Alasdair Crookes

Senior Consultant

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Alasdair is a highly experienced Senior Consultant at Economic Insight.  He is skilled at designing economic analyses to answer clients’ questions, and presenting these in an engaging and accessible way. 

With Economic Insight, Alasdair has advised several UK water companies through price controls, focusing particularly on cost assessment.  This includes econometric efficiency modelling and frontier shift analysis for Northern Ireland Water at PC21, and making submissions for water companies undergoing CMA redeterminations at PR19 and PR24. 

Alasdair was part of the EI team that made successful submissions for Royal Mail and BT in relation to overcharge pass-on in the Trucks cartel claim, and provided critical analysis for Yorkshire Water in its 2020 CMA appeal.

Areas of expertise

    Cost assessment

    Regulatory framework design

    Market analysis for competition cases

Key Experience

    Water UK – Assessment of asset maintenance in the water industry

    Yorkshire Water – PR19 CMA redetermination

    Royal Mail / BT – Trucks cartel follow-on damages

Education

    MA in Economics and Philosophy, St Andrews