CPRC Seminar
CPRC holds CPRC seminars on competition policy issues with the aim of contributing to the identification of future research topics.
Fiscal 2026
| DATE | THEME | REPORTER | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 183 | June 12, 2026 | AI and competition enforcement | Ariel Ezrachi（Slaughter and May Professor of Competition Law, The University of Oxford Director, Oxford University Centre for Competition Law and Policy Fellow, Pembroke College, Oxford ） |
| 182 | May 22, 2026 | Ecosystem Mergers and Competition | Yano Tomohiko（Director, NERA） |
| 181 | April 17, 2026 | Wage Spillovers across Sectors: Evidence from a Localized Public-Sector Wage Cut | YAMAGISHI, Atsushi（Associate Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University） |
Fiscal 2025
| DATE | THEME | REPORTER | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 180 | February 20, 2026 | Poster Presentations at the National Law Faculty Economic Law Research Forum | Poster Session Award Winners |
| 179 | February 13, 2026 | The Fair Trade Mediation System in Korea | Lee, Chanyeol （Graduate School of Low, Waseda University） |
| 178 | February 10, 2026 | Clicks, Code, and Competition: Assessing India’s Competition Law and Policy Response to Digitisation | Neha Vyas (Lecturer, Newcastle University) |
| 177 | February 6, 2026 | The Effects of a Merger between Vertically Integrated Firms on Retail Gasoline Prices: Market Power, Efficiency, and Upstream Effects | KOBAYASHI Ryuki（Research Associate at the Faculty of Economics, Keio University） |
| 176 | January 9, 2026 | Evaluating Cartel Impact in Electricity Procurement | Matsumura Yuri（Section Chief, Economic Analysis Office, General Affairs Bureau, Japan Fair Trade Commission） |
| 175 | December 19, 2025 | Startup Noncompetes in the Shadow of Acquihiring | Tsubuteishi, Kyogo（Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University） |
| 174 | November 21, 2025 | Machine Data and Innovation Incentives | Carlo Cambini（Full Professor, Department of Management and Production Engineering Politecnico di Torino） |
| 173 | October 28, 2025 | Sustainability Agreement in the Land of the rising Sun:Ippon or Kaeshi-Waza? | Maarten Pieter Schinkel（Professor of Economics, University of Amsterdam） |
| 172 | September 26, 2025 | Challenges of Persuasiveness in Merger Control: A Review of Major Cases in FY2024 | DING YU（Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Niigata University） |
| 171 | September 5, 2025 | Stable Matching: Theory and Evidence | IMAMURA Kenzo（Project Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo） KUNO Kan（Project Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo） |
| 170 | July 18, 2025 | Private labels and platform competition | Fuyuki Saruta（Lecturer, Faculty of Commerce, Fukuoka University） |
| 169 | July 11, 2025 | Anticompetitive Effects and Efficiency of OEM between Competitors | MINAMOTO Shintaro（Doctoral student, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Osaka） |
| 168 | June 20, 2025 | How to Control Mergers With Potential Competitors: The Principles and Methods | Soichiro Noguchi（Kyoto University Graduate School of Law Program-Specific Researcher (JSPS Research Fellow)） |
| 167 | June 13, 2025 | Deterring collusion with fines in auction experiment | Kobayashi Hajime（）Tiffany Tsz Kwan Tse |
| 166 | June 9, 2025 | Merger Control developments in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region | Kyriakos Fountoukakos（Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer） Adelaide Luke（Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer） |
| 165 | June 6, 2025 | Industry Dynamics with Cartels: The Case of the Container Shipping Industry | Suguru Otani（Project Assistant Professor） |
| 164 | May 23, 2025 | Selective Distribution Systems and Competition Law | KONDO Naoto（Specially-appointed Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Otemon Gakuin University） |
| 163 | April 18, 2025 | Redesigning Competition Policy for Sustainability: Non-Price Competition and the Concept of Institutional Stewardship | Hitoshi Matsushima（Professor, Department of Economics, University of Tokyo） |
| 162 | April 4, 2025 | Innovation Implemented by Public-private Co-creation: Challenges of the regulatory sandbox and beyond. | NAKAHARA Hirohiko（Director-General, Cabinet Secretariat） IKEDA Yoko（Director, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry） |
Fiscal 2024
| DATE | THEME | REPORTER | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 161 | February 7, 2025 | Algorithmic Collusion in Multi-product Pricing | Kohei Hayashida（UCSD, Rady School of Management, PhD candidate） |
| 160 | December 20, 2024 | Presentation to the JFTC on remedies and the role of the Monitoring Trustee | Justin Menezes（Forvis Mazars LLP (UK), Partner） Takeshi Tanaka（Forvis Mazars Advisory Co., Ltd (JP), Partner） |
| 159 | December 6, 2024 | The Regulation of Abuse of Dominant Position to Google's advertising business in French Competition Law | SUGISAKI Hiroshi（Saitama University・Assistant Professor） |
| 158 | November 25, 2024 | Recent Trends of US Competition laws | Mark Hamer（Baker & McKenzie(Washington D.C. Office)Global Head/Partner） Jeffrey Martino（Baker & McKenzie(New York Office) Partner Jeffrey Martino (New York Office)） John Fedele（Baker & McKenzie(Washington D.C.)Partner） Junya Ae（Baker & McKenzie(Tokyo Office)Partner） Shuichi Sugahisa（Baker & McKenzie(Tokyo Office)Senior Consultant） |
| 157 | September 6, 2024 | Voluntary Disclosure of Cartel Information under Leniency Programs: Theory and Experiment | Toshiji Kawagoe (Professor, Faculty of System Information Sciences, Future University Hakodate)
Kazuhito Ogawa (Professor, Faculty of Sociology, Kansai University / Director, Research Institute for Socionetwork Strategies) Tetsuya Kawamura (Associate Professor, Faculty of Economic and Business Management, Tezukayama University) |
| 156 | August 23, 2024 | Tomorrow's Competition Policy Based on Supreme Court Doctrine: Lessons from the Tokyo High Court Judgments in the Tabelog and Direx Cases | Yasumi Ochi (Professor, Meiji University Law School / Attorney-at-Law) |
Fiscal 2023
| DATE | THEME | REPORTER | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 148 | March 29, 2024 | Detecting Edgeworth Cycles | IGAMI, Mitsuru
(Associate Professor, Yale Department of Economics and Visiting Associate Professor, UBC Sauder School of Business) |
| 147 | February 9, 2024 | Abuse of Dominant Position in EU Law: Historical development; Current Doctrine; Comparison with U.S. Antitrust Law Presentation material（1） Presentation material（2） |
John Kallaugher
(Of Counsel, Latham & Watkins LLP) |
| 146 | January 19, 2024 | The Bright Side of the GDPR: Welfare-Improving Privacy Management | MATSUSHIMA, Noriaki
(Professor, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University and Director, CPRC) |
| 145 | January 12, 2024 | Online platforms and gig economy in developing markets + Economics at U.S. FTC | NAKAMURA, Shotaro
(Economist, Consumer Protection, Bureau of Economics, US Federal Trade Commission) |
| 144 | December ８, 2023 | Japanese Firms' Price Setting and Future Exit from Deflation | UENO Yuko
(Deputy Director General for Economic Research, Cabinet Office) |
| 143 | December １, 2023 | Big Data and Competition Law: Lessons from Innovation Markets | Christopher S. Yoo
(John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer & Information Science, University of Pennsylvania) |
| 142 | November １, 2023 | Digital Platforms and the New 19a Tool in the German Competition Act | Martin Peitz
(Professor of economics at the University of Mannheim) |
| 141 | October 27, 2023 | Merger Remedies: Is Japan Unique? | Simon VANDE WALLE
(Professor, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo) |
| 140 | September 29 ,2023 | Generative AI and Antitrust/Competition Law and Policy - Review and Preliminary Analysis on Business Activities relevant to Generative AI | TAKAMIYA Yusuke
(Partner, Mori Hamada & Matsumoto) |
| 139 | September 8, 2023 | Doctrinal Case Law Development regarding Competitive Process and Digital Economy ｰfrom Consumer welfare to Competitive Processｰ | OCHI Yasumi （Professor of Law at Meiji University Law School and Attorney at law） |
| 138 | August 25, 2023 | Inspecting Cartels over Time: With and without Leniency Program (PDF:434KB) | Fujiwara-Greve Takako
（Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University） |
| 137 | July 28 ,2023 | 「Impacts of Rating System on Platform Markets: Monopolistic Competition Approach」 | YASUI, Yuta (Assistant Professor, School of Economics & Management, Kochi University of Technology) HARAGUCHI, Junichi (Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Kanagawa University) |
| 136 | July 21 ,2023 | New EU Horizontal Block Exemption Regulations and Guidelines」 | AE, Junya (Partner, Baker & McKenzie (Gaikokuho Joint Enterprise)) Kurt Haegeman (Partner, Baker & McKenzie (Brussels)) Mara Ghiorghies (Partner, Baker McKenzie (London)) |
| 135 | July 14, 2023 | Recent Legal Regulations on SEP in China | MOTOHASHI, Taeko (Attoreny at Law, IP FORWARD Law & Patent Firm) |
| 134 | July 7, 2023 | 「The Decline of Labor Share and New Technology Diffusion: Implications for Markups and Monopsony Power」 | WAKAMORI, Naoki (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University) |
| 133 | June 7, 2023 | Recent developments in US Patent Law and Policy, with Comparative Insights from Brazil focusing on SEP, AI and relationship between U.S. Patent Policy and Competition Policy | David J. Kappos （Partner, Cravath, Swaine ＆ Moore LLP） (former Director, USPTO) Robert Stoll （Partner, Faeger Drinker Biddle ＆ Reath LLP） (former Commissioner, USPTO) Teresa Summers （Partner, Summers Law Group） Otto Licks （Partner, Licks Legal） Roberto Carapeto （Partner, Licks Legal） |
| 132 | May 26, 2023 | Competitive Effects of Resale Price Maintenance Through Inventory: Evidence from Publishing Industry(PDF:397KB) | KAWAGUCHI, Kohei （Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology） |
| 131 | May 19, 2023 | Towards Normalized Regulation: The Reconversion of China's Antimonopoly Law Regulatory Stance | Wang Weisi （Core Researcher, Think Tank Division, KDDI Research, Inc.） |
| 130 | April 21, 2023 | Network Neutrality and EU Competition Law: Focusing on Zero-Rating Practices(PDF:53KB) | HAYASHI Syuya （Professor, Nagoya University Graduate School of Law） |
Fiscal 2022
| DATE | THEME | REPORTER | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 129 | March 24, 2023 | A Merger Paradox: Proposal Right and Price Discrimination(PDF:228KB) | SHIRATA Yasuhiro （Professor, Department of Economics, Otaru University of Commerce） |
| 128 | February 24, 2023 | Do No-Surcharge Rules Increase Effective Retail Price?(PDF:351KB) | ADACHI, Takanori （Associate Professor, Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University） |
| 127 | February 16, 2023 | The State of U.S. Digital Enforcement | Daniel Francis （Assistant Professor of Law, New York University School of Law） |
| 126 | February 3, 2023 | The Competition in Japanese Banking Sector and its Impact on Regional Finance | SUGIYAMA, Toshihiro （Professor, Department of Business Management, Edogawa University） |
| 125 | January 27, 2023 | Legal Considerations for Metaverse | NAGASE, Takeshi （Partner, Anderson Mori & Tomotsune） |
| 124 | January 20, 2023 | Recent enforcement and policy developments in EU competition law(PDF:1321KB) | AE, Junya (Partner, Baker & McKenzie (Gaikokuho Joint Enterprise)) Kurt Haegeman (Partner, Baker & McKenzie (Brussels)) Mara Ghiorghies (Attorney at Law, Baker McKenzie (London)) |
| 123 | December 23, 2022 | State Aid for Environmental Protection in the European Union | TADA, Hideaki （Professor, Department of Law, Faculty of Law, Toyo University） |
| 122 | December 23, 2022 | A Field Experiment on Antitrust Compliance | KAWAI, Kei （Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley） |
| 121 | November 18, 2022 | The effects of personal data management on competition and welfare | MATSUSHIMA, Noriaki （Professor, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University and Director, CPRC） |
| 120 | November 11, 2022 | A Study on Metaverse as a Platform | SATOH, Ichiro （Professor, National Institute of Informatics, PhD.） |
| 119 | September 16, 2022 | A Study of Bid-rigging in Procurement Auctions: Evidence from Indonesia, Georgia, Mongolia, Malta, and State of California(PDF:3716KB) | NAKABAYASHI, Jun (Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Kyoto University and Chief Researchers, CPRC) |
| 118 | September 9, 2022 | Strategic Aspects of Bundling to Prevent Information Acquisition | MIZUNO, Keizo （Professor, School of Business Administration, Kwansei Gakuin University） |
| 117 | August 19, 2022 | Enforcement of competition law and innovation in digital economy ～Based on the enforcement cases by the European Commission～ | NAKAJIMA, Hideo （Special Advisor, White & Case LLP White & Case Law Offices (Registered Association)） |
| 116 | August 5, 2022 | Freedom of Trade and Fair Competition in consistent with Market Economy: Why Abuse of Superior Bargaining Position ("ASBP") must be supplemental? | OCHI, Yasumi （Professor of Law at Meiji University Law School and Attorney at law） |
| 115 | July 22, 2022 | Effectiveness of Public Subsidy Policy in a Competitive Environment: Panel Data Analysis in Japan | ISOGAWA, Daiya （Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka Metropolitan University） |
| 114 | July 8, 2022 | Non-market valuation of environmental benefits and damages: An application to competitive policy | KURIYAMA, Koichi （Professor, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University） |
| 113 | June 24, 2022 | Revisions of European Commission's Vertical Block Exemption Regulation and the Guidelines on Vertical Restrains - an overview and preliminary assessment | OGAWA, Satoshi （Partner, Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu） |
| 112 | June 10, 2022 | The Roles of Structured Management in the Formation of Transactional Relationships | OHYAMA, Atsushi （Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University） |
| 111 | May 20, 2022 | Business Dynamism in Japan: Some Expositions Presentation material(1)（PDF:450KB） Presentation material(2)（PDF:648KB） |
MIYAKAWA, Daisuke （Associate Professor, Hitotsubashi University Business School） |
| 110 | May 13, 2022 | Pay for Performance in Procurement with Juan-José Ganuza and Fernando Goméz | HANAZONO, Makoto （Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Nagoya University） |
Fiscal 2021
| DATE | THEME | REPORTER | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 109 | February 25, 2022 | A Simple Method to Estimate Discrete-type Random Coefficients Logit Models | DOI Naoshi (Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Otaru University of Commerce) |
| 108 | February 18, 2022 | EquitableInteroperability: The 'Super Tool' of Digital Platform Governance (PDF:943KB) | Fiona M. Scott Morton （Professor of Economics，Yale School of Management） |
| 107 | December 17, 2021 | Sustainable Development: Application of Inclusive Wealth Index | MANAGI Shunsuke (Distinguished Professor& Director of Urban Institute, Kyushu University) |
| 106 | November 19, 2021 | Sustainability Initiatives and Antitrust Laws and Competition Laws | TAKAMIYA, Yusuke (Lawyer, Mori Hamada & Matsumoto) |
| 105 | November 5, 2021 | Current status and issues surrounding demand and supply of healthcare services | NOGUCHI, Haruko (Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University) |
| 104 | October 22, 2021 | 「The Value of Privacy in Cartels: An Analysis of the Inner Workings of a Bidding Ring」(PDF:647KB) | NAKABAYASHI, Jun (Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Kindai University and Chief Researchers, CPRC) |
| 103 | October 15, 2021 | to be uploaded | NIREI, Makoto (Professor, Department of Economics, University of Tokyo) |
| 102 | October 8, 2021 | Households' Responses to Childcare Fees: Childcare Usage and Parental Labor Supply | KONDO, Ayako (Professor, Institute of Social Science, the University of Tokyo) |
| 101 | October 1, 2021 | Compatible Mergers: Assets, Service Areas and Market Power | WAKAMORI, Naoki (Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Economic, University of Tokyo) |
| 100 | September 17, 2021 | The Role of Economics and the CET at DG Competition | Pierre Régibeau, (Chief Competition Economist, European Commission) |
| 99 | September 3, 2021 | Dual Role of the Platform and Search Order Distortion (PDF:2,905KB) | KITTAKA, Yuta (JSPS Research Fellowship (PD)) |
| 98 | August 6, 2021 | Dual-Channel Supply Chain, Multilateral Contracting, and Vertical Foreclosure(PDF:219KB) | Cong Pan (Assistant Professor,Faculty of Economics, Kyoto Sangyo University) |
| 97 | July 2, 2021 | Across-Market Platform Competition in Mobile App Economy (PDF:188KB) | ZENNYO, Yusuke (Associate Professor,Graduate School of Business Administration,Kobe University) |
| 96 | June 25, 2021 | Transnational machine learning with screens for flagging bid-rigging cartels | ISHII, Rieko (Associate Professor, Shiga University) |
| 95 | June 11, 2021 | WTO regulation on Subsidies and Empirical Studies on Industrial Policy of China | WATANABE, Mariko (Professor, Faculty of Economics, Gakushuin University) |
| 94 | June 4, 2021 | Addictive Platforms | ICHIHASHI, Shota (Bank of Canada, Principal Researcher) |
| 93 | May 21, 2021 | Controlling Fake Reviews | YASUI, Yuta (Graduate Student, University of California, Los Angeles) |
| 92 | May 14, 2021 | EU competition law and the European Green Deal | KAMEOKA, Etsuko (Lawyer, Van Bael & Bellis) |
| 91 | April 16, 2021 | The Science of Market Design: Theory and Practice | KOJIMA, Fuhito (Professor, Graduate School of Economics, the University of Tokyo・Director, the University of Tokyo Market Design Center) |
| 90 | April 9, 2021 | Competition Policy for Sin Goods | UETAKE, Kosuke (Associate Professor of Marketing Yale School of Management) |
| 89 | April 2, 2021 | Protection of competition in the digital economy & six supreme court decisions-abuse of bargainng power("Yuuetutekichii-no-Ranyo" and freedom of trade"- | OCHI, Yasumi (Professor of Law at Meiji University Law School and Attorney at law) |
Fiscal 2020
| DATE | THEME | REPORTER | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 88 | March 12, 2021 | Latest Trends of Application for Antitrust/Competition Laws on Digital Platforms - In light of Recent Policy Movement in Major Jurisdictions Including U.S. | TAKAMIYA Yusuke (Lawyer, Mori Hamada & Matsumoto) |
| 87 | February 12, 2021 | How will US Antitrust Enforcement Change Under the New Administration? | YOSHIDA Daiske (Foreign Law Attorney (New York), Morrison & Foerster LLP) |
| 86 | February 5, 2021 | Microeconomics for Competition Policy and Consumer Policy: Market Power Index Approach for Analysis of Imperfectly Competitive Markets | ADACHI Takanori (Associate Professor, School of Economics, Nagoya University) |
| 85 | December 18, 2020 | Behavioral economics, consumer protection policies, and competition policies | MUROOKA Takeshi (Associate Professor, Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University) |
| 84 | December 4, 2020 | The Influence of Data Utilization and Organizational Structure on AI Utilization and Innovation: Evidence from the ESRI Joint Research Project | WASHIO Satoshi (Chief Researcher, ICT Research and Consulting Division, InfoCom Research, Inc.) FUJII Hidemichi (Associate professor, Faculty of Economics, Kyushu University) SHINOZAKI Akihiko (Professor, Faculty of Economics, Kyushu University) |
| 83 | August 21, 2020 | Public Relations on Competition Policy and EBPM | KOBAYASHI Yohei (Chief Analyst, Economic Policy Department, Tokyo Division, Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting Co.,LTD) |
| 82 | July 31, 2020 | The impact of new coronaviruses on society, economy, and business | YAMADA Eiji (Executive Principal, Research and Consulting Division, The Japan Research Institute, Ltd.) |
