Axel Gautier
Professor
University of Liège
Axel Gautier is a professor of economics at HEC Liège, the management school of the University of Liège. He is also co-founder and co-director of the Liège Competition and Innovation Institute and an associate fellow at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics at UCLouvain.
His research focuses on industrial organization, competition policy, regulation, network industries, and microeconomics. His work has examined energy regulation, universal-service obligations, competition and innovation, settlements in competition cases, infrastructure regulation, and the pricing of standard-essential patents.
Before joining the University of Liège, Gautier held research positions at the University of Bonn and Saint-Louis University, Brussels. Earlier, he was a research assistant at UCLouvain. He has also served as academic director for research at HEC Liège.
Gautier has led research projects on competition and innovation, incentive regulation, energy markets, and network industries. He received the Postdoctoral Prize in Postal Economics for his research on competition in the postal sector and funding from Prospective Research for Brussels for work on competition, infrastructure financing, and transportation regulation.
Gautier earned a Ph.D. in economics and a master’s in economics from UCLouvain.
