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Antitrust & Competition Economics Education Ph.D. Economics, University of Oxford
B.A. Economics, University of Modena Experience Dr Cristina Caffarra (Vice President) is the Head of CRA's European Competition Practice. Cristina is an expert in the application of modern industrial organization to competition law, and in the empirical analysis of markets in the context of competition investigations. She has provided economic advice to companies on issues of merger control, assessment of vertical restraints, finding of dominance, evaluation of abusive conduct, collusion, damages and state aid. She has extensive experience of working on competition issues in the media and energy sectors. She was previously a Director at Lexecon Ltd. She has coordinated empirical and theoretical economic analyses, and provided expert witness testimony on several cases before the European Commission, the competition authorities and the Courts of several member states and other jurisdictions (such as South Africa). She has advised before the European Commission (DG Comp) on several high profile Phase II merger investigations, including GE/Honeywell, UP Kymmene/Norske Skog/Haindl, BP/E.ON, Tetra/Sidel, NewsCorp/Telepiù, Ineos/BP Dormagen, Inco/Falconbridge, Ryanair/Aer Lingus (for Aer Lingus), Ineos/Kerling, BHPB/Rio Tinto and numerous others. She has given evidence before the CFI in a number of cases. She has been involved in the European Commission's investigation of Microsoft, and various other Art 82 investigations. She has advised on several mergers, cartel investigations, abuse cases and sectoral investigation before the competition authorities and the Courts in the UK, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Greece, and other jurisdictions.
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