NERA Economic Consulting

hiroaki.ishigaki@nera.com
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Education

PhD and MS in economics, Purdue University
MA in economics, The University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
BA in political science, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan

Experience

Dr. Ishigaki specializes in antitrust, intellectual property, commercial litigation, and energy. His areas of expertise include microeconomics, game theory, industrial organization, and applied econometrics.

In his antitrust practice, Dr. Ishigaki has analyzed the competitive impacts of many merger cases in a wide range of industries, including mining, beverages, paper products, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, metals, petroleum, computer products, semiconductor devices, machinery, automobiles, wholesales, and retailing, among others. He has addressed liability and damages issues involving bid-rigging, cartels, predatory pricing, monopolization, and abuse of dominant position and other antitrust violations in various industries. He has frequently presented his analyses to competition agencies and courts, and has been included in the Global Competition Review’s Who’s Who of Competition Economists since 2009.

Dr. Ishigaki also performs economic assessments in transfer pricing, intellectual property, commercial litigation, and energy matters. For example, he has analyzed the role of industry protection policy in a transfer pricing context, and evaluated the impacts of marketing and R&D intangibles on product prices. He also has analyzed challenges facing the Japanese nuclear industry in exporting to foreign countries.

Prior to joining NERA, Dr. Ishigaki served as an economist in the Mergers and Acquisitions Division of the Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC), where he advised on and conducted economic analyses of many merger cases in a wide range of industries. His work at the JFTC also involved the revision of the Commission's Merger Guidelines in 2004, the Competition Policy Research Center's studies on various antitrust merger issues, and economic consultation on predatory pricing, entry deterrence, and cartel cases. Before working for the JFTC, he was an Associate Professor of Economics at Ritsumeikan University and an Assistant Professor of Economics at Aomori Public College, where he taught courses in microeconomics, industrial organization, and statistics, among others.

Dr. Ishigaki has frequently spoken and lectured on antitrust economics, including the evaluation of the competitive effects of mergers and acquisitions, and antitrust damages. He has conducted research on industrial organization and antitrust issues and has published his research in various journals, including Economics Letters, Metroeconomica, Kosei Torihiki (in Japanese), Kokusai Shoji Houmu (in Japanese), and Business Houmu (in Japanese), among others.

Dr. Ishigaki received his PhD and MS in economics from Purdue University, his MA in economics from the University of Tsukuba, and his BA in political science from Aoyama Gakuin University.

Languages

English
Japanese