Naibin Chen, PhD

In his work conducting economic analyses of competition, Naibin Chen has focused on advocacy and litigation work on behalf of private clients. His experience includes pre-merger analysis, merger advocacy, price-fixing, exclusionary restrictions, and anticompetitive conduct. His works spans a wide range of industries, including agricultural, chemical, healthcare, payment, pharmaceutical, and technology. Naibin specialized in industrial organization and applied microeconomics in his doctoral work. His research focused on consumer choices and firm choices in the motion picture industry, and he processed extensive data sets, leveraging state-of-the-art tools to manage his analyses. He co-authored a paper that investigates the extent and impact of researchers’ decision making in applied microeconomic analyses, which was published in Economic Inquiry.

Outside of case work, Naibin serves on several committees and employee networks that focus on firm culture or technology. He helps organize educational programming and community services programs to raise awareness, encourage involvement, and enhance everyone’s sense of belonging.

PhD, Economics, Pennsylvania State University

MA, Economics, Peking University

BA, Economics, Peking University

• On behalf of VMWare, in conjunction with its $61 billion acquisition by Broadcom, supported the merging parties’ advocacy efforts. The transaction closed in 2023.
• Supported analyses of customer choices of health plans and effects of introducing new health plans in a study authored by Profs. Leemore Dafny and Robin Lee and Dr. Zenon Zabinski on behalf of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS).
• Supported analyses on customer demand estimation for broadcasting programs on behalf of the National Association of Broadcasters in In re Distribution of Cable Royalty Funds.
• On behalf of a pharmaceutical company, processed large and complex company data and constructed comprehensive data sets for analysis; analyzed sales, chargebacks, and rebates on the product level; and calculated net prices.
• On behalf of an agricultural chemical company facing an investigation regarding the competitive effects of loyalty rebates, conducted industry background and product research; analyzed various data sets using client and public data; analyzed market definition, market shares, price trends, and product margins; and supported expert work on a white paper submission.
• Analyzed complex company data, constructed historical price trends, conducted industry background research and document review on behalf of a client in the payment industry.
• Supported pre-merger analyses on natural experiments for a client in the US and Canadian consumer distribution industry.
• Assisted industry background research and supported experts in analyzing theories of harm of a potential merger for a client in the chemicals industry.
• Supported analysis of product demand using sales data on behalf of a concerned third party regarding a merger in the high-tech sector.