Sebastian Panthöfer

Sebastian is a principal at Charles River Associates’ European Competition Practice. He is an expert in the application of econometric techniques to competition law matters, in particular litigation cases and damages estimation. His consulting experience includes national and international merger control proceedings in front of the European Commission and national competition authorities, as well high-profile disputes in the drugstore, trucks, telecoms, social networks, beer, and steel industries.

Sebastian’s research is in health economics and law and economics, has been published in Health Economics and Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, and has been presented at various academic conferences and seminars. Sebastian has also published on competition policy in Neue Zeitschrift für Kartellrecht.

During his doctoral studies at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Sebastian served as a teaching assistant for courses in industrial organization and regulatory theory, among others, and received a recognition for teaching excellence. At CRA, Sebastian conducted several data analytics trainings, covering in particular the statistics software Stata.

Sebastian holds a Diploma in Economics from the Universität zu Köln and a Master’s and PhD in Economics from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.