Luke Wainscoat, Senior Economist

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Competition and regulatory economist who is an expert in understanding how markets work.

Luke has over fifteen years’ experience as a professional economist. He has provided advice to both private sector and government clients in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom on all the major competition issues including mergers, cartels, misuses of market power, anti-competitive agreements, exclusive dealing, access disputes and market studies.

Luke has been engaged as an economic expert in competition matters and has provided expert testimony in court, with a report being accepted by the Supreme Court of Victoria in 2023.

Luke has provided economic advice on competition projects in relation to an extensive range of industries across the whole economy. Through this breadth of experience, Luke has honed a keen eye for understanding how a market works, and to identify the key issues and information that is relevant to the question at hand.

Luke is an expert in assessing commercial damages, and has provided advice in relation to such matters in the coal, gas, pharmaceutical products and motor vehicle sectors. Luke has designed and applied a number of cutting edge quantitative techniques to calculate the loss that was incurred by an individual or firm based on determining the likely prices and/or quantities sold in a counterfactual world in which some event that caused the loss did not take place.

On regulatory matters, Luke has undertaken a number of assignments concerning the appropriate form of economic regulation of infrastructure services in the electricity, gas, telecommunications, disability services and rail sectors.