Antitrust and Companies' Responses: Approach by Economic Analysis
Tokyo, Japan
15 March 2007
Hosted By: NERA Economic Consulting
NERA presented another in an occasional series of seminars on timely topics in economics and law. On 15 March 2007 in Tokyo, NERA hosted a seminar on approaching antitrust laws through economic analysis.
Nobuo Mori, Senior Vice President and Head of NERA's Tokyo office, presented opening remarks, and Vice Presidents Christian Dippon and Dr. Hiroaki Ishigaki delivered presentations. Invited speakers included Yasumi Ochi, Of Counsel at Jones Day; Toshiko Igarashi, Economist at the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC); Masahiro Murakami, Professor at Hitotsubashi University; and Akinori Uesugi, Senior Consultant at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Professor at Hitotsubashi University, and former Secretary General at the JFTC. Speakers addressed the following topics:
- Antitrust, competition policy, and corporate response
- Merger review and economic analysis
- Contested takeover and Clayton defense
- The role of economic specialists at the JFTC
- Precedents of low price selling and definition of costs
- Antitrust issues in today's telecommunications industry
- Economic analysis of predatory pricing: Yamato Transport vs. Japan Post
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