John Gale Vice President | gale.j@ei.com B.S., Beloit College, 1985 M.S., University of Wisconsin, 1992 Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1997 Economists Incorporated, Washington, DC

Mr. Gale has extensive experience providing economic analysis of antitrust, regulatory, intellectual property, and damages issues relating to telecommunications, consumer products, and professional services markets. Mr. Gale has authored filings in Federal Communications Commission proceedings on program exclusivity, spectrum ownership caps, interactive television rules, retail availability of cable boxes, reciprocity rules, and digital radio standards. In addition to analyzing the effects of the cellular spectrum ownership cap, Mr. Gale has analyzed competition issues during a mobile communications provider merger review and, separately, estimated damages due to discriminatory wholesale airtime prices.

Mr. Gale has particular expertise in econometric analysis and simulation of competition among differentiated products. In addition to publishing on this subject in Antitrust, he has extensive experience developing merger simulation models, analyzing auction models, and conducting consumer demand studies. Mr. Gale has also applied these modeling techniques to damages estimation in discriminatory pricing and intellectual property cases. Mr. Gale has assisted clients during agency merger reviews in the financial information services, electricity, television programming, gasoline, mobile communications, newspaper publishing, paper products, beer, feminine hygiene, candy, batteries, water purification, hybrid corn, medical devices, hospital services, and accounting services markets.

Prior to joining Economists Incorporated, Mr. Gale was an economic consultant with The Brattle Group and Charles River Associates. Mr. Gale has also taught economics and business courses at the Mississippi University for Women and Mississippi State University.