Portrait of Robert Edwards

Robert Edwards Consultant

Rob is a member of Oxera’s Regulation and Market Design team. He also contributes to Oxera’s behavioural economics practice and Oxera’s Competition team. His work spans a wide range of sectors including energy, financial services, telecoms, transport and water.

Rob has particular expertise in pricing and incentive design, and the interactions with competition and regulation. He has delivered training on pricing and behavioural economics for a range of audiences, including presenting at Oxera’s bi-annual Utility Regulation and Finance course.

Rob holds a PhD in Economics, which explored the impact of consumers’ behavioural biases on market competition, pricing and regulation. Rob joined Oxera from academia, where he delivered a variety of courses in Industrial Economics, presented at international conferences, and published papers in academic journals on pricing and regulation.

Robert speaks English.

Tel: +44 2037 641758

Robert's specialisms include:

Selected
professional experience

  • Advised National Highways on its approach to engaging with the ORR through the RIS3 process (2024–)

  • Economic analysis for a transport organisation to understand consumers’ perceptions towards price and value (2024)

  • Economic analysis for an energy company on proposed changes to the regulatory regime as part of Ofgem’s consultation (2024)

  • Economic analysis for a telecoms company in the context of a regulatory consultation from Ofcom (2024)

  • ·   Algorithmic audit of pricing for an insurance company (2024)

Selected
publications

  • Edwards, R. and Routledge, R. (2022), ‘Information, Bertrand-Edgeworth Competition and the Law of One Price’, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 101, pp. 1–7.

  • Edwards, R. and Routledge, R. (2022), ‘Existence and Uniqueness of Nash Equilibrium in Discontinuous Bertrand Games: A complete characterization’, International Journal of Game Theory, 52, pp. 569–586.

  • Routledge, R. and Edwards, R. (2020), ‘Ambiguity and Price Competition’, Theory and Decision, 88, pp. 231–256.

  • Edwards, R. (2019), ‘Pricing and Obfuscation with Complexity Averse Consumers’, Oxford Economic Papers, 71, pp. 777–798.

Qualifications

  • PhD Economics, University of Liverpool, UK

  • MSc Economics & Finance, University of Liverpool, UK

  • BSc Economics, University of Liverpool, UK

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