Hello!

I am an Associate at the Brattle Group, where I lead case teams (often of 10+ individual contributors) focused on competition, transportation, and labor-related issues.


Research Interests

My primary research fields are International Trade, Industrial Organization, and Economic History. My research focuses on the consequences of concentration in markets for factor mobility, and incorporates a variety of structural, reduced-form, and computational methodologies. Specifically, I investigate the regional trade consequences of price collusion in domestic freight markets; how increasing monopsony power in the labor market can be welfare-enhancing; and how historical concentrations of freight market power shaped North America's economic development in the 20th and 21st Centuries.

Contact

email: charles.pfander@colorado.edu
github: https://github.com/cadampfander