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Biography
Bachelor of Commerce (Economics) Univ. of Melbourne; Bachelor of Commerce (Honours Year in Economics), Univ. of Melbourne; D.Phil (Ph.D), Univ. of Oxford
Christopher Decker is an economist who specialises in Law and Economics and economic regulation. His research interests include regulation (broadly defined to cover the utilities, professional services, financial regulation and environmental regulation), competition economics, law and economics, behavioural economics and institutional economics. He is also interested in the law and economics of development.
Chris has published research studies and reports in relation to a range of regulated activities (energy, water, communications, transport, professional services). These studies have been submitted to, or published by: the OECD; the European Commission; the European Central Bank, and regulatory and government agencies in Australia, Argentina, Hong Kong, Japan, Lithuania, New Zealand, South Africa and the United Kingdom. He has also been involved in number of competition law proceedings and regulatory proceedings including before the General Court of the European Union, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and the World Bank International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes. He is currently a member of the UK Competition and Markets Authority Academic Panel; the Research Strategy Group of the Legal Services Board; and an Expert Group of the United Nations Global Water Programme.
Publications
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C Decker, Analysis of the costs of water resource management options to enhance drought resilience (Report for the National Infrastructure Commission 2018) -
C Decker, Exploratory analysis of the prospects for, and potential impacts of, ATM scheme competition (Report for the Payment Systems Regulator 2018) -
C Decker, Goals-based and rules-based approaches to regulation (Department of Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, Research Paper Number 8 2018) -
Jaume Freire-González , C Decker and Jim W Hall, 'Linear Programming Approach to Water Allocation during a Drought' (2018) Water 363 DOI: 10.3390/w10040363C Decker, 'Utility and regulatory decision-making under conditions of uncertainty: balancing resilience and affordability' (2018) 51 Utilities Policy 51 DOI: 10.1016/j.jup.2018.01.007J. Freire-González, C Decker and J. W. Hall, 'A scenario-based framework for assessing the economic impacts of potential droughts' (2017) 03 Water Economics and Policy DOI: 10.1142/S2382624X17500072C Decker, 'Concepts of the consumer in competition, regulatory and consumer protection policies' (2017) 13 Journal of Competition Law and Economics 151 DOI: 10.1093/joclec/nhx005J. Freire-González, C Decker and J. W. Hall, 'The Economic Impacts of Droughts: A Framework for Analysis' (2017) 132 Ecological Economics 196 DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2016.11.005C Decker, 'Regulating networks in decline' (2016) Journal of Regulatory Economics DOI: 10.1007/s11149-016-9300-zC Decker and R Albon, Better Economic Regulation of Infrastructure: International Insights (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)/Australian Energy Regulator (AER) Working Paper Series 2015) C Decker, Regulatory implications of new products and services in electricity markets (Report for the Australian Energy Markets Commission 2015) C Decker, 'An English experiment: the regulation of the legal profession in England and Wales' (2014) 10 Cadernos Fundação Getúlio Vargas Direito Rio (special edition on Contemporary Lawyering) C Decker and C Hodges, Government-sponsored voluntary regulation ( 2014) C Decker, Modern Economic Regulation: An Introduction to Theory and Practice (Cambridge University Press 2014) C Decker, Regulating a network monopoly: principles of tariff setting and revenue recovery (Report for the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets 2014) C Decker and M Harding, 'Some Reflections on the Point of Regulating Not-for-Profits' in M Harding, A O’Connell and M Stewart (eds), Not-for-Profit Law: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives (Cambridge University Press 2014) C Decker, Strategy setting for payment systems (Report for the Financial Conduct Authority 2014) C Decker, 'Economics and Transnational Risk Regulation' in F Haines, B Lange and D Thomas (eds), Regulatory Transformations: Rethinking Economy– Society Interactions (Hart Publishing, Oxford 2013) C Decker and H Gray, 'Public Utilities: Competition Litigation versus Regulatory Arbitration' (2013) 3 Global Competition Litigation Review 26 C Decker, 'The Consumer Knows Best: Involving Consumers in Regulatory Processes and Decision-making' (2013) 49 Network 1 P Chiambaretto and C Decker, 'Air-rail intermodal agreements: balancing the competition and environmental effects' (2012) 23 Journal of Air Transport Management 36 C Decker and G Yarrow, Assessing the economic significance of the professional legal services sector in the European Union (Report for the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe 2012) C Decker and G Yarrow, Institutional Economics and its relevance to Environmental Policy (Report for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 2012) C Decker and H Gray, 'Antitrust and Arbitration in Regulated Sectors' (2011) 7 Competition Law International 7 C Decker, Economic Approaches to the Counterfactual (Report for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission 2011) C Decker and G Yarrow, Understanding The Economic Rationale For Legal Services Regulation (Report for the Legal Services Board 2011) C Decker, Encouraging Innovation in Energy Networks (Report for the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets 2010) C Decker, 'The objectives of economic regulators: Old tensions and new challenges' (2010) 36 Network C Decker, Assessments of Regulatory Governance (Report for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission 2009) C Decker, Characteristics of Alternative Price Control Frameworks (Report for the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets 2009) C Decker, Economics and the Enforcement of European Competition Law (Edward Elgar 2009) C Decker, International approaches to transmission access for renewable energy ( 2009) C Decker, T Keyworth and G Yarrow, The impacts of regulation on productivity ( 2008) Centres
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Research Interests
Regulation; Law and Economics; Utility regulation; Financial regulation; Environmental regulation Industrial organisation; Behavioural economics
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