|
Dr. Williams specializes in antitrust, industrial organization, and regulation. As an economist in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and as a consultant, he has examined and provided expert testimony on a variety of antitrust and regulatory issues, including monopolization, price fixing, and tying arrangements. He has served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission in such matters as the proposed mergers of Exxon and Mobil, BP Amoco and ARCO, Time Warner and EMI, and United Airlines and U.S. Airways, and in the litigated matters such as U.S. et al. v. Oracle, and FTC v. Rambus. He has provided testimony and comments before the Federal Communications Commission, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and the U.S. Postal Service, as well as a number of state regulatory commissions, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, and U.S. District Court in Texas. His research on these topics has appeared in a number of academic journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of Industrial Economics, Behavioral Science, Economics Letters, Texas Law Review, Antitrust Bulletin, and Yale Journal on Regulation. He holds a B.A. in economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of Chicago. | 