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.
NERA Vice Presidents Christian Dippon and Dr. Hiroaki Ishigaki each 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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