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Inside Compass Lexecon, one of the top antitrust consulting firms
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Boxed-up court documents from the antitrust trial between Apple and Epic Games.
Hundreds of economists at leading universities live a double life: By day, they conduct research, teach classes, and rub padded elbows at academic conferences. But by night, they moonlight as analytic mercenaries, helping to tear down or defend the world’s biggest monopolies. These academics work for economic consulting firms, and few firms are as feared and revered as 44-year-old Compass Lexecon, headquartered in Washington DC.
In legal jurisdictions from the US to the EU to China, the outcome of anti-monopoly lawsuits and merger reviews hinges on hard-to-answer economic questions: How much of the relevant market does a company control? What ....

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