Yajing Jiang

Principal
Yajing Jiang | Antitrust Competition | Charles River Associates

Dr. Yajing Jiang (姜娅婧) is a principal in the Antitrust & Competition Practice. Trained as a microeconomist, she is well equipped with state-of-the-art economic models for complex antitrust issues.

Yajing is dedicated to serving clients in highly dynamic environments, faced with challenging antitrust issues due to unique marketplace conditions that require a good handle of economic theories and data analytical skills. She leads quality teams to help solve clients’ real-world problems with an academic mindset.

During her tenure at CRA, Yajing has advised clients on merger and litigation cases involving multi-sided platforms, information technology, telecommunication, industrial chemicals, oil and gas, medical technology, travel and leisure products, agricultural products and services, and consumer retail goods in front of the antitrust authorities in the US, Europe, Canada, China, and other Asia-Pacific jurisdictions. She has extensive experience in evaluating the closeness of competition between horizontally overlapping products as well as testing vertical foreclosure and raising rivals’ costs theories of harm in the abovementioned industries.

Yajing serves as the Vice-Chair of the Economics Committee of the ABA Antitrust Law Section. She has previously served as the Young Economist Representative to the Committee and the International Cartel Task Force and is an editor of the newsletters published by the Economics Committee and Joint Conduct Committee at the ABA. She is a regular speaker at conferences in the antitrust community. She has published multiple articles in the various ABA newsletters, Competition Policy International, the Annual Review of Antitrust Law Developments, George Mason Law Review, and Australian Journal of Competition and Consumer Law. Yajing’s articles were nominated twice by the Concurrences’ Antitrust Writing Awards. She is a native mandarin speaker.

Selected engagements

  • 01
    Second Request, big data processing support for DOJ compliance
    Leveraging CRA’s cloud computing infrastructure and expertise, the team efficiently processed 40 gigabytes of data on an accelerated timeline, ensuring full...
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  • 02
    CRA advises on Cisco’s acquisition of Splunk
    Charles River Associates was retained by Cisco, a leading global technology company, to provide economic analyses across worldwide jurisdictions in support of...
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  • 03
    CRA advises on e-commerce platforms in successful merger
    CRA economists advised a global e-commerce leader in a $300 million acquisition of a US-based specialized online platform.  The transaction was announced and...
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