2007 April - 2008 March

The 9th meeting

  Date              Thursday, April 5, 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  Minoru Kitahara, Advanced Research Institute for the Sciences and

                       Humanities, Nihon University.

               Title  "Efficiency versus economy of time in multi-nit descending auction: the

                        role of "Mari" at flower markets in Japan." (co-authored wit Ryo Ogawa)

 

 

The 10th meeting

(co-organized with the COE Workshop on Behavioral Economics, Osaka University)

  Date              Thursday, May 24, 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  Ryo Horii, Graduate School of Economics, Tohoku University.

               Title  "A non-exponential theory of sustained growth."

 

 

The 11th meeting

  Date              Thursday, June 7, 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  Ayako Suzuki, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka

                       University.

               Title  "Assessing the effect of the yardstick inspection system in Japanese

                        gas industry."

 

 

The 12th meeting

(co-organized with the COE Workshop on Behavioral Economics, Osaka University)

  Date              Thursday, July 5, 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  Yasuhiro Sato, School of Informatics and Sciences, Nagoya University.

               Title  "International commodity taxation in the presence of unemployment."

 

 

The 13th meeting

(co-organized with the Modern Economics Workshop, Tohoku University)

  Date               September 17-18, 2007.

  Place              The main meeting room, The building of Graduate School of Education,

                        11th floor, Tohoku University (No. 23 on the map

                         http://www.tohoku.ac.jp/english/about/outline/26-4.html).

  Program

    Monday, September 17.

     13:00           Opening of the conference.

     13:15-14:45  Noriaki Matsushima, Graduate School of Business Administration,

                        Kobe University.

                Title  "Why do large firms tend to integrate vertically?: Asymmetric vertical

                         integration reconsidered."

     15:00-16:30  Sayako Kanda, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University.

                Title  "Merchants, institutions and the market: Changes in the salt trade in

                         early colonial Bengal."

 

    Tuesday, September 18.

     10:30-12:00  Daiji Kawaguchi, Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University.

                Title  "Wage distribution in Japan: 1989-2003." (co-authored with Ryo

                         Kambayashi and Izumi Yokoyama)

     13:00-14:30  Akiko Maruyama Yamamoto, Post Doctoral Fellow, Kansai Gakuin

                        University.

                Title  "Variety expansion and fertility rate." (co-authored with Kazuhiro

                         Yamamoto, Osaka University).

     14:45-16:15  Ryuichi Tanaka, Department of Social Engineering, Tokyo Institute of

                        Technology. 

                Title  "Job Assignment through higher education in a distorted economy."

                         (co-authored with Katsuya Takii)

     16:15           Closing of the conference.

 

 

The 14th meeting

  Date               Thursday, October 4, 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   Tetsuji Okazaki, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo

               Title   "Role of courts in economic development: a case of prewar Japan."

                         (co-authored with Masaki Nakabayashi)

 

 

The 15th meeting

  Date               Thursday, November 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

    14:40-16:10   Takashi Shimizu, Department of Economics, Kansai University.

               Title   "Cheap talk with exit option: A model of Exit and Voice."

 

 

The 16th meeting

(co-organized with the COE Workshop on Behavioral Economics, Osaka University)

  Date              Thusday, December 6, 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  Toshihiro Matsumura, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.

               Title  "Relative performance and R&D competition."

 

 

The 17th meeting

  Date               Thursday, January 10, 2008.

  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

    16:20-17:50  Takenobu Yuki, PhD candidate, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka

                       University.

               Title  "Capital market and corporate governance: growth strategy of cotton spinning

                        enterprise in the modern Japan."

 

 

The 18th meeting

(co-organized with the COE Workshop on Behavioral Economics, Osaka University)

  Date               Thursday, February 7,  2008.

  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 

    16:20-17:50   Yasuyuki Sawada, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo.

               Title   "How is consumption smoothed against income and asset shocks induced

                         by an earthquake?: The case of Yamakoshi Village." (co-authored with

                         Hidehiko Ichimura and Satoshi Shimizutani)

 

 

The 19th meeting, petite Conference: 2008 Spring

  Date                Friday, February 29, 2008.    10:00-18:30.

  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

    10:20            Opening the conference.

    10:30-12:00   Microeconomic Theory Session: Chaired by Shingo Ishiguro, Graduate School

                        of Economics, Osaka University.

    10:30-12:00   Heiner Schumacher, PhD candidate, University of Mannheim.

               Title   "On the dynamics in a market for long-term relationships."

    13:00-14:30   Yasunari Tamada, Department of Economics, Keio University.

               Title   "Information flow and long-term delegation structure in organizations."

    14:45-18:20   Urban Economics Session: Chaired by Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Graduate

                        School of Economics Osaka University.

    14:45-16:15   Ryosuke Okamoto, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies.

               Title   "Firm heterogeneity in communication behavior and the patterns of agglomeration"

    16:30-18:00   Kentaro Nakajima, Post Doctoral Fellow, Graduate School of Economics, The

                        University of Tokyo.

               Title   "Economic division and spatial Relocation: The case of postwar Japan."