Rainer Schwabe

Principal

Contact

  • Boston

Education

Rainer Schwabe consults on a variety of antitrust and competition cases, including matters related to allegations of price fixing, exclusionary practices, and mergers and acquisitions. He has analyzed alleged anticompetitive conduct in a number of industries, including finance, food and agriculture, healthcare, telecommunications, and transportation. Dr. Schwabe has managed large teams and supported experts and clients through all stages of litigation, including data production. Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal) has named him a Future Leader and consulting expert among economists in the global competition field.

Dr. Schwabe has particular expertise with antitrust issues in financial markets, both in the context of class certification and liability and damages. He has analyzed alleged anticompetitive manipulation of asset prices, closing and benchmark prices, and bid-ask spreads in both over-the-counter and exchange settings. He has assisted major financial institutions in extracting, analyzing, and producing large transaction-level datasets.

Dr. Schwabe also has experience with matters at the intersection of antitrust and intellectual property. He has assisted experts in assessing the effect of proposed mergers on innovation, and in evaluating the competitive effects of licensing practices for standard essential patents.

Dr. Schwabe has published his research in leading academic journals, including the American Economic Review. His article, “Competition and Financial Inclusion: Evidence from Mexico,” published in 2019, was named Best Paper by a Junior Author for 2020 in the Review of Industrial Organization.

Prior to joining Cornerstone Research, he served at the Mexican Central Bank, where he analyzed competition in retail financial services and financial regulation.

Press Release

Lexology Index: Competition Future Leaders—Economists 2024

Case

Tevra Brands LLC v. Bayer Healthcare LLC

Event

The Global Antitrust Economics Conference

Press Release

WWL: Competition Future Leaders—Consulting Experts and Economists 2023

Press Release

Cornerstone Research Staff and Affiliated Experts Submit Comments on the Joint FTC-DOJ Draft Merger Guidelines

Case

Arkansas Teacher Retirement System et al. v. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. et al.

Case

Sidibe et al. v. Sutter Health

Press Release

Cornerstone Research Staff and Affiliated Experts Submit Comments to the Joint FTC-DOJ Inquiry on Merger Enforcement

  • “Machine Learning in Litigation,” Handbook of Marketing Analytics, 2018
  • “Reconsidering the Evaluation of the Distributive Effects of the Exercise of Market Power in Mexico,” El Trimestre Económico, January 2016
  • “The Theory of Contestable Markets and Its Legacy in Antitrust Practice,” Economics Committee Newsletter, American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law, Winter 2016
  • “A Comprehensive Guide on Antitrust Class Certification,” The Knowledge Group, 30 September 2020
  • “Lending Syndicates Coordination: What Is the Antitrust Risk?,” Antitrust in the Financial Sector: Hot Issues & Global Perspectives conference, Concurrences Review and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, 1 May 2019