One of the State Center’s most utilized grant programs is its Panel of Economists. There are many antitrust and consumer protection matters which benefit from economic input and analysis. The purpose of the State Center Panel of Economists is to provide State officials with access to economic expertise at the initial stages of those matters — expeditiously, confidentially and at the State Center’s expense.
The State Center’s Panel of Economists is comprised of experienced, distinguished economists with a background in industrial organization, agricultural economics or other relevant emphases that may be of assistance to State Attorneys General. Panelists’ resumes and a copy of the Consulting Agreement each has signed are posted below. Panelists are available for consultation to State Attorneys General Offices for a maximum of twenty (20) hours per matter, upon approval by the State Center’s Executive Director. Financial assistance for longer term advice or testimony, by panelists or other experts, may be sought through the State Center’s normal grant application process.
Our Panel
Joseph Balagtas
Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University
Signed Consulting Agreement
Curriculum Vita
Thomas Jeitschko
Professor of Economics and Adjunct Professor of Finance, Michigan State University.
Signed Consulting Agreement
Curriculum Vita
Mark J McCabe
Professor of Economics and a co-Founder of the Digital Business Program at SKEMA Business School, and Research Associate at GREDEG, Sophia Antipolis, France; Lecturer, Boston University, Questrom School of Business.
Signed Consulting Agreement
Curriculum Vita
Jeffrey McCullough, Ph.D
Associate Professor of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan School of Public Health
Signed Consulting Agreement
Curriculum Vita
Diana Moss
Vice-President and Director of Competition, Progressive Policy Institute; Adjunct Faculty, University of Colorado-Boulder; former President, American Antitrust Institute
Signed Consulting Agreement
Curriculum Vita
Richard O. Zerbe, Jr.
Professor, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Signed Consulting Agreement
Curriculum Vita
Barak D. Richman
Bartlett Professor of Law and Business Administration, Duke University
Signed Consulting Agreement
Curriculum Vita
Request a Consultation
Before requesting the consultation, the State Attorney General’s Office should first contact the expert to ascertain their availability and ensure there are no conflicts.
There are two ways to engage the State Center’s e-Discovery consultant:
1. The simplest is to submit a Request for Panel Work. That Request should be submitted to the Executive Director. It must provide enough detail about the consulting services sought (without disclosing confidential information) to allow the Executive Director to evaluate the request. The Executive Director’s approval of the Request makes the submitting Attorney General’s Office a third party beneficiary of the Consulting Agreement, entitling it to use of the consultant at the State Center’s expense and triggering confidentiality and other built-in protections.
A State desiring further services from their selected expert may separately contract directly with that expert at any time for any continued work.
2. An alternative method is for a State Attorney General’s Office to negotiate its own agreement with the State Center consultant at the hourly rate they agree upon and then request that the State Center provide reimbursement for up to 20 hours of the panelist’s time pursuant to the State Center’s negotiated agreement with that consultant (with those payments either being made directly to the consultant or being made to the State in reimbursement). This alternative may be preferred by States who have already decided to engage the panelist for a longer term.
A State may use the same Request for Panel Work form, but provide additional information about your own arrangements with the panelist. The request should provide substantially the same information and be submitted to the Executive Director. The Executive Director’s approval of the Request makes the submitting Attorney General’s Office a third party beneficiary of the Consulting Agreement, entitling it to use of the consultant at the State Center’s expense and triggering confidentiality and other built-in protections.
The Executive Director has sole discretion to act with respect to all requests for Panel expert consultations. Unless authorized to do so, the Executive Director will not disclose information about the nature of the Consulting Services provided to any third party or to any member of the State Center’s Board of Directors while the matter is pending.
The State Center hopes that all grant recipients will consider contributing funds to the State Center realized from projects supported by State Center grants. Consideration of the State Center as a recipient of third party recoveries through litigation or settlement, of cy pres distributions, or from other sources is appreciated. In the event a matter is resolved with the ability to recover costs, the State Center suggests that reimbursement for its grants be sought as costs. All such funds will be used to support the important work being done by the State Center and will make additional grants possible in the future. The State Center, however, does not require an advance commitment to repay any grant made to a State Attorney General’s office. Applications for such grants are assessed on their merits, regardless of the likelihood of repayment.