About Ashok Abbott

I provide analytic and research support to the legal and valuation community. I have testified as an expert witness in State and Federal Court for depositions, hearings, and trials. I have presented at national and international finance and valuation conferences more than sixty times in addition to publishing extensively in refereed scholarly finance research journals.

My twenty seven years of experience in academia, sixteen years of industry experience and twenty years of litigation consulting experience have uniquely prepared me to analyze complex economic issues and develop reasoned opinions required for dispute and valuation engagements.
My classroom experience enables me to present complex ideas to non-experts in a manner that is both educational and engaging.

I support litigators with quantitative research, statistical analysis and economic modeling. My specialized statistical capabilities include sampling and research design, testing for statistical significance, modeling and estimation and regression and time series analysis. I support litigation teams, with an independent analysis of financial and economic data and a professional critique of the opposing party expert’s analysis.

I am tenured as an Associate Professor of Finance at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia. I received his M.B.A. and Ph.D. in Finance from Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. My Ph.D. dissertation was “The Valuation Effects of Tax Legislation in Corporate Sell-offs.”

Specialties: Primary areas: Premiums and discounts in business valuation assignments, Active and Passive appreciation in business value during marriage, Event studies: Economic Impact, Discounts for lack of liquidity, lack of marketability, lack of control, Merger premia.