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John Asker
Armen A. Alchian Chair in Economic Theory and Professor of Economics,
University of California, Los Angeles;
Senior Advisor, Cornerstone Research
John Asker is a leading expert in industrial organization and antitrust and competition economics. Professor Asker focuses on topics related to antitrust policy, cartel behavior, vertical restraints, auction design, firm-level productivity, industry subsidy effects, artificial intelligence (AI) pricing mechanisms, and cryptocurrency. He also has experience with issues at the intersection of financial markets and antitrust.
Professor Asker has testified in numerous high-profile matters, including mergers and civil litigation.
Professor Asker was retained by Amazon in its $8.5 billion acquisition of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which Global Competition Review named as 2023 Matter of the Year. Counsel for Meta retained him to assess competitive effects in the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) review of Meta’s $1 billion acquisition of Kustomer. He was retained by counsel for SoftBank and Sprint Corporation in the $26 billion T-Mobile/Sprint merger. Professor Asker provided written testimony to the World Trade Organization on behalf of the Canadian government in the U.S.–Canada softwood lumber dispute.
Professor Asker has served as an economic consultant to both federal and state regulatory agencies. In the AT&T/DirecTV merger, he served as an expert for the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. The U.S. Department of Justice retained him to evaluate potential competitive effects of the then-proposed merger between Dow Chemical Co. and DuPont. He has coauthored several amicus briefs presented before the U.S. Supreme Court and federal appellate courts.
Professor Asker has provided testimony, in depositions and at trial, in multiple civil litigation matters. In EFN West Palm Motor Sales LLC v. Hyundai Motor America Corp. et al., a federal trial, his testimony on vertical relations between a manufacturer and dealers contributed to the jury ruling in favor of Hyundai and awarding no damages. Professor Asker has also testified in cases alleging exclusionary conduct, cartel behavior, price discrimination, and predatory trading. He has been retained in antitrust matters involving financial markets to address issues of alleged collusion and price manipulation.
Professor Asker has conducted extensive research on cartels, including their structure and operation, aggregate market power impact, related economic damages, and implications for antitrust policy. He has contributed research on cartels and collusion to leading economics reference texts, notably the Handbook of Industrial Organization. He has also published in leading journals on vertical restraints.
Professor Asker is an editor of the Journal of Political Economy. He has also held editorial positions at the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, the RAND Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Industrial Economics. His research has been published in leading economics journals, including the Journal of Political Economy and the American Economic Review.
Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal) has recommended Professor Asker as a leading competition economist and consulting expert in the competition field. Global Competition Review recognized him to its inaugural list of the world’s most important antitrust academics. The Australian government appointed Professor Asker to a Competition Taskforce Advisory Panel that oversees changes to Australia’s competition laws.
Professor Asker teaches courses in antitrust policy, industrial organization, and strategy. He also speaks on antitrust topics, including to U.S. federal agencies, and has been a visiting scholar at the FTC’s Bureau of Economics, the Department of Economics at Harvard, and Yale Law School. Before joining the UCLA faculty, Professor Asker was an associate professor of economics at the Stern School of Business at New York University.
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Rajesh Bhargave
Associate Professor of Marketing,
Department of Analytics, Marketing and Operations,
Imperial Business School,
Imperial College London
Rajesh Bhargave is a quantitative and qualitative marketing expert who focuses on behavioral economics, consumer behavior, psychology, and decision-making. Professor Bhargave evaluates how social context influences consumer evaluations and product preferences, both online and offline. He also examines the role of online tools and technology in consumers’ product choices and their willingness to purchase.
As an expert witness, Professor Bhargave has testified in the UK High Court on a matter alleging business interruption. His testimony on consumer behavior issues in that matter contributed to a favorable outcome for the defendants. He has also consulted on market research and consumer behavior topics to clients in the airline and property investment industries, among others.
Professor Bhargave researches the technological, cognitive, and social drivers of consumer choice and evaluations. In a study of what he calls the “cue-of-the-cloud effect,” he examines how reminding consumers about online information availability in an offline setting can affect their purchase intentions. He has analyzed how consumers interpret numerical information, such as whether rounded numbers affect the perceived length of product benefits. In other work, Professor Bhargave has contrasted product consumption that takes place alone versus with other consumers in a shared consumption context.
An accomplished scholar, Professor Bhargave has a distinguished publication record in leading peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Marketing Research, the Journal of Consumer Psychology, and the Journal of Consumer Research. He serves on the editorial review board of the Journal of Business Research. Professor Bhargave also presents his work at industry and academic conferences, as well as universities in the U.S., U.K., and Europe.
At Imperial Business School, Professor Bhargave teaches courses in consumer behavior, design thinking, marketing strategy, and international marketing. He has also taught at the London School of Economics and Political Science, the Indian School of Business, and New York University.
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Gregor Langus
Vice President*
Gregor Langus leads Cornerstone Research’s Brussels competition team. Dr. Langus is a leading European competition economist who supports clients and provides expert testimony in antitrust investigations, merger reviews, competition damages matters, and arbitration proceedings.
Dr. Langus has worked on matters in multiple jurisdictions, including before the European Commission (EC) and competition authorities and courts of several European Union member states.
Dr. Langus served in the Chief Economist’s Team in the EC’s Directorate-General for Competition (DG COMP) for over seven years, in two separate appointments. During that time, he worked on numerous complex merger reviews, including IBM/RedHat, Dow/Dupont, Blackstone/Celanese, Broadcom/Brocade, Microsoft/LinkedIn, ASL/Arianespace, Wabtec/Faiveley, Siemens/DresserRand, Intel/McAfee, Oracle/Sun, EDF/British Energy, Campina/Friesland, and TomTom/TeleAtlas. Dr. Langus also consulted on matters alleging abuse of market power and information exchange.
Dr. Langus is the lead author of several competition policy studies focused on copyright, licensing, merger control, and telecommunications issues. His academic articles have been published in peer-reviewed journals, including the International Journal of Industrial Organization, Economics Letters, the Journal of Competition Law and Economics, and Concurrences.
Dr. Langus has extensive consulting experience as head of CompetitionSphere, and in senior roles with major economics consulting firms. Dr. Langus also has teaching experience as a lecturer at Tilburg University.
Dr. Langus speaks widely on competition, mergers, and SEP issues. Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal) has recognized him as a Thought Leader and recommended him as a leading competition economist and consulting expert in the competition field.
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Liam Colley
Senior Vice President
Liam Colley heads Cornerstone Research’s European competition practice. Mr. Colley is a testifying economics expert specializing in competition, antitrust damages, and economic regulation issues. He has more than twenty-five years of experience as a consultant and testifying expert. His experience includes multiple high-profile matters before U.K. and European Union courts and competition regulators. Citing the “unassailable quality of his work,” Lexology Index (Who’s Who Legal) has named Mr. Colley a leading competition economist, as well as a Thought Leader and Global Leader in the competition field.
Antitrust and competition
Mr. Colley has consulted on a range of competition matters before the European Commission, national competition authorities, regulators, and courts. His expertise includes matters arising in automotive; financial services; insurance; technology, media, and telecom (TMT); and transportation. He has supported clients on numerous antitrust investigations and market inquiries. In addition, Mr. Colley has worked on multiple mergers, particularly on matters involving efficiencies and failing firm defenses.
Antitrust damages
Mr. Colley has wide experience estimating damages that arise from breaches of competition rules. In cartel damages matters, he has prepared numerous expert reports in the context of high court litigation, arbitration, mediation, and settlement negotiations. He has addressed class action issues and worked on many stand-alone and follow-on actions in abuse of dominance cases.
Mr. Colley has served as a testifying expert before the U.K. High Court and the U.K. Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) on both antitrust damages matters and regulatory appeals.
Mr. Colley publishes and speaks widely on competition and damages issues. Before joining Cornerstone Research, for many years he led the global economics practice of a major professional consulting firm.
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