Christina Stadler

Christina Stadler is an Economist at the Munich office. She joined E.CA Economics in August 2025.

Christina is completing her PhD in Business Economics at KU Leuven and DIW Berlin, specialising in competition policy and applied industrial organisation. Her doctoral research focuses on two timely topics in the empirical assessment of competition policy: the impact of industrial policy, specifically state aid, on competition in the EU airline industry and the effects of common ownership on competition in a US consumer goods market.

She also holds a Master of Science in Economics, specialising in empirical industrial organisation, from the University of Amsterdam. For her master’s thesis, she applied these techniques to estimate demand and supply in the German automotive industry and to conduct a partial merger simulation. Christina additionally holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from LMU Munich and a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from the Open University and the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University.

As part of her dual degree programme, Christina gained three years of part-time work experience in retail and investment banking at Deutsche Bank. She subsequently worked as a research associate at DIW Berlin (Firms and Markets Department) for four years and completed internships at the Bavarian State Ministry of Economic Affairs and in consulting.