In a class action alleging monopolization and conspiracy to allocate customers and geographic markets among medical waste services providers, CRA was retained by counsel for one of the defendants to analyze economic issues related to class certification. CRA’s expert demonstrated that the effect of defendants’ alleged actions depended on multiple factors unique to each customer and claim, and our work was cited by the court in its decision not to certify the class.
How capacity constraints shape unilateral price effects in horizontal mergers
Examples include hospitals with a fixed number of beds, and hotels with a fixed number of rooms. In the article “Unilateral Price Effects in Horizontal...