Portrait of Dr Charlotte Lucke

Dr Charlotte Lucke Analyst

Charlotte is a member of Oxera’s Regulation and Market Design team. She has worked primarily on energy regulation, with a focus on real price effects.

Prior to joining Oxera, Charlotte completed her PhD in Economics with a focus on applied Labour Economics, investigating a recent labour market reform in Belgium, labour market and health inequality developments in Sweden and evaluating methods for estimating the child penalty.

Charlotte speaks English, German, French, and Swedish.

Tel: +49 157 85164073

Charlotte's specialisms include:

Selected
professional experience

  • Advised Netze BW, a German energy distributor, on capital ratio regulation (2024)

  • Supported a regulator in an unfair burden dispute with a communications company (2024)

  • Advised two UK electricity transmission operators on real price effects (2024)

Selected
publications

  • Karimi, A., Lucke, C. and Palme, M. (2024), ‘Components of the evolution of income inequality in Sweden, 1990–2021’, Fiscal Studies, 45:2, pp. 187–204.

  • Hagen, J., Laun, L., Lucke, C. and Palme, M. (2025), ‘The rising income gradient in life expectancy in Sweden over six decades’, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122:14, e2418145122.

Qualifications

  • PhD in Economics, Stockholm University, Sweden

  • BA in Economic Sciences with a minor in Analysis , Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

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