Portrait of Robin Masters

Robin Masters Consultant

Robin is a member of Oxera’s Financial Services and Competition teams. He specialises in competition and has advised clients in cases involving mergers, antitrust investigations, abuse of dominance cases and market investigations, in the UK and across the EU. In addition, he has worked on projects spanning impact assessments, regulatory reviews and market reform. He has worked on these issues across a broad range of sectors including retail, financial services, transport and communications.

Robin speaks English.

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7776 6666

Robin's specialisms include:

Selected
professional experience

  • Advising comparethemarket.com in the context of the CMA’s investigation into its use of most-favoured nation clauses in home insurance (2017–)

  • Advice and analysis in the context of a UK airport merger (2018–)

  • Advice to a major European airport on its approach to cost allocation and attribution (2019)

  • Advice to Transport for Greater Manchester on its business case for bus market reform (2018–19)

  • Significant market power assessment for two large European airports (2018)

  • Advised a large professional services business in responding to the CMA’s market study of the statutory audit market (2018)

Qualifications

  • BA (Hons) Politics, Philosophy and Economics, University of Oxford, UK


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Depiction of Theories of benefit: platform value creation and its relevance for the regulatory debate
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Theories of benefit: platform value creation and its relevance for the regulatory debate

With the regulatory debate around platforms and competition focusing on the theories of harm to business users and consumers, there is a risk that the theories of the benefits of…
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Depiction of They think it’s all over… Economic dynamics behind the European Super League
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They think it’s all over… Economic dynamics behind the European Super League

The announcement of the European Super League (and the subsequent climbdown) has attracted attention across the globe. As discussed in this article, the Super League forms part of a wider…
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What problems can the European Commission’s New Competition Tool fix?

On 2 June, the European Commission launched consultations on proposals for a New Competition Tool (NCT) and its Digital Services Act package. As an NCT based on a market structure…
Events

The Economics of Climate Change at COP26

Oxera will be presenting on The Economics of Climate Change at COP26—the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference—in Glasgow, on one of the world leaders’ days on 2 November 2021. The aim of COP26 is to increase global alignment on climate action. We will be demonstrating to the world’s governments,… Read More

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