Zhiqi Chen is a senior consultant of Delta Economics Group. He has worked for public and private clients as an economics expert on more than 30 cases related to competition policy, economic regulation, and other issues.
Areas of Expertise
Merger analysis
Abuse of dominance
Price fixing
Buyer power
Strategic alliance
Predatory pricing
Refusal to deal
Regulation of Telecom Industry
Experience
Worked for public and private clients as an economics expert on a variety of consulting projects related to competition policy and economic regulation
Testified as an economics expert at the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) hearing on mobile wireless services in February 2020
Twice served as the T.D. MacDonald Chair at the Competition Bureau
Worked as an expert economist on cases in mergers, civil matters, and criminal matters
Drafted a technical bulletin on buyer power
Conducted seminars on refusals to deal, buyer power and predatory pricing for the staff at Competition Bureau
Recognition
Listed in Who's Who Legal: Competition, since 2016
Listed in Who's Who Legal Consulting Experts: Economic Consulting, since 2016
Selected Publications on Antitrust Economics and Policy
“Partitioned Pricing and Collusion on Surcharges,” The Economic Journal, volume 133, issue 655 (October 2023), 2614–2639, https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/uead044
“Supplier Innovation in the Presence of Buyer Power,” International Economic Review, volume 60, issue 1 (February 2019), 329-353
“Do Merger Efficiencies Always Mitigate Price Increases?” joint with Gang Li, Journal of Industrial Economics, volume 66, issue 1 (March 2018), 95-125
“Horizontal Mergers in the Presence of Capacity Constraints,” joint with Gang Li, Economic Inquiry, volume 56, issue 2 (April 2018), 1346–1356
“Downstream Competition and the Effects of Buyer Power,” joint with Hong Ding and Zhiyang Liu, Review of Industrial Organization, volume 49, issue 1 (August 2016), 1 - 23 (lead article)
“Denying Leniency to Cartel Instigators: Costs and Benefits,” joint with Subhadip Ghosh and Thomas W. Ross, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Volume 41 (July 2015) 19 - 29
"Defining Buyer Power," The Antitrust Bulletin, volume 53 (2008), 241 - 250
"Buyer Power: Economic Theory and Antitrust Policy," Research in Law and Economics, volume 22 (2007), 17 - 40
"Dominant Retailers and the Countervailing Power Hypothesis," RAND Journal of Economics, volume 34 (2003), 612 - 625
"Strategic Alliances, Shared Facilities and Entry Deterrence," joint with Thomas Ross, RAND Journal of Economics, volume 31, Summer 2000, pp. 326 - 344
"Refusal to Deal and Orders to Supply in Competitive Markets," joint with Thomas Ross, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 17: 399 - 417, 1999
"Orders to Supply as Substitutes for Commitments to Aftermarkets," joint with Thomas Ross, Canadian Journal of Economics, 31: 1204 - 1224, 1998
"Refusals to Deal and Aftermarkets," joint with Thomas Ross and William Stanbury, Review of Industrial Organization, 13: 131 - 151, 1998
"Refusal to Deal, Price Discrimination and Independent Service Organizations," joint with Thomas Ross, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, volume 2, No.4,Winter 1993, 593-614
Video on Buyer Power
In this video made by OECD Competition Division, I present an overview of the economic theory in regards to buyer power and the analytical framework that could be used by competition agencies when reviewing a merger or analyzing a potential abuse of dominance case.