Senior Vice President
National Economic Research Associates, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
(415) 291-1007
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Dr. Wu specializes in the economics of antitrust and competition policy. He has testified in US district courts and submitted analyses to the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), US Department of Justice (DOJ), European Commission, Competition Tribunal of South Africa, and Brazil's competition authority (CADE).
Dr. Wu's antitrust practice focuses on the analysis of mergers, price fixing, and other competitive issues in a variety of retail, manufacturing, and service industries. He is particularly experienced in assessing competition in a wide range of healthcare markets, including hospital services, health insurance, physician services, and various medical technologies. His expertise includes the application of econometric and statistical methods, the design and economic analysis of consumer survey data, and merger simulation.
Dr. Wu's recent work includes the analysis of proposed mergers in several healthcare and medical technology markets. He has also been retained as an economic expert in antitrust litigation to assess issues related to liability and damages. For example, he has computed damages in alleged price fixing matters and has assessed the competitive implications of exclusive contracts, tying, bundling, and vertical integration.
Dr. Wu has studied a wide range of industries, including ambulance services, bakeware, cookware, blood testing instruments and supplies, bronze memorials and other commemorative products, cardiac medical devices, carton sealing tape, clinical diagnostic tests and testing equipment, compact discs, diagnostic imaging equipment, dialysis services, DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chips and modules, ferrous scrap, glass beverageware, health insurance, hospital services, lamps and lighting, mattresses, outdoor advertising, patient monitoring equipment, orthopedic products, physician services, pipelay services, printers and printing supplies, ski resorts, and smokeless tobacco.
Dr. Wu is the editor of two books on the economics of antitrust and has published articles in The Antitrust Bulletin, Antitrust Report, European Competition Law Review, Journal of Business Venturing, and Medical Care.
Dr. Wu earned his PhD in economics from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and his BA in economics from Stanford University. Prior to joining NERA, he was a staff economist in the FTC's Bureau of Economics.