Russell Bittmann, PhD

Russ Bittmann delivers detailed and accessible antitrust analyses, helping clients navigate intricate key issues in mergers and competition cases.

Russell Bittmann specializes in the application of economics and econometrics in monopolization, price-fixing, and mergers matters. His expertise includes damages estimation, merger simulations, and analysis of potential competitive effects. Russell has led teams in conducting analyses in cases with large and intricate data sets in a variety of industries, including electronics, telecommunications, health insurance, and pharmaceuticals.

Cases for which Russell has led analyses and provided expertise include the proposed merger of Penguin Random House and Simon and Schuster and the civil antitrust suit United States v. Google, in which Google allegedly foreclosed competition for internet search. In his analyses, he excels at translating results into clear and accessible information for audiences in all phases of a case and ensuring clients are fully apprised of developments and progress.

In his doctoral studies, Russell specialized in industrial organization, economics of education, and labor economics. His research interests include industrial organization of education markets.