Class Certification Denied in Federal Securities Matter

Featured Experts

Featured Experts

Douglas J. Skinner

Sidney Davidson Distinguished Service Professor of Accounting,
University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Douglas Skinner is a leading authority on financial reporting and disclosure, capital markets, corporate finance, and valuation. An experienced expert witness, Professor Skinner has testified on numerous corporate finance–related matters, both in deposition and at trial. He has evaluated loss causation, damages, market efficiency, and price impact.

In his research, Professor Skinner addresses a range of subjects related to corporate finance, financial accounting, and corporate governance, including the capital market effects of corporate disclosures and financial reporting. He has assessed various factors that affect corporate disclosure choices, the role that manager incentives play in financial reporting, and the determinants of firms’ payout policies.

Professor Skinner’s articles have appeared in leading accounting and finance journals, including the Accounting Review, the Journal of Finance, and the Journal of Financial Economics. He coedits the Journal of Accounting Research and was previously coeditor of the Journal of Accounting and Economics. He has received several best paper awards, including the Jensen Prize from the Journal of Financial Economics and the BlackRock Prize from the Review of Accounting Studies. His research has also been cited in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times.

Honored multiple times for excellence in teaching, Professor Skinner teaches graduate (M.B.A. and Ph.D.) courses that cover financial accounting, managerial (cost) accounting, financial statement analysis, corporate finance, and empirical methods in accounting research.

Professor Skinner is a professorial fellow in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne. Before joining the University of Chicago, he served for over a decade as the KPMG Professor of Accounting at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.

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Pradeep K. Chintagunta

Joseph T. and Bernice S. Lewis Distinguished Service
Professor of Marketing,
University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Pradeep K. Chintagunta is an expert on pharmaceutical markets, technology products, and consumer packaged goods. Professor Chintagunta’s earlier work used scanner panel data to analyze how firms’ marketing activities affect household purchase behavior. He has also researched the impact of information on drug adoption and diffusion, physicians’ prescribing behavior, and the different ways in which medical practitioners respond to marketing activities.

Professor Chintagunta has received multiple awards for excellence for his teaching and was named one of the Booth School of Business’s top professors by Businessweek. In addition to his faculty appointment at the University of Chicago, he has held positions as the Thomas Henry Carroll-Ford Foundation Visiting Professor of Marketing at Harvard Business School, as an associate professor at the Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, and as a distinguished visiting scholar at Stanford University.

Professor Chintagunta is on the advisory editorial board of Marketing Science, and is the coordinating editor of Quantitative Marketing and Economics. He has authored or coauthored more than one hundred scholarly papers on marketing, and his research has appeared in numerous publications, including the Journal of Marketing ResearchMarketing ScienceManagement Science, the Journal of the American Statistical Association, and the Journal of Econometrics.

Featured Experts

Laura E. Stiglin

Senior Advisor

Laura Stiglin is an independent consultant and senior advisor to Cornerstone Research. For over twenty-five years she has applied economic and financial theory to questions arising in business, public policy, and complex business litigation. She has consulted to counsel on a broad range of liability and damages issues, supported numerous faculty experts, and provided testimony.

She specializes in directing financial and economic analyses for large-scale litigations, including working with counsel to identify experts, developing and implementing research agendas, assisting counsel during discovery and trial, preparing testimony, and critiquing work by opposing experts. This work has involved securities, antitrust, corporate governance, valuation, and general business litigation matters in a wide variety of industries.

Featured Experts

Erin Trish

Associate Professor,
Department of Pharmaceutical and Health Economics,
Mann School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences,
Co-Director, Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics,
University of Southern California

Erin Trish is an expert in pharmaceutical and healthcare economics. Her research focuses on the intersection of public policy and competition in healthcare and pharmaceutical markets, including Medicare, the No Surprises Act (NSA), the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), insurer and hospital market concentration, pharmaceutical pricing, and the role of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs).

Professor Trish has served as an expert witness in multiple life sciences and healthcare matters and has both trial and deposition experience. She has provided expert testimony in arbitration and in litigation involving the False Claims Act, price fixing and market allocation, and killer acquisitions.

In addition, Professor Trish has testified before the U.S. Congress and in the California State Assembly, and presented her research at numerous federal agencies, including the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Congressional Budget Office.

In her research focused on the pharmaceutical industry, Professor Trish analyzes market structure, prescription drug expenditures, pharmacy networks, and firms’ financial incentives. She is a leading expert on brand and generic drug markets, PBMs, and the funding and benefit design of Medicare Part D, Medicaid, and commercial prescription drug insurance.

Professor Trish’s healthcare research addresses regulation and policy, market participants, and outcomes. Her expertise includes market concentration and vertical integration, payor-provider bargaining, out-of-network reimbursement for emergency care, commercial insurance, Medicare Advantage, and exchange market functioning.

Professor Trish publishes in leading health policy, health economics, and medical journals. Her work has appeared in the New England Journal of MedicineHealth Affairs, the American Journal of Managed Care, and the Journal of Health Economics, among others. She has won several research awards, notably the Seema S. Sonnad Emerging Leader in Managed Care Research Award, which recognizes early achievements in the field and potential for exceptional long-term contributions.

At USC, Professor Trish teaches executive-level courses in health policy and management at the Marshall School of Business. She also serves as a nonresident fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution.

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23 October 2024

2024 Technology Economics Competition (TEC) Institute Summit, Washington, DC

A gathering of industry leaders, policymakers, and experts will explore the complex interplay of technology, economics, and competition.

16 October 2024

Pocket MBA 2024: Finance for Lawyers and Other Professionals

Russell Molter of Cornerstone Research will discuss economic concepts in litigation at this program hosted by the Practising Law Institute.

15 October 2024

Interlocking Directorates, Competition, and Innovation

Roma Poberejsky will speak at the Harvard-Oxford Conference on Common Ownership, Common Directors, Governance and Competition.

15 October 2024

The UK Class Actions Forum

Greg Leonard and Liam Colley of Cornerstone Research will speak at this conference in London hosted by ThoughtLeaders 4 Disputes.

10 October 2024

Merger Enforcement Trends Internationally: Homegrown or US Export?

Ildikó Magyari will moderate this American Bar Association webinar focused on global developments in merger enforcement.

10 October 2024

Washington DC Women’s Forum 2024: How Women Rise

Renowned leadership expert and author Sally Helgesen will present at this networking event for professionals in the legal community.

9 October 2024

Intellectual Property Meets Artificial Intelligence

This article advocates for a harmonized approach that balances the promotion of innovation and the inevitable use of technology.

8 October 2024

Pharma Law USA

Benjamin Fuller of Cornerstone Research will discuss the 340B drug program at this conference hosted by Informa Connect in Boston.

7 October 2024

Class Certification Denied in Federal Securities Matter

Citing Professor Starks’ analysis, the judge denied class certification in Shupe et al. v. Rocket Companies Inc. et al.

4 October 2024

Lexology Index: Competition Future Leaders—Economists 2024

Lexology Index, formerly Who’s Who Legal (WWL), recognized an affiliated expert and six Cornerstone Research consulting professionals as “pre-emine...

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