NERA Economic Consulting
50 Main Street
14th Floor
White Plains, NY 10606
tel: +1 914 448 4044
fax: +1 914 448 4040
Education
PhD in economics, Harvard University
ScB in applied mathematics and economics, with Honors, Brown University
Languages
English, Spanish
Dr. David Blackburn
Senior Consultant
Dr. Blackburn is a Senior Consultant in NERA's Intellectual Property Practice. His areas of expertise include intellectual property, antitrust and competition policy, and econometric analysis.
Before joining NERA, Dr. Blackburn received his doctorate in economics from Harvard University and his ScB in applied mathematics and economics, with Honors, from Brown University. While at Harvard, his research focused on the economics of intellectual property and the development of monetary systems. Dr. Blackburn's doctoral dissertation was an analysis of the economics of copying, with a detailed examination of the effects of file sharing on the recorded music industry.
His research was cited in testimony to the US Senate by the chairman and CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America in MGM v. Grokster.
Dr. Blackburn has taught undergraduate-level courses at Harvard University and Framingham State College and a graduate-level course in the economics of regulation and antitrust at the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán in Argentina.
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