Amy Bertin Candell
Senior Vice President
Amy Candell is a Senior Vice President with Compass Lexecon and is based in Boston, MA. For over fifteen years, Dr. Candell has applied microeconomic theory and econometric modeling to complex business problems. She has advised clients and provided expert testimony on antitrust economics, competitive analysis, and regulatory policy. She has conducted market analyses, measured damages, and analyzed regulation in a number of industries, including railroads, metals, pipeline transportation, oil and natural gas. In the area of intellectual property, her assignments have included the valuation of copyrights, particularly in the area of music licensing.
For a wide variety of clients, Dr. Candell provides economic analysis and damages estimates in antitrust and business litigation. She has extensive experience in complex, data-intensive projects requiring modeling to assess economic arguments and to quantify potential damages. She applies economic and statistical tools to analyze market structure, firm behavior, and competitive outcomes.
Dr. Candell has worked on many projects involving the network industries such as railroads and pipeline transportation. In the railroad industry, she has participated in the policy debates by providing in-depth analysis of the competitive effects of mergers and the economics of access regimes. In addition, she has analyzed rail transportation markets in market dominance proceedings, examined the economics of long-term contracts, and assessed productivity since deregulation. For other network industries including pipelines, natural gas LDCs and electricity, she has addressed a broad range of policy issues including performance-based ratemaking, unbundling of vertical integrated industries, and market structure.
In the area of music licensing, Dr. Candell has extensive experience in cases involving the music and entertainment/media industries. She has participated in copyright and rate setting cases on behalf of broadcast and cable television, background music services, and Internet and digital radio. She has developed analyses to value copyrights for litigation and for negotiation. Additionally, she has created statistically valid surveys to measure the use of music. She has also consulted on the valuation of copyrights of printed materials.
Dr. Candell holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, an M.A. in economics from Harvard University, and an S.B. in economics from MIT.