Elizabeth Stone

Manager

Education:
Ph.D. and M.A., economics, Stanford University; B.A., economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Summary of Experience:
Dr. Stone specializes in securities and antitrust litigation matters. Her areas of research include uncertainty and investment, financial innovation in equity derivatives markets, and naked short sales. She has provided economic analysis in cases involving mortgage-backed securities, loan guarantees by government-sponsored enterprises, and price-fixing. Dr. Stone has evaluated damages attributable to alleged loan-underwriting deficiencies; analyzed loan repurchase behavior; evaluated hedge fund trading strategies; and applied cost-accounting concepts to the estimation of damages related to price overcharges. She previously was an equity derivatives trader for Merrill Lynch & Co.