Dr. Anne Gron
Vice President
Education
PhD in economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
BA in economics (with Honors) and computer science, magna cum laude, Williams College
Experience
Dr. Gron specializes in economic research and analyses in the areas of securities and finance, intellectual property, and antitrust. She has analyzed damages and valuation issues in matters involving complex commercial damages, bankruptcy and fraudulent conveyance, mergers and acquisitions, restricted ownership rights, patent infringement, insurance contracts, and insurance reserves. Dr. Gron has studied a wide range of industries including insurance, mortgage financing, retail deposits, marketing databases, artificial joints, computer peripherals, beverage distribution, airlines, automotive repair, and discount retailing.
Dr. Gron has researched and analyzed issues relating to insurance for over two decades. She has worked on matters such as property-casualty insurance pricing, life insurance pricing, long-term care insurance, annuities, insurance distribution, broker compensation, loss reserve adequacy, reinsurance issues, and claims allocation. Dr. Gron has also worked on insurance class certification matters. She has published numerous research articles on insurance topics and taught a graduate course titled “Risk Management and Insurance.”
Dr. Gron has conducted research and analyses in a variety of securities and finance areas including default by highly levered companies, causes of the credit crisis, estimation of default probabilities, material adverse change clauses, and hedge fund disclosure regulation. She has also conducted and published research studies relating to insurers and banks including the effect of regulation on banking and insurance, and the effect of bank portfolio composition on lending, and competition among health insurers.
Prior to joining NERA, Dr. Gron was an Assistant Professor at the Kellogg School of Management, where she taught graduate courses in Business Strategy, Risk Management, and Microeconomics. Dr. Gron began her professional career as an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago.
Dr. Gron's work has been published in the Rand Journal of Economics, the Journal of Law and Economics, the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, the Journal of Business, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the American Economic Review, the Journal of Financial Services Research, Regulation, the Journal of Financial Intermediation, and Health Affairs. Dr. Gron received her PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with concentrations in industrial organization, regulation, and public finance. She received her BA in economics and computer science from Williams College.
