Bryan Keating is a Founding Partner of Econic Partners LLC, a global economic consulting firm. Prior to Econic, he served as an Executive Vice President at Compass Lexecon LLC. Dr. Keating specializes in antitrust, industrial organization, regulation, and econometrics.
He has advised corporations and government agencies in dozens of antitrust matters, including mergers, conduct investigations, class certification, and damages estimation. His work spans a broad range of industries, such as advertising, healthcare, high technology, industrial goods, media, payment systems, sports, telecommunications, and transportation. Dr. Keating has provided expert testimony in U.S. federal court proceedings, arbitrations, and legislative hearings, as well as before U.S. and international competition and regulatory authorities.
Dr. Keating’s research on economic and competition issues has been published in leading academic journals, including The Journal of Law and Economics, The Review of Industrial Organization, The Review of Network Economics, Antitrust Magazine, and Antitrust Source. He has also co-authored several book chapters, including contributions on Unilateral Effects to the Oxford Handbook on International Antitrust Economics and on Econometrics and Regression Analysis to the American Bar Association’s Proving Antitrust Damages (Third Edition). He has been recognized as a thought leader in competition economics by Lexology (formerly Who’s Who Legal).
Dr. Keating earned a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University and graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College with a B.A. in Economics and Government. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland with his wife and three children.