Members of the Clinical Reference Group are:
Dr Walter Beckert
Dr Walter Beckert is an academic economist at Birkbeck College, University of London. He earned his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, and taught at the University of Florida and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is also a research associate at the Institute of Fiscal Studies and the Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice.
Dr Beckert's research focuses on theoretical and applied Econometrics and Applied Micro-economics. He has published in various academic journals, like the Review of Economic Studies, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and Econometric Theory. He has advised the UK Competition Commission since September 2002 and the CCP since September 2009. He is also a member of the Economics Council of Oxera Consulting Ltd.
Dr Cory Capps
Dr Cory Capps has more than 10 years of experience as an economist specialising in industrial organisation, empirical methods, and antitrust, with a focus on the health care industry. Dr Capps' academic career includes professorships at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. He has published widely in journals including RAND Journal of Economics, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of Health Economics, Antitrust Bulletin, Health Affairs, and Health Economics, Policy and Law.
Dr Capps is currently a partner at Bates White where he has advised private firms and government agencies on competition issues in healthcare, including joint ventures, group purchasing organisations, price-fixing, market allocation, and vertical foreclosure. Prior to joining Bates White, Dr Capps was a Staff Economist at the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice where he concentrated on the analysis of competition in health care markets including merger and civil non-merger investigations of hospitals, physicians, nurses, insurers, home health agencies and ambulatory surgery centres.
Dr Thomas Crossley
Dr Thomas Crossley is a Reader in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge. He is also Programme Director in the Consumption Sector at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. His research interests include topics in consumer behaviour and health economics.
John Davies
John Davies is an economist specialising in the areas of competition policy and economic regulation. He worked as a consulting economist from 1994 to 2003, for various firms, advising clients in the private and public sectors on mergers, abuse of monopoly, network regulation, privatisation and optimal tariff-setting. In 2003 he joined the UK Competition Commission as deputy Chief Economist, becoming Chief Economist in 2005. In this capacity, he managed a team of 20 to 30 economists and was responsible for the quality of the economic analysis on investigations.
At the end of 2008 John took up a two-year post to establish the new Competition Commission of Mauritius as its first Executive Director. At the end of 2009 it became fully operational and he can initiate and carry out competition investigations, reporting to Commissioners who decide whether to take action against breaches of the Competition Act.
Professor Martin Gaynor
Martin Gaynor is the E.J. Barone Professor of Economics and Health Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and an Associate Member of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation at the University of Bristol. His research focuses on the economics of health care markets and health care organisations, particularly competition and antitrust in health care markets and provider compensation and incentives in health care organisations. Gaynor has worked with the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Federal Trade Commission, and the Netherlands Competition Authority and Netherlands Healthcare Authority.
Professor Gaynor is the recipient of the 2007 Victor R. Fuchs Award (for the best paper with the potential to spawn new research in an underdeveloped area of health economics or health policy), the 2005 NIHCM Foundation Health Care Research Award (for best published research on health policy and management), the 1996 Kenneth J. Arrow Award (for best published article worldwide in health economics), and is a recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research.
Professor Rachel Griffith
Rachel Griffith is Professor of Economics at University College London and a Deputy Research Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Rachel's research considers the relationship between government policy and economic performance. Her specific interests relate to competition, innovation and productivity.
Rachel is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Director of the Review of Economic Studies, on the Executive Committee of the European Economic Association and the Council of the Royal Economic Society and a Research Fellow of CEPR.
Professor Bruce Lyons
Bruce Lyons is Professor of Economics and Deputy Director of ESRC Centre for Competition Policy at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. He was previously Dean of the School of Economic and Social Studies at UEA, Lecturer and Fellow of St John's College Cambridge and Editor of the Journal of Industrial Economics. He has held visiting fellowships at EUI Florence and the University of Melbourne. He is a part-time Member of the UK Competition Commission, a Member of the Economic Advisory Group for Competition Policy to the European Commission, and is on the steering committee of the Association of Competition Economists.
Professor Lyons has published research on international trade and industrial organisation, economics of market structure, contracts between firms, empirical transaction costs, merger policy and evaluation of competition policy. Professor Lyons has co-authored or edited Merger Control in the UK (Oxford University Press, 2005), Mergers and Merger Remedies in the EU: Assessing the Consequences for Competition (Edward Elgar, 2007) and Cases in European Competition Policy: the Economic Analysis (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Professor Carol Propper
Carol Propper is Professor of Economics at Imperial College and the University of Bristol. She is a member of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation, Bristol University; Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Policy Research; and was a Council Member and Chair of the Research Grant Board of the Economic and Social Research Council.
Professor Propper's current research interests include the impact on quality of competition in the NHS, the use of performance measures to improve outcomes in health care, the impact of the public-private pay gap on productivity of the NHS and child health and obesity. Recent work includes examination of the impact of competition on outcomes in the English healthcare markets, the responses of GP Fundholders to budgetary incentives, the regulation of health care markets and equity in the distribution of health care. In 1993/94 she was Senior Economic Advisor to the Chief Executive of the NHS on the regulation of the internal market. Professor Propper serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Health Economics, Health Economics, and the Journal of Economic Policy and Analysis.
Professor Michael Waterson
Michael Waterson has been Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick since 1991. He held previous academic posts at the universities of Reading and Newcastle. He has been a part-time Member of the UK Competition Commission since 2005. During his academic career he has researched and published widely on issues of competition and regulation and industrial economics more generally.
Professor Waterson has been President of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics and General Editor of the Journal of Industrial Economics. He has also served as Specialist Advisor to Subcommittee B of the European Union Committee of the House of Lords.
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