Profile: Elisabeth M Landes

Competition Economists

Biography: Competition Economists

Elisabeth M Landes is a senior vice president at Compass Lexecon, a leading economic consulting firm specialising in the application of economics to litigation. Landes specialises in industrial organisation and labour economics. She has analysed economics in the context of litigation, antitrust regulation, and labour matters. She has conducted and participated in studies of numerous industries including computers, insurance, building products, natural gas, chemicals, sports, entertainment, waste hauling, and a variety of consumer products.

Landes has provided expert testimony before the Illinois House of Representatives, the Illinois Human Rights Commission, the United States Copyright Office, and numerous federal and state courts in connection with matters involving alleged labour market discrimination, breach of contract damages, and antitrust violations.

She has also served as a member of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Gender Study Task Force. In addition, Landes has published articles in the fields of labour economics and industrial organisation in scholarly journals including The Journal of Political Economy, The Journal of Industrial Economics, The Journal of Legal Studies and The Journal of Law and Economics. Landes received a PhD in Economics from Columbia (with Distinction).