Re­gu­la­to­ry eco­no­mics and re­gu­la­to­ry im­pact ana­ly­sis

We support you with potential competition conflicts related to your service obligation. We advise you in your risk assessment and clarify your competitive risks from transactions with public or publicly dominated companies. Answering additional institutional questions or questions regarding the separation of roles between regulation, management and supervision is part of our advisory services.

Ensuring the security of supply is becoming an increasingly important political topic, especially with regard to health, nutrition, energy and mobility. We are experts in the quantitative method that can be used for performing social cost-benefit analyses. We determine how much different groups of the population are willing to pay for particular security of supply levels and what measures can realise them efficiently. In doing so, we examine the design, allocation and financing of these measures

We examine how different types of market regulations and market designs affect competition and regulated companies. Our analysis for the introduction or abolition of specific regulatory measures provides you with a well-founded basis for your decisions. We advise you regarding the best-practice implementation of price, incentive and cost regulations. We also advise you on appeals against conditions imposed by regulatory authorities.

We use economically substantiated effect models to determine the impact of regulations on the relevant social groups and the interaction with the overall economy. With tailored tools, we evaluate how regulatory measures affect markets and consumer welfare. We check if alternative measures would meet the regulatory targets more effectively and efficiently and advise public authorities how to reduce the burden of regulations placed on SMEs.