APIOC 2019 Program
December 12
December 13 & 14
Pre-conference Drinks at Josui-kaikan (right next to the conference venue) from 17:00.
At the conference venue, Hitotsubashi Hall, there will be a symposium, “Data Monopolies on Digital Markets and Competition Policy”, organized by the Japan Fair Trade Commission, from 13:30-16:30. Jacques Cremer, Leslie Marx and Tommaso Valletti will make keynote speeches, followed by a round-table discussion.
Everybody is welcome to attend! Please register here by December 6, 2019.
The detailed program can be found here.
Information for speakers can be found here.
Images from the conference can be found here.
Keynote Speakers
Mark Armstrong
Oxford University
Mark Armstrong is Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford, where he is also a Fellow of All Souls College. Before moving to Oxford, he was professor at UCL in London. He works mostly in the field of Industrial Organization, especially on topics to do with oligopoly theory, consumer search and other information frictions, and pricing decisions by platforms and other multiproduct firms. He is currently co-editor at the RAND Journal of Economics, and previously was Managing Editor and Chairman of the Review of Economic Studies. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Econometric Society. He received his undergraduate degree in mathematics from Cambridge University, and his doctorate in economics from Oxford in 1992.
Further information: here
Leslie Marx
Duke University
Leslie Marx is the Robert A. Bandeen Professor of Economics at Duke University. She has research interests in the fields of Industrial Organization and Game Theory. Much of her recent work has been concerned with mergers, vertical integration, and antitrust policy. She has published in leading academic journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies, and Quarterly Journal of Economics. She is a co-editor of the American Economic Journal: Microeconomics and on the editorial board of the International Journal of Game Theory. She received her undergraduate degree in mathematics from Duke University and her doctorate in economics from Northwestern University.
Further information: here
2019 Speakers
Invited Speakers
- Simon Anderson – University of Virginia
- Matthew Backus – Columbia University
- Jacques Cremer – Toulouse School of Economics
- Richard Holden – UNSW Business School
- Mitsuru Igami – Yale University
- Jacques Lawarrée – University of Washington
- Robin Lee – Harvard University
- Arijit Mukherjee – Michigan State University
- Volker Nocke – University of Mannheim
- Yuka Ohno – Hokkaido University
- Henry Schneider – Queen’s University
- Tommaso Valletti – Imperial College London
APIOC 2019
APIOC Program Committee
Local Area Committee
Jay Pil Choi (Chair) – Michigan State University
John Asker – The University of California, Los Angeles
Reiko Aoki – Japan Fair Trade Commission
David Byrne – The University of Melbourne
Nisvan Erkal – The University of Melbourne
Simona Fabrizi – The University of Auckland
Yuk-fai Fong – The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Catherine de Fontenay – The University of Melbourne
Susumu Imai – Hokkaido University
Steffen Lippert – The University of Auckland
Simon Loertscher – The University of Melbourne
Hodaka Morita – Hitotsubashi University
Hiroshi Ohashi – The University of Tokyo
Nicholas de Roos – The University of Sydney
Matthew Shum – California Institute of Technology
Michelle Sovinsky – University of Manheim
Yasutora Watanabe – The University of Tokyo
Julian Wright – National University of Singapore
Hiroshi Ohashi (Chair) – The University of Tokyo
Reiko Aoki – Japan Fair Trade Commission
Jota Ishikawa – Hitotsubashi University
Daniel Marszalec – The University of Tokyo
Hodaka Morita – Hitotsubashi University
Yosuke Okada – Hitotsubashi University
Hiroyuki Okamuro – Hitotsubashi University
Hidenori Takahashi – Hitotsubashi University
Naoki Wakamori – The University of Tokyo