Martin Cave is a regulatoryeconomist specialising in the network
industries, includingairports,
broadcasting, energy, posts, railways, telecommunications and water. He has published
extensively in these fields, and has held professorial positions at Warwick
Business School, University of Warwick, UK, and the Department of Economics,
Brunel University, UK.
In 2010/11, Martin held the BP Centennial Chair at the London School of Economics, based in the Department of Law. He is now Visiting Professor at Imperial College Business School.
His contributions to regulatory economics cover a
variety of topics, including particularly the role of unbundling in network
industries (and of the ‘ladder of investment’), policy towards the separation
of utilities,and the use of market methods
in application to the allocation of inputs to firms, especially spectrum and
water abstraction rights.
He has provided expert advice on
regulation to governments, regulators and firms around the world, focussing
particularly upon the communications industries. This work has included reviews
of spectrum policies for the Governments of Australia, Canada and the UK;
advice on market analysis and access remedies to a large number of regulators
in Asia, Australia, Europe and Latin America, including the European
Commission. He has provided advice and expert testimony in competition
sector-specific regulatory proceedings to a number of major international firms
in Asia, Australasia and Europe.
He has also advised UK ministers on
matters relating to the water sector, legal services and airports, and advised regulators in the railway and energy sectors.
He was a member of the UK
Competition Commission from 1996 to 2002 and a member of the UK
Payments Council from 2006 to 2011. He was a founder member of the Academic Advisory Committee of the Brussels-based think tank, the Centre for Regulation in Europe (www.cerre.eu).
He is a Deputy Chair of the Competition Commission from January 2012.
