Education

March 2002	B.C., Commercial Science, Waseda University
March 2004	M.A., Economics, Hitotsubashi University
March 2009	Ph.D., Economics, Hitotsubashi University

Career

April 2008	Research fellow, Institute of Intellectual Property
April 2009	Research fellow, Hitotsubashi University
March 2010	Joined National Institute for Research Advancement (NIRA)

Memberships of academic societies/ Lectureships

Japanese Economic Association, Japan Law and Economics Association

Major Publications

• Arai, Y., "Economic Analysis of Copyright Protection," (Ph.D. thesis), Hitotsubashi University, 2009.