In anti-monopoly law and competition policy, Dr. Kaneko has been involved in merger, cartel and bid rigging, and abuse of superior bargaining position matters. He has experience with mergers in such industries as telecommunications, beverages, metal, petrochemical, industrial machinery, automotive, and wholesaling and retailing. He has also been engaged in the analysis and production of evidence used in cartel and bid rigging hearing proceedings and litigation about the existence or non-existence of, duration of, and damage from illegal conduct. In cases of abuse of superior bargaining position, Dr. Kaneko has conducted economic analysis useful for determining the illegality of alleged conduct and the extent of resulting damages. He has written expert opinions about the validity of interviews and surveys conducted by the competition authority and has designed and conducted surveys on customers of merging parties in order to define the relevant antitrust market and assess competitive constraints of merging parties.
 
In intellectual property, Dr. Kaneko has conducted numerous secondary meaning, fame, and confusion surveys in trademark and unfair competition matters as well as customer surveys to assess the sales-generating potential of the patent’s feature in order to determine the value of inventions and their reasonable royalty rates in patent infringement cases.

In commercial disputes areas, Dr. Kaneko has also conducted surveys to determine whether certain workplace conducts would constitute an illegal act and to estimate the damages from the conducts and written expert reports, or surveys of general public to determine the value of privacy and whether or not the firm’s conduct constitutes invasion of privacy.

At NERA, Dr. Kaneko has provided consulting services to firms, attorneys, and the government; written articles; and spoken at seminars concerning the use of economic analysis and survey research for business and legal practices. Most of his published work has focused on anti-monopoly law and competition policy. He has also written a chapter in a book on transfer pricing of financial transactions between related parties in Japan. In addition, he has conducted government-commissioned studies and produced reports about the competitive environment of the Japanese economy.

Prior to joining NERA, Dr. Kaneko was a post-doctoral associate in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics of the University of Georgia, where he conducted economic experiment and survey research and studied the price determination model in agricultural commodities markets, the effect of advertising on agricultural commodities sales, and the effect of the health attributes of food products on  consumer preferences, among others.