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BBL(Brown Bag Lunch Meeting)
BBL(Brown Bag Lunch Meeting)
We hold the BBL in lunch time to exchange opinions on the issues, mainly the JFTC staff has, with visiting researchers in a lighthearted way.
Fiscal 2011
| DATE | THEME | REPORTER |
|---|---|---|
| December 16, 2011 | Development of Resale Price Maintenance Regulation after Leegin | Yoshiteru UEMURA (Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Hannan University) |
| December 2, 2011 | Nontransferable Water Rights and Technical Inefficiency in the Japanese Water Supply Industry | Eiji SATOH (Graduate Student, Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University) |
| November 18, 2011 | The Rule against Exploitative Conducts in France -Comparison between France and Japan- | Michael Tiralongo (Postgraduate International Research Student, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo) |
| October 28, 2011 | The Diffusion of Generic Drugs and Recent Trends in the Pharmaceutical Products Market | Harumi TAGOKU (Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting) |
| October 21, 2011 | Recent Trends in the Airline Industry - Liberalization and the Rise of LCC | Kazuki SUGIURA (Airline Analyst and Affiliate Professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University) |
| October 14, 2011 | Fact-finding Report on the Action by the Ordering Agency for the Prevention of Collusive Bidding at the Initiative of Government Agencies -Compliance Activities by the Ordering Agency- | Ryojiro SEKIBA (JFTC) |
| October 7, 2011 | The Trend in the IT market and its Notable Themes, and A Portent of Increased Competition | Kotaro KUWADU (Nomura Research Institute) |
| September 16, 2011 | Changes in the Distribution System and Manufacturers' Trading Systems | Yoshio TAKAHASHI (The Distribution Economics Institute of Japan) |
| September 9, 2011 | Changes in Employment and Treatment via Corporate Mergers and Resolution of Career Uneasiness | Katsuhito UEHARA (Assistant Professor, School of International Politics, Economics and Communication, Aoyama Gakuin University) |
| September 2, 2011 | Policy Evaluation of 3G Auctions | Toshifumi KURODA (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics, Tokyo Keizai University) |
| July 15, 2011 | Antitrust Compliance Policy in Construction Consulting Industry: A Case of Pacific Consultants Co., LTD. | Kazushi MURAKAMI (Board Director and Director of Compliance Office) |
| June 17, 2011 | Cartels in the Japanese Cotton Spinning Industry - Policy Analysis of Transtition Periods from Growing to Declining | Junko WATANABE (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University) |
| June 10, 2011 | LIBOR in the Financial Market and Its Modeling | Hideki MATSUMURA (Mizuho Information & Research Institute) |
| May 13, 2011 | An Anti-Monopoly Compliance Program of TAISEI Corporation | Hiroki NANBA (TAISEI Corporation) |
| April 4, 2011 | What is an M&A? - Internationalization and Japanese Firms | Seki OBATA (Associate Professor of Finance, Keio University) |
Fiscal 2010
| DATE | THEME | REPORTER |
|---|---|---|
| March 25, 2011 | The Antitrust Law of China and Unfair Trade Practices - Legislative History and its Present | Danzhou CHEN (Graduate Student of Law, Waseda University) |
| February 25, 2011 | Competition from Japanese Viewpoint - Statistical Analysis with SSM Data | Naoki SUDO (Professor of Law, Gakushuin University) |
| February 18, 2011 | Merger Simulation in an Open Economy | Jae NAHM (Associate Professor of Economics, Sogang University) |
| February 4, 2011 | Ideological Relation between Competition and Contract | Yuki ASANO (Professor of Law, Gakushuin University) |
| January 28, 2011 | Quantitative Evidence of the Japanese Education Consciousness: Is Reproduction of the University Graduate Fair? | Toru KIKKAWA (Associate Professor of Human Sciences, Osaka University) |
| January 14, 2011 | Green Growth and Competition (Roundtable on Pro-active Policies for Green Growth and the Market Economy, October 2010) | Tetsuya FUJIMOTO (JFTC) Toshiko IGARASHI (JFTC) Mina ISONO (JFTC) |
| January 7, 2011 | Relationship between Competition -oriented Thought and Socioeconomic Position | Kenji IIJIMA (Assistant Professor, Musashigaoka College) |
| November 12, 2010 | Empirical Analysis on Competition among Hospital: MRI case | Shunichiro BESSHO (Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University) |
| October 29, 2010 | Merger and Industry Reorganization in Korea | Makoto ABE (Director, Technological Innovation and Economic Growth Studies Group, Inter-disciplinary Studies Center, Institute of Developing Economies) |
| October 15, 2010 | The Result of the Follow-Up Survey on the Actual Conditions in the Advertising Industry Trade | Junichi AIDA (JFTC) |
| October 8, 2010 | Auction Design for Search Sites: Theory and Practice | Yosuke YASUDA (Assistant Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies) |
| October 1, 2010 | The Entry Model: An Application to JAL-JAS Merger Analysis | Masato NISHIWAKI (Assistant Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies) |
| September 24, 2010 | Destruction of Competition by Competition Law: Evidence from Fiber-Optic Unbundling Regulation in Japan | Naoaki MINAMIHASHI (Ph.D. Student, Department of Economics, Boston University) |
| September 10, 2010 | Treatment of Efficiency in Merger Control: The Current Status in USA, Europe and Japan | Hiroaki ISHIGAKI (Senior Consultant, NERA Economic Consulting) |
| September 3, 2010 | Recent Developments in Intellectual Property Practices | Takao ABE (Group Manager, Patent Group-Mass and Medium-Lot Manufactured Products, Intellectual Property Department, Technical Headquarters, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.) |
| August 20, 2010 | The Status of Antitrust Compliance Efforts in Japanese Enterprises | Ryojiro SEKIBA (JFTC) |
| August 6, 2010 | The M&A Trend of Japanese Companies and the Business of RECOF Corporation | Toshifumi IWAGUCHI (Chairman, RECOF DATA) |
| July 30, 2010 | Empirical Analysis of Deregulation and OTC Sales | Koichiro SAWANO (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Nagoya City University) |
| July 23, 2010 | Estimating the Degree of Competition in Japanese Banking Industry via the Boone-Indicator | Hiroshi GUNJI (Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, Daito Bunka University) Kazuki MIURA (Ph.D. Student, Graduate School of Economics, Hosei University) |
| July 16, 2010 | Price Rigidity and Market Structure | Takayasu MATSUOKA (PD Fellow, Japan Society for The Promotion of Science ) |
| July 9, 2010 | R&D Expenditures in Japanese Manufacturing Industry: Testing the Schumpeterian Hypothesis with Panel Data | Ayako MITSUI (Ph.D. Student, Graduate School of Commerce, Waseda University) |
Fiscal 2009
| DATE | THEME | REPORTER |
|---|---|---|
| March 19, 2010 | Regulation and Competition in Transportation Sectors | Kenzo TAKEUCHI (Professor, School of Arts and Sciences, Tokyo Woman's Christian University) |
| March 12, 2010 | The Measurement Method of the Effect of the Corporate Activity | Takuji SAITO (Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Kyoto Sangyo University) |
| February 5, 2010 | Consideration about the Copyright Law of Re-Editing | Katsutoshi ISHIOKA (Associate Professor, Keio Economic Observatory) |
| January 29, 2010 | Outline of Patent Infringement Case | Shimako KATO (Patent Attorney, ABE,IKUBO&KATAYAMA) |
| January 15, 2010 | Problems of Generic Drug in the View of Competition Policy | Toshiko IGARASHI (International Affairs Division) |
| January 8, 2010 | The Consequences of an Outside Option for Rules of Origin: A Strategic Approach | Kazuhiro TAKAUCHI (Ph.D. student, Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University) |
| December 4, 2009 | The trend of Patent Troll and the countermeasure | Mitsuyoshi HIRATSUKA (Associate Professor, Tokyo University of Science) |
| November 20, 2009 | Current Situations and Problems about International Standardization Activity | Manabu ETO (Professor, Hitotsubashi University) |
| November 13, 2009 | The Introduction of General Copyrights Regulations Concerning Restrictions of Rigths | Makoto KAWASE (Agency for Cultural Affairs) |
| November 6, 2009 | Present Conditions and Problem of the Central Control System of the Copyrights | Makoto KAWASE (Agency for Cultural Affairs) |
| October 23, 2009 | Current Situations and Problems about the Digital Content | Makoto KAWASE (Agency for Cultural Affairs) |
| September 25, 2009 | Consideration of Innovation in Merger Cases | Katsutoshi KATAOKA (JFTC) |
| September 18, 2009 | Patent Pool in view of Competition Policy -Some Viewpoints for the next generation- |
Hisashi KATO (MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION) |
| September 11, 2009 | Policy Evaluation in Japan Fair Trade Commission | Koji MUKAI (JFTC) |
| September 4, 2009 | Findings on the process of enforcement in administration | Yoshinobu KITAMURA (Professor, Faculty of Law, Sophia University) |
| July 31, 2009 | Technology Adoption and Fuzzy Patent Rights | Jing-Yuan Chiou (Assistant Professor, IMT Lucca) |
| June 26, 2009 | A Survey on the Development of compliance systems in companies | Anna ISHIZUKA (JFTC) |
| June 19, 2009 | Two Types Globalization and Corporate Governance Reforms -Analysis on the Amendments of the Commercial Law from 1993 to 2002- | Masako SUGINOHARA (Project Assistant Professor, Komaba Organization for Educational Development, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo) |
| May 22, 2009 | Fact-Finding Survey of the Animation Industry | Kanamori TAKAKO and Okamoto TATSUYUKI (JFTC) |
Fiscal 2008
| DATE | THEME | REPORTER |
|---|---|---|
| March 27, 2009 | The Regulation of the Non-hard Core Cartel in the EC competition Law | Kuninobu TAKEDA （Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Osaka University） |
| February 20, 2009 | Intellectuall Property in the US -Today's Patent System Reform- | Tomoki SAWAI （Patent Office） |
| February 13, 2009 | An Empirical Investigation of the Paramount Antitrust Case | Ricard Gil （Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz） |
| February 6, 2009 | A Note on the Necessity of Rules for Misleading Representation: Experimental Evidence | Koki ARAI （JFTC, Head of CPRC Secretariat） |
| November 7, 2008 | Changes in Circumstances Surrounding of Travel Industry and JTB's Split-up | Hirokazu KOBAYASHI （JTB Global Marketing & Travel Inc.） |
| October 31, 2008 | Environment Surrounding of the General Trading Firm and its Function | Fumio OGINO （Mitsubishi Corporation） |
| October 24, 2008 | The Present Conditions and a "Challenge" for the Future of JR East-21 Years since National Railway's Reform and the Future Direction of Management- | Toshiro Ichinose (East Japan Railway Company) |
| October 17, 2008 | Issues of the Electronic Money Market from the viewpoint at Competition Policy | Hitoshi OKADA (Associate Professor, National Institute of Informatics) |
| September 12, 2008 | Basics of Patent Description | Kouta HAGIWARA (JFTC) |
| August 29, 2008 | About an Exclusion Type of Private Monopolization - Conditional Rebate as a Subject- | Tetsuya KANDA (JFTC) |
| July 25, 2008 | Fact-finding Survey of the Field of City Gas Business | Hiroaki NOSE (JFTC) |
| April 25, 2008 | Analysis of the Japanese Taxicab Market | Hideki TAKAYAMA (Researcher,CPRC) |
Fiscal 2007
| DATE | THEME | REPORTER |
|---|---|---|
| February 29, 2008 | Coordination and Competition Policy of Unbundling in Public Utilities | Takashi YANAGAWA (Professor,Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University) |
| December 21, 2007 | A Never-ending story:Liberalization of Energy Markets in Germany-German Energy Law- | Sebastian Becker (The Free University of Berlin) |
| November 9, 2007 | About "Prospective Amendments to AMA" | Eichiro OMATA (JFTC) |
| September 14, 2007 | 「企業結合審査の事後的検証予備調査報告書」について | Toshiko IGARASHI (JFTC) |
| June 22, 2007 | About Examination Business of Violation of American Antitrust Law | Jun IJICHI (JFTC) |
| June 15, 2007 | Vertical Integration in the Japanese Movie Industry | Mitsuru SUNADA (Researcher, CPRC) |
| June 1, 2007 | The actual situation of the international aviation service market and a problem in the competition policy | Tanabe TAKAKI (JFTC) |
| April 13, 2007 | For the bid system that secured competitiveness : concerned bid system reform and the successful bid rates concerned | Hideyuki SHIMOZU (JFTC) Takeshi YOKOTA (JFTC) |
Fiscal 2006
| DATE | THEME | REPORTER |
|---|---|---|
| March 30, 2007 | FY2007 Joint Research Candidate (1)Study about the Analysis after a Thing of the Merger (2)Analysis of the Effect of the Anti-competition of the Vertical Integration Vertical business engagements, and Vertical limit |
(1)Hiroshi OHASHI (Visiting Researcher, CPRC) (2)Yasunari TAMADA (Visiting Researcher, CPRC) |
| March 16, 2007 | FY2007 Joint Research Candidate Local Competition in Retail Service Market |
Mitsuru SUNADA (Researcher, CPRC) |
| Febrary 23, 2007 | Issues concerning for Foreknowledge Possibility Transparency Swiftness of the Combine Examination Corresponding to the Globalization of the Economy-related Improvement | Yuji KIMURA (Researcher, CPRC) |
| December 1, 2006 | Issues concerning the Agenda of the Competition Law in China | Tai RYU (Graduate School of an International Development Study, NAGOYA university) |
| November 14, 2006 | Production IG: Challenging the Status Quo | Andrei Hagiu (Assistant Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration) |
| September 29, 2006 | Comparative Analysis of Regulations on Unilateral Conducts. |
Masayuki ATSUMI (JFTC) |
| September 1, 2006 | Extraterritorial Application of Antitrust Acts in the U.S. |
Daisuke KORENAGA (JFTC) |
| July 21, 2006 | Trade Practice between Financial Institutions and Companies | Yasutaka YOSHIKAWA (JFTC) |
| June 16, 2006 | Issues concerning Electricity Market and Competition Policy |
Shinya KOBAYASHI (JFTC) |
| June 9, 2006 | Issues concerning Ocean-going Transport and Competiton Policy | Hiroe OTSUBO (JFTC) |
| May 19, 2006 | Analysis of Market Power in a Product-differenciated Market: Empirical Study using Date of Passenger Car Markets |
Yoshihisa TAKAHASHI (JFTC) |
| May 12, 2006 | Issues concerning the Competition in the Postal Service Business - Correspondence to the Anti-competitive Practice misusing Monopoly Domain - |
Hikono SAITO (JFTC) |
| April 21, 2005 | Revision of Subcontact Act in 2003 | Masaharu MINAMI E EFTC) |
Fiscal 2005
| DATE | THEME | REPORTER |
|---|---|---|
| Mar. 31, 2006 | FY2006 Joint Research Candidate Utilization of Experience and Economic Theory in Investigation and Hearing Procedures |
Noriko SAKAI (JFTC) |
| February 17, 2006 | Case Study focusing on Leniency Programs: "Lysine Cartel Case" | Masayuki ISHIMOTO (JFTC) |
| January 13, 2006 | Charging Regulations in Regulated Industries: | Kazunari KAINO (RIETI) |
| December 16, 2005 | Business Structures in the Contents Industry | Yuji MORI (Think Corporation) |
| December 9, 2005 | Competition Situations and Challenges in Electric Power Industry |
Kiyoto KONNO (JFTC) |
| November 18, 2005 | Issues in Privatization of Postal Services |
Takahiro SHIMOMURA (JFTC) |
| November 11, 2005 | Entry Barriers, Price cutting -Discussions at the Roundtable of theOECD COMP | Kaoru HARADA (JFTC) Tomonari NISHIUE (JFTC) |
| October 14, 2005 | Regulation based on Competition Law on Commissioning Contract of Producing TV Programs |
Kenichiro TAMURA (Student Fellow, CPRC) |
| October 7, 2005 | Abuse of Dominant Bargaining Position in the TV Industry |
Ryuji SAWADA (Director, Japan Visual Industry Guild) |
| September 30, 2005 | Reconstruction of Regulation regarding Unfair Trade Practices | Toshiyuki YOKOTA (JFTC) |
| September 16, 2005 | The Role of Competition Laws in the Consumer Policy | Hiroyuki IIJIMA (Cabinet Office) |
| September 14, 2005 | Electric Power Guidelines | Tatsuro SUWA (JFTC) |
| September 9, 2005 | For the Breakthrough of Contents Business | Takahide MORITA(Attorney, B.D.J Law and Accounting Office) |
| September 2, 2005 | Compliance Activities in Mitsukoshi Corporation | Ryuichi MORONUKI (Mitsukoshi Corporation) |
| August 31, 2005 | Abuse of Superior Positions by Supermarkets | Junji OKANO (Student Fellow, CPRC) |
| August 26, 2005 | Compliance Activities in Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. |
Haruo TSURUOKA (Nissan Motors) |
| August 5, 2005 | Compliance Activities in NEC Corporation | Suguru HAGIWARA (NEC Corporation) |
| July 22, 2005 | Analysis Framework of CPRC Joint Research "Demand Analysis of Broadband Access Market" | Mitsuru SUNADA (Researcher, CPRC) |
| July 8, 2005 | Regulations on Unjut Low Price Sales | Daisuke YAMAMOTO (JFTC) |
| July 7, 2005 | Quantitative Analysis using SFI Index | Makoto FUNAKOSHI (Researcher, CPRC) |
| June 17, 2005 | Comparison of Domestic or Alliance Code Sharing between Japan, Europe and USA |
Naveen Rao |
| April 8, 2005 | Competition in Financial Industry | Kotaro TSURU(RIETI) |
| April 6, 2005 | Abuse of Dominant Bargaining Position | Toshio ARAI (JFTC) |
Fiscal 2004
| DATE | THEME | REPORTER |
|---|---|---|
| Feb. 18th 2005 | "Basic Research on Technological innovation and Incentive -- a Research Project Plan--" "Jurisprudential and Economical Analysis of Influence of Loose Combination Form between Companies on Market Competition -- A research project plan--" |
Tatsuo TANAKA (Visiting Researcher, CPRC; Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University) Shuya HAYASHI (Visiting Researcher, CPRC; Assistant Full-time Instructor, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies) |
| Feb. 15th 2005 | "Meaning of Unfair Trade Practice and Consideration on Unjut Low Price Sales and Discriminatory Pricing" |
Shuichi SUGAHISA E EFTC) |
| Jan. 28th 2005 | "Economic Analysis on Leniency Program" | Toshiko SUZUKI (Researcher, CPRC) |
| Jan. 18th 2005 | "Review on Rationality of Precedents regarding Unjut Low Price Sales and Price Discrimination from Economic Perspective" |
Yasumi OCHI (Visiting Researcher, CPRC; Attorney, Nishimura & Partners) |
| Dec. 24th 2004 | "Economic Analysis of Bid Rigging" | Yuji KIMURA (Visiting Researcher, CPRC; Fellow, RIETI) |
| Nov. 12th 2004 | "Is vertical merger good or bad ? " (Integration) | Hiroaki ISHIGAKI & Toshiko IGARASHI (Researcher, CPRC) |
| October 28th 2004 | "Should we invoke competition policy in the contents industry?" | Tatsuo TANAKA (Visiting Researcher, CPRC; Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University) |
