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Professor Langer has testified on issues related to class certification and economic damages, including in such high-profile class actions as <a href="https://www.cornerstone.com/insights/cases/guzman-et-al-v-polaris-inc-et-al/"><em>Guzman et al. v. Polaris Inc. et al.</em></a> and <a href="https://www.cornerstone.com/insights/cases/garcia-et-al-v-volkswagen-group-of-america-inc-et-al/"><em>Garcia et al. v. Volkswagen Group of America Inc. et al</em></a>.</p> <p>Professor Langer has analyzed consumer decisions, including those related to the automotive and oil industries. She has evaluated decisions on which vehicles to drive, how preferences form, when and where to purchase fuel, and whether to adopt electric vehicles. She has also investigated the impact of consumer demographic group preferences on vehicle pricing.</p> <p>In her recent research, Professor Langer has assessed energy and environmental policy design issues. For example, she has analyzed international oil markets and the factors that influence pricing, as well as how Clean Air Act regulatory enforcement affects pollution levels and firms’ investment decisions. Further, she has studied the impact of energy policy on durable goods such as automobiles and residential solar. In particular, Professor Langer has examined how households respond to solar subsidies that change over time, how uncertainty surrounding policy enforcement affects coal power plant retirement and upgrade decisions, and how taxing vehicle mileage (rather than fuel consumption) changes Highway Trust Fund revenues. Her earlier work includes assessing the effect of congestion tolling on urban land use.</p> <p>Professor Langer’s research has been published in leading academic journals, including the <em>American Economic Review</em>, the <em>Journal of Public Economics</em>, and the <em>Review of Economics and Statistics</em>. She is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Lexology Index (formerly <em>Who’s Who Legal</em>) has named Professor Langer a Future Leader among global competition experts and has also recommended her as a leading competition economist and consulting expert.</p> <p>At the University of Arizona, Professor Langer teaches courses in business strategy, empirical research methods, environmental economics, energy and environmental policy, and government regulation. She has been honored with several teaching and advising awards. In addition, Professor Langer presents on industrial organization and empirical research methods, as well as transportation, energy, and environmental topics, at professional conferences and universities in the United States and internationally.</p> <p>Professor Langer previously taught at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. 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His academic research focuses on the impact of marketing on business performance, to which he applies his expertise in data-analytic methods such as econometrics and time-series analysis. He also researches consumers’ purchase decisions, advertising, distribution, and retailer behavior.</p> <p>Professor Hanssens has been retained as an expert in numerous high-profile matters and has extensive experience in product liability, intellectual property, antitrust, and breach of contract cases involving marketing or statistics. He has substantial experience in class actions and has also served in many cases as a damages expert. His approach combines quantitative marketing science techniques with rigorous, market-based analysis of consumer behavior. Professor Hanssens has also conducted and critiqued consumer surveys. He has consulted to companies across a range of industries, including Agilent Technologies, British Telecom, Charles Schwab, Disney, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Johnson & Johnson, Mattel, Microsoft, and Wells Fargo.</p> <p>Professor Hanssens publishes extensively and has served as an editor for leading academic journals in marketing. Five of his articles have won Best Paper awards, in <em>Marketing Science</em>, the <em>Journal of Marketing Research</em>, and the <em>Journal of Marketing</em>; ten of his articles were award finalists.</p> <p>Among his numerous honors, Professor Hanssens has received the Buck Weaver Award from the INFORMS Society, which honors rigor and relevance in marketing science. The American Marketing Association has recognized him twice, with the Gilbert A. Churchill Award for lifetime achievement in the academic study of marketing research, and the Vijay Mahajan Award for career contributions to marketing strategy research. At UCLA Anderson, he received the Neidorf “Decade” Teaching Award for significant and sustained leadership.</p> <p>Professor Hanssens has taught marketing management, quantitative research and analysis, strategy, policy, and international marketing courses in the M.B.A., Ph.D., and executive M.B.A. programs at UCLA. He has also served as executive director of the Marketing Science Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.</p> </div> <div class="bottom-action mt-3"> <a href="https://www.cornerstone.com/experts/dominique-hanssens/" class="btn-primary btn grd-btn">View Bio</a> </div> </div> <div class="text-block expert-container-hidden "> <h2 class="desktop-show">Our extensive network includes top experts from academia and industry.<div class="title-bottom-text dark"></div> </h2> <div class="large-para"> <h3 class="sec-font bold">Amy P. 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In Rule 10b-5 securities class actions and related opt-out matters, he has provided expert testimony on class certification and merits issues, including market efficiency, price impact, loss causation, and damages.</p> </div> <div class="text-faded"> <p>His industry experience includes FinTech, cryptocurrency, entertainment, financial services, investment banking, automotive, and microfinance. Professor Garmaise has also consulted with a U.S. bank on refining its residential mortgage delinquency model.</p> <p>Professor Garmaise analyzes a range of complex issues affecting real estate markets, entrepreneurial firms, venture capital, and private equity. He has published papers on mortgage terms, the performance of small business lenders, and the effects of financial constraints on entrepreneurs. 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We have experience addressing economic, marketing, and consumer behavior issues in matters involving alleged vehicle safety defects as well as false advertising claims. In addition to our experience in automobile cases, we have provided expert analyses in multiple matters involving all-terrain vehicles, recreational vehicles, and heavy-duty trucks.</p> <p>Our in-depth knowledge of the industry’s structure, distribution channels, and pricing models—as well as issues related to new automotive technologies—informs our use of sophisticated economic and marketing tools. This expertise enables us to evaluate a variety of consumer claims, including overpayment or diminished resale value, and effectively rebut opposing arguments and proposed methodologies.</p> <p>We work on cases filed in both federal and state courts, as well as government investigations. Our support extends through all phases of litigation, including class certification, merit inquiries, and Daubert motions. 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