Ted Tatos is a quantitative microeconomist, specializing in econometric and statistical analysis. He holds a BA in economics from Duke University and MS in Statistics, with a focus in Econometrics from the University of Utah. He’s also holds a professional statistician certification from the American Statistical Association. Ted has taught Econometrics and Applied Econometrics as an adjunct professor at the University of Utah and is the Associate Economics Editor of the Antitrust Bulletin law and economics journal. He regularly publishes in economic and law journals on antitrust, labor, statistics, and intellectual property issues. His work has appeared in the Antitrust Bulletin, the Harvard Journal of Sports & Entertainment Law, the Journal of Sports Economics, the Federal Circuit Bar Journal, the Appraisal Journal, and others. His publications are available at https://utah.academia.edu/TedTatos.

Ted has nearly 30 years of experience in litigation and non-litigation consulting, with a focus in antitrust, data analytics, higher education, healthcare, intellectual property, labor, and commercial damages. Ted has testified in both federal and state court as well as before administrative law judges. He has also presented findings regarding lock-in in the mainframe industry before the European Commission, Director General of Competition, Chief Economist’s team and has presented to the U.S. Department of Justice on behalf of collegiate athletes and on behalf of hospital workers in Pennsylvania. His academic paper on the use of collegiate athletes as research subjects in concussion studies formed the basis of a documentary by the Athletic, now part of the New York Times.

Ted has served as an expert in four Robinson-Patman matters, including Western Convenience v. Suncor (retail gasoline), in which he offered trial testimony, Cellular Cellutions vs. AT&T (mobile telephones), and JD Fields v. Nucor (steel). He has also published on the use of statistical analysis and the Morton Salt inference in RPA cases. Ted has served as a testifying expert and a consulting expert in various no-poach labor matters, including Hunter v. Booz Allen Hamiton et al., in which he offered rebuttal testimony regarding the validity of procompetitive justifications for labor restraints, Borozny v. RTX (Pratt & Whitney, aerospace industry) et al., where he prepared economic and econometric analysis, and others. He regularly publishes on labor issues, particularly those involving collegiate athletes and the NCAA restraint on labor. In addition, Ted also served as an expert in Garavanian v. Jet Blue and Spirit Airlines (challenging the merger of the two airlines), where he provided analysis of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics Airline Origin and Destination Survey (DB1B) data.

Within the technology industry, Ted has consulted on the Google-DoubleClick merger, the proposed Microsoft-Yahoo merger, as well as recent Google Ad Tech antitrust matters. He has consulted and testified on the use of online advertising metrics, such as keyword bidding outcomes, in intellectual property matters, such as 1800 Contacts v. Lens.com, Sport Court v. Rhino Sports, Luxe v. SLS Hotels, and others, where issues such as likelihood of consumer confusion and secondary meaning were involved. He has also been engaged as a damages expert in multiple breach of contract and breach of non-solicitation provision matters, particularly in the direct selling industry.

Mr. Tatos has published and offered expert testimony on the use of hedonic regression in valuing multiple properties and potential property value impacts. He served as an expert and testified at trial in a matter involving the valuation of various assets and properties associated with the Traverse Mountain multi-use development in Utah, consulted on the impacts of the Aliso Canyon methane leak, and effects of subway corridors on property values. He has also been engaged in and testified on property value impacts from rails-to-trails developments, including the Atlanta Beltline. His article in the Appraisal Journal analyzing property value impacts from transmission lines, sub-transmission lines and substations is among the largest, if not the largest published studies of its kind.

Ted has provided statistical analysis services, including statistical sampling to various private and public sector clients. In the public sector, he has been engaged as an expert witness by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to analyze allegations of fraud on the market, has performed sampling and statistical analysis for the Department of Defense analyzing hospital performance on various healthcare outcome metrics, provided sampling analysis for Utah Industrial Electricity Consumers, and the U.S. Department of the Navy.