RIEB, Kanematsu Seminars

RIEB, Kanematsu Seminars in 2019

April, 2019

Friday, April 5 1:30pm-

Workshop on Trade, Finance and Growth

Jointly supported by RIEB Seminar / Rokko Forum / Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)

Place: Meeting Room at RIEB (Annex, 2nd Floor)

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Saturday, April 13 3:30pm-

RIEB Seminar

Jointly supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) / TINDAS

Topic: Determinants of Success in the Automobile Industry in India: An Analysis of Foreign and Local Enterprise Data for 2000-2008
Speaker: Manabu FURUTA (Faculty of Economics, Aichi Gakuin University)
Takahiro SATO (RIEB, Kobe University)
Keijiro OTSUKA (Kobe University Center for Social Systems Innovation)

Place: Meeting Room at RIEB (Annex, 2nd Floor)

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Wednesday, April 17 3:00pm-

RIEB Seminar

Jointly supported by TJAR Workshop / Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) / Sawamura Masaka Gakujutsu Shorei Kikin

Topic: Predictive Analytics and the Manufacturing Employment Relationship: Plant Level Evidence from Census Data
Speaker: Mark H. LANG (Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina [USA])

Place: Room No.504 at Academia Hall for Social Sciences (5th Floor)

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Saturday, April 20 3:00pm-

Monetary Economics Seminar of Kobe University

Jointly supported by RIEB Seminar

Topic: Productivity Improvement in the Japanese Economy
Speaker: Tsutomu MIYAGAWA (Faculty of Economics, Gakushuin University)

Place: Meeting Room at RIEB (Annex, 2nd Floor)

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Tuesday, April 23, 2019, 3:00pm-

RIEB Seminar

Jointly supported by Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research

Topic: Effects of Reconstruction Works on Private Employment after a Natural Disaster: A Case in the Stricken Area of the Great East Japan Earthquake
Speaker: Junichi NAGAMINE（School of Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University）
Keigo KAMEDA（School of Policy Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University）

Place: Meeting Room at RIEB (Annex, 2nd Floor)

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May, 2019

Thursday, May 16 1:30pm-

Workshop on Trade & Finance in the East Asia Time Zone

Jointly supported by RIEB Seminar / Rokko Forum / Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)

Place: Meeting Room at RIEB (Annex, 2nd Floor)

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Wednesday, May 22 3:30pm-

RIEB Seminar

Topic: Digital Transformation of HR in Cloud-based Solutions
Speaker: Robert-Christian ZIEBELL (Department of Business Administration, Technical University of Valencia [Spain])

Place: Seminar Room at RIEB (Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1st Floor)

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Wednesday, May 22 4:50pm-

Monetary Economics Seminar of Kobe University

Jointly supported by RIEB Seminar and Rokko Forum

Topic: Financial System Report (April 2019)
Speaker: Takuji KAWAMOTO (Head of Financial System Research Division, Financial System and Bank Examination Department, Bank of Japan)

Place: Meeting Room at RIEB (Annex, 2nd Floor)

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Wednesday, May 29 1:30pm-

RIEB Seminar

Jointly supported by: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) / Workshop on International Finance

Topic: Skill Premium and Preferential Policy: The Case of China
Speaker: Qing LIU (School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University [China])

Place: Meeting Room at RIEB (Annex, 2nd Floor)

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June, 2019

Monday, June 3 3:00pm-

Monetary Economics Seminar of Kobe University

Jointly supported by RIEB Seminar / Kobe University Center for Social System Innovation / Rokko Forum / Financial System Research Group

Topic: Economic Developments in the Kansai Region
Speaker: Yasunori YOSHIZAKI (Director, Credit and Research Division, Bank of Japan Osaka Branch)

Place: Meeting Room at RIEB (Annex, 2nd Floor)

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Wednesday, June 12 10:00am-

International Business Workshop

Jointly supported by RIEB Seminar

Place: Seminar Room at RIEB (Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1st Floor)

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Friday, June 14 4:00pm-

RIEB Seminar

Jointly supported by Rokko Forum and REEPS

Topic: Energy Efficiency and Directed Technical Change: Implications for Climate Change Mitigation
Speaker: Gregory CASEY (Department of Economics, Williams College [USA])

Place: Meeting Room at RIEB (Annex, 2nd Floor)

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Thursday, June 20 1:30pm-5:20pm
Friday, June 21 9:00am-
Saturday, June 22 9:00am-0:30pm

CCSS School on Computational Social Science

Hosted by Center for Computational Social Science (CCSS) of Kobe University
Jointly supported by RIEB Seminar and Rokko Forum

Place: Presentation Hall (Frontier Hall, 3rd Floor)

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Monday, June 24 3:00pm-

RIEB Seminar

Jointly supported by Financial System Research Group

Topic: A Political Economy Explanation of Zombie Firms among Japanese SME
Speaker: Scott WILBUR (Japanese politics, Yale University [USA] / RIEB, Kobe University)

Place: Meeting Room at RIEB (Annex, 2nd Floor)

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Friday, June 28 4:00pm-

RIEB Seminar

Jointly supported by Kobe-DEEH and Rokko Forum

Topic: A First Escape from Poverty in Late Medieval Japan: Evidence from Urban Real Wages (1400-1914) (joint with Kyoji Fukao and Masanori Takashima)
Speaker: Jean-Pascal BASSINO (Department of Social Sciences, University of Lyon [France])

Place: Seminar Room at RIEB (Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1st Floor)

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Saturday, June 29 1:00pm-

Monetary Economics Seminar of Kobe University

Jointly supported by Kanematsu Seminar

Topic: Population Aging and Household Finance in Japan: Macroeconomic Background and Microeconomic Implications
Speaker: Tokuo IWAISAKO (Institute of Economic Research Hitotsubashi University)

Place: Meeting Room at RIEB (Annex, 2nd Floor)

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July, 2019

Saturday, July 6 2:00pm-

RIEB Seminar

Jointly supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) / TINDAS

Topic: Weak Nexus Between Organised and Unorganised Sectors within India's Manufacturing Industry
Speaker: Shuji UCHIKAWA (Faculty of Economics, Senshu University)

Topic: Trade Wars between ASEAN, China and India
Speaker: Atsuyuki KATO (Faculty of Economics and Management, Institute of Human and Social Sciences, Kanazawa University)

Topic: Technology, TFPG and Employment: A Panel Data Analysis
Speaker: Arup MITRA (Institute of Economic Growth [INDIA])

Place: Meeting Room at RIEB (Annex, 2nd Floor)

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Tuesday, July 16 1:20pm-

Workshop on Transportation Management, Kobe University

Jointly supported by RIEB Seminar / IMaRC Kobe University / Workshop on Transportation Policy

Topic: The Congestion Relief Benefit of Public Transit: Evidence from Rome
Speaker: Jos van OMMEREN (School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam [Netherlands])

Place: Meeting Room at RIEB (Annex, 2nd Floor)

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Wednesday, July 17 5:00pm-

Kanematsu Seminar

Jointly supported by Kobe-DEEH and Rokko Forum

Topic: The Deep Roots of Inequality
Speaker: Yuzuru KUMON (Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study, Hitotsubashi University)

Place: Meeting Room at RIEB (Annex, 2nd Floor)

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Friday, July 19 3:00pm-

RIEB Seminar

Jointly supported by Rokko Forum and Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)

Topic: Trade War, External Shocks and Internal Risks: Theory, History and the Realities Faced by China
Speaker: Wei ZHAO (School of Economics, Zhejiang University [China])

Place: Meeting Room at RIEB (Annex, 2nd Floor)

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Tuesday, July 23 1:00pm-

RIEB Seminar

Jointly supported by SESAMI Program

Topic: Corruption, Local Knowledge, and Firm Productivity: Evidence from an Emerging Economy
Speaker: Ishtiaq P. MAHMOOD (NUS Business School, National University of Singapore [Singapore])

Place: Meeting Room at RIEB (Annex, 2nd Floor)

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Wednesday, July 24 3:00pm-

RIEB Seminar

Jointly supported by Rokkodai Theory Seminar

Topic: Two-Stage Moral Behaviors: Some New Evidence from Lab Experiments
Speaker: Xiangdong QIN (Antai College of Economics & Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University [China] / RIEB, Kobe University)

Place: Meeting Room at RIEB (Annex, 2nd Floor)

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Friday, July 26 3:00pm-

RIEB Seminar

Jointly supported by Kobe-DEEH and Rokko Forum

Topic: Product Innovation, Product Diversification, and Firm Growth: Evidence from Japan's Early Industrialization (joint with Atsushi Ohyama, Tetsuji Okazaki, and Chad Syverson)
Speaker: Serguey BRAGUINSKY (Department of Economics, University of Maryland [U.S.A])

Topic: Labor Market Evolution in an Emerging Industry: Japanese Cotton Spinning Industry before 1900
Speaker: Tomohiro HARA (Department of Economics, University of Maryland [U.S.A])

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Saturday, July 27 3:00pm-

Monetary Economics Seminar of Kobe University

Jointly supported by RIEB Seminar

Topic: Deposit Market Outcomes in a Dual Banking System: Exploring the Link Between City-Level Religiosity and Depositor Behaviour
Speaker: Huseyin OZTURK (Representative, Tokyo Office, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey [Turkey])

Place: Meeting Room at RIEB (Annex, 2nd Floor)

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August, 2019

Friday, Aug. 9 10:30am-

Workshop on Transportation Management, Kobe University

Jointly supported by RIEB Seminar / SESAMI Program / Workshop on Transportation Policy

Topic: Assessing the Efficiency of Railway Maintenance with Heterogeneous Maintenance Units: The Case of France
Speaker: Andrew SMITH (Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds [UK])

Place: Room 208 at Graduate School of Business Administration (Main Building, 2nd Floor)

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Thursday, Aug. 22 10:40am-

Workshop on Transportation Management, Kobe University

Jointly supported by RIEB Seminar / IMaRC Kobe University / Workshop on Transportation Policy

Topic: Perception towards Electric Vehicles and its Impact on Consumers' Preference
Speaker: Milad GHASRI (School of Engineering and Information Technology, The University of New South Wales [Australia])

Place: Meeting Room at RIEB (Annex, 2nd Floor)

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Monday, Aug. 26 3:00pm-

Monetary Economics Seminar of Kobe University

Jointly supported by RIEB Seminar and Financial System Research Group

Topic: The Present Situation and Task of Korean Regional Finance
Speaker: MinHwan LEE (School of Business, Inha University [Korea] / RIEB, Kobe University)

Place: Meeting Room at RIEB (Annex, 2nd Floor)

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September, 2019

Thursday, Sept. 5 4:00pm-

RIEB Seminar

Topic: How Much Does KIBS Contributes to Innovative Performance of Manufacturing Firms in China?: An Empirical Study Based on Production-based Knowledge Flows
Speaker: Ting ZHAO (School of Economics, Zhejiang Gongshang University [China] / RIEB, Kobe University)

Place: Meeting Room at RIEB (Annex, 2nd Floor)

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Saturday, Sept. 28 1:30pm-

Seminar on the Political Economic Issues in South Asia

Jointly supported by RIEB Seminar / Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A),(B) / TINDAS

Place: Seminar Room at RIEB (Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1st Floor)

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October, 2019

Monday, Oct. 7 10:00am-

Workshop on Migration, Employment & Finance

Jointly supported by RIEB 100th Anniversary Funding / RIEB Seminar / Rokko Forum / Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), (B), (C)

Place: Meeting Room at RIEB (Annex, 2nd Floor)

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Friday, Oct. 11 1:30pm-

Workshop on Trade, Innovation & Global Value Chains

Jointly supported by RIEB 100th Anniversary Funding / RIEB Seminar / Rokko Forum / Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), (B)

Place: Seminar Room at RIEB (Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1st Floor)

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Friday, Oct. 11 3:00pm-

Kanematsu Seminar

Jointly supported by Kobe-DEEH and Rokko Forum

Topic: Constructing Big Data for Japanese Historical Population: Challenges and Opportunities
Speaker: Satomi KUROSU (Faculty of Foreign Studies, Reitaku University)

Place: Meeting Room at RIEB (Annex, 2nd Floor)

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Sunday, Oct. 14 1:00pm-

International Conference on Economics and Finance: Celebrating Prof. Jean-Michel Grandmont's 80th Birthday

Jointly supported by RIEB Seminar / Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S)

Place: Presentation Hall (Frontier Hall, 3rd Floor)

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Thursday, Oct. 31 3:30pm-

RIEB Seminar

Jointly supported by TJAR Workshop

Topic: The Effect of International Takeover Laws on Corporate Resource Adjustments: Market Discipline and/or Managerial Myopia?
Speaker: Bingbing HU (School of Business, Hong Kong Baptist University [China])

Place: Meeting Room at RIEB (Annex, 2nd Floor)

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Friday, Nov. 15 2:00pm-5:20pm
Saturday, Nov. 16 9:50am-4:30pm
Sunrday, Nov. 17 9:30am-4:30pm

International Conference on Trade, Financial Integration and Macroeconomic Dynamics & IEFS Japan 2019 Annual Meeting

Jointly supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S),(A) / RIEB Seminar and Rokko Forum / Kobe University Rokko Fundation

Place: Presentation Hall (Frontier Hall, 3rd Floor)

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Tuesday, Nov. 26 2:30pm-

Workshop on Skills & Time Zones

Jointly supported by RIEB Seminar / Rokko Forum / Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), (B)

Place: Meeting Room at RIEB (Annex, 2nd Floor)

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Saturday, Nov. 30 3:00pm-

Monetary Economics Seminar of Kobe University

Jointly supported by Kanematsu Seminar

Topic: Stock Lending Market and the BOJ's ETF Purchasing Program: Micro-Evidence from ETF Balance Sheet Data and Equity Repo Trading Data (with Kou Maeda)
Speaker: Junnosuke SHINO(School of International Liberal Studies, Waseda University)

Place: Meeting Room at RIEB (Annex, 2nd Floor)

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December, 2019

Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019, 3:10pm-4:40pm
Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019, 1:30pm-4:40pm

Three Lectures on Useful Concepts and Tools in Econometrics

Jointly supported by RIEB Seminar / Rokko Forum / Kobe University Organization for Advanced and Integrated Research / Kobe University Center for Social Systems Innovation / Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)

Place: Meeting Room at RIEB (Annex, 2nd Floor)

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Friday, Dec. 13 1:30pm-

RIEB Seminar

Jointly supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A),(C) / TINDAS

Topic: Job Involvement, Organizational Commitment, Professional Commitment, and Team Commitment: A Study of Generational Diversity in India
Speaker: Ajay SINGH (Human Rsourse Management, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Lucknow [INDIA])

Topic: The Linkage of Competitiveness: Competitive Advantage of Maruti Suzuki
Speaker: Masaki UENO (Faculty of Business Administration, Nanzan University)

Topic: Workers in the Auto Industry in India: A Fresh look at India's Periodic Labour Force Survey
Speaker: Takahiro SATO (RIEB, Kobe University)

Place: Meeting Room at RIEB (Annex, 2nd Floor)

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Tuesday, Dec. 17 4:00pm-

Monetary Economics Seminar of Kobe University

Jointly supported by RIEB Seminar / Rokko Forum

Topic: Price Elasticity of Demand for Reverse Mortgage in Korea (by Junseok Byun and Keunkwan Ryu)
Speaker: Keunkwan RYU (Department of Economics, Seoul National University / RIEB,Kobe University)

Place: Meeting Room at RIEB (Annex, 2nd Floor)

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Tuesday, Dec. 21 1:30pm-

Monetary Economics Seminar of Kobe University

Jointly supported by RIEB Seminar

Topic: Financial History Research and Regional Common Interest：Editing "The Regional Finance of Postwar Japan: Bunkers' Challenges"
Speaker: Masanori SATO (Reitaku University) / Toru IMAJO (Hannan University)

Topic: Economics: Purpose, Current Status, Future Developments
Speaker: Yoshiro TSUTSUI (Department of Ecoomics, Konan Univeristy)

Place: Meeting Room at RIEB (Annex, 2nd Floor)

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Monday, Dec. 23 10:00am-

RIEB Seminar

Hosted by TJAR Workshop

Topic: Capital Market-Based Accounting Research: Past, Present and Future
Speaker: Jeong Bon KIM (Department of Accountancy, City University of Hong Kong [China])

Topic: Earnings Management and Stock Market Listing
Speaker: Hyonok KIM (Faculty of Business Administration, Tokyo Keizai University)

Topic: Intraday Price Discovery Process to Earnings Announcements: Evidence from Japan
Speaker: Toshio MORIWAKI (Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, The University of Kitakyushu)

Place: Meeting Room at RIEB (Annex, 2nd Floor)

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Monday, Dec. 23 3:30pm-

RIEB Seminar

Jointly supported by Rokko Forum

Topic: The Health Effect of Air Pollution: Evidence from Power Plant Closing in Taiwan
Speaker: Kamhon KAN (Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica [Taiwan])

Place: Seminar Room at RIEB (Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1st Floor)

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Tuesday, Dec. 24 3:30pm-

RIEB Seminar

Jointly supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S)

Topic: Secondary Employment, Inflation, and Aggregate Demand in an Agent-based Model of the Japanese Macroeconomy
Speaker: Corrado DI GUILMI (UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney [Australia])

Place: Meeting Room at RIEB (Annex, 2nd Floor)

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January, 2020

Monday, Jan. 6, 2020, 10:30am-

CCSS Workshop on Computational Social Science

Hosted by Center for Computational Social Science (CCSS) of Kobe University
Jointly supported by: RIEB Seminar / Rokko Forum / Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S)

Place: Meeting Room at RIEB (Annex, 2nd Floor)

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Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020, 4:00pm-

CCSS Workshop

Hosted by Center for Computational Social Science (CCSS) of Kobe University
Jointly supported by RIEB Seminar / Rokko Forum / Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S), (B)

Topic: Multilayer Network Resilience Through Recovery Processes
Speaker: Michael DANZIGER (Center for Complex Network Research, Northeastern University [USA])

Place: Seminar Room at RIEB (Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1st Floor)

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Friday, Jan. 31, 2020, 10:00am-

Workshop on Trade, Finance & Innovation

Jointly supported by RIEB Seminar / Rokko Forum / Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), (B)

Place: Seminar Room at RIEB (Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1st Floor)

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Friday, Jan. 31, 2020, 4:30pm-

Workshop on Transportation Management, Kobe University

Jointly supported by RIEB Seminar / Workshop on Transportation Policy

Topic: Returns to Density of Regional Railroad Companies in Japan: A Hedonic Cost Function Approach
Speaker: Tomohiro KITAMURA (Garduate School of Economics, Kobe University)