Econic Partners LLC is thrilled to announce that Dr. Christopher Taylor has joined the firm as a Partner. Dr. Taylor served in the government for three decades, ultimately serving as an Assistant Director within the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) where he led a team of approximately 40 Ph.D. economists, financial analysts, and research analysts. Dr. Taylor directly supervised the selection, design, and implementation of antitrust investigations and research projects, while also leading litigation teams on a wide variety of cases in Federal District Court and on Part III matters before the FTC Administrative Law Judge. While at the FTC, he won numerous awards for individual excellence, as well as a dozen team awards for specific cases and projects.
Dr. Taylor’s research on industrial organization, antitrust, and international trade has been widely published by leading economic journals including the American Economic Review, The Journal of Law and Economics, The Journal of Industrial Economics, Journal of International Economics, International Journal of Industrial Organization,and the Review of Industrial Organization.
Dr. Loren Smith, Founding Partner and Head of Econic’s North American Antitrust & Competition Practice, said, “Chris is a widely respected and highly valued economist within the FTC and in the antitrust community more generally, particularly in energy markets. Adding Chris to our deep bench of economists with Agency experience will be invaluable to our clients.”
Dr. Taylor said, “I am excited to bring my decades of FTC experience leading merger and conduct investigations to the amazing team at Econic. I look forward to providing clients insights about competitive effects of transactions and business practices using my knowledge of applied economic analysis and industry expertise.”
Econic Partners now has more than a dozen former FTC economists among our team of more than 200 professionals.
