Areas of expertise 

Given the extensive expertise of its participants, within ECRi both theoretical and empirical knowledge is available in the following fields:

• Health economics: especially on analysis of health care markets, government policy, regulation and health insurance.
• Industrial organisation: especially on market structure, firm strategy and market performance, non-profit organisations, antitrust policy, regulation and industrial policy and (network) industries studies.
• Law and economics: especially on antitrust law, both in the Netherlands and in the European Union.
• Mathematical and quantitative methods: especially on cross sectional models, time-series models and models with panel data;
• Microeconomics: especially on game theory and issues regarding market structure and pricing, such as auctions.

In addition to their expertise of competition and regulation in general, ECRi fellows have built up extended market specific knowledge, especially for the following markets:

• energy (electricity and gas)
• health care (hospital services, health insurance, pharmaceuticals)
• postal services, telecom and ICT
• professional services markets
• waste market
• water sector
• other markets (bicycle, container shipping, motor fuel, etc.)