Profile
Matthew Milner is a co-founder and partner of Edgeworth Economics. As a professional economist, he has over two decades of experience assisting counsel and companies with antitrust investigations, civil litigations, and regulatory matters. He has worked on litigation before state and federal courts and antitrust agencies in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and regularly consults for Fortune 500 businesses.
Mr. Milner is an antitrust expert with deep experience in cartel matters. In his career, he has studied cartel issues including price-fixing, bid-rigging, and market allocation across dozens of industries. Mr. Milner has assessed the economic conditions required for effective cartel formation, monitoring, and enforcement. He has also assessed economic methodologies in antitrust class actions, tested liability theories related to cartels, and conducted analyses of antitrust impact, causation, and but-for pricing. Additionally, he has utilized econometric methodologies and large transactional databases to calculate volumes of commerce and antitrust damages.
Mr. Milner has also offered economic expertise related to the assessment of direct and indirect effects of alleged anticompetitive conduct, including in monopolization and Robinson-Patman Act claims. He seeks to make complex issues simple and easily understood by clients, judges, and jurors, regularly utilizing a wide range of economic tools, including market definition, regression models, and other data driven analyses. He has written numerous articles and has given presentations on economic issues in antitrust cases and the role of data in rigorous empirical analysis.
Mr. Milner is a foremost expert in the processing, collection, and utilization of large, complex, antitrust pricing databases. He has pioneered techniques in data management and works effectively with counsel and companies to identify appropriate databases and variables across products, divisions, and companies as required during the discovery process. Mr. Milner also directs the turnover, cleaning, database construction, and econometric analysis pertinent to expert testimony in high stakes litigations.
His experience spans a host of industries, including agriculture products, chemicals, high technology goods, automotive parts, retail consumer products, and wholesale distribution.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
- American Bar Association
- Antitrust Section
- Business Law Section
- Science & Technology Law Section
- American Economic Association
- National Association of Forensic Economists
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
- Vice President, Criterion Economics
- Consultant, NERA Economic Consulting
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Matthew Milner received his MBA from The George Washington University School of Business and his BA in economics and political science from Hobart College.