Lucy P. Allen is Senior Vice President at NERA Economic Consulting. At NERA, Ms. Allen specializes in securities, finance, and the economics of product liability. She has performed valuations of privately-held companies, subsidiaries, and thinly-traded securities and has assessed liability, materiality, and damages in over 100 securities litigation cases. She has analyzed issues related to subprime lending, ERISA claims and alleged market manipulation and insider trading including complex financial instruments such as credit derivatives. In the area of tort economics, she has estimated the number and value of claims likely to arise from allegedly defective or harmful products, including asbestos, medical products, and building materials.
Ms. Allen has testified frequently as an expert, including at trials in Federal District Court, before the American Arbitration Association and the Judicial Arbitration Mediation Service, and in depositions. In the area of finance and securities, she has testified on issues including:
- Market efficiency, class conflicts, and other issues regarding class certification
- Loss causation, materiality, and damages
- Settlement values in securities class action suits
- Valuation
Before joining NERA, Ms. Allen was a staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisers for both President George H.W. Bush and President Clinton, providing economic analysis on regulation and health care policy issues.
Ms. Allen earned an A.B. degree from Stanford University, an M.B.A. with a concentration in finance and accounting from Yale University and M.A. and M.Phil. degrees in Economics also from Yale University.