Frontier Economics
Frontier Economics (Frontier) is a microeconomics consultancy headquartered in London with three additional offices in Europe. Frontier provides economics advice to public and private sector clients on matters of competition policy, public policy, regulation and business strategy across with a focus on nine industries: energy, financial services, health care, media, post, retailing, telecoms, transport and water industry. Frontier has been listed among best 10 firms for economic consulting in the Vault.com 2010 ranking of top consulting firms, together with competitors such as NERA, LECG, Charles River Associates or McKinsey & Company.
History
Frontier was formed in June 1999 as an employee-owned company with around 25 consultants. The first Board of Directors consisted of Simon Gaysford, Zoltan Biro, Philip Burns, Dan Elliott and Michael Webb, and Sarah Hogg as a Chairman of the Board. The company currently employs around 110 consultants. In 2003, Frontier has created a German office in Cologne, followed by the opening of the office in Brussels in 2006-2007 and Madrid in 2008.
Recent work
The report on the potential costs of renewed conflict in Sudan
The study on global costs of counterfeiting and piracy
The analysis on the economic value of the teams at the FIFA World Cup 2010
Competitors
- Charles River Associates
- FTI Consulting
- LECG
- NERA Economic Consulting
- Oxera
- RBB Economics