The 55th meeting: Coference, Spring 2012.
Place Mukougaoka Faculty House, Yayoi Campus, The University of Tokyo.
Date Monday-Tuesday, March 5-6, 2012.
Program preliminary
Monday, March 5
Opening Remarks 12:30-12:35
Masaki Nakabayashi, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.
Labor Economics Session 12:35-15:10
chaired by Junichiro Ishida, Institute of Economic Research, Osaka
University.
12:35-13:45 Female labor
Yukiko Abe, Graduate School of Economics, Hokkaido University.
Title “Regional variations in labor force behavior of women in Japan.”
13:45-14:00 Coffee break
14:00-15:10 Employer learning
Emiko Usui, Graduate School of Economics, Nagoya University.
Title “Employer learning, job mobility, and wage dynamics.”
(co-authored with Seik Kim)
15:10-15:25 Coffee break
Institution and Development Session 15:25-18:00
chaired by Masaki Nakabayashi.
15:25-16:35 Rainfall and institution
Lewis Davis, Department of Economics, Union College.
Title “Individualism and economic development: Evidence from rainfall data.”
16:35-16:50 Coffee break
16:50-18:00 Reformation
Jared Rubin, School of Business & Economics, Chapman University.
Title “Printing and Protestants: Reforming the economics of the Reformation.”
Monday, March 6
Industrial Organization Session 10:00-12:35
chaired by Takashi Shimizu, Department of Economics, Kansai University.
10:00- 11:10 Ex post adaptation
Yusuke Mori, Graduate School of Commerce and Management,
Hitotsubashi University, PhD candidate.
Title “A formal theory of ex post adaptation: A trade-off between rent
seeking and bargaining losses.”
11:10-11:25 Coffee break
11:25-12:35
Dan Sasaki, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.
Title “Communication paradox.”
12:35-13:30 Lunch break
Search Session 13:30-17:30
chaired by Katsuya Takii, Graduate School of International Public
Policy, Osaka University.
13:30-14:40 Customer relationship
Julen Esteban-Pretel, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies.
Title “Life-cycle labor search with stochastic match quality.”
(co-authored with Junichi Fujimoto)
14:40-14:55 Coffee break
14:55-16:05 Life cycle labor search
Shouyong Shi, Department of Economics, University of Toronto.
Title “Customer relationship and sales.”
16:05-16:20 Coffee break
16:20-17:30 On-the-job search
Seung-Gyu Sim, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo.
Title “Training, wage, and labor market friction.”
17:30-17:35 Concluding remarks
Masaki Nakabayashi
The 54th meeting
Date Friday, January 20, 2012.
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 Building, Toyonaka Campus).
Presenters
14:40-16:10 Naohito Abe, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi
University.
Title “The impacts of the East Japan Great Earthquake on commodity
prices and household welfare in the Tokyo metropolitan area.”
(co-authored with Chiaki Moriguchi, Noriko Inakura, and Takayuki Mizuno)
16:20-17:50 Yasuhiro Ueshima, Department of Economics, Konan University.
Title “The increasing importance of education in Japanese manufacturing
industries, 1954-98.”(Preliminary results)
The 53rd meeting
Date Friday, December 2, 2011.
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 Building, Toyonaka Campus).
Presenters
14:40-16:10 Takeshi Aida, Graduate School of Economics, The University of
Tokyo, PhD candidate.
Title “Social capital as an instrument for common pool resource management:
A case study of irrigation management in Sri Lanka.”
16:20-17:50 Toshihiro Matsumura, Institute of Social Science, The University
of Tokyo.
Title “Steady R&D by industry leaders and innovative R&D by industry followers.”
The 52nd meeting
Date Friday, November 4, 2011.
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 Building, Toyonaka Campus).
Presenters
14:40-16:10 Michihiro Kandori, Graduate School of Economics, The University
of Tokyo.
Title “Towards a belief-based theory of repeated games with private
monitoring:An application of POMDP.”
(co-authored with Ichiro Obara)
16:20-17:50 Kyoji Fukao, Institute of Economic Research, Histotsubashi
University.
Title “Do more productive firms locate new factories in more productive
locations? An empirical analysis based on panel data of Japan’s
census of manufactures.”
(co-authored with Kenta Ikeuchi, YoungGak Kim, and Hyeog Ug Kwon)
The 51st meeting
Date Friday, October 7, 2011.
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 Building, Toyonaka Campus).
Presenters
14:40-16:10 Kentaro Nakajima, Graduate School of Economics and Management
Tohoku University.
Title “Transactions as a source of agglomeration economies:Buyer-Seller
matching in the Japanese manufacturing industry.”
16:20-17:50 Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka
University.
Title “Dose globalization foster economic growth?”
(co-authored with Tadashi Morita, and Hajime Takatsuka)
The 50th meeting: Conference, Summer 2011
Date Monday-Tuesday, August 22-23, 2011.
Place Sanjo Conference Hall, Hongo Campus, The University of Tokyo.
Tentative program
Monday, August 22.
Opening remarks
13:00-13:05
Masaki Nakabayashi, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.
Labor Economics session 13:05-17:05
chaired by Junichiro Ishida, Institute of Social and Economic Research,
Osaka University.
13:05-14:15
Ryo Nakajima, International Graduate School of Social Sciences, Yokohama
National University.
Title “Localized knowledge spillovers and patent citations:A distance-based
approach.” (co-authored with Yasusada Murata, Ryosuke Okamoto, and
Ryuichi Tamura)
14:15-14:30 Coffee break.
14:30-15:40
Chiaki Moriguchi, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.
Title “Child adoption in Japan and the U.S., 1950-2000:Comparative historical analysis.”
15:40-15:55 Coffee break.
15:55-17:05
Ryuichi Tanaka, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies.
Title “Estimating the effects of pro-natal policies on residential choice and
fertility.” (co-authored with Ryo Nakajima)
Tuesday, August 23.
Organizational economics session 9:30-12:05
chaired by Katsuya Takii, Graduate School of International Public Policy,
Osaka University.
9:30-10:40
Shingo Ishiguro, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University.
Title “Fair contracts.”
10:40-10:55 Coffee break.
10:55-12:05
Makoto Nirei, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University.
Title “Pareto distributions in economic growth models.”
12:05-13:05 Lunch break.
Endogenous institution in economic development session 13:05-17:05
chaired by Masaki Nakabayashi.
13:05-14:15
Jun Goto, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University
of Tokyo, PhD candidate.
Title “Incentives and social preferences in a traditional labor contract:
Evidence from rice planting field experiments in the Philippines.”
(co-authored with Takeshi Aida, Keitaro Aoyagi, Yasuyuki Sawada)
14:15-14:30 Coffee break
14:30-15:40
Yohei Kojima, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University
of Tokyo, PhD candidate.
Title “Japanese Rotating Savings and Credit Associations (RoSCAs) and
Farmer’s debt consolidation project in 1930’s; A case study of Zakoji village,
Shimoina district, Nagano prefecture.”
15:40-15:55 Coffee break.
15:55-17:05
Peter Zeitz, Graduate School of Business, National University of Singapore.
Title “Do local institutions affect all foreign investors in the same way?
Evidence from the interwar Chinese textile industry.”
Closing remarks
17:05-17:10
Masaki Nakabayashi.
The 49th meeting
Date Friday, July 1, 2011.
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 Building, Toyonaka Campus).
Presenters
14:40-16:10 Ryo Horii, Graduate School of Economics and Management,
Tohoku University.
Title "Natural disasters in a two-sector model of endogenous growth:
An extension to non-insurable risks."
16:20-17:50 Miki Kohara, Graduate School of International Public Policy,
Osaka University.
Title "Do working mothers reduce their home production time?"
The 48th meeting
Date Friday, June 3, 2011.
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 Building, Toyonaka Campus).
Presenters
14:40-16:10 Keisuke Kawata, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University, PhD
candidate.
Title "Globalization and optimal employment protection policy."
16:20-17:50 Shinji Sugayama, Graduate School of Business Administration,
Tohoku Gakuin University.
Title "Why is the “salary man” model so prevalent in Japan? :
A historical approach to socio-economic institutions."
The 47th meeting
Date Friday, May 13, 2011.
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 Building, Toyonaka Campus).
Presenters
14:40-16:10 Tomoharu Mori, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University.
Title "Minimum wage experiment with unemployment".
16:20-17:50 Ken-Ichi Shimomura, Research Institute for Economics and Business
Administration, Kobe University.
Title "Impact of ethnicities on market outcome: results of market experiments
in Kenya" (co-authored with Takehiko Yamato).
The 46th meeting
Date Friday, April 8, 2011.
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 Building, Toyonaka Campus).
Presenters
14:40-16:10 Yasuo Takatsuki, Research Institute for Economics and Business
Administration, Kobe University.
Title "Property right protection in Tokugawa Japan: the case of Osaka
rice exchange market."
16:20-17:50 Ryo Ogawa, Institute of Social Economic Research, Osaka University.
Title "Virtual valuation in dynamic contest design."
(co-authored with Minoru Kitahara)