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."