Robert C. Marshall is a Partner at Bates White and, in addition, Liberal Arts Research Professor, Head of the Department of Economics, and co-Director of the Center for the Study of Auctions, Procurements, and Competition Policy at The Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Marshall is a recognized thought leader in the areas of industrial organization, collusion, applied game theory, auctions, and procurements. He has served as a testifying expert in major antitrust litigation matters, with particular expertise in antitrust liability and cartels.
Dr. Marshall has testified before Congress regarding incentives in procurement contracting and he has published extensively. His articles and papers in peer-reviewed journals and elsewhere include topics on collusive mechanisms, detecting bidder collusion, differential payments within a bidder coalition, and incentives in procurement contracting. A recent paper, “Plus Factors in Agreements in Antitrust Law” (Michigan Law Review, December 2011, with Kovacic, Marx, and White,) won the Jerry S. Cohen Memorial Fund Writing Award for best antitrust scholarship of 2011. In addition, Dr. Marshall has recently published a book, coauthored with Leslie M. Marx, entitled The Economics of Collusion: Cartels and Bidding Rings (MIT Press, 2012). He has served on two panels for the National Research Council and he is on the editorial board of the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement.
Selected Experience
- Provided liability expert report and deposition testimony for several direct and indirect plaintiffs in In re Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) Antitrust Litigation.
- Provided expert report and deposition testimony in an analysis of class certification issues in In re Ready-Mixed Concrete Antitrust Litigation. Analysis examined suitability of class-wide treatment. Critically assessed assertions made by plaintiffs′ economic expert.
- Provided liability expert report and deposition testimony for a large coalition of direct-action plaintiffs involved in a complex horizontal conspiracy matter in In re Linerboard Antitrust Litigation.
- Submitted declaration regarding the allocation of settlement funds and the pass-through of price increases for diamonds in Sullivan v. DB Investments.
- Provided liability expert report and deposition testimony regarding the existence of collusive behavior on behalf of more than 100 direct action plaintiffs in In re Vitamins Antitrust Litigation.
- Provided expert report and deposition testimony regarding an auction of a professional sports franchise, working on behalf of the US Department of Justice, Tax Division.
- Performed general game theory instruction for a consortium of telecommunication bidders interested in bidding for FCC spectrum.
Education
PhD, Economics, University of California, San Diego
AB, Economics, Princeton University
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Practices
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Expertise
- Antitrust damages assessment
- Applied econometrics
- Auctions
- Collusion
- Game theory
- Industrial organization
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Industries
- Construction
- Dairy
- Government procurement
- Jewelry
- Packaging
- Pulp and paper
- Semiconductors
- Timber
- Vitamins
