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| Lawrence Wu |
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Dr. Wu has analyzed mergers and other competitive issues in a variety of retail, manufacturing, and service industries. He also has a great deal of experience in assessing competition in a wide range of health care markets, including hospital services, health insurance, physician services, and medical technology. His expertise includes the application of econometric and statistical methods, the design and economic analysis of consumer survey data, and merger simulation. He has provided written and oral expert testimony on numerous occasions, which include testimony in U.S. District Court and presentations before the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice. Prior to joining NERA, Dr. Wu was a staff economist in the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Economics. At the FTC, the majority of Dr. Wu's work involved analyses of proposed hospital mergers and an array of health care monopolization matters. He also has analyzed the competitive effects of horizontal agreements among competitors, including trade association rules and regulations. His research interests are in the areas of industrial organization, health economics, and antitrust. He has published in The Antitrust Bulletin, Antitrust Report, European Competition Law Review, Journal of Business Venturing, and Medical Care. In 1997, he taught a graduate course in health economics at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service of New York University.
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