Portrait of Lola Damstra

Lola Damstra Senior Consultant

Lola is an economist in Oxera’s Competition practice specialising in complex economic analysis for high-profile litigation and competition policy matters. Her expertise spans competition litigation, competition policy, abuse of dominance investigations, and commercial strategy. Lola has been responsible for the delivery of expert reports in a variety of settings, including high-profile class actions. She has led the delivery of expert reports across multiple jurisdictions in standalone and follow-on damages cases. Prior to joining Oxera, she completed an internship at the Directorate-General for Competition of the European Commission.

Lola speaks English, Dutch, and French.

Tel: +31 (0)20 899 1107

Lola's specialisms include:

Selected
professional experience

  • Advising Google in a collective claim for damages arising from an alleged antitrust infringement relating to excessive pricing in the Play Store (2025–)

  • Advising Defendant trucks manufacturers in a litigation case for follow-on damages arising from a price-fixing finding by the European Commission (2025)

  • Economic advice to an entity in the rail industry on potential abuse of dominance issues such as margin squeeze (2023)

  • Managing the Oxera team advising a defendant TOC in a collective claim for damages arising from an alleged antitrust infringement relating to brand-restricted fares (2022–)

  • Managing the Oxera team advising a defendant TOC in a collective claim for damages arising from an alleged antitrust infringement relating to the availability of Boundary Fares (2022–25)

  • Assessment of the impact of new EU digital regulation directives on competition and consumers, commissioned by Google (2022)

Selected
publications

  • Damstra, L. (2026), ‘Boundary Fares: clarifying the boundaries of a dominant firm’s special responsibility’, Competition Law Journal, 24:3, pp. 135–40.

  • Damstra, L., Seidel, H. and Shah, K. (2025), ‘When is a breach of regulation an abuse?’, Competition Policy International.

  • Damstra, L., Salvyuolo, L. and Niels, G. (2022), ‘Gender differences in surveys for market definition and merger analysis’, Competition Law Journal, 20:4, pp. 178–86.

  • Déschamps, P., Descamps, A., Arduini, F., Baye, C. and Damstra, L. (2021), ‘Labour markets, a blind spot for competition authorities’, Competition Law Journal, 18:4, pp 190–99.

Qualifications

  • MSc Economics, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

  • BSc Economics and Management, University of Paris II, France

Latest Insights:  Lola Damstra

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Economics of the Data Act: part 2

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Economics of the Data Act: part 1

As electronic sensors, processing power and storage have become cheaper, a growing number of connected IoT (internet of things) devices are collecting and processing data in our homes and businesses.…
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Gender on the agenda: improving inclusivity in competition analysis

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has launched an initiative to explore whether applying a gender ‘lens’ can help deliver more effective competition policy. As surveys are often…
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‘Great’ British Railways?

On 20 May, the UK government published the Williams–Shapps Plan for Rail, which proposes the creation of a new rail body, ‘Great British Railways’. Katie-Lee English, Oxera Senior Consultant and…
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Preparing for the Consumer Duty

Due to high demand, Oxera and UK Finance are running this workshop again. The feedback from our last set of participants included: ‘[This is the] first truly practical application of what the Consumer Duty means’, and ‘Will help enormously with our implementation!’. In collaboration with UK Finance we’re… Read More

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