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New York City
Tel: +1 212 345 3000
Fax: +1 212 345 4650
London
Tel: +44 20 7659 8618
Fax: +44 20 7659 8501
Email: richard.marsden@nera.com
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MA in international political economy, with distinction, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
BA in economics and international relations, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Richard Marsden is a Managing Director in NERA’s Auctions; Communications, Media, and Internet; and Energy Practices. His global practice focuses on market design, including auctions and trading, bidding strategy, and related competition, pricing, regulatory, and public policy issues. He applies this expertise to multiple industries, including broadcasting, energy, mobile telephony, procurement, radio spectrum, and transport, to help his clients create or participate in new marketplaces.
Over the last 20 years, Mr. Marsden has worked for regulators, private companies, and law firms in more than 50 countries. His team at NERA are particularly well known for their work on design and implementation of high-value auctions, and the development of effective bid strategies. To support this work, the team has developed a suite of software tools for running, simulating, and analysing auctions. For example, Mr. Marsden’s team developed software to simulate the 2016 US Incentive Auction, which was used by broadcasters who, in aggregate, accounted for 15% (US$1.5B) of nationwide revenues.
Mr. Marsden has supported clients on a wide range of projects, including auction design and implementation, bid strategy advisory work, and expert witness reports related to spectrum allocation, spectrum pricing, and spectrum valuation, as well as associated litigation. Specifically, he has advised clients on spectrum auction design and implementation for 4G and 5G mobile spectrum in Belgium, Mexico, Singapore, and Saudi Arabia. He has also designed auctions for electricity interconnection capacity, off-shore wind generation sites, and gas pipeline capacity. Mr. Marsden has provided bid strategy advice to mobile operators participating in auctions for 4G and 5G mobile spectrum in more than 20 countries, including recent spectrum auctions in Australia, Canada, Germany, Poland, Spain, the UK, and the US, and to energy companies participating in capacity auctions. This work often includes developing or critiquing valuation models.
Mr. Marsden presents and publishes frequently on topics related to market design, auctions, the communications industry, and spectrum management and allocation. He has also completed major studies for the GSMA on spectrum pricing, and for the European Commission on the transfer of digital dividend spectrum from broadcast to mobile use, and on spectrum trading and spectrum liberalization. He contributed a chapter to the Handbook of Spectrum Auction Design (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and is the co-author of Broadband in Europe: How Brussels Can Wire the Information Society (Springer, 2005).
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Economics of Air Traffic Management in the Drone Era | White Paper | By Dr. Hector Lopez and Richard Marsden | ||
EECI Industry Economics White Paper Series | White Paper | |||
The Role of Economics on the Road to Autonomous Vehicles and Digital Mobility | White Paper | Daniel Hanson, Richard Eichmann, Richard Marsden, George Anstey, Grant Saggers, Dr. Garrett Glasgow, Dr. C-Philipp Heller, Dr. Hector Lopez, Dr. Bruno Soria, Dr. Will Taylor, and Adam Rhoten | ||
Strategic Bidding in Combinatorial Clock Auctions – A Bidder Perspective | Book | By Richard Marsden and Dr. Soren Tang Sorensen | ||
The Impact of High Spectrum Costs on Mobile Network Investment and Consumer Prices | White Paper | By Richard Marsden, Hans-Martin Ihle, and Peter Traber | ||
Effective Spectrum Pricing: Supporting Better Quality and More Affordable Mobile Serv... | Report | By Richard Marsden, Dr. Bruno Soria, and Hans-Martin Ihle | ||
Mechanisms to Incentivize Shared-Use of Spectrum | Report | By Richard Marsden and Hans-Martin Ihle | ||
Modelling the GB Renewable Electricity CfD Auctions – the cost of excluding onshore w... | Report | By Richard Marsden, Alon Carmel, George Anstey, Sam Forrest, Konrad Borkowski, Dr. Clemens Koenig, et. al. | ||
NERA Report on Strategic Bidding in Combinatorial Clock Auctions | Regulatory Filing | Richard Marsden and Soren Tang Sorensen | ||
The US AWS Auction: The Traditional SMRA – A Long and Winding Road to the Finish | Working Paper | By Richard Marsden and Jonathan Pike | ||
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The European 5G Conference 2022 | 26 January 2022 | |||
Radio Spectrum for IMT-2020 and Beyond: Fostering Commercial and Innovative Use | 08 December 2020 | |||
7th Latin America Spectrum Management Conference | 12 November 2020 | |||
Forum on Challenges on Competition in the Digital Environment | 11 November 2020 | |||
Telecommunications Policy in Canada | 02 November 2020 | |||
Across the Spectrum Podcast: Episode 3 | 22 October 2020 | |||
9th Americas Spectrum Management Conference 2020 | 16 October 2020 | |||
Across the Spectrum Podcast | 02 July 2020 | |||
15th European Spectrum Management Conference | 23 June 2020 | |||
The Impact of COVID-19 on Spectrum Awards and Valuation | 30 April 2020 | |||
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NERA Congratulates Dr. Paul R. Milgrom and Dr. Robert B. Wilson for Their Award of th... | 12 October 2020 | Press Release | ||
GSMA calls for policies to drive digital economies | 22 February 2017 | Media Coverage | ||
GSMA issues policy recommendations on spectrum pricing | 22 February 2017 | Media Coverage | ||
Spectrum Price Surges 250% from 2008 to 2016, says GSMA | 22 February 2017 | Media Coverage | ||
NERA Economic Consulting Congratulates the IFT on its Successful AWS Spectrum Auction | 19 February 2016 | Press Release | ||
NERA Begins Implementation of Mexico AWS Spectrum Auction | 12 February 2016 | Press Release | ||
Renewable Electricity Auctions in the UK—The Costs of Excluding Onshore Wind and Pote... | 04 November 2015 | Press Release | ||
NERA Economic Consulting Promotes Nine Global Experts | 03 February 2015 | Press Release | ||
Video interviews from Americas Spectrum Management conference | 17 November 2014 | Media Coverage | ||
600 MHz Auction Proposal Seeks Middle Ground on License Area Size | 08 January 2014 | Media Coverage | ||