Vega experts are distinguished academic leaders with broad expertise in economic theory and its applications to labor and employment issues. Experts in our network have experience addressing labor dispute issues at the certification and damages phases of class action litigation. They also have experience testifying in matters regarding wage and hour disputes, discrimination claims, benefits valuation, and executive compensation, as well as job classification and structures. Vega experts regularly apply economic and statistical modelling techniques to cases in these subject areas.
Below is a list of example engagements for our Labor & Employment practice:
Rebuttal Analysis of Economic Losses in Employment Matter: Vega’s expert was retained on behalf of the defendant to review reports by plaintiffs’ expert and respond to their opinion of economic losses, including lost pay and benefits.
Analysis of Retention of Customer Information by Loan Officers: Vega Economics’ experts Charles Grice and Lisa Murphy were retained by defense counsel in a case between two mortgage lenders. The plaintiff lender alleged that defendant targeted and unlawfully poached loan officers and staff from its operations, using trade secrets and proprietary customer information brought by the loan officers to capture and divert customer relationships.
Analysis of the Economics of Contracting in the U.S. Package Delivery Industry: Vega Economics was retained to analyze and provide opinions on the economics of contracting in the U.S. package delivery industry and its economic implications for individuals employed to drive for ISPs.
Rebuttal Analysis of Economic Losses Due to Employment Termination in Violation of ADEA: Dr. Wendy Stock was retained by a municipality in an employment discrimination case. Plaintiff alleged that the municipality constructively discharged him in violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA). Vega supported Dr. Stock to review and respond to Plaintiff’s expert’s calculations of economic losses.
Managing Director, Vega Economics
- Corporate Finance
- Labor & Employment
- Securities & Finance
- Consumer Finance
- Data Science & Statistics
Professor of Economics at Sonoma State University and Director of Advanced Marketing Analytics for Sonoma Research Associates
- Labor & Employment
- Marketing & Surveys
Distinguished Scholar, Barnard College; and Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin at Royal Holloway University of London
- Labor & Employment
Professor in the Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis Department at University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Labor & Employment
- Education Economics
Senior Research Associate with the FHI 360 Education Policy and Data Center
- Labor & Employment
- Education Economics
Assistant Professor at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
- Labor & Employment
- Antitrust & Competition
- Data Science & Statistics
- Agriculture
Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, University of California, Davis
- Labor & Employment
- Data Science & Statistics
Professor of Economics and Director of the MSU Initiative for Regulation and Applied Economics, Montana State University
- Labor & Employment
Professor and the Richard Snape Chair in Business and Economics, Monash University in Melbourne, Australia
- Labor & Employment
Principal, Vega Economics
- Labor & Employment
- Data Science & Statistics
- Securities & Finance
- Antitrust & Competition
- Healthcare & Health Economics