The 105th meeting: Tokyo Conference, Spring 2017
co-organized by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research KAKENHI project: Ryuichi Tanaka, JP24330077
(「日本の労働市場の非正規化とその厚生分析への構造推定アプローチ」)
Date Wednesday-Thursday, March 1-2, 2017.
Place Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.
Conference Room (Room 549), 5th floor, Akamon General Research Building,
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 Labor and Population Economics
chaired by Rhuichi Tanaka, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.
12:30-13:30 Dainn Wie, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies.
Title: “Trade liberalization and female labor force participation: Evidence from Indonesia.”
13:30-13:45 coffee break
13:45-14:45 Francesc Ortega, Department of Economics, Queens College, City University of New York.
Title: “Rising sea levels and sinking property values: The effects of hurricane Sandy on
New York City’s housing market.”(co-authored with Suleyman Taspinar)
14:45-15:00 coffee break
15:00-16:00 Nirmal Kumar Raut, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies.
Title: ““Policing” health service delivery: Evidence from civil conflict in Nepal.”
(co-authored with Ryuichi Tanaka)
16:00-16:15 coffee break
16:15-18:30 Game Theory
chaired by Takashi Shimizu, Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University.
16:15-17:15 Shizuka Nishikawa, Department of Economics, St. Mary's College of Maryland.
Title: “Dynamic voluntary public good provision game with incomplete information.”
17:15-17:30 coffee break
17:30-18:30 Chia-Hui Chen, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University.
Title: “Hierarchical experimentation.”(co-authored with Junichiro Ishida)
18:30-20:30 Wine
Thursday, March 2
9:30-10:00 Morning coffee
10:00-12:15 Money and Finance
chaired by Masaki Nakabayashi, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.
10:00-11:00 Kosuke Aoki, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo.
Title: “Monetary and financial policies in emerging markets.” (co-authored with Gianluca
Benigno and Nobuhiro Kiyotaki)
11:00-11:15 coffee break
11:15-12:15 Hirokazu Ishise, Osaka School of International Public Policy Osaka University.
Title: “Inflation as a long-run source of comparative advantage and welfare improvement:
Neoclassical trade implications of trend inflation.”
12:15-13:30 lunch break
13:30-17:00 Macro Economic Policy
chaired by Ryoji Ohdoi, Department of Industrial Engineering and Economics,
Tokyo Institute of Technology.
13:30-14:30 Fangyuan Yi, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo.
Title: “Sovereign default: With public debt as liquidity.”
14:30-14:45 coffee break
14:45-15:45 Huan Wang, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo.
Title: “The effect of sectoral policy: Structural transformation and the spillover effect.”
15:45-16:00 coffee break
16:00-17:00 Kengo Nutahara, School of Economics, Senshu University.
Title: “Can the Laffer curve for consumption tax be hump-shaped?” (co-authored with
Kazuki Hiraga).
17:00-17:05 Closing remarks.
Masaki Nakabayashi, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.
The 104th meeting
co-organized by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research KAKENHI project: Ryuichi Tanaka, JP24330077
(「日本の労働市場の非正規化とその厚生分析への構造推定アプローチ」)
Date Friday, January 20, 2017.
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 Nakajima, Department of Economics, Keio University
Title:“Who works with whom and why?: A study of the Japanese labor market for new university graduates”
16:20-17:50 Ryuichi Tanaka, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
Title:“Do teaching practices matter for students’ academic achievement?
:A case of language arts activity” (co-authored with Kazumi Ishizaki)
The 103rd meeting
Date Friday, December 16, 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 Jungwook Shim, Faculty of Economics, Kyoto Sangyo University
Title: “Do family firms learn more from other family firms than from non-family firms?
Adoption of the board reform.”
16:20-17:50 Taiju Kitano, Graduate School of International Management, Aoyama Gakuin University
Title: “Environmental policy as implicit industrial policy: Case of Japanese car market.”
The 102nd meeting
co-organized by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI) project: Ryuichi Tanaka, JP24330077
(「日本の労働市場の非正規化とその厚生分析への構造推定アプローチ」)
Date Friday, November 18, 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 Ryuichi Tanaka, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
Title: “On the determinants of female labor force participation: Belief vs. institution.”
(co-authored with Nuria Rodriguez-Planas)
16:20-17:50 Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Department of Economics, City University of New York, Queens College
Title: “Let the girls learn! It is not only about math… It’s about gender social norms.”
(co-authored with Natalia Nollenberger)
The 101st meeting
Date Friday, October 21, 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 Wataru Ohta, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University
Title: “Large traders and market liquidity in securities markets”
16:20-17:50 Kimiyuki Morita, Faculty of Business Administration, Osaka University of Economics
Title: “Organizational beliefs and learning”
The 100th meeting: Tokyo Conference, Summer 2016
co-organized by Microeconomics Workshop, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo
Date Thursday-Friday, August 18-19, 2016.
Place Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo.
Conference Room (Room 549), 5th floor, Akamon General Research Building,
Program
Thursday, August 18
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 Industrial Organization
chaired by Noriaki Matsushima, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University
12:30-13:30 Taiju Kitano, Graduate School of International Management, Aoyama Gakuin University
Title “Measures to promote green cars: Evaluation at the car variant level.”
13:30-13:45 coffee break
13:45-14:45 Junichi Haraguchi, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo
Title “Price versus quantity in a mixed duopoly under uncertainty.”
14:45-15:00 coffee break
15:00-16:00 Taku Masuda, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo
Title “CSR as a bribe to a government.” (co-authored with Kosuke Hirose)
16:00-16:15 coffee break
16:15-18:30 Formal and Endogenous Institutions
chaired by Takashi Shimizu, Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University
16:15-17:15 An My Le, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo
Defense of master thesis/Readers: Dan Sasaki, Masaki Nakabayashi, Toshihiro Matsumura
Title “The welfare analysis of higher education’s financial aid system.”
17:15-17:30 coffee break
17:30-18:30 Tadashi Sekiguchi, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University
Title “Repeated multimarket contact with imperfect private monitoring: A belief-free approach.”
18:30-20:30 Wine
Friday, August 19
9:30-10:00 Morning coffee
10:00-12:15 Mechanism Design
chaired by Masaki Nakabayashi, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
10:00-11:00 Naoki Watanabe, Graduate School of Business Administration, Keio University
Title “von Neumann-Morgenstarn stable sets of a patent licensing game: The existence
and non-existence” (co-authored with Toshiyuki Hirai)
11:00-11:15 coffee break
11:15-12:15 Daniel Marszalec, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo
Title “Auctions for complements - An experimental analysis.”
12:15-13:30 lunch break
13:30-17:00 Human Captial, Work Organization, and Labor Market
chaired by Mayo Sakai, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo
13:30-14:30 Ryo Nakajima, Department of Economics, Keio University
Title “Evaluating professor value-added: Evidence from professor and student
matching in physics.”
14:30-14:45 coffee break
14:45-15:45 Junichiro Ishida, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University
Title “Rewarding mediocrity? Optimal regulation of R&D markets with reputation concerns.”
15:45-16:00 coffee break
16:00-17:00 Keisuke Kawata, Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation,
Hiroshima University
Title “Measuring surplus gain from hypothetical labor market policies in rural myanmar:
Non-parametric conjoint and welfare analysis.”
17:00-17:05 Closing remarks.
Masaki Nakabayashi, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
The 99th meeting
Date Friday, July 22, 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 Yoshitaka Tanaka, Graduate School of Business and Commerce, Keio University.
Title “Stock market and monetary policy in a search model of money.”
16:20-17:50 Tomoko Hashino, Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University.
Title “The rise and fall of industrialization and changing labor intensity: The case of an
export-oriented silk weaving district in modern Japan.” (co-authored with Keijiro Otsuka)
The 98th meeting
Date Friday, June 24, 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 Ryuji Sano, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University.
Title “Iterative revelation mechanisms.”
16:20-17:50 Hirohumi Uchida, Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University.
Title “Moral hazard versus adverse selection in financial contracting.”
The 97th meeting
Date Friday, May 27, 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 Koji Asano, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University.
Title “Trust and law in credit markets.”
16:20-17:50 Hitishi Sadakane, Graduate School of Business Administration, Kobe University.
Title “Cheap talk when the uninformed player can gather information.”
The 96th meeting
Date Friday, April 22, 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 Tomoya Tajika, Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University.
Title “Concealments of problems: An incentive of avoiding the responsibility.”
16:20-17:50 Tetsuya Matsubayashi, Graduate School of International Public Policy, Osaka University.
Title “The causes and consequences of voter turnout in Japan.”