July 30, 2020 -
Industrial Organization and Antitrust

Keynote Speaker: Simon Loertscher (University of Melbourne), Chief Moderator: Kohei Kawaguchi (HKUST), Tiffany Tsai (NUS)

• 4:00 pm Tokyo Time (3:00 pm for others):  AEW Working Paper Discussion

  1. "Merger Analysis in the App Economy: An Empirical Model of Ad-Sponsored Media," Kohei Kawaguchi (HKUST) (with Toshifumi Kuroda, Tokyo Keizai University; Susumu Sato, Hitotsubashi University)

  2. "Agency Model versus Wholesale Model: Platforms’ Choice and Antitrust Implications," Yangguang Huang (HKUST) (with Dingwei Gu, Fudan University)

• 5:00 pm Tokyo Time (4:00 pm for others): DiscussionKeynote Seminar, “Coordinated Effects and Countervailing Power in Mergers”