The 1st meeting
Date Thursday, June 1, 2006.
Place Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University (Meeting room 701,
the main meeting room on the 7th floor of Graduate School of Law and
Graduate School of Economics Complex, Toyonaka Campus).
Presenter
14:40-16:10 Ryoji Ohdoi, Department of Economics, Osaka City University.
Title "Finance, technology and inequality in economic development."
(co-authored with Ryo Horii and Kazuhiro Yamamoto)
The 2nd meeting
Date Thursday, July 6, 2006.
Place Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University (Meeting room 701,
the main meeting room on the 7th floor of Graduate School of Law and
Graduate School of Economics Complex, Toyonaka Campus).
Presenter
14:40-16:10 Naofumi Nakamura, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.
Title "Personnel management and the formation of modern business
organisation: The railway industry in Japan before the First World War."
The 3rd meeting
Date Thursday, October 5, 2006.
Place Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University (Meeting room 701,
the main meeting room on the 7th floor of Graduate School of Law and
Graduate School of Economics Complex, Toyonaka Campus).
Presenter
14:40-16:10 Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University.
Title "Location of industry and market size in a world of imperfect
international capital mobility."
The 4th meeting
Date Thursday, November 2, 2006.
Place Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University (Meeting room 701,
the main meeting room on the 7th floor of Graduate School of Law and
Graduate School of Economics Complex, Toyonaka Campus).
Presenter
14:40-16:10 Shingo Ishiguro, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University.
Title "Organizational Dynamics."
The 5th meeting
Date Thursday, December 7, 2006.
Place Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University (Meeting room 701,
the main meeting room on the 7th floor of Graduate School of Law and
Graduate School of Economics Complex, Toyonaka Campus).
Presenter
14:40-16:10 Toshihiro Matsumura, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.
Title "How many firms should be leaders?: Beneficial concentration revisited."
(co-authored with Hiroaki Ino)
The 6th meeting
Date Thursday, January 11, 2007.
Place Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University (Meeting room 701,
the main meeting room on the 7th floor of Graduate School of Law and
Graduate School of Economics Complex, Toyonaka Campus).
Presenter
14:40-16:10 Jun-ichiro Ishida, Graduate School of International Public Policy,
Osaka University.
Title "Dynamically Sabotage-Proof Tournaments."
The 7th meeting
Date Thursday, February 1, 2007.
Place Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University (Meeting room 701,
the main meeting room on the 7th floor of Graduate School of Law and
Graduate School of Economics Complex, Toyonaka Campus).
Presenter
17:00-19:30 Yasuo Takatsuki, PhD candidate, Graduate School of Economics,
Osaka University.
Title "The formation of the efficient market in Tokugawa-period Japan."
The 8th meeting: petite Conference, 2007 Spring.
Date March 28-29, 2007.
Place Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University (Meeting room 701,
the main meeting room on the 7th floor of Graduate School of Law and
Graduate School of Economics Complex, Toyonaka Campus).
Program
Wednesday, March 28.
12:00-12:15 Opening Remarks
12:15-13:45 Shingo Ishiguro, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University.
Title "Endogenous technology gap."
14:05-15:35 Felix Reichling, PhD candidate, Department of Economics, Stanford
University.
Title "Optimal unemployment insurance in labor market equilibrium when
workers can self-insure."
15:55-17:25 Katsuya Takii, Graduate School of International Public Policy, Osaka
University, and Ryuichi Tanaka, Department of Social Engineering,
Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Title "Job assignment and human capital accumulation."
Thursday, March 29.
10:45-12:15 Luz Marina Arias, PhD candidate, Department of Economics, Stanford
University.
Title "How do rulers rule? Coordination, coercion and compliance: Insights
from Colonial Mexico."
13:15-14:45 Masaki Nakabayashi, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University.
Title "Private governance of trades in the labor market: A Japanese
experience."
15:05-16:35 Minjung Park, PhD candidate, Department of Economics, Stanford
University.
Title "M&A incentives and outcomes: Evidence from the mutual fund industry."