Europe Economics provides consultancy services in economic regulation, competition policy and the application of economics to public policy and business issues.

Recent Reports

Impact assessment of proposed changes to Part L of the Building Regulations

Europe Economics Impact Assessment of changes to energy efficiency standards for new buildings and some existing buildings has been published by the Department for Communities and Local Government as part of a Consultation. This includes detailed modelling of the impact of different approaches to cutting CO2 emissions from buildings and the costs and benefits of the changes.

Click here to download the report from the Department of Communities and Local Government website.


Best Value Tendering for CDS Contracts 2010

Response to the Legal Services Commission from the Bar Council and the Criminal Bar Association in relation to the proposed Best Value Tendering (BVT) process commented:

"There is no theoretical economic justification and no empirical evidence that BVT is an appropriate and effective means of procuring legal defence services. The economic analysis which we have commissioned from Europe Economics (at Annex 3) demolishes the case for BVT."

Cick here to download the joint report by the Bar Council and Criminal Bar Association published on June 19. For Appendix 3 referred to in the text, written by Europe Economics, click here.


Study on Credit Intermediaries in the Internal Market

Study for the European Commission DG Internal Market and Services

Click here to download the report from the European Commission website


Pricing Principles for the Unconditioned Local Loop Service(ULLS)in Australia - The Conceptual Framework

Final Report for Optus

Click here to download the report from the ACCC website


Evaluating the Impact of the Financial Services Action Plan Across EU25

Study for the European Parliament

Cick here to download Part I (Main Report)from the European Parliament website and Part II, Part III, Part IV.


The Case against Olympic Equestrian Events in Greenwich Park

Dermot Glynn helped NOGOE to prepare an economic assessment of the plans by LOCOG to hold the 2012 Olympic Games equestrian events in Greenwich Park

Click here to view the report


Policies to Combat Counterfeit Medicines

Study for the European Commission DG Enterprise

Click here to download the report from the DG Enterprise website and Annex 1, Annex 2, Annex 3.


Online Gambling

Study for the European Parliament

Click here to download the report from the European Parliament website


Review of the Roaming Regulation

Study for the European Parliament

Click here to download the report from the European Parliament website


An Analysis of the Issue of Consumer Detriment and the Most Appropriate Methodologies to Estimate it

Study for European Commission DG SANCO

Click here to download the report from the DG SANCO website


Etat des lieux et perspectives des programmes de conformité (The state of affairs and perspectives of compliance programmes)

Study for the French Competition Authority

Click here to download the report from the French Competition Authority website


How Ireland Can Best Benefit from its Digital Dividend

Report for the Irish Commission for Communications Regulation

Click here to download the report from the Irish Commission for Communications Regulation website


Safe Medicines through Parallel Trade

Report for the European Commission DG Enterprise

Click here to download the report from the DG Enterprise website and here to download the annexes to the report


Briefing Notes on Defence Procurement

Report for the European Parliament

Click here to download the report


Firm-level Predictors of Consumer Loss through Poor Financial Advice

Report for Financial Services Authority

Click here to download the report


News

June 25

Andrew Lilico appeared on FiveLive at 8:10am, joint with Matthew Taylor, discussing public spending

Click here to listen

June 23

Andrew Lilico will be addressing the Treasury Select Committee on the regulatory implications of the Turner Review

May 13

Andrew Lilico discussed the forthcoming Bank of England inflation report on CNBC

Click here to listen

May 07

Andrew Lilico appeared on the FiveLive Drive programme, discussing the next stage of quantitative easing

Click here to listen

May 06

Andrew Lilico appeared on BBC TV this morning to discuss Sarkozy’s proposal for a central committee for EU banking regulation

April 22

Andrew Lilico appeared on Australian public broadcaster ABC on the AM programme, discussing UK deflation

Click here to listen

April 21

Andrew Lilico discusses the outlook for inflation on Radio 5 Live's Wake up to Money Programme (18 min 45 onwards) and on Radio 4's the World at One (9 minutes 20 onwards)

April 01

Andrew Lilico discusses the G20 on FiveLive, together with John McFall and other participants

Click here to listen

March 31

Communications Day - Australian communications industry newsletter publishes an article on a recent report Europe Economics wrote for Optus

Click here for the article

March 25

Andrew Lilico discusses the end of laissez-faire capitalism on Bloomberg

Click here to view the interview

March 25

More regulation can’t be right The Times online discusses Andrew Lilico's book 'What Killed Capitalism? The Crisis – What Caused it and How to Respond'

March 17

David Stubbs discusses postal matters on Radio Ulster's Talkback show

March 17

David Stubbs comments on the proposals for a Postbank on BBC radio on Wake up to the Money on Radio 5Live and the Today Programme on Radio and for BBC News TV channel

March 16

We should have spared capitalism, not the capitalists Andrew Lilico also discusses the banking crisis in the Guardian following the publication of his book 'What Killed Capitalism? The Crisis – What Caused it and How to Respond' published today by the Centre for Policy Studies

March 16

We need more risk and less regulation of the financial sector Andrew Lilico discusses the banking crisis in the Telegraph following the publication of his book 'What Killed Capitalism? The Crisis – What Caused it and How to Respond' published today by the Centre for Policy Studies

March 16

Scrutineer: Why we should have let RBS and HBOS fail The Scotsman again makes reference to Andrew Lilico's recent publication 'What Killed Capitalism? The Crisis – What Caused it and How to Respond'

March 15

Bill Jamieson: If finance capitalism really is dead what system should replace it? The Scotsman makes reference to Andrew Lilico's paper 'What Killed Capitalism? The Crisis – What Caused it and How to Respond' to be released tomorrow by the Centre for Policy Studies

February 24

David Stubbs discusses the proposals for part privatisation of Royal Mail on BBC News and Three Counties Radio

February 16

David Stubbs comments on the scope for tamper proof postage stamps on Radio 5 Live

February 11

Andrew Lilico appears on BBC World Business Report discussing the bankers' apologies and controversy over bonuses

January 28

Andrew Lilico discusses the car industry support package on Radio 5 Live

January 23

Andrew Lilico appeared on BBC World Business Report and on the Today Programme discussing the expected release of data confirming that the UK is in recession, and on BBC News reacting instantly to the release of the data

January 21

Andrew Lilico appeared on Radio 5 Live's Wake up to Money to discuss rises in credit default risks on sovereign debt

January 16

Andrew Lilico appeared on Bloomberg's Money and Politics show to discuss the re-permitting of short selling of financial stocks

Published Articles

Pricing principles for the unbundled telecoms local loop

Article by Matteo Aquilina published in Competition Law Insight on 05 May 2009

Healthy Competition

Article by Iona McCall published in Competition Law Insight on 25 November 2008

Preference for flexibility in the absence of learning: the risk attitude effect

Article by Stefano Ficco and Vladimir Karamychev published in Economic Theory in June 2008

Leniency programmes: an economic discussion

Article by Haris Irshad and Iona McCall. First published in the Competition Law Insight on 6 May 2008

Literature review of future developments in the telecommunications sector

Article by Stefano D'Ambrosio

Economics of merger control

Article by Jonathan Green and Gianandrea Staffiero

An extract from The 2007 Handbook of Competition Economics, a Global Competition Review special report

Competition Commission inquiry into the grocery market

Bob Young was recently invited by Competition Law Insight to write a 3,000 word article on the current Competition Commission inquiry into the grocery market. His article was published on March 13th 2007.

Gambling and the EU internal market: aspects of the micro-economics and socio-economics of gambling

Speech by Bob Young

The speech was given before a conference organised by the Academy of European Law held in Trier, Germany, February 8-9 2007.





© European Economic Research Limited, trading as Europe Economics
Registered in England no 3477100