and litigation support in these areas as well as advisory consulting on risk management issues. Her testimony and litigation experience includes regulatory, criminal, and civil securities cases.
In securities litigation, Dr. Buckberg has led engagements involving hedge funds, subprime and structured finance securities, mutual fund market timing and fees, IPO allocation, broker-dealer disputes, insider trading, and disgorgement. She has extensive experience with shareholder class actions. Dr. Buckberg has also directed projects in complex commercial litigation involving valuation in mergers and acquisitions, fraudulent conveyance, and bankruptcy. In addition to expert testimony, Dr. Buckberg has made presentations on behalf of clients to federal and state securities regulators. Her advisory work includes integrated modeling of credit and market risk for the valuation of new financial derivatives.
Prior to joining NERA, Dr. Buckberg was a Vice President at Morgan Stanley, where she was first a currency strategist, then a regulatory policy specialist in the market risk division.
Dr. Buckberg began her career as an Economist at the International Monetary Fund, covering a broad range of issues including strategies for crisis resolution in the event of sovereign defaults, US tax policy, and the need for institutional reform in Russia in order to promote growth.
Her research has been published in International Finance, IMF Staff Papers, World Bank Economic Review, The Business Lawyer, Class Action Litigation, and The Corporate Compliance and Regulatory Newsletter. Dr. Buckberg is a member of the American Economic Association.
Dr. Buckberg received her PhD in economics from MIT with concentrations in macroeconomics and international finance. She received her BA in economics and English literature from Yale University, magna cum laude and with Distinction in English literature. She is fluent in Spanish and French.
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