Applied Research Center

Cornerstone Research applies sophisticated analytical methods to solve client problems. Our team provides specialization in highly technical areas to ensure case teams have the deep expertise required to provide the most impactful analysis for our clients. These specialists employ techniques at the forefront of academia and industry to innovate and drive progress on our analyses.

Our in-house professionals include specialists in:

• Empirical methods: econometrics and machine learning
• Technology: artificial intelligence and cryptocurrencies
• Finance topics: valuation methods, securities litigation, market microstructure, investments
• Regulatory topics: merger reviews, labor markets, healthcare and life sciences
• Behavioral science: surveys and conjoint analysis, behavioral marketing

Building innovative solutions means not looking at challenges through a single lens. By bringing together ideas and approaches from multiple subject areas and technical disciplines, we develop creative and sophisticated approaches that enable us to apply novel answers to challenging questions.

For example, we combine skillsets in econometrics and machine learning to conduct robust causal analysis in environments with complex non-linear data; use computational approaches and economic theory to build and simulate structural economic models efficiently; and apply natural language processing tools to survey data to obtain significant efficiency gains in analyzing responses.

Our firm’s subject matter experts work closely with the data scientists at our Data Science Center on critical issues surrounding AI, including using AI methods to produce new evidence on cases and understanding its implications on the policy and litigation landscape. Through our collaboration, we ensure that we deploy defensible methods and solutions with the most appropriate state-of-the-art tools.

Through continued research work and horizon scanning, the Applied Research Center serves as a topical knowledge base for Cornerstone Research, ensuring that our staff and experts have fast, effective access to the most up-to-date thinking on a range of relevant issues. With technically proficient and creative specialists as part of our team, we develop tools and systems to deliver work more efficiently. Our approach enables seamless knowledge sharing, improved data exploration, rapid identification of key questions, and increased automation of complex tasks.