Researchers at NERA found the two factors combined explained 70% of the difference in liability costs.

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Last year the number of class action filings jumped to 207, according to NERA Economic Consulting.

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NERA, an economic consultancy, with the Norwegian system, since adopted in Sweden and Finland.

ECONOMIST: Electricity

NERA, an economic consultancy, concluded that haulage rates do not reflect the true cost of freight transport.

ECONOMIST: Fuel taxes

And, as NERA pointed out for DOE, the net economic benefits to America are greater the more the exports.

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The Department of Energy (DOE) released a report it commissioned from venerable NERA Economic Consulting: Macroeconomic Impacts of LNG Exports form the United States.

FORBES: Economics 101 Comes to the U.S. Department of Energy: Exporting LNG is Good

W. David Montgomery, senior vice president at Nera Economic Consulting, a New York firm, summed up the situation quite clearly in testimony at a November 2nd congressional hearing.

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"This unlevels the playing field and gives certain traders advantages over others, " says Sharon Brown-Hruska, former acting chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and an economist at nera Economic Consulting.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The SEC averaged 680 settlements a year under Ms. Schapiro, versus an average 682 a year in the three years before her tenure, according to NERA Consulting, a global advisory firm.

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