Louis Guth
Affiliated Consultant
Education
MA in economics, University of Pennsylvania
BA in economics, Harvard University
Experience
In antitrust and regulation matters Mr. Guth has:
- testified on collusive behavior, monopoly power, reciprocity, market structure, and mergers in US Federal District Court, State court, and in arbitration;
- prepared analyses of the competitive efforts of proposed mergers in connection with representation to responsible governmental agencies; and
- prepared reports and analyses and testified on competition and regulation in numerous sports, including football, baseball, hockey, basketball, soccer, golf, and thoroughbred horseracing.
Mr. Guth's securities experience includes:
- preparing reports and providing testimony concerning damages and materiality in securities litigation;
- studying the effects of alleged insider trading on stock prices and on premiums in tender offers;
- reports and testimony on valuation of publicly traded and privately held firms and on damages in breach of contract and tortious interference disputes;
- a detailed statistical analysis of costs in the stock brokerage industry;
- studies of the interrelationships of market structure, advertising behavior, risk, and rate of return; and
- developing theoretical support and analytical tools for NERA's diagnostic measure of non-financial company enterprise risk, c-far.
Prior to joining NERA, Mr. Guth taught at the University of Pennsylvania and was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Business Administration at New York University.
Mr. Guth has published articles in The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Football Digest, The Journal of Industrial Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, and The Milken Institute Review.
