NERA Economic Consulting

ramsey.shehadeh@nera.com
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Education

PhD and MA in economics, Cornell University
BS in mathematical economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Experience

Dr. Shehadeh's areas of interest include the economics of antitrust, and the economics of liability, damages, and class certification in commercial disputes. His research addresses issues raised in the context of government and regulatory investigations, complex commercial litigation, and business strategy. He also specializes in the application of statistical modeling and econometrics to these areas.

At NERA, Dr. Shehadeh has conducted research and prepared expert reports on the competitive effects of mergers, joint ventures, and other business combinations in a variety of industries. He has presented his research numerous times before a variety of enforcement agencies and in court proceedings, including before the US Federal Trade Commission, the US Department of Justice, the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, attorneys general, members of Congress, the European Commission, and the Canadian Competition Bureau, among others. In addition, Dr. Shehadeh has conducted research for civil litigation on a broad range of market power issues -- including price fixing, bid rigging, patent pooling, predation, price discrimination, standards setting, vertical foreclosure, franchising, and contractual ancillary restraints.

Dr. Shehadeh also has conducted research and prepared expert reports in complex commercial litigations related to breach of contract, business impairment, business interruption, adhesion, franchise disputes, fraud, fraudulent conveyance, other tort allegations, and patent, copyright, and trademark infringement. This research has included calculation of damages and research on economic issues related to liability.

Dr. Shehadeh has spoken and lectured frequently on antitrust economics, including the evaluation of the competitive effects of mergers and acquisitions, and on the application of economics in complex commercial litigation. He has conducted research in industrial organization and econometrics and published his research in peer-reviewed journals.

Dr. Shehadeh received his MA and PhD degrees in economics from Cornell University. While at Cornell, Dr. Shehadeh specialized in industrial organization, regulation, and econometrics, and taught mathematical economics.

Selected Industry Experience:

Agriculture
:: Agricultural products
:: Agricultural technologies, including seed design and animal health
:: Fertilizer and agricultural inputs
Aircraft Power Systems, Parts, and Supplies
Automobiles
Building Materials
:: Cement, aggregate, concrete, concrete products
:: Insulation, wood products
Chemicals
:: Industrial chemicals and gases
:: Petrochemicals, lubricants, solvents
:: Plastics, plastic products, synthetic fibers
:: Logistics
Consumer
:: Textiles and apparel
:: Food, e.g., RTE cereals
:: Beverages, including beer and wine
:: Cosmetics and perfumes
:: Eyeglasses
:: Electronics
:: Tools, home hardware, and furnishings
:: Office supplies
:: Plastic products and packaging
:: Retailing
:: Sports and sports equipment
:: Tobacco
Defense, including arms, ammunitions, communications, defense services
Finance
:: Financial systems and compliance services
:: Financial products, including futures, forwards, insurance, reinsurance, mutual funds, market making, exchanges, home purchase financing, education financing, securitizations
:: Corporate Governance
Government Procurement
Health
:: Benefits management
:: Insurance
:: Life sciences
:: Long-term care services
:: Medical devices and diagnostics
:: Pharmaceuticals and biologics
:: Pharmacy services
Industrial Technologies and Services
:: Electrical power systems
:: Manufacturing equipment and technologies
:: Environmental technologies
:: Industrial Packaging
:: Waste hauling and disposal
Information Technologies/Information Systems
:: Hardware, including:
>> Microprocessors, memory, and other integrated circuits/semiconductor devices
>> Networking, telecommunications, and satellite equipment and services
>> Storage devices and related equipment
:: Software, including enterprise and consumer software including ERP applications, health care management software, middleware, OSs, securitiy management, development languages
:: Services and Systems, including
>> Biometrics
>> Business process technologies and outsourcing (services, hardware, software, application development)
:: e-Commerce, including B2B exchanges, EDI
:: Pre-press, press, and post-press printing equipment and technologies
:: Content including information databases
Media/Entertainment
:: Advertising
:: Entertainment content and marketing
:: Music publishing and distribution
:: Publishing
:: Gaming
Metals Extraction, Processing, and Fabrication
:: Coal, copper, iron, PGMs, zinc, manganese
:: Procession and fabrication of steel, titanium, copper cable and wire, and other products
Petroleum
:: Exploration, production, oil field services, gathering and supply of crude and natural gas
:: Refining, blending, and trading of petroleum products, including all light products, asphalt, coke, lubricants, specialty oil, and petrochemicals
:: Gas processing, fractionation, distribution
:: Transportation, including marine and pipeline (crude, refined products, natural gas)
:: Terminaling and wholesaling
:: Marketing of crude, light products including gasoline, natural gas, lubricants, NGLs
:: Retailing of gasoline, lubricants, heating oil, propane, marine fuels
:: Technology and intellectual property
Transportation services
:: Freight and passenger rail transportation services and rail equipment and components
:: Waterborne transportation vessels and services
:: Air cargo
:: Truck