Frontiers in the Study of Japanese Competition Policy
暫譯: 日本競爭政策研究的前沿

Koki Arai is Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Business Studies at Kyoritsu Women's University in Tokyo. His research focuses on law and economics, industrial organization, and competition policy, with particular emphasis on digital-market regulation, public procurement, and the relationship between legitimacy and enforcement design. Before entering academia, he served in senior positions at the Japan Fair Trade Commission, including Head of the Economic Research Office and Deputy Director of the Competition Policy Research Center, and also worked as First Secretary at the Embassy of Japan in the United States. He previously held a faculty appointment at Osaka University's Institute of Social and Economic Research. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Osaka University and a B.A. in Economics from Waseda University. His recent publications include Law and Economics in Japanese Competition Policy (Springer, 2019) and Digitalization and Competition Policy in Japan (Springer Nature, 2024).

小木新（Koki Arai）是東京共立女子大學商學院的教授及院長。他的研究專注於法律與經濟學、產業組織及競爭政策，特別強調數位市場的監管、公共採購，以及合法性與執法設計之間的關係。在進入學術界之前，他曾在日本公平交易委員會擔任高級職位，包括經濟研究辦公室主任及競爭政策研究中心副主任，並且曾在美國日本大使館擔任一等秘書。他之前在大阪大學社會與經濟研究所擔任教職。他在大阪大學獲得經濟學博士學位，並在早稻田大學獲得經濟學學士學位。他最近的出版物包括《日本競爭政策中的法律與經濟學》（Springer, 2019）和《日本的數位化與競爭政策》（Springer Nature, 2024）。