A. Rachel Grinberg, PhD
Rachel Grinberg deploys data analysis and economic tools to develop creative, rigorous solutions to her clients' most pressing problems.
A. Rachel Grinberg is an expert on issues involving price-fixing litigation, competitive effects, class actions, and bankruptcies. She specializes in developing economic estimation techniques to determine whether anticompetitive conduct occurred and to measure its impact. She has led numerous economic analyses in large antitrust matters involving allegations of collusion, monopolization, and the potential anti-competitive effects of mergers. She is also an expert in the insurance allocation arena for dispute resolution and coverage litigation.
Rachel’s work includes analyzing competitive effects and estimation of damages in a wide range of industries. Her specialties include developing robust estimation methodologies in the presence of missing, corrupt, and contaminated data. Rachel has in-depth expertise in microsimulation modeling, including Monte Carlo simulations and competitive risk models, as well as damages and potential anti-competitive effect estimation using well-accepted econometric models.
Prior to joining Bates White, Rachel was at the Department of Mathematics at the University of California San Diego. She received the Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship, which promotes academic cooperation between scientists and scholars from Germany and the United States.
Education
PhD, Mathematics, University of Heidelberg, Germany
MS, Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Mainz, Germany
Practice areas
Expert SpotlightIn this Q&A, Rachel shares how her mathematical expertise seamlessly translates into her economic work at Bates White. She explains how mathematics fosters careful, methodical, and critical thinking, training individuals to evaluate concepts rigorously and identify reasonable assumptions. Drawing on her experience, she also provides compelling examples of cases where her mathematical perspective proved valuable in solving complex economic problems.
