Antitrust

Factors that impact how businesses compete can be difficult to assess:

   o  Questions arise on how prices are affected "but for" the activities of another firm.

   o  Claims arise regarding restraint of trade and the loss suffered because of market manipulations.

There is no single indicator of antitrust activity or it's impact. We examine the variability of pricing in markets, the impact of economic factors and events on pricing, and evaluate "but for" changes in prices, in sales, in customer flow and other indicators that describe the dynamics of a business.

is the combination of economic theory with financial facts that describes how a market is operating and whether a loss can be measured. If there is a discoverable change, we examine whether it is attributable to the activities of another economic actor.