Cory S. Capps, PhD
Cory Capps is a trusted advisor and testifier on antitrust issues across healthcare and beyond.
Cory Capps has 20 years of experience as an economist specializing in industrial organization, empirical methods, and antitrust, with a focus on the healthcare industry. He frequently advises and offers expert testimony on behalf of private firms and government agencies on market power and competition issues in the healthcare sector. He has also testified before the US Senate Antitrust Subcommittee on the competitive implications of vertical mergers in healthcare. Prior to joining Bates White, Cory was a Staff Economist at the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice (DOJ), where he concentrated on the analysis of competition in healthcare markets, including merger and civil non-merger investigations of health insurers and healthcare providers. Since 2012, Cory has been named to the Lexology Index (formerly Who’s Who Legal) list of leading competition economists and recognized as a Competition Thought Leader since 2021.
In addition to Cory’s broad healthcare experience, he has conducted economic analysis for investigations and cases involving a variety of industries such as airlines, software, semiconductors, cable TV and media, and online content providers. Cory has also provided economic consulting services to corporations on business and strategy issues.
Cory’s academic career includes professorships at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. He has published widely in academic journals, including RAND Journal of Economics; Journal of Economics and Management Strategy; Journal of Health Economics; Antitrust Bulletin; and Health Affairs.
Education
PhD, Economics, Northwestern University
BA, Economics, University of Texas at Austin
