Market Analysis Ltd is an economics consulting group specializing in competition policy, regulatory reform and market design. Drawing on the expertise of leading academic economists in Europe and the Americas, we advise private companies and public sector organisations in regulatory inquiries, competition policy cases and auction strategy and design. Established in 1995, Market Analysis has an unrivalled reputation for applying leading-edge economic analysis to the challenges faced by firms and policy-makers in the UK, Europe and internationally. We have advised clients in many of the most high-profile regulatory inquiries and competition policy cases of recent years.

In 2022 Market Analysis collaborated with Europe Economics on the design of the initial auctions for the new EU emissions trading system covering fuel for buildings and road transport on behalf of the European Commission’s DG CLIMA. We are also collaborating on a market consultation and analysis of the participation of firms in the auctions and secondary markets.

Market Analysis was retained by AES Chivor Colombia to assist in formulating AES’s bidding strategy in the Colombian auction for long-term renewable energy contracts held October 22, 2019.

by Nils-Henrik von der Fehr and David Harbord, 25 April 2018.

by David Harbord, November 2016. This report contains analysis and recommendations on four proposals for electricity market reform put by the Colombian Comision de Regulacion de Energia y Gas (CREG) to a panel of international experts convened in 2016.

by David Harbord and Nils-Henrik von der Fehr, 24 July 2016. We point out some simple mathematical errors in the article “Indirect reciprocity with optional interactions” by Whan Ghang and Martin Nowak (Journal of Theoretical Biology 365 (2015) 1–11), which invalidate many of their results and conclusions. We note various ways that these errors could be fixed and discuss some other issues with the paper.

An article published in openDemocracy by David Harbord and TIm Lord, 14 June 2016.

by David Harbord and Steffen Hoernig “Welfare Analysis of Regulating Mobile Termination Rates in the UK” Published in The Journal of Industrial Economics., 63: 673-703, December 2015.

“What’s in a Game?“ by David Harbord, 17 March 2015.  A short comment on applying game theory to the Greek debt restructuring negotiations, published in openDemocracy.