Eszter Ujj is a Senior Consultant at Europe Economics with over five years of experience in advising clients on regulatory and competition issues including price controls, consumer and competition policy and impact assessments. She has significant experience in providing high-quality economic analysis spanning numerous sectors including financial services, water, energy and transport.
Eszter Ujj is a Senior Consultant at Europe Economics with over five years of experience in advising clients on regulatory and competition issues including price controls, consumer and competition policy and impact assessments. She has significant experience in providing high-quality economic analysis spanning numerous sectors including financial services, water, energy and transport.
Her experience includes supporting price reviews for regulators (e.g. Ofwat and ORR), assessing the costs and benefits of proposed policies (e.g. restricting the use of single use plastics), providing advice on regulatory and policy issues (e.g. an incentive mechanism for the business retail market), conducting market reviews (e.g. for claims companies in the UK Delay Repay market) and analysing the value and contribution of different sectors and stakeholders to national and global economies (e.g. for a pharmaceutical company). Eszter has also been seconded to the Financial Conduct Authority where her work focused on developing an economic assessment framework to inform policy development around access to cash in the UK. She is an experienced project manager and has managed a range of studies for both public and private sector clients including Ofwat, PSR, Citizens Advice and the Scottish Government.
Eszter holds an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford and speaks English, Spanish and French, in addition to her native Hungarian.
Relevant for measuring the impacts of changes in regimes/shocks. It uses observational study data of the same units across time and requires that the units (firms, individuals or countries) are divided into treatment and control groups. Difference-in-difference estimates the effect of an intervention by comparing the average change in the outcome variable experienced by the treated group over time to the average change in the outcome variable experienced by the control group.
Stated preference – survey method which is typically used to identify a person’s willingness to pay. Its key advantage is that it enables a monetary value to be placed on certain impacts of a policy or measure.