Approach

Economic consultancies are diverse – and thankfully so. Building on Claudio Calcagno’s experience and perspectives on how to engage with clients, this is GMT Economics’ proposition:

Flexibility

  • Adaptable support to meet your requirements and preferences, with the ability to operate side by side with your project team as needed or to provide a fresh pair of eyes review
  • Agile and responsive, regardless of project size

Suits your needs, adds value and generates trust

Deep knowledge of competition economics and policy

  • More than 20 years’ experience applying economic tools to competition matters
  • Experience across broad range of jurisdictions, case types and sectors

Helps you identify and build robust arguments

Awareness of regulatory and policy developments

  • Significant involvement in the latest policy developments, across Europe, with broad and deep networks across regulators, academics, private practice and industry

Helps you scan the horizon and identify arguments that raise interest and make an impact

Academic rigour and thought leadership

  • Extensive track record of academic and non-academic publications, including a co-authored textbook on the economics of abuse of dominance, as well as ongoing thought leadership

Brings you the ability to deploy and engage with the latest thinking in competition economics

Advice grounded in commercial reality

  • Track record of advising clients across all major sectors of the economy
  • Extensive experience of working closely with diverse teams and stakeholders, from a very broad range of company units, integrating within client teams during certain phases as necessary

Understands the business and gathers relevant information quickly, and collaborates with the client teams effectively, ultimately reducing cost

Tailored advice

  • Recognition that no two projects are alike, and therefore the economic advice has to adapt to the circumstances and not follow fixed formulae
  • Appreciation that the extent and relevance of economic input varies across projects and client needs

Provides you with what you need, adding value in key focus areas

Clarity and accessibility

  • Recognition that for any economic advice to be impactful, it has to be first and foremost understandable, whether orally or in writing
  • Builds on extensive experience of teaching, training and briefing very diverse audiences, across any of five languages

Conveys the key messages compellingly to you and to any ultimate audience of the economic submission at stake

Friendly professionalism

  • Belief that professional and business relationships can include friendliness and a human touch, over and above basic courtesy

Makes you likelier to enjoy working with your economic advisers, and have honest and transparent – and ultimately more effective – relationships with them

Collaboration

  • Vast international network of contacts across academia, current and former regulators, industry and individuals with specialist skills
  • Experience of working very effectively with many of them

Helps you identify subject matter experts across disciplines, sectors and regions to meet your specific needs, and then work with a single collaborative team