Josh Palmer

Senior Economist

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Ph.D. in Economics, University of California at Berkeley
B.A. in Economics and Psychology, University of Michigan

Josh received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 2011, where he was also a graduate student instructor in the Economics and Statistics Departments. His fields of specialization are Industrial Organization, Behavioral Economics, and Applied Microeconomics. Josh began working at applEcon in 2002 as a staff analyst. In 2009 he completed an internship at the Federal Trade Commission, Bureau of Economics in Washington, D.C., conducting empirical research on the competitive effects of reverse-payment settlements in the pharmaceutical industry for which his team was awarded the Janet D. Steiger Award. Josh earned a B.A. in Economics and Psychology from the University of Michigan in 2000.

Selected Experience

Class Action Cases Against Microsoft

Antitrust liability, causation, damages, and class certification for plaintiffs

An end-consumer class of individuals and businesses in California sued Microsoft for monopoly overcharges on the Windows operating system, as well as MS Word and MS Excel applications. The case was originally filed in early 1999, nearly a year before Judge Jackson…

Antritust damages for plaintiff

applEcon developed and implemented two methods to calculate the overcharge to purchasers of finished alder lumber, leading the judge to certify a class of direct purchasers and the jury to award the class $28 million.

Damages Analysis, Antitrust

Unocal influenced California regulators to adopt regulations that, unbeknownst to regulators, conferred monopoly power upon Unocal. applEcon quantified the resulting overcharges paid by California consumers, which helped class members to win a settlement of $48…

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Josh Palmer

Senior Economist