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Alexander White

Analyst

Alexander White is an Analyst at Europe Economics having joined in September 2025.

Alexander White is an Analyst at Europe Economics having joined in September 2025.

Alexander’s work combines quantitative research, econometric modelling, and data-driven economic analysis to inform policy and regulatory decisions. His recent work has supported government departments, regulators, and private companies on projects relating to productivity, innovation, and technological change. 

He holds a BSc in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Bristol and an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford. 

Beyond his project work, he has a keen interest in economic theory, particularly game theory, industrial organisation, and econometrics. Outside of that, he can often be found on a golf course or football pitch, while also being a keen follower of rugby. 

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Ofwat

Our personnel have been seconded multiple times to Ofwat, and we have carried out various discrete studies analysing the water sector from different perspectives. Some of these have involved cost assessment support for RAPID gate two assessment; advising on important aspects of Ofwat’s approach to the cost of equity for PR24 and; assisting with the investigation of the potential for improving Ofwats’s methodology to mergers’ assessment.

Critique of regulatory judgements

One form of legal case involves a challenge to regulatory decisions. We offer expert witness assistant assessing whether regulatory decisions are in line with established policy objectives or regulatory precedent and what the competition or other implications are of those decisions or alternatives.

Assessment of profitability or cost of capital

In regulated price controls, a key input is the determined cost of capital. This has often been a subject of appeals against regulatory judgements. Cost of capital analysis also feeds into assessments of profitability in assessing whether firms have been charging prices above the competitive level, and into the valuation of research pipelines in mergers.

Critique of econometric, quantitative methods or data used to support regulatory decisions

One form of a legal case is judicial revision of policy decisions. Such policy decisions are often supported by quantitative models. Those models can be critiqued in various ways – criticised or defended on the basis of their methodology or the data used.