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Keith Waehrer specializes in mergers, monopolization claims, price-fixing liability
issues, and damages calculations. He has extensive experience in antitrust investigations
involving mergers and other anticompetitive practices across a wide range of industries,
especially financial services, financial exchanges, industrial and medical manufacturing,
e-commerce, and publishing. Dr. Waehrer is an expert in the analysis of competitive effects
in auction markets. He has spoken on this, and other topics at numerous venues around the
world. Dr. Waehrer has published widely and is a referee for more than a dozen economics
and business journals.
Prior to joining Bates White, Dr. Waehrer was a Research Economist with the U.S.
Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, where he provided economic analysis in
connection with numerous merger investigations and civil and criminal antitrust matters.
Dr Waehrer served as an economist with the Bureau of Labor Statistics, focusing on
measurements of living standards and construction and interpretation of various price
indexes. He also worked for Economist Insight, where he developed models to analyze the
West Coast oil and electric power markets; and for Bonneville Power Administration,
where his analyses supported long-term contract negotiations and a major rate case.
His academic career includes teaching posts at the University of Maryland, Georgetown
University, Johns Hopkins University, Brigham Young University, and Rutgers University.
Ph.D., Economics, Rutgers University; M.A., Economics, Rutgers
University; B.A., Economics, Trinity College

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