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| Scott Thomas |
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At NERA, Dr. Thomas has worked on a wide variety of antitrust matters involving the aerospace, agriculture, airline, automotive, health care, newspaper, office equipment, oil and gas, plastics, soft drink, and video industries. He has studied relevant markets, monopoly pricing, monopsony pricing, predatory practices, price discrimination, tying, vertical restraints, mergers and acquisitions, antitrust damages, and class certification issues.
Dr. Thomas has also specialized in intellectual property matters involving the construction, insurance brokerage, medical equipment, and pharmaceutical industries. His work has focused on the valuation of patents and trade secrets and the calculation of damages resulting from infringement/misappropriation. In addition, he has worked on a large number of commercial damages matters, in which he has applied econometric techniques and financial analysis to calculate damages for tortious interference, breach of contract, and wrongful injury/termination cases.
Before joining NERA, Dr. Thomas served on the faculty at the University of California, Irvine, where he taught introductory macroeconomics, intermediate macroeconomics, and intermediate microeconomics.
Dr. Thomas has published several papers in the areas of public choice and industrial organization. His article, "Determinants of Legislative Success in House Committees," appeared in the journal Public Choice. Another article, "Geographic Market Issues in Hospital Mergers," appeared in a handbook on health care mergers and acquisitions, published by the American Bar Association.
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