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Vesa Frijling Consultant
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As a member of Oxera’s Analytics team, Vesa specialises in using advanced data science and programming techniques to provide data-driven economic insights with modern, interactive outputs. He has applied these skills across a wide variety of cases, including energy markets modelling, cartel litigations and merger reviews. Vesa has a particular focus on understanding unsupervised learning algorithms.

Before joining Oxera in 2020, Vesa completed a Master’s degree at the University of Amsterdam, specialising in Markets and Regulation, Behavioural Economics and Game Theory. He has experience as a web developer and as an intern at the Dutch gambling authority, where he provided data analysis.

Vesa speaks English, Dutch, and German.

Tel: +49 (0) 30 7675 99103

Vesa's specialisms include:

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professional experience

  • Provided analysis and advice to a large financial services company during a regulatory investigation (2022–)

  • Provided analysis and advice to a large financial services company during a regulatory investigation (2022–)

  • Optimised charging and discharging patterns and size parameters to minimise the costs of a potential heat storage battery using linear programming (2022)

  • Agent-based simulation analysis of used payment methods for an international payment provider (2021–22)

  • Economic advice and data analysis in a case where a European online travel agent was accused of dominant behaviour through price parity agreements (2021–22)

  • Overcharge analysis in a potential court case against an international game console manufacturer (2021–21)

Qualifications

  • MSc Economics, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

  • BSc (Hons) Economics and Business, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands


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