The 20th meeting
(co-organized with The Contract Theory Workshop East)
Date Friday, April 18, 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 EconomicsComplex, Toyonaka Campus).
Presenters
14:40-16:10 Noriaki Matsushima, Graduate School of Business Management, Kobe
University, and Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Graduate School of Economics,
Osaka University.
Title "How dose trade openness affect R&D activities?"
16:20-17:50 Hideshi Itoh, Graduate School of Commerce and Management,
Hitotsubashi University.
Title "Writing contracts with no formal law enforcement to facilitate
relationships."
The 21th meeting
Date Friday, May 23, 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).
Presenters
14:40-16:10 Shingo Ishiguro, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University,
"Dynamics of organizational cultures and growth."
16:20-17:50 Minjung Park, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota,
"Advertising and market share dynamics."
The 22th meeting
(co-organized with The Contract Theory Workshop East)
Date Friday, June 20, 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).
Presenters
14:40-16:10 Hideo Owan, Graduate School of International Management, Aoyama
Gakuin University.
Title "Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation for inventors."
16:20-17:50 Takashi Kurosaki, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi
University.
Title "Vulnerability of microfinance to strategic default and covariate shocks:
evidence from Pakistan."
The 23th meeting
(co-organized with The Contract Theory Workshop East)
Date Friday, July 18, 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).
Presenters
14:40-16:10 Horoshi Kitamura, Osaka University.
Title "Exclusionary vertical contracts with multiple entrants."
16:20-17:50 Akiomi Kitagawa, Tohoku University.
TItle "Hopes" and "Despairs" in the labor market: An economic theory of
working poor."
The 24th meeting: Conference, 2008 Fall
(co-organized with The Contract Theory Workshop East)
Date September 16-17, 2008.
Place Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo (Meeting room, 5th
floor, Akamon General Research Building, Hongo Campus).
http://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/campusmap/cam01_08_02_e.html
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Program
Tuesday, September 16.
12:30-12:35 Opening remarks.
12:40-16:40 I. Labor and contract: Chaired by Hideshi Itoh, Graduate School of
Commerce and Business Administration, Hitotsubashi University.
12:40-13:50 Munetomo Ando, Advanced Research Institute for the Sciences and
Humanities, Nihon University.
Title "Reputation management and seniority systems in firms."
14:00-15:10 Gareth Austin, Department of Economic History, London School of
Economics.
Title "The "Reversal of Fortune". Thesis and the compression of history:
Perspectives from African and comparative economic history."
15:20-16:30 Daiji Kawaguchi, Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi
University.
Title "Work hour standard and actual work hour: Japan's experience in
the early 1990s." (co-authored with Hisahiro Naito and Izumi
Yokoyama)
Wednesday, September 17.
10:00-11:20 II. Human capital in market: Chaired by Jun'ichiro Ishida, Graduate
School of International Public Policy, Osaka University.
10:00-11:20 Soohyung Lee, Depertment of Economics, University of Maryland.
Title "Preferences and choice constraints in marital sorting: Evidence
from Korea."
12:30-16:20 III. Financial market and institutions: Chaired by Naofumi Nakamura,
Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.
12:30-13:40 Yasuo Takatsuki, PhD candidate, Graduate School of Economics,
The University of Tokyo.
Title "Informational efficiency under the shogunate governance:
Concentration and integration of the rice market in Tokugawa
Japan."
13:50-15:00 Wataru Ohta, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University.
Title "An empirical study of the bid-ask spread and order flow in a limit order
market."
15:10-16:20 Gerhard Kling, Bristol Business School, University of the West of
England.
Title "What explains the decline of cash holding in China?" (co-authored
with Lei Gao, Nanjing University of Information Science &
Technology).
16:20-16:25 Closing remarks.
The 25th meeting
(co-organized with The Contract Theory Workshop East)
Date Friday, October 17, 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).
Presenters
14:40-16:10 Tatsuo Iwaisako, Department of Economics, Ritsumeikan University.
Title "Welfare analysis of global patent protection in a model of Endogenous
Innovation and Foreign Direct Investment."
(with Koichi Futagami and Hitoshi Tanaka)
16:20-17:50 Julen Esteban-Pretel, Graduate School of Economics, The University of
Tokyo.
Title "Cyclical informality and unemployment."
The 26th meeting
Date Friday, November 14, 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).
Presenters
14:40-16:10 Masaki Nakabayashi, Osaka University.
Title "Imposed efficiency of the Treaty Port: Japanese industrialization and
Western imperialist institutions."
16:20-17:50 Jun'ichiro Ishida, Graduate School of International Public Policy, Osaka
University.
Title "Vision and flexibility."
The 27th meeting
Date Friday, December 19, 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).
Presenters
14:40-16:10 Dan Bograt, University of California, Irvine.
Title "Adaptable property rights: Britain's property system before the
Industrial Revolution." (co-athored with Gary Richardson)
16:20-17:50 Dan Sasaki, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.
Title "Efficiency of joint enterprises with internal bargaining." (co-authored
with Luca Lambertini and Sougata Poddar)
The 28th meeting
Date Friday, January 16, 2009.
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).
Presenters
14:40-16:10 Tomoko Hashino, Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University.
Title "The rise of the power-loom factory in the traditional silk-weaving
district: Change in Demand and Labour Market."
16:20-17:50 Ayumu Banzawa, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University.
Title "Origins of the employment system in the Prussian State Railways:
On the relations of the bureaucratic rules to the establishment of the
internal labor markets in Germany of the 19th century."
The 29th meeting, petite conference: 2009 Spring
Date Friday, February 20, 2009.
Place Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University (Meeting room 701,
the main meeting room on the 7th floor of Graduate School of Law and
Program
10:20 Opening the conference
10:30-12:00 History session: Chaired by Tomoko Hashino, Graduate School of
Economics, Kobe University.
10:30-12:00 Chiaki Yamamoto, Department of Economics, Kansai University.
Title "English agriculture and rural labour markets at the end of the
industrial revolution."
13:00-16:10 Firm and labor session: Chaired by Takashi Shimizu, Department of
Economics, Kansai University.
13:00-14:30 Katsuya Takii, Graduate School of International Public Policy, Osaka
University.
Title "Industry choice and the returns to education"
(co-authored with Ryuichi Tanaka)
14:40-16:10 Keisuke Kawata, PhD candidate, Graduate School of Economics,
Osaka University.
Title "Rigidity of working hours and turnover."
16:20-17:50 Urban economics session: Chaired by Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Graduate
School of Economics, Osaka University.
16:20-17:50 Takaaki Takahashi, Center for Spatial Information Science, The
University of Tokyo.
Title "Economics of real estate information: How harmful is the monopoly of
information?"