Agustin Ros

Agustin is an adjunct professor at the International Business School at Brandeis University where he teaches a course on global regulatory and antitrust economics. His econometric research on regulatory and competition economics has been published widely in academic journals.

Agustin has filed expert reports and testimony before U.S. Federal District Courts, the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Canadian Competition Commission, the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission, many U.S. and Canadian public utility commissions, and the International Chamber of Commerce. In Mexico, he has filed expert reports before the Competition Commission, the Secretariat of Communications and Transport, the Secretariat of Energy, the Energy Regulatory Commission, the Federal Telecommunication Regulator, and the National Regulatory Gas Commission. In addition, he has filed expert reports before regulatory or competition agencies in Australia, The Bahamas, Barbados, Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Indonesia, Italy, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Spain, and Trinidad and Tobago.

Agustin has filed expert reports and testimony on topics including market allocation agreements, assessment of market power and mergers, market definition, cross-subsidies and predatory pricing, tariff design, just and reasonable rates, market-based rates, undue discrimination, public interest consideration, performance-based ratemaking, rate of return regulation, weighted average cost of capital, marginal, and embedded costing, economic damages, and econometric and statistical analysis.

Agustin has worked as an economist at the Illinois Commerce Commission and the Federal Communications Commission. He was selected to participate in the federal-state partnership in telecommunications at the FCC in 1996 working on the local competition provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. From 2008 to 2010, he worked for the OECD and the Mexican Competition Commission, co-leading a team of competition experts assessing competition in a number of key sectors in Mexico.

Agustin’s expert reports and testimonies experience includes:

• On behalf of Plaintiff before the United States District Court Southern District of Florida Fort Pierce Division, Case No. 21-14354-CIV-CANNON in the matter of Plaintiff, Town of Indian Shores v. Defendant, City of Vero Beach regarding antitrust assessment of territorial market allocation agreement, October 7, 2022.
• On behalf of Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc., before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in Dockets Nos. ER20-2441-002, ER20-2442-002, EL20-68-002, ER21-426-001, ER21-682-002, ER21-768-002 (Consolidated) on just and reasonable rates and undue discrimination, July 15, 2022.
• On behalf of Defendants before the United States District Court Southern District of Florida Ft. Lauderdale Division, in the matter of Plaintiffs Café Gelato & Panini LLC d/b/a Café Gelato Panini, on behalf of itself and all others similarly situated, v. Defendants Simon Property Group INC., Simon Property Group, L.P., M.S. Management Associates, and the Town Center at Town Center Boca Raton Trust, May 17, 2022.
• Expert report before the Régie de l’énergie on behalf of Hydro-Québec TransÉnergie, Total Factor Productivity and the X-factor for Hydro-Québec TransÉnergie, February 19, 2021.
• Expert report on behalf of North Carolina Municipal Power Agency Number 1, Piedmont Municipal Power Agency, and North Carolina Electric Membership Corporation on electricity cost allocation of nuclear fleet costs in arbitration proceeding against Duke Energy Carolinas, November 13, 2020.
• Expert report on behalf of Shaw Communications before the Canadian Competition Bureau: An Analysis of Broadband Services in Canada, Competition, Regulation and Investment August 30, 2018.
• Affidavit on behalf of CFE International LLC before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission: market-based rate authority application on vertical and horizontal market power issues in U.S. electricity markets, June 13, 2018.
• Expert report on behalf of Citibank, before the Honduran Competition Commission: expert report on the competitive effects of the FICHOSA – Citibank merger, April 2014.
• Expert report on behalf of America Móvil before the Mexican Competition Commission: correcting the OECD’s erroneous assessment of competition in the Mexican telecommunications sector, May 2013.
• Expert report on behalf of Lowe’s Mexico before the Mexican Competition Commission: economic analysis on market definition, market power, and monopolistic practices in the market for home improvement products sold through superstores, October 2012.