Academic Excellence. Empirical Expertise. Legal Understanding.
Doris Hildebrand has worked at the forefront of competition economics in academia and private practice for more than three decades. Her academic expertise, combined with extensive experience in analysing markets and competitive dynamics, forms an integral part of EE&MC’s approach to competition economics.
EE&MC brings together highly qualified competition economists and econometricians with extensive experience in economic analysis across a broad range of industries and markets.
Professor Hildebrand works alongside Dr Dr Pascal Hildebrand, an economist and lawyer who represents the second generation within EE&MC, and a specialised team of economists and econometricians. Together, they prepare sophisticated economic analyses and expert opinions for companies, their legal advisers, courts and public authorities.
A particular strength of EE&MC lies in empirical economic analysis. Our work frequently involves the collection, processing and evaluation of large and complex datasets. Where the information required for an economic assessment is not readily available, EE&MC also has extensive experience in identifying relevant evidence and developing appropriate approaches to data collection in close cooperation with clients and their legal advisers supported by AI tools.
Empirical analysis, however, is not an end in itself. EE&MC combines quantitative evidence with economic theory and a detailed understanding of markets and competitive dynamics. This allows theories of harm to be examined against the available evidence and analytical methods to be selected according to the specific economic and legal questions of each case.
It is this combination of economic theory, empirical evidence and practical case experience that defines EE&MC’s methodological approach. Rather than applying standardised models, we develop an analytical framework tailored to the particular market, the available evidence and the competition-law issues at stake.
The legal expertise of Doris Hildebrand and Pascal Hildebrand adds a further dimension. Their backgrounds in both economics and law facilitate close cooperation with companies and their legal advisers and enable economic analysis to be developed with a clear understanding of the legal framework in which it will ultimately be assessed.
The result is economic analysis that is academically rigorous, empirically grounded and closely aligned with the requirements of competition law and practice.