The 55th meeting: Conference, Spring 2012.
Place Mukougaoka Faculty House, Yayoi Campus, The University of Tokyo.
Date Monday-Tuesday, March 5-6, 2012.
Program
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 Cheap talk
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 Life cycle labor search
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 Customer relationship
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