Portrait of Dr Charlotte Lucke

Dr Charlotte Lucke Analyst

Charlotte is a member of Oxera’s Regulation and Market Design team. She works primarily on economic regulation in a range of sectors including energy, telecoms and financial services, and on competition cases such as abuses of dominance and cartels.

Prior to joining Oxera, Charlotte completed her PhD in Economics with a focus on applied Labour Economics, investigating a recent labour market reform in Belgium, labour market and health inequality developments in Sweden and evaluating estimation methods of the child penalty. During her PhD studies, Charlotte gained extensive experience in working with large data sets and applying econometric methods to a broad set of questions.

Charlotte speaks English, German, French, and Swedish.

Tel: +49 157 85164073

Charlotte's specialisms include:

Selected
professional experience

  • Regulatory support to a UK gas distribution network ahead of RIIO-GD3 (2025–)

  • Estimation of damages in a turnouts cartel case (2025)

  • Evaluation of the TSO Cost Efficiency Benchmarking TCB21 (2025)

  • Support to a regulator in an unfair burden dispute with a communications company (2024−)

  • Advice to a top English club in relation to Premier League’s financial regulations (2024)

  • Advice to Netze BW, a German energy distributor, on capital ratio regulation (2024)

Selected
publications

  • Karimi, A., Lucke, C. and Palme, M. (2024), ‘Components of the evolution of income inequality in Sweden, 1990–2021’, Fiscal Studies, 45:2, pp. 187–204.

  • Hagen, J., Laun, L., Lucke, C. and Palme, M. (2025), ‘The rising income gradient in life expectancy in Sweden over six decades’, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122:14, e2418145122.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Economics, Stockholm University, Sweden

  • BA in Economic Sciences with a minor in Analysis, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

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