Joseph Mason

About Joseph Mason

Dr. Joseph R. Mason is a PhD economist with more than 25 years of experience applying structured economic reasoning to litigation, regulatory proceedings, and public policy testimony.In litigation, Dr. Mason is frequently retained as an economic expert in disputes and investigations involving complex valuations in both unregulated and regulated markets, including financial, energy, health, insurance, and telecommunications. He has testified on loss causation and damages in class/multi-district actions, antitrust matters, and private litigation. Dr. Mason has offered expert testimony at trials, depositions, or arbitrations more than 65 times, typically being retained on behalf of entities including banks, hedge funds, insurance companies, and the U.S. government. In regulatory matters, Dr. Mason has been engaged by both the SEC and respondents in a variety of investigations and lawsuits relating to matters including insider trading (both civil and criminal litigation), algorithmic trading, mark-to-market procedures, and investment portfolio allocations. Dr. Mason has been engaged by banks in connection with regulatory risk management system reviews and regulatory economic capital assessments. He has also been engaged as a principal in multiple internal risk management and modeling reviews.Dr. Mason has testified before numerous U.S. House and Senate Committees, European Parliament, and the Federal Reserve Board. He has also advised Congress’ Joint Economic Committee, the Government Accountability Office, the Congressional Research Service, the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, and the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. He has appeared on numerous television and radio networks and been cited extensively in print media.Over the course of a lengthy academic career, Dr. Mason was a tenured Professor of Finance and the Hermann Moyse, Jr./ Louisiana Bankers Association Chair at Louisiana State University, an Assistant and tenured Associate Professor at Drexel University, and adjunct faculty at Georgetown University. Before that, Dr. Mason was a Senior Financial Economist at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, where, among other things, he analyzed economic risks in support of bank examinations and regulatory policy. He performed similar work for the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the World Bank. His economic training and experience are reflected in his many published academic articles in the field of financial economics.

Experience

1. Senior Fellow

   The Wharton School

   Jan 1999 — Present

Education

• W. P. Carey School of Business – Arizona State University

  BS

  1988 — 1990

• Gies College of Business - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  PhD, MS

  1990 — 1995