Rejected! Antitrust economists as expert witnesses in the post-Daubert world
Economists regularly appear as expert witnesses in antitrust litigations. The paper analyzes how their models and methodologies have performed vis-à-vis the standards of relevance and reliability affirmed by the US Supreme Court in its 1993 Daubert decision. Some tentative explanations for the economists’ troubles when facing a Daubert challenge in antitrust cases are provided.
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Keywords: Antitrust, courtroom economics, Daubert criteria, falsificationism
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