Christian Michel

Christian Michel is a Principal at Charles River Associates’ European Competition Practice in London. His work covers mergers and acquisitions, abuse of dominance investigations, antitrust litigation and damage estimations.

Christian has extensive experience in the development and use of econometric models and in the application of behavioural economics in a market context. He has advised clients in digital and multi-sided markets (e.g. privacy matters, music streaming, gaming, social media), in tech and innovative industries (e.g. cloud computing, AI, IT services), and on a range of work on payments, pharmaceuticals and automobiles.

His empirical and theoretical work on industrial organization, competition policy and consumer protection has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the RAND Journal of Economics, Games and Economic Behavior and the International Journal of Industrial Organization.

Prior to joining CRA, he worked as an Assistant Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Affiliated Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics, where he still teaches industrial organization to competition master students.

He is also a faculty member in the professional course on quantitative techniques applied to competition law investigations offered by the Barcelona School of Economics.

Christian works in English and German.

Publications

Estimating Industry Conduct using Promotion Data (with S. Weiergraeber and J. Paz y Mino)
RAND Journal of Economics, 2024, vol 55, p.658-683.

Model-based Evaluation of Cooling-Off Policies (with A. Stenzel)
Games and Economic Behavior, 2021, vol 129, p.270-293.

Contractual Structures and Consumer Misperceptions
Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2018, vol 27 (2), p.188-205.

Market Regulation of Voluntary Add-on Contracts
International Journal of Industrial Organization, 2017, vol 54, p. 239-268.

Environmental Policy Stringency and Technological Innovation: Evidence from Survey Data and Patent Counts (with N Johnstone, I. Hascic, J. Poirier and M. Hemar)
Applied Economics, 2012, vol 44(17), p.2157-2170.