Dr. Gary Dorman
Senior Vice President
Education
PhD in economics, University of California, Berkeley
BA, with High Distinction and High Honors in economics, University of Michigan
Experience
Dr. Dorman's specialties include industrial organization and microeconomic theory. His work at NERA has covered a wide range of antitrust and trade regulation matters in dozens of industries, including airlines, aerospace, telecommunications, and soft drinks. He has studied relevant markets, mergers and acquisitions, predatory pricing, tying and bundling, price fixing, vertical restraints, exclusive dealing, essential facilities, joint purchasing, franchising, and antitrust damages. In addition, Dr. Dorman has analyzed class certification issues and economic damages in numerous commercial litigations. He has testified as an expert witness in US district courts and state courts, as well as in matters before the US Department of Transportation, the Canadian Competition Tribunal, the European Commission, and the French Competition Council. His arbitration experience includes testimony before the American Arbitration Association and the ICC International Court of Arbitration in London.
Dr. Dorman specializes in airline and aerospace economics and has extensive experience with a wide range of projects. In the airline industry, his projects have included studies of airline mergers, code-sharing arrangements and alliances, acquisitions of route authority and airport slots, pricing practices and revenue management, hub-and-spoke operations, computerized reservation systems, frequent flyer programs, travel agency commissions, air cargo, aircraft leasing, valuation and bankruptcy issues, and the effects of airline regulation and deregulation. In the aerospace industry, Dr. Dorman has conducted economic studies of the commercial airplane, helicopter, aircraft engine, avionics, aircraft modification, satellite and launch vehicle businesses, as well as military aircraft and weapons systems. Clients have included US and foreign airlines, aerospace manufacturers, the US Civil Aeronautics Board, state governments, and the World Bank.
Before joining NERA, Dr. Dorman was on the faculty of the University of Maryland. He also served as an economist at the US Department of Energy and at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, an agency of the US Department of Commerce.
Dr. Dorman is the author of Air Transportation Regulatory Reform, published by the American Enterprise Institute, as well as other papers on the airline industry. He has published several articles in The Antitrust Bulletin, including "The Boeing / McDonnell Douglas Merger: the Economics, Antitrust Law and Politics of the Aerospace Industry." He has also served as an Editorial Consultant for The American Economic Review and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
