Education
Summary
Dr. Segura specializes in the application of microeconomics, econometrics, and statistics to the analysis of antitrust issues and complex business disputes. She has analyzed antitrust and competition issues across a range of industries, including health care, food, payment systems, and the European automotive market. Dr. Segura has supported experts on behalf of plaintiffs, defendants, and agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and has filed mergers before multiple authorities, including the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition (DG Comp). She also has extensive experience with statistical sampling, creating complex databases using web-scraping tools, managing and using large datasets, and data collection.
Selected Cases
D’leteren Group Acquisition of Parts Holding Europe
Analysis Group supported D’Ieteren Group, Belgian owner of companies in the automotive and vehicle repair industries, though a Phase I investigation by the European Commission of D’leteren Group’s intended acquisition of Parts Holding Europe, a French distributor of automotive spare parts.
Measuring the impact of wind power and intermittency
Economists from Analysis Group, Stanford University, and Northwestern University have published an article that provides a cost-benefit analysis of intermittency – the natural fluctuation in wind power availability – in the Spanish electricity market. Intermittency is sometimes cited as a disadvantage of wind energy, as it has the potential to place a cost burden on grid operators seeking reliability and congestion reduction.
In their article, “Measuring the impact of wind power and intermittency,” Manager Lola Segura Varo and her coauthors explore these concerns, assessing the impacts of intermittency on the operational costs, prices, and emissions associated with wind energy in Spain. Taking into account Spain’s unique electricity market, as well as government subsidies and environmental regulation measures, the authors analyzed a robust dataset to weigh the intermittency costs of wind power against the net benefits of the renewable energy source.
The authors conclude that overall, despite the challenges posed by intermittency, wind power had net positive impacts for wind producers, consumers, and climate. Moreover, they contend that the negative impacts of renewable intermittency are expected to decrease over time, and that market design solutions offer means of reducing the operational losses associated with accommodating intermittent wind power in the grid.
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