Portrait of Christian Salas Pauliac

Christian Salas Pauliac Senior Consultant

Christian is a member of Oxera’s Competition team. He has advised clients in cases involving mergers, collusion, and abuse of dominance matters across the agriculture, chemical, energy, healthcare, transportation, and tech industries.

Christian’s experience includes over 12 years of applying causal-inference econometrics and game theory to study strategic behaviour in markets, including six years working on antitrust matters in the United States on behalf of the Federal Trade Commission, state Attorneys General offices, and private companies.

Christian holds a PhD in Mathematical Economics and Public Policy from the University of Chicago. He has served as an instructor in principles  of economics, game theory, and econometrics at the Catholic University of Chile and Yale University, and he has published in peer-reviewed journals such as Antitrust Source, CPI Antitrust Chronicle, Energy Economics, Journal of Public Economics, and Public Choice.

Christian speaks English, Spanish, and French.

Tel: +33 1590 20566

Christian's specialisms include:

Selected
professional experience

  • Advised the NFL in the National Football League Sunday Ticket Antitrust Litigation on theory of harm and the competitive effects of the alleged conduct (2023–24)

  • Advised Epic Games in Epic Games v. Google, Epic’s US antitrust litigation related to Google’s app store practices (2022–23)

  • Advised U.S. Sugar in its acquisition of Imperial Sugar, resulting in the defeat of the Department of Justice’s challenge to the merger (2021–22)

  • Advised EnCap/XCL and carried out an analysis of the likely competitive effects of its proposed acquisition of EP Energy (2021–22)

  • Advised Amazon Music in the Determination of Rates and Terms for Making and Distributing Phonorecords proceeding, including an analysis of the appropriate mechanical royalty payments under Section 115 of the U.S. Copyright Act (2021–22)

  • Advised the Federal Trade Commission in its efforts to block the formation of a joint venture between Peabody Energy Corporation and Arch Resources, which the parties abandoned when U.S. District Judge Sarah E. Pitlyk granted the FTC’s preliminary injunction (2020)

Selected
publications

  • Pflum, K. and Salas, C. (2025), ‘Monopsony Power in the Hospital Labor Market’, CPI Antitrust Chronicle, 5:1.

  • Hill, N., Salas, C., Sengupta, A. and Zhou, A. (2022), ‘The SPRB Coal Cases, Market Definition, and Analytical Durability’, Antitrust Magazine, February.

  • Salas, C. (2022), ‘Representation increases participation: evidence from a reform in Chile’, Public Choice, Springer, 191:1, pp. 21–30.

  • Rosenbluth, F.M., Salas, C. and Shapiro, I. (2020), ‘Political parties and public policy’, in Nomos, ‘Democratic Failure’, 63, American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, pp. 180–240.

  • Salas, C. (2019), ‘Persuading policy-makers’, Journal of Theoretical Politics, 31:4.

  • Salas, C. (2016), ‘Incumbency advantage in multi-member districts: Evidence from congressional elections in Chile’, Electoral Studies, 42, pp. 213–21.

Qualifications

  • PhD Mathematical Economics, University of Chicago, USA

  • MA in Economics, Catholic University of Chile, Chile

  • BA in Economics, Catholic University of Chile, Chile

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