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NERA Economic Consulting is a global firm of experts dedicated to applying economic, finance, and quantitative principles to complex business and legal challenges. For nearly half a century, NERA's economists have been creating strategies, studies, reports, expert testimony, and policy recommendations for government authorities and the world's leading law firms and corporations.
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Study of the Impact of Securitization on Consumers, Investors, Financial Institutions, and the Capital Markets
In the fall of 2007, the American Securitization Forum commissioned a NERA team -- led by Senior Vice President Dr. Chudozie Okongwu and Vice President Dr. Faten Sabry -- to conduct a study to evaluate the impact of securitization on consumers, investors, and the broader financial markets. The study, released on 17 June 2009, assesses the long-term impact of securitization, with a focus on the residential mortgage-backed securities market.
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Why Transfer Pricing is Relevant to Premiership Football
This article from Tax Planning International Transfer Pricing -- by NERA Associate Director Dr. Graham Poole, Special Consultant Pim Fris, and Analyst Tom Coriano -- examines how various concepts and analytical methods used in transfer pricing could provide a sensible framework for restoring a semblance of sense and balance to Premiership finances. Specifically, the application of these approaches to what are essentially related party transactions could curb the distorting effects of utility-maximizing behavior by club owners.
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Merger Analysis and the Importance of Looking Beyond the Level of Pre-Transaction Competition Between the Merging Parties
In this issue of Antitrust Insights, NERA Senior Vice President Dr. Timothy Daniel discusses four proposed mergers that were challenged by the Federal Trade Commission in 2007 and 2008. Although all four case studies highlight the importance of analyzing data on the degree to which the merging parties have been competitors, they also show that such evidence is not sufficient to assess the state of competition that would result with and without the transaction.
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The Limited Impact of Rothe VII on M/W/DBE Programs
In this paper, NERA Vice President Dr. Jon Wainwright and Colette Holt of Colette Holt & Associates examine the impact of Rothe Development Corporation v. US Department of Defense -- in which the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the Department of Defense' Program for Small Disadvantaged Businesses -- on minority/women/disadvantaged business enterprises.
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An Update on the Credit Crisis Litigation: A Turn Towards Structured Products and Asset Management Firms
In this NERA paper, co-author Vice President Dr. Faten Sabry provides an update on credit crisis-related securities litigation. The paper highlight emerging trends in a number of areas, including filings, percentage of cases involving directors and officers, types of defendants and plaintiffs, and recent decisions with emphasis on cases involving complex financial products such as CDOs and CDS.
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