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Princeton, NJ
Posted:
November 04, 2012

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RESUME OF DR. JOHN P. BIGELOW

Senior Economist

Princeton Economics Group, Inc. Tel 609-***-****

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Princeton, New Jersey 08540 abo9q9@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

John P. Bigelow is a Senior Economist with the Princeton Economics Group. Dr. Bigelow has

experience analyzing antitrust matters involving allegations of price-fixing, monopolization,

price discrimination, and the competitive effect of proposed business combinations. He has also

worked on intellectual property matters, analyzing lost profit from alleged violation of a

licensing agreement, estimating damages from alleged copyright infringement, and measuring

usage of copyrighted content for the purpose of setting fair and reasonable royalties. Dr. Bigelow

has served as an expert witness on damages from price fixing and on class certification.

John Bigelow received his B.A. in economics summa cum laude from Tufts University where he

was elected Phi Beta Kappa. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of

Pennsylvania in 1981. As a graduate student he received the William Polk Carey Prize in

economics, an Irwin Foundation Fellowship, and the Lawrence Robbins Prize in Economics.

Prior to joining the firm, Dr. Bigelow taught graduate and undergraduate economics at several

universities including Yale University where he was Assistant Professor of Economics for five

years. He has published articles on economic theory in various journals including the

International Economic Review and the Journal of Economic Theory. He has taught courses in

Economic Principles, Intermediate Price Theory, The Economics of Market Failure, Industrial

Organization, and Mathematical Economics.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Economics, 1981, University of Pennsylvania

Dissertation Title: Normative Aspects of Adverse Selection

Fields of Specialization: Economic Theory, Industrial Organization

B.A. Economics, Summa Cum Laude, 1976, Tufts University

ACADEMIC HONORS

William Polk Carey Prize in Economics, 1982

University of Pennsylvania

Dean s Fellowship, 1979-1980 and 1980-1981

University of Pennsylvania

Irwin Foundation Fellowship, 1979-1980

University of Pennsylvania

Lawrence Robbins Prize in Economics, 1977

University of Pennsylvania

Marion Ricker Houston Prize Scholarship in Economics, 1975

Tufts University

Phi Beta Kappa, 1975

Tufts University

CURRENT AND PAST POSITIONS

Senior Economist

Princeton Economics Group, Inc.

October 1997 - Present

Louisiana State University

Associate Professor of Economics

July 1994 - May 1997

University of Missouri - Columbia

Assistant Professor of Economics

September 1987 - June 1994

University of Missouri - Columbia

Director of Undergraduate Studies in Economics

September 1988 - June 1991

Coopers & Lybrand

Consultant

June 1987 - August 1988

University of Iowa

Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics

September 1986 - June 1987

Yale University

Assistant Professor of Economics

July 1981 - August 1986

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Cornell University

Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics

September 1985 - December 1985

Cornell University

Visiting Scholar

January 1985 - May 1985

PUBLICATIONS

The Fundamental Economics of Class Certification; (with Andrew Abere and Peter Bronsteen);

American Bar Association, Section of Antitrust Law, Economics Committee Newsletter 9(2) (Fall

2009); 9 16

Reverse Payments in Settlements of Patent Litigation: Schering Plough, K-Dur, and the FTC

(2005); (with Robert D. Willig); Case (Chapter) 9 in The Antitrust Revolution (5th edition); John

E. Kwoka and Lawrence J. White (ed.s); Oxford University Press (2009), 248 - 275

Duality and Consumption Decisions under Income and Price Risk (with Carmen F. Menezes and

X. Henry Wang); Journal of Mathematical Economics 41 (2005); 387 - 405

Antitrust Policy Towards Agreements That Settle Patent Litigation (with Robert D. Willig);

Antitrust Bulletin Fall (2004); 655 - 698

Outside Risk Aversion and the Comparative Statics of Increasing Risk in Quasi-Linear Decision

Models (with Carmen Menezes); International Economic Review 36 (1995); 643 - 673

The Area Monotonic Solution to the Cooperative Bargaining Problem (with Nejat Anbarci);

Mathematical Social Sciences 28 (1994); 133 - 142

Consistency of Mean Variance Analysis and Expected Utility Analysis: A Complete

Characterization; Economics Letters 43 (1993); 187 - 192

Non-Dictatorial, Pareto-Monotonic, Cooperative Bargaining: An Impossibility Theorem; with

Nejat Anbarci; European Journal of Political Economy 9 (1993); 551 - 558

Inducing Efficiency: Externalities, Missing Markets, and the Coase Theorem; International

Economic Review 34 (1993); 335 - 346

Warranties Without Commitment to Market Participation (with Russell Cooper and Tom Ross);

International Economic Review 34 (1993); 85 - 100

Efficiency and Adverse Selection; Journal of Economic Theory 52 (1990); 380 - 405

Experts Against Adverse Selection: A Note on the Existence of Equilibrium with Costly Private

Information; Journal of Economic Theory 37 (1985); 379 - 393

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PRESENTATIONS

The New Economics of Class Certification (with Peter Bronsteen and Andrew Abere); Arnold &

Porter Antitrust Group Meeting, Washington, DC, October 25, 2007.

Antitrust Economics for Beginners; Pennsylvania Bar Institute Continuing Legal Education

Program on the Fundamentals of Antitrust Law; Philadelphia, PA; June 24, 2004

Telecommunications Act of 1996 and Infrastructure Investment: Empirical Evidence (with

Robert Willig, Steven Levinson, and William Lehr); Department of Justice Telecom Workshop;

Washington, DC; July 23, 2002

Value Oriented Equilibria in Repeated Games with Complete Information; 1996 Southeastern

Economic Theory and International Trade Conference; Miami, FL; November 1996

Outside Risk Aversion and the Comparative Statics of Increasing Risk (with Carmen Menezes);

Spring 1993 Mid-West Mathematical Economics Meetings; Lexington, KY; May 1993

An Area Monotonic Solution to the Cooperative Bargaining Problem (with Nejat Anbarci); 1988

North American Winter Meetings of the Econometric Society; New York, NY; December 1988

Warranties Without Commitment to Market Participation (with Russell Cooper and Tom Ross);

1988 North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society; Minneapolis, MN; June

1988

The Endogenous Inducement of Efficient Behavior (Now re-titled as Inducing Efficiency:

Externalities, Missing Markets, and the Coase Theorem); 1986 North American Winter

Meetings of the Econometric Society; New Orleans, LA; December 1986

Efficiency and Adverse Selection; 1983 North American Winter Meetings of the Econometric

Society; San Francisco, CA; December 1983

SELECTED CASES

For Defendant, GlaxoSmithKline in In re Wellbutrin SR Antitrust Litigation, Sheet Metal

Workers Local 441 v. GlaxoSmithKline, and IBEW NECA Local 505 Health & Welfare Plan

v. SmithKline Beecham Corporation analyzed class certification claims that impact and damages

from allegedly anti-competitive conduct would be common to all members of proposed classes

and could be proven with predominantly common evidence.

Filed expert reports, December 2006; Deposed January and February 2007.

(Continuing)

For a major group of entertainment service providers analyzed competitive conditions in the

provision of copyrighted content and conducted statistical analysis of survey data to measure

usage of copyrighted content in connection with judicially determined licensing fees.

(Continuing)

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For defendant Investment Banks in Public Offering Fee Antitrust Litigation and Issuer Plaintiff

Initial Public Offering Antitrust Litigation analyzed class certification claims that impact and

damages from an alleged conspiracy to fix underwriting fees could be proven with

predominantly common evidence.

(Through May 2008)

For Satellite Radio providers, Sirius and XM in proceedings before the Copyright Royalty Board

analyzed fair and reasonable royalties for broadcast of copyrighted content.

(Through August 2007)

For defendant manufacturers of automotive refinishing paint in Automotive Refinishing Paint

Antitrust Litigation analyzed liability, impact, and damages from an alleged conspiracy to fix

prices.

(Through September 2006)

For the manufacturer of an industrial intermediate product, analyzed measures of damages from

alleged participation in a conspiracy to fix prices.

(Through October 2005)

For defendant, PPG, in Flat Glass Antitrust Litigation analyzed economic and statistical evidence

of prices and supply and demand conditions to assess plaintiffs allegation that defendant had

been part of an effective conspiracy to fix prices.

(Through October 2005)

For defendant, Philip Morris USA, in Smith Wholesale Company, Inc., et al. v. Philip Morris

USA Inc. analyzed market power and plaintiffs allegation that marketing practices constituted

anti-competitive price discrimination.

(Through November 2004)

For Bertelsmann Music Group and Sony Corporation of America in merger review before the

United States Federal Trade Commission analyzed the effect on competition of the joint venture

Sony-BMG.

(Through July 2004)

For defendants, Roche Vitamins Inc., Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., and F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.

in Vitamins Antitrust Litigation, analyzed pricing of mixed vitamin products relative to prices of

their straight ingredients and calculated damages from alleged price fixing conspiracy.

Filed expert report, June 2002 ; Deposed September 2002.

(Through October 2003)

For A.T. & T. in the Triennial Review of Telecommunications Act of 1996 before the Federal

Communications Commission carried out econometric analysis of the effect of unbundled

network element prices on investment in telecommunications infrastructure.

(Through September 2002)

For a manufacturer of a patented product analyzed economic and statistical evidence pertaining

to allegations that a settlement of patent litigation with an allegedly infringing manufacturer

amounted to an anti-competitive restraint of trade.

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(Through August 2002)

For a manufacturer of a patented product analyzed lost profits due to price suppression resulting

from improper competition by patent licensee.

(Through April 2002)

For Schering-Plough in The Matter of Schering-Plough Corporation and Upsher-Smith

Laboratories, and American Home Products before the Federal Trade Commission analyzed the

incentives to settle patent litigation. Complaint Counsel alleged that a settlement to patent

litigation was an anti-competitive agreement among competitors.

(Through March 2002)

For the United States Department of Justice, analyzed the competitive effect of a proposed

business combination.

(Through November 2000)

For defendant, Coca-Cola, in Pepsico Inc. v. The Coca-Cola Company analyzed plaintiff s

allegation that defendant s agreements with food service distributors were anti-competitive.

(Through November 2000)

For a Fortune 500 manufacturer of consumer products analyzed proposed business combinations

and allegations of unfair business practices in connection with proceedings before the European

Union and various member states.

(Through September 2000)

For the United States Department of Justice, analyzed the competitive effect of a proposed

business combination.

(Through November 1999)

For defendant manufacturers of flat glass in Flat Glass Antitrust Litigation, analyzed data on the

prices charged for various flat glass products to assess whether class certification claims that

liability, impact, and damages from alleged price fixing could be proven using common or

classwide

evidence.

(Through October 1999)

For the United States Department of Justice, analyzed the competitive effect of a proposed

business combination.

(Through December 1998)

For a Fortune 500 manufacturer of consumer products carried out a merger simulation analysis to

assess the competitive effect of a proposed business combination.

(Through July 1998)

For plaintiffs General Motors, Chrysler, Ford, USX, and Republic Steel in Industrial Silicon

Antitrust Litigation, analyzed liability and damages issues arising from their claim that

ferrosilicon and silicon metal producers conspired to fix prices.

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(Through March 1998)

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Membership in Professional and Academic Societies:

American Bar Association (Associate Membership) and Section on Antitrust

American Economic Association

Econometric Society

Referee:

Rand Journal of Economics

International Economic Review

Journal of Economic Theory

National Science Foundation

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