What is CPRC？

　Competition Policy Research Center has the objective to build and improve functional and sustainable cooperative platforms between intellectual resources of outside researchers, practitioners and staff members of the Fair Trade Commission in order to reinforce theoretical foundation on which we apply the Antitrust Law and plan, propose, and evaluate competition policy from medium and long-term perspective as well as to utilize the platform to enforce measures for current issues.

• About CPRC

Topics

• 2022/5/26Presentation materials have been posted (CPRC Seminar "Business Dynamism in Japan: Some Expositions")
• 2022/4/8Presentation materials have been posted (The 20th International Symposium "Green Growth and Competition Policy ")
• 2022/4/4The discussion paper "Study of the Antimonopoly Act on Bundling involving Standard-Essential Patents ～Based on the discussion in FTC v. Qualcomm～ " has been posted (March 2022)　
• 2022/3/18The discussion paper "Algorithm and Collusion: A Survey of Economic Analyses and the Implications for Competition Policy " has been posted (March 2022)
• 2022/3/16Presentation material has been posted (CPRC Seminar "Equitable Interoperability: The 'Super Tool' of Digital Platform Governance")

Quick Links

• Special Feature on the New System under the Amended Antimonopoly Act
• Approaches in the digital market
• Leniency Program
• ICN Merger Notification and Procedures Template
• ICN Anti-cartel Enforcement Template

Informaiton

• Photo Topics
• Theoretical, foundational research of operation of Antimonopoly act, and competition policy