Frontier Practices

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Some of Frontier's practice areas focus on sectors others focus on disciplines.

Frontier's energy practice advises clients on all areas of energy sector economics - from restructuring and regulation, through to devising effective commercial and regulatory strategies and understanding the influence of competition (and competition law) on the sector. We also frequently apply our economic skills to provide expert testimony in litigation.

Frontier has extensive experience in advising retail financial organisations and insurance companies on a range of competition, strategic and regulatory issues.

Frontier’s Health practice advises public sector and private clients on issues relating to the reform, restructuring and operation of healthcare markets.

Frontier's media practice combines an in-depth knowledge of media markets with the ability to apply advanced economic and financial techniques. Our expertise covers the film, TV, radio, newspaper and new media sectors.

The Frontier postal practice has been growing as reform of the postal markets across Europe gathers pace. Our consultants combine regulatory and competition policy expertise with an in-depth knowledge of the industry acquired over a number of years.

Frontier has extensive experience in advising retailers, governments, regulators and suppliers on a range of competition, strategic and regulatory issues relating to retail businesses.

Our telecoms practice has been involved in most of the key regulatory debates of the past decade. Our expertise includes the provision of regulatory policy advice, the development of models for the estimation of network access and interconnection charges, auction design and development of bidding strategies, competition policy and the provision of business strategy advice.

Frontier's transport practice combines an in-depth knowledge of transport markets around the world with the ability to apply advanced economic techniques to the analysis of these markets.

Frontier's water practice combines an in-depth knowledge of the water industry with the ability to apply advanced economic techniques to provide analysis to companies, investors and regulators.

Frontier (London) advises clients in relation to cases before National Competition Authorities and courts and the European institutions. We have offices in London, Brussels, Cologne and Madrid from which we serve clients all over Europe.

Frontier has worked for most government departments in the UK. Our focus is on helping policy makers through the provision of practical, policy focused advice and analysis.

Frontier has an outstanding reputation in the field of regulatory economics - we have advised governments, regulators and companies around the world, and we have shaped regulatory policy through our client work and our published work.

The strategy advice Frontier provides its clients is unique. It’s based wholly on using economics as a framework to get quickly to the bottom of how our clients’ markets work and what really underpins value.

Economics provides the tools to identify the various incentive properties within a contract, and Frontier's expertise in regulation, strategy and finance enables us to rapidly to identify and address the key issues.

Our expertise in economics, finance, and statistical and econometric techniques means that Frontier is able to provide the high quality support that clients require in managing disputes effectively - whether in litigation, arbitration or an alternative dispute resolution environment.

Frontier staff have experience in all aspects of market design and auctions, and we have advised clients on these issues in a variety of industries.

Commensurate with the growing complexity in intellectual property (IP) issues across the world, Frontier has advised on a range of IP issues that interface with economics.

Climate Change is arguably the most compelling subject of our time with potentially serious ramifications locally and globally. Understanding and responding intelligently to its complex challenges is a primary concern for Governments, regulators and the private sector alike. For nearly 10 years, Frontier has been at the forefront of applying principles of economics to Climate Change issues.

Economy-wide models show how components of the economy (sectors, regions etc) interact with each other. The models are used to estimate the economic effects of policy changes and other developments, recognizing that shocks to any component of the economy will have consequences for other components. The models give estimates of the magnitude, as well as the directions, of the effects.

Frontier's Environment Practice brings together our public policy capability and our sector expertise to support clients in the area of environmental policy. Our expertise covers climate change, resource economics and policy evaluation and appraisal. We have worked with a wide range of public and private sector clients, including all major British public institutions and many of Europe’s largest energy companies.

Econometric analysis is the application of statistical and mathematical methods to study economic problems. Econometrics encompasses an array of quantitative tools varying from simple techniques for describing and summarising data to complex techniques for modelling and quantifying the relationships between economic agents.

Frontier Economics has an unparalleled reputation for providing respected advice in the Australian energy sector, particularly electricity and gas. Our Australian energy practice combines in-depth knowledge of energy markets with the ability to apply advanced economic techniques to these markets.

Globally, the natural environment is under unprecedented pressure—environmental objectives are often in conflict with demands from the public and private sectors. This leads to questions of optimal management of scarce and valuable resources. Frontier provides economic and policy advice to help manage and resolve these conflicts and to help our clients achieve their objectives effectively.

Frontier’s transport practice combines an in-depth knowledge of transport markets around the world with the ability to apply advanced economic techniques to the analysis of these markets.