Expert Insights on Economics
Economics is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
Gerson Lehrman Group Council Members are available to discuss Economics via phone consultations, live meetings, surveys, and other custom GLG products and services.
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Featured Council Members
GLG Council Members are leading experts including academics, scientists, and industry specialists
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Tim Coombs
Managing DirectorAviation Economics
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Adaeze Akamigbo, PhD, MPP
Associate ConsultantHealth Economics Consulting Group LLC
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Paul Buchanan
Director, EconomicsCOLIN BUCHANAN & PARTNERS LTD
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John Brooks, PhD
PrincipalHealth Economics Consulting Group LLC
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David Gibbs, PhD, ASA, MAAA, FCA
ConsultantHealth Economics Consulting Group LLC
Study Groups
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Recent Live Meetings
Interactive roundtables, private visits, and small scale seminars are types of GLG Live Meetings
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May 22, 2009 | Webcast
GLG Webcast: Consolidation Trends - China Pharma on May 22, 2009 at 7:30AM ET -
October 23, 2009 | Webcast
Webcast: Rare Earth Market Dynamics in China & the Rest of the World (10:00 AM EDT/15:00 BST) -
December 7, 2009 | New York
Seminar: Is Algae a Viable Technology for Energy Solution? (New York) -
December 8, 2009 | Boston
Seminar: Is Algae a Viable Technology for Energy Solution? (Boston) -
December 9, 2009 | Chicago
Seminar: Is Algae a Viable Technology for Energy Solution? (Chicago)
Recent News Analyses
News analyses are expert commentaries on current events, written by Council Members who are available for follow up consultations
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Economics and Technology is Driving Telstra Split
October 21, 2009
Australia's opposition party emerges as Telstra ally against reform | www.totaltele.com
Should Telstra split into two businesses: network and services respectively? The answer might be found in India. Countries like India that need to drive costs down so that they can offer services to customers on very low incomes are leading the trend. Soon the rest of the World will be forced to...
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Impact Of Techno-economics And Market Share On Indian Mobile Market
September 28, 2009
Hot Pursuit | www.business-standard.com
Even given its size and aggressive infrastructure sharing between operators, there are already too many players in the Indian mobile market for the long term. Also CDMA may follow the path of decline it has experienced in Latin America against the GSM juggernaut.
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Understanding the New Ostpolitik
October 27, 2009
The new Ostpolitik | www.ft.com
Germany's Ostpolitik with Russia is rooted in economics as much as in politics. German business sees Russia as a vast field for new exports while it also depends on Russian gas. Politically Germany sees no Russian threat in the East and believes that it promotes Russia's integration into Europe....
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Salicornia Bigelovii - Oil Du Jour
October 11, 2009
Boeing, Honeywell's UOP, Masdar Institute and Industry Team Launch Study of Jet Fuel Made from Saltwater Plants | www.yourdefencenews.com
We have seen this time and time again – a new oil that can be transesterified to a biodiesel fuel. But as we have discussed several times previously, cost is critical, specifically the feedstock cost. So this study will simply tell us again, a defined cost structure that will be challenged to beatfossil...
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Polycom a Winner in the Cisco Acquisition of Tandberg
October 7, 2009
CISCO to acquire Tandberg | www.itwire.com
Comparing the sales model employed so successfully for routers and IP phones to selling video products may be dangerous. The complexity of the technology, the longer sales cycle and the economics of selling video are not compatible with the CISCO go to market model.Serious channel conflict betweenthe...