The 85th meeting: Tokyo Conference, Spring 2015
Dates Wednesday-Thursday, March 4-5, 2015.
Place Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.
Conference Room (Room 549), 5th floor, Akamon General Research Building, Hongo Campus.
Wednesday, March 4.
12:00-12:25 welcome coffee
12:25-12:30 Opening Remarks
Masaki Nakabayashi, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.
12:30-16:00 Organizational Economics
chaired by Hideo Owan, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.
12:30-13:30 Katsuya Takii, Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka University.
Title “Who remains as a director after M&A?: The role of tenure in a target firm.”
(co-authored with Kenjiro Hirata and Ayako Suzuki)
13:30-13:45 coffee break
13:45-14:45 Kimiyuki Morita, Graduate School of Commerce and Management,
Hitotsubashi University.
Title “Information acquisition, decision making, and implementation in organizations.”
(co-authored with Hideshi Itoh)
14:45-15:00 coffee break
15:00-16:00 Kentaro Inomata, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University.
Title “Profitable competition: A multi-product firm case.”
16:00-16:15 coffee break
16:15-18:30 Development
chaired by Ryuichi Tanaka, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies.
16:15-17:15 Dainn Wie, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies.
Title “Wage structure and gender earnings differentials in China and India.”
17:15-17:30 coffee break
17:30-18:30 Chikako Yamauchi, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies.
Title “The impact of access to health facilities on maternal care use and health status:
Evidence from longitudinal data from rural Uganda.”
18:40-20:00 Reception
Managed by Mayo Sakai, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo.
Thursday, March 5.
9:15-9:45 morning coffee
9:45-12:00 Welfare System
chaired by Keisuke Kawata, Graduate School for International Development and
Cooperation, Hiroshima University.
9:45-10:45 Yukiko Asai, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.
Title “Childcare availability, household structure, and maternal employment.”
(co-authored with Ryo Kambayashi and Shintaro Yamaguchi)
10:45-11:00 coffee break
11:00-12:00 Ponpoje Porapakkarm, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies.
Title “Work incentives of Medicaid beneficiaries and the role of asset testing.”
(co-authored with Svetlana Pashchenko)
12:00-13:30 lunch break
13:30-17:00 Information Structure of the Labor Market
chaired by Masaki Nakabayashi, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.
13:30-14:30 Daiji Kawaguchi, Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University.
Title “University prestige, performance evaluation and promotion: Estimating the
employer learning model using personnel datasets.”
(co-authored with Shota Araki and Yuki Onozuka)
14:30-14:45 coffee break
14:45-15:45 Mayo Sakai, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo.
Title “Screening and monitoring miners: Recruitment and personnel management
in Japanese coal mining.”
15:45-16:00 coffee break
16:00-17:00 Joshua C. Pinkston, Department of Economics, College of Business,
University of Louisville.
Title “The dynamic effects of obesity on the wages of young workers.”
17:00-17:05 Concluding Remarks
Masaki Nakabayashi, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.
The 84th meeting
Date Friday, January 9, 2015.
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 Hirokazu Ishise, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University.
Title “Development accounting and international trade.”
16:20-17:50 Yuuichi Kimura, Department of Economics, Oita University.
Title “Informal school fee, school progression, migration and occupational choice,
and income distribution: evidence from Indonesia.”
The 83rd meeting
Date Friday, December 19, 2014.
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 Akifumi Ishihara, Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University.
Title “On multitasking and job design in relational contracts.”
16:20-17:50 Eric Weese, Department of Economics, Yale University.
Title “Inefficiency and self-determination: Counterfactual evidence for
Meiji Japan.”
The 82nd meeting
Date Friday, November 7, 2014.
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 Yosuke Yasuda, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University.
Title “Efficient handicap auction."
16:20-17:50 Hiroshi Osano, Kyoto Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University.
Title “A dynamic agency theory of investment and managerial replacement."
The 81st meeting
Date Friday, October 3, 2014.
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 Hisayuki Oshima, Department of Economics, Takachiho University.
Title “Global relocation and vertical promotion: Skill acquisition and
employer learning at Mitsui & Co.” (co-authored with Masaki Nakabayashi)
16:20-17:50 Ryo Nakajima, Department of Economics, Keio University.
Title “Testing for localization using micro-geographic data: A new approach.”
The 80th meeting: Tokyo Conference, Summer 2014
Date Monday-Tuesday, August 18-19, 2014.
Place Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.
Conference Room (Room 549), 5th floor, Akamon General Research Building,
Monday, August 18.
13:00-13:05 Opening remarks
Masaki Nakabayashi, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.
13:05-15:55 Development
chaired by Masaki Nakabayashi, Institute of Social Science, The University of
Tokyo.
13:05-14:15 Masaki Nakabayashi, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.
Title “Career experience replaced emergence of Japanese internal labor markets.”
14:15-14:30 Coffee break
14:30-15:40 Tuan-Hwee Sng, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore.
Title “Unified China and divided Europe.” (co-authored with Chiu Yu Ko and Mark
Koyama)
15:40-15:55 Coffee break
15:55-18:30 Organizational Economics
chaired by Johannes Hörner, Department of Economics, Yale University.
15:55-17:05 Susumu Cato, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.
Title “Stable preference aggregation with an infinite population.”
17:05-17:20 Coffee break
17:20-18:30 Junichiro Ishida, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University.
Title “Up-or-out contracts: A dynamic perspective.” (co-authored with Chia-Hui Chen)
18:30-20:00 Reception
Tuesday, August 19.
9:30-12:05 Trade
chaired by Ryuichi Tanaka, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies.
9:30-10:40 Michal Fabinger, Graduate School of Economics, the University of Tokyo.
Title “A tractable approach to pass-through patterns with applications to international
trade.” (co-authored with Glen Weyl)
10:40-10:55 Coffee break
10:55:12:05 Kozo Kiyota, Keio Economic Observatory, Keio University.
Title “The effect of moving to a territorial tax system on profit repatriations: Evidence
from Japan.” (co-authored with Makoto Hasegawa)
12:05-13:30 Lunch break
13:30-17:30 Game Theory
chaired by Takashi Shimizu, Department of Economics, Kansai Univeristy.
13:30-14:40 Takashi Ui, Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University.
Title “Welfare effects of information acquisition costs.”
14:40-14:55 Coffee break
14:55-16:05 Johannes Hörner, Department of Economics, Harvard University/
Department of Economics,Yale University.
Title “Optimal design for social learning.” (co-authored with Yeon-Koo Che)
16:05-16:20 Coffee break
16:20-17:30 Tadashi Sekiguchi, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University.
Title “Multimarket contacts under imperfect observability and impatience.”
17:30-17:35 Concluding remarks
Masaki Nakabayashi
The 79th meeting
Date Friday, July 4, 2014.
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 Yasunori Okumura, Department of Economics, Hannan University.
Title “Individual transferable quotas in Cournot competition.”
16:20-17:50 Krishnendu Ghosh Dastidar, Centre for Economic Studies and
Planning, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Title “Scoring auctions with non-quasilinear scoring rules.”
The 78th meeting
Date Friday, June 6, 2014.
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, Department of Policy Studies, University of
Marketing and Distribution Sciences.
Title “Learning about one's own type: a search model with two-sided
uncertainty.”
16:20-17:50 Yasuhiro Sato, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University.
Title “Competitive search with moving costs.” (co-authored with Keisuke
Kawata and Kentaro Nakajima)
The 77th meeting
Date Friday, May 9, 2014.
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 “Macroeconomic policy with financial market stability: A case study
of the early 19th century in Japan.”
16:20-17:50 Kazuki Onji, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University.
Title “Taxes and M&As: Evidence from Japan.” (co-authored with Roger
H. Gordon, University of California at San Diego)
The 76th meeting
Date Friday, April 4, 2014.
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 Hattori, Department of Economics, Osaka University of
Economics.
Title “Profit-maximizing wages under duopoly.”
16:20-17:50 Ikuo Ishibashi, Osaka School of International Public Policy, Osaka
University.
Title “Profit enhancing downstream entry when an upstream monopolist
can adjust its production technology.”
(co-authored with Akira Ishii and Noriaki Matsushima)