The 45th meeting
Conference: 2011 Spring (supported by Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University).
Date Wednesday-Thursday, March 9-10, 2011.
Place Sanjo Conference Hall, Hongo Campus, The Unive of Tokyo
Program
Wednesday, March 9
11:00 reception coffee
11:30-12:30 free talk with lunch
12:30-12:35 opening remarks
Masaki Nakabayashi, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.
12:35-15:10 Session I: Political Economy
chaired by Dan Sasaki, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.
12:35-13:45 Reiko Aoki, Institute of Economic Reserach, Hitotsubashi University.
Title "Political economy of demographic change."
13:45-14:00 coffee break
14:00-15:10 Roland Strausz, Department of Economics, Humboldt University of Berlin.
Title "The political economy of regulatory risk."
15:10-15:25 coffee break
15:25-18:00 Sesssion II: Human Resource within the Firm
chaired by Junichiro Ishida, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University.
15:25-16:35 Katsuya Takii, Graduate School of International Public Policy, Osaka University.
Title "Persistent productivity differences between firms."
16:35-16:50 coffee break
16:50-18:00 Masaki Nakabayashi
Title "Schooling, employers’ learning, and internal labor market bias: Wage
dynamics and investment in human capital of the Japanese steel industry,
1930-1960s."
18:00-18:30 free talk with dinner
Thursday, March 10
10:00 reception coffee
10:30-13:50 Session III: Human Resource in the Market
chaired by Shingo Ishiguro, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University.
10:30-11:40 Soohyung Lee, Department of Economics, University of Maryland.
Title "Education's role in China's structural transformation."
(co-authored with Ben Malin at FRB)
11:40-12:40 free talk with lunch
12:40-13:50 Rasmus Lentz, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Title "Labor market friction, firm heterogeneity, and aggregate employment and productivity."
(co-authored with Dale T. Mortensen)
13:50-14:05 coffee break
14:05-16:55 Session IV: Market Structure and the Firm
chaired by Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University.
14:05-15:15 Noriaki Matsushima, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University.
Title "How do market structures affect decisions on vertical integration/separation?"
15:15-15:30 coffee break
15:30-16:40 Gary Richardson, Department of Economics, University of California, Irvine.
Title "Modes of contagion in the banking panic of 1930."
(co-authored with Erik Heitfield, and Shirley Wang)
16:40-17:10 free talk with dinner
17:10-17:15 closing remarks
Masaki Nakabayashi
The 44th meeting
Date Friday, January 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 Hirofumi Uchida, Graduate School of Business Administration, Kobe University.
Title "Firm growth and efficiency: A new test of efficient structure hypothesis."
16:20-17:50 Reiko Aoki, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.
Title "Collective rights organization and upstream R&D investment."
(co-authored with Aaron Schiff)
The 43rd meeting
Date Friday, December 17, 2010.
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 Akiko Maruyama, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies.
Title "Learning about one's own type in two-sided search."
16:20-17:50 Munetomo Ando, Advanced Research Institute for the Sciences
and Humanities Nihon Univertsity.
Title "Covenants not to compete and firms' recruiting strategies."
The 42nd meeting
Date Friday, November 19, 2010.
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 Ken'ichi Amaya, Department of Economics, Kagawa University.
Title "Risk dominance and equilibrium selection in signaling games."
16:20-17:50 Naofumi Nakamura, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.
Title "Asset specificity and the boundaries of the firm in Meiji Japan:
the coal mines and railway companies in the Chikuho region."
The 41st meeting
Date Friday, October 15, 2010.
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 Daiji Kawaguchi, Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University.
Title "Trends of job stability in Japan."
(co-authored with Yuko Ueno)
16:20-17:50 Masaru Sasaki, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University.
Title "An experimental test of a collective search model."
(co-authored with Yoichi Hizen and Keisuke Kawata)
The 40th meeting: Conference 2010 Fall.
Date Thursday-Friday, August 26-27, 2010.
Place Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.
Conference Room (Room 549), 5th floor, Akamon General Research Building, Hongo Campus.
Program
Thursday, August 26.
12:30-12:35 Opening remarks.
12:40-15:15 Organizational Economics Session
chaired by Dan Sasaki, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.
12:40-13:50
Junichiro Ishida, Institetute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University.
Title ''Decisiveness.''
14:05-15:15
Shingo Ishiguro, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University.
Title ''Dynamic contracting and economic growth.''
15:15-18:05 Firm and Market Session
chaired by Ikuo Ishibashi, Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka
University.
15:30-16:40
Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University.
Title ''Basic theories of spatial economics.''
16:55-18:05
Noriaki Matsushima, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University.
Title ''Market competition and R&D investments: Relative performance approach.''
Friday, August 27.
09:30-14:25 Firm and Governance Session
chaired by Rieko Ishii, School of Business Administration, Tokyo Metropolitan
University.
09:30-10:40
Takenobu Yuki, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo.
Title ''The merger effects of the cotton-spinning company in prewar-days Japan.''
10:55-12:05
Wataru Tanaka, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.
Title ''Corporate ownership : From legal and practical perspectives.''
13:15-14:25
Takashi Shimizu, Department of Economics, Kansai University.
Title ''Labor union as a voice organization.''
14:40-17:15 Labor Organization Session
chaired by Ryuichi Tanaka, Department of Mechanical and Environmental Informatics,
Tokyo Institute of Technology.
14:40-15:50
Hideo Owan, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.
Title ''Market characteristics, intra-firm coordination, and the choice of human
resource management systems: Theory and evidence."
16:05-17:15
Masaki Nakabayashi, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.
Title "Formation of internal labor market in the technological transition: Wage and career
in the steel industry from the 1930s to the 1960s."
17:15:17:20 Concluding remarks.