Cathy Niden
Financial Economist
Office of Litigation Economics
Education Summary
- Ph.D. Finance, University of Chicago, 1988
- M.B.A., Finance, University of Chicago, 1984
- A.B., Business, University of Chicago, 1981
Fields of Interest
- Information and Market Efficiency
- Financial Reporting and Disclosure
- Mergers, Acquisitions and Restructuring
- Financial Economist
Division of Economic and Risk Analysis
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
2014–present - Managing Director
Navigant Economics
2010-2014 - Director
LECG
2006–2010 - Senior Vice President, Vice President and Economist
Lexecon (now CompassLexecon)
1998-2006 - Associate Chief Economist and Visiting Academic Fellow
Office of Economic Analysis
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission 1996-1998 - Assistant Professor
Department of Finance and Business Economics
University of Notre Dame
1990-1998 - Assistant Professor and Lecturer
Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business
University of Pittsburgh
1986-1990
- Malkiewicz, Michal M., Cathy M. Niden and Mohan Rao, 2017, Economic Analysis in Securities Class Certifications, in Litigation Services Handbook, The Role of the Financial Expert, Sixth Edition, ed. Elizabeth Evans, Roman L. Weill and Daniel Lentz (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons).
- Abrantes-Metz, Rosa and Cathy M. Niden, 2008, The Information Content of Credit Default Swap Prices, The Andrews Derivatives Litigation Reporter.
- Niden, Cathy, 2007, Economic Analysis in ERISA Class Actions Involving Employee Investmenst in Company Stock, Benefits & Compensatino Digest, Web-Exclusive Edition.
- Campbell, Cynthia J., Stuart Gillan and Cathy M. Niden, Spring 1998, Current Perspectives on Shareholder Proposals: Lessons from the 1997 Proxy Season, Financial Management (Spring: 89-98).
- Conrad, Jennifer, Allaudeen Hameed and Cathy M. Niden, 1994, Volume and Autocovariances in Short-Horizon Individual Security Returns, Journal of Finance (September: 1305-1329).
- Niden, Cathy M., 1993, An Empirical Analysis of White Knight Corporate Takeovers: Synergy and Overbidding, Financial Management (Winter: 28-45).
- Conrad, Jennifer and Cathy M. Niden, 1992, Order Flow, Trading Costs and Corporate Acquisition Announcements, Financial Management (Winter: 22-31).
- Email: nidenc@sec.gov
Phone: 312-353-6885