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, transfer pricing, 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, wholesale, retail, and securities exchanges among others. He has addressed liability and damages issues involving bid rigging, cartels, predatory pricing, monopolization, and abuse of superior bargaining position and other antitrust violations in various industries. He has frequently presented his analyses to competition agencies and courts. As to merger cases, he has provided preliminary antitrust risk analyses to companies.

Dr. Ishigaki also performs economic assessments in intellectual property, transfer pricing, commercial litigation, and energy matters. He has evaluated the price premium resulting from industry protection policies, marketing and R&D intangibles, and trademarks. He has also performed risk analysis in relation to foreign direct investments in power plants.

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 involved the revision of the Commission's Merger Guidelines in 2004, the Competition Policy Research Center’s studies on various antitrust issues. Before working for the JFTC, Dr. Ishigaki 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 frequently speaks and lectures on antitrust economics. 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).

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