Profile
Dr. Lia Petrose specializes in antitrust and competition matters with a focus on merits arguments. Her expertise includes economic research relating to pricing decisions in industries with high fixed costs, which she applies to class certification and damages related issues. Her research is especially relevant to pharmaceutical and technology cases involving complex market allocation or anticompetitive conduct arguments.
Dr. Petrose’s academic research focuses on pricing decisions regarding cost and information sharing. Her research, which applies advanced statistical methods and economic analysis to large datasets, addresses questions of conduct in industries such as public transit, food processing, and containerized shipping.
Education
Dr. Petrose earned her PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She holds an MSc in Statistical Science from the University of Oxford and a B.S. in Neuroscience and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh.