Senior Managing Economist, LECG

Dr. Garcia Swartz completed his joint Ph.D. in economics and history at The University of Chicago in June of 1998. He had previously received a B.A. in history and an M.A. in economic history in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he also pursued graduate studies in economics. In the course of his Ph.D. studies he received scholarships and fellowships from The Hewlett Foundation, The Ford Foundation, The Tinker Foundation, and The University of Chicago. In 1997 he was selected as a finalist in the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies competition, among 250 social scientists whose research focused on international affairs. Before joining LECG Dr. Garcia Swartz taught Latin American history and economic history. He also worked as an economist at Chicago Partners, a computer programmer at The University of Chicago, and an English-Spanish interpreter in workshops organized by the Chicago Board of Trade and Andersen Consulting. Between 1998 and 2004 he worked as an economic consultant at NERA. Dr. Garcia Swartz has been active in several practice areas—employment and labor, antitrust, patent and trademark infringement, commercial damages, and business consulting. In labor economics he has conducted research projects focusing on discrimination in pay, promotions, terminations, and the administration of discipline. He has authored expert reports on damages and provided expert testimony. In antitrust he has had experience with cases involving monopoly tying, predatory pricing, exclusionary practices, and bid rigging. He has estimated commercial damages in the trucking industry and has had experience with projects involving patent infringement in the medical device industry and misappropriation of trade secrets in the preamplifier industry. He has also been active in business consulting, particularly in the analysis of the market for embedded computing components. In recent years he has been involved in research projects focused on a wide variety of issues—among them, an evaluation of the costs and benefits of payment instruments, an algorithmic interpretation of the pre-Fed check-clearing system, and an economic analysis of the open-source movement in the wider context of the software industry. He has published his research in a number of peer-reviewed journals including Explorations in Economic History, Industry and Innovation, Information Economics and Policy, The International Journal of the Economics of Business, and the Review of Network Economics.