David Toniatti
 
                    Education
Ph.D. and M.B.A., economics, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business; A.B., economics, Harvard University
Summary of Experience
Dr. Toniatti specializes in the application of microeconomics, econometrics, and statistical methods in litigation and strategy matters. He has conducted analyses of competition and antitrust issues across a range of industries. In merger investigations, he has supported experts for the US Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and merging parties related to horizontal and vertical transactions. Dr. Toniatti has supported the DOJ’s testifying expert regarding the proposed Anthem/Cigna merger, and the FTC’s testifying experts regarding the proposed Penn State Hershey Medical Center/PinnacleHealth merger and Sanford Health’s proposed acquisition of the Mid Dakota Clinic. He has also supported experts in class certification, liability, and damages matters involving commercial air travel, medical devices, consumer products, and automobiles. Dr. Toniatti has taught an undergraduate course on competition and antitrust issues at Dartmouth College. His research has appeared in The Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Antitrust Law Journal, the Journal of Competition Law & Economics, the Minnesota Journal of International Law, and the American Bar Association’s The Antitrust Source.
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                                                        Webinar Recap: Designing Effective AI Compliance ProgramsABA Antitrust Law Section, May 1, 2024 
 2024Feyler E, Chirinos Terrones P, Toniatti D, Scoville G 
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                                                        The FTC’s Non-Compete Ban: What Lies Ahead?ABA Antitrust Law Section, 2024 
 2024Toniatti D, Althans O, Scoville G 
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                                                        Interlocking Directorates in the Crosshairs of RegulationABA Antitrust Law Section, 2024 
 2024Toniatti D, Chen L 
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                                                        Risk and Repeat: How the Venture Capital Ecosystem Drives Entrepreneurship and InnovationOxford Business Law Blog, January 12, 2022 
 2022Reilly D, Sokol D, Toniatti D 
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                                                        Economic Experts in Criminal Antitrust Price Fixing Litigation: Discovery and ScopeAntitrust Report, October 2022 
 2022
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                                                        What Can COVID Tell Us About Market Definition in Air Travel?Antitrust Report, October 2022 
 2022Calzaretta, Jr. R, Toniatti D, Ziadi A 
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                                                        The Importance of Exit via Acquisition to Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, and InnovationSSRN, December 14, 2021 
 2021Reilly D, Sokol D, Toniatti D 
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                                                        No Exit: A Threat to Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship, and InnovationCompetition Policy International, December 16, 2021 
 2021Reilly D, Sokol D, Toniatti D 
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                                                        Why Exit via Acquisition Is Essential to Entrepreneurial InvestmentColumbia Law School Blue Sky Blog, December 22, 2021 
 2021Reilly D, Sokol D, Toniatti D 
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                                                        Up or Down? The Price Effects of Mergers of IntermediariesAntitrust Law Journal 82 (2019) 643–677 
 2019
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                                                        A Primer on Bargaining: How Mergers May Affect Negotiated PricesThe Antitrust Source, April 2018 
 2018
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                                                        Political Advertising and Election ResultsThe Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 133, Issue 4, November 1, 2018 
 2018Spenkuch JL, Toniatti D 
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                                                        Comment on ‘The Flaws in Using the Hypothetical Monopolist Test from the ‘Payor Perspective’ in Health Care Merger Cases,’ by Field, Fisher, and CoglianeseThe Antitrust Source, December 2017 
 2017
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                                                        Antitrust Enforcement in Two-Sided MarketsABA Economics Committee Newsletter, Winter 2016 
 2016Caminade J, Kirk Fair R, Mantovanelli F, Toniatti D 
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                                                        The Economics of Pass-Through With Production ConstraintsJournal of Competition Law & Economics, 12(2), 279–285 
 2016
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                                                        A Modified Approach to Random Selection of Bellwether CasesBloomberg BNA's Product Safety & Liability Reporter, July 6, 2015 
 2015Holian M, Rothman D, Toniatti D 
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