2015 April - 2016 March

The 95th meeting, Conference, 2016 Spring

  Date    Tuesday-Wednesday, March 22-23, 2016.

  Place   Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.

             Conference Room (Room 549), 5th floor, Akamon General Research Building, 

             Hongo Campus.

Program

 Tuesday, March 22

   12:00-12:25 Welcome coffee

   12:25-12:30 Opening remarks

     Masaki Nakabayashi, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.

   12:30-16:15 Growth and Trade

     chaired by Katsuya Takii, Graduate School of International Public Policy, Osaka University.

     12:30-13:30 Ryoji Ohdoi, Department of Social Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology.

                       “Globalization, economic growth, and international wealth distribution under financial frictions.”

     13:30-13:45 coffee break

     13:45-14:45 Takeo Hori, Department of Social Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology.

“On the nonlinear relationship between inflation and growth: A theoretical exposition.”

                       (co-authored with Ryo Arawatari and Kazuo Mino) 

     14:45-15:00 coffee break

     15:00-16:00 Michal Fabinger, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo.

                       “International influences on Japanese supply chains.” (co-authored with Yoko Shibuya 

                       and Mina Taniguchi) 

     16:00-16:15 coffee break

   16:15-18:30 Economics of Social and Institutional Structure

     chaired by Keisuke Kawata, Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation,

                      Hiroshima University.

     16:15-17:15 Masaki Nakabayashi, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.

                      “A Three-Party Game of Institutional Resilience versus Transition: A Model and Comparative 

                       History of China-Japan Revisited.” (co-authored with Masahiko Aoki and Jiahua Che)

     17:15-17:30 coffee break

     17:30-18:30 Danni Catambay, Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University.

                      “Violent crime: A symptom of wage inequality.” 

   18:30-20:30 Reception

     Managed by Mayo Sakai, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo.

 Wednesday, March 23

     9:30-10:00 Morning coffee

   10:00-12:15 Experimental Economics

     chaired by Hirokazu Ishise, Graduate School of International Public Policy, Osaka University.

     10:00-11:00 Takashi Shimizu, Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University.

                       “Equilibrium selection in monetary search models: An experimental approach.”

     11:00-11:15 coffee break

     11:15-12:15 Ken-Ichi Shimomura, Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration, Kobe University.

   “Revisiting Marshallian versus Walrasian stability in an experimental market.” 

                       (co-authored with Junyi Shen, Takehiko Yamato, Tokinao Ohtaka, and Kiyotaka Takahashi) 

   12:15-13:30 lunch break

   13:30-17:00 Organizational Economics

      chaired by Hideo Owan, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.

     13:30-14:30 Frederic Warzynski, Department of Economics and Business, Aarhus University.

                       “A French recipe to become a top chef: Assortative matching and gradual human capital 

accumulation in creative industries.” (co-authored with Olivier Gergaud, Heiner Schumacher and 

                       Valérie Smeets) 

     14:30-14:45 coffee break

     14:45-15:45 Satoshi Matsuzawa, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo.

                       “Relative evaluation scheme for groups.”

     15:45-16:00 coffee break

     16:00-17:00 Daisuke Hirata, Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University.

                       “Organizational design and career concerns.”

   17:00-17:05 Closing remarks.

     Masaki Nakabayashi, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.

The 94nd meeting

  Date    Friday, January 8, 2016.

  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  Kenzo Abe, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University. 

            Title "The impact of transfer programs on child labour in an open dual economy."

  (co-authored with Hiroaki Ogawa)

         

   16:20-17:50  Keizo Mizuno, Faculty of Commerce, Kwansei Gakuin University.

Title "Infrastructure deployment with unanimity sharing rules." (co-authored with 

                    Kazuhiko Mikami) 

The 93nd meeting

  Date    Friday, December 18, 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  Tomoharu Mori, Center for Experimental Economics, Kansai University. 

            Title "Preferences for income and consumption Taxes: An experimental study." (co-authored with 

Fumio Ohtake and Hirofumi Kurokawa) 

         

   16:20-17:50  Hajime Kobayashi, Faculty of Economics, Kansai University.

Title "Experiments on repeated games with infrequent monitoring." (co-authored with 

                    Tatsuhiro Shichijo, Shigeki Kano, Katsunori Ohta, Tatsuyoshi Saijo, and Takafumi Yamakawa)

The 92nd meeting

  Date    Friday, November 20, 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  Akitoshi Muramoto, Faculty of Economics, Komazawa University.

            Title "Strategic determination of renegotiation costs."           

   16:20-17:50  Tadashi Sekiguchi, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University.

 Title "Repeated partnerships with decreasing returns."  (co-authored with 

                    Hajime Kobayashi and Katsunori Ohta)

The 91st meeting

  Date    Friday, October 16, 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  Eiichi Miyagawa, Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University.

 Title "No chance after graduation: A model of market for permanent employees."

   16:20-17:50  Toshihiro Matsumura, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.

  Title " Environmental corporate social responsibility as a collusive device."

          

  

The 90th meeting: Tokyo Conference,  Summer 2015

  Date    Wednesday-Thursday, August 12-13, 2015.

  Place  Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.

             Conference Room (Room 549), 5th floor, Akamon General Research Building, 

             Hongo Campus.

Program

 Wednesday, August 12.

  12:00-12:25 welcome coffee

  12:25-12:30 Opening Remarks

    Masaki Nakabayashi, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.

  12:30-15:05 Labor Economics

chaired by Masaki Nakabayashi, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.

  12:30-13:40 Hideo Owan, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.

           Title "Monetary incentives for corporate inventors: Intrinsic motivation, project 

                   selection and inventive performance." (co-authored with Koichiro Onishi 

                   and Sadao Nagaoka) 

  13:40-13:55 coffee break

  13:55-15:05 Andrew Griffin, Graduate School of Economics, the University of Tokyo.

           Title "Assessing the performance of nonexperimental estimators for evaluating 

                   Head Start." (co-authored with Petra E. Todd) 

  15:05-15:20 coffee break

  15:20-17:55 Industrial Organization

   chaired by Toshihiro Matsumura, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo. 

  15:20-16:30 Yuta Yasui, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo.

           Title "Supply function equilibria in partially privatized markets." (co-authored 

with Junichi Haraguchi) 

  16:30-16:45 coffee break

  16:45-17:55 Kosuke Hirose, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo.

           Title "A note on multi-store paradox."

  18:15-20:00 Reception

   managed Mayo Sakai, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo.

 Thursday, August 13.

   09:00-09:30 welcome coffee

  09:30-14:40 Organizational Economics

   chaired by Takashi Shimizu, Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University.

  09:30-10:40 Susumu Cato, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.

 Title "Egalitarian equivalence and envy-freeness in a continuum-agent economy."

10:40-10:55 coffee break

  10:55-12:05 Junichiro Ishida, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University.

           Title "Hierarchical experimentation." (co-authored with Chia-Hui Chen)

  12:05-13:30 lunch break

  13:30-14:40 Akifumi Ishihara, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies.

           Title "Transparency and performance evaluation in sequential agency." 

  14:40-14:55 coffee break

  14:55-17:30 Market and Growth

   chaired by Dan Sasaki, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.

  14:55-16:05 Hirokazu Ishise, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University. 

           Title "Development accounting and international trade."

  16:05-16:20 coffee break

  16:20-17:30 Makoto Nirei, Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Finance Japan.

           Title "Supply chain disruptions: Evidence from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake." 

           (co-authored with Vasco M. Carvalho, Yukiko Umeno Saito)

  17:30-17:35 Concluding Remarks

   Masaki Nakabayashi, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.

The 89th meeting

  Date    Friday, July 3, 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  Masaru Sasaki, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University. 

         Title "The long-term impact of the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympic Games 

                      on economic and labor market outcomes." (co-authored with Koyo 

                      Miyoshi, Aichi Gakuin University)

   16:20-17:50  Ken-ichi Shimomura, Research Institute for Economics and 

                      Business Administration, Kobe University.

         Title "Hometown-specific bargaining power in an experimental market 

                      in China." (co-authored with Xiangdong Qin, Junyi Shen, and 

                      Takehiko Yamato)

The 88th meeting

  Date    Friday, June 5, 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  Yasuo Takatsuki, Research Institute for Economics and Business 

                      Administration, Kobe University. 

         Title "The Basic Structure of Osaka Financial Market from mid 18th to 

                      early 19th century."

   16:20-17:50  Daisuke Hayashima, Department of History, Kyoto Women's 

                      University. 

         Title "On the land selling through the 15-16th century in Japan."

The 87th meeting

  Date    Friday, May 15, 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  Tsuyoshi Takahara, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University.

         Title "Heterogeneous hospital competition in treatment quality."

   16:20-17:50  Noriaki Matsushima, Institute of Social and Economic Research, 

                      Osaka University.

         Title "Strategic dual sourcing as a driver for free revealing of innovation."

The 86th meeting

  Date    Friday, April 10, 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  Takanori Hisada, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University.

              Title “Differences in risk tolerance and asset allocation among White, Black 

and Hispanic in the United States.”

   16:20-17:50  Takanori Adachi, Graduate School of Economics, Nagoya University.

              Title “The welfare effects of oligopolistic third-degree price discrimination 

                      when own and cross price elasticities are constants.”

                      (co-authored with Takeshi Ebina)