June 1, Sat. 1:30-3:00 p.m.
RIEB SEMINAR : Robert William Bixby Seminar
"Evaluation and impact assessment in the roads sector: some economic, environmental and land-use issues in the U.K."
Robert William BIXBY (Kobe University, RIEB guest researcher.)
Seminar room at RIEB. (Kanematsu Hall, 1st floor)

June 6, Thu. 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Ezaki-Glico Seminar in International Business
"Effective Determinants of Cost Management in Product Development : The Case of Target Costing."
KOGA Kentarou (Graduate School of Harbard University)
Seminar room at RIEB. (Kanematsu Hall, 1st floor)

June 6, Thu. 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Kanematsu Seminar
"Usawa's Insight in Specifying Recursive Utility Functionals."
ISHIZAWA Suemitsu (Tedukayama University)
Meeting room at RIEB. (New building, 2nd floor)

June 7, Fri. 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Ezaki-Glico International Management Seminar
"Lean Manufacturing in the US Big Three Auto Makers"
Jeffrey LIKER (Michigan Universityj
Seminar room at RIEB. (Kanematsu Hall, 1st floor)

June 11, Tue. 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Kanematsu Seminar
"A Dynamic Equilibrium Models of Search, Bargaining and Money"
Randy WRIGHT (The Pennsylvania University)
Seminar room at RIEB. (Kanematsu Hall, 1st floor)

June 15, Sat. 2:00 p.m.-
Monetary Economic Seminar of Kobe University
"Banking behavior and monetary policy"
YOSHIO Kyozo (Okayama Shoka University)
Meeting room at RIEB. (New building, 2nd floor)

June 19, Wed. 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Kamenatsu Seminar
"Mutual Misperceptions of Markets and Price Bubbles"
YAMAZAKI Akira (Hitotsubashi University)
Seminar room at RIEB. (Kanematsu Hall, 1st floor)

June 21, Fri. 1:30-3:00 p.m.
RIEB SEMINAR -Economic Growth Conference-
"Growth and Risk-Sharing with Incomplete International Assets Markets"
SAITOH Makoto (Kyoto University)
Meeting room at RIEB. (New building, 2nd floor)

June 21, Fri. 3:30-5:00 p.m.
RIEB SEMINAR : -Economic Growth Conference-
"How Does Foreign Direct Investment Affect Economic Growth?"
Jong-Wha LEE (Korea University and NBER)
Meeting room at RIEB. (New building, 2nd floor)

June 29, Sat. 1:30-3:00 p.m.
RIEB SEMINAR : R. W. Bixby Seminar
"Sustainability in land use / transport planning : studies in the Oxford area of
(i) the influence of housing location on travel behaviour
(ii) the role of park and ride.
Robert William BIXBY (Kobe University, RIEB guest researcher)
Seminar room at RIEB. (Kanematsu Hall, 1st floor)

July 11, Thu. 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Kanematsu Seminar
"Hub Cities: City Formation without Economies of Scale "
KONISHI Hideo (Southern Methodist University.)
Place: Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Hall, 1^st floor )

July 13,Sat. 2:00 p.m. -
Monetary Economic Seminar of Kobe University
"A Reexamination of the the Economic Analysis Using the Index of Central Bank Independence"
FUJIKI Hiroshi ( Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan. )
Place: Meeting room at RIEB. ( New building, 2^nd floor )

July 26, Fri. 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Kanematsu Seminar
"Strategic R & D Policy and Appropriability"
MIYAGIWA Kazuyuki ( Louisiana State University )
Place: Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Hall, 1^st floor )

August 1, Thu. 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Kanematsu Seminar
"Trade Gains When the Opportunity to Trade Changes
the State of Information"
Murray C. KEMP (University of New South Wales.)
Place: Seminar room at RIEB. (Kanematsu Hall, 1st floor)

August 27, Tue. 10:30 a.m.-
Kanematsu Seminar
"Dynamic Efficiency of Resource Allocation and Capital Market"
NAGATANI Keizo ( University of British Columbia )
Place : Seminar room at RIEB. (Kanematsu Hall, 1st floor)

September 6, Fri. 9:30a.m. -
Kanematsu Seminar
"Business Fixed Investment and the Recent Business Cycle in Japan"
Kenneth D. WEST ( University of Wisconsin )
Place : Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Hall, 1^st floor )

September 7, Sat. 10:30a.m. -
Monetary Economic Seminar of Kobe University
"New Trends in International Finance"
KIKUCHI Yuji ( Economics Department, Teikyo University & Former Director, Research Department, Bank of Tokyo )
Place: Meeting room at RIEB. ( New building, 2^nd floor )

September 7, Sat. 1:30 - 3:00p.m.
Rieb Seminar ( T S Mervyn Jones Seminar )
"High Speed Rail evelopments in Europe. - The Importance for Tourism & Leisure Trips in the Future -"
T S Mervyn JONES ( Guest Professor of RIEB )
Place : Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1^st floor)

September 12, Thur. 3:30p.m. -
Ezaki-Glico Seminar in International Business
"Knowledge Retention: The Impact on Product Development Performance in the Automobile Industry"
AOSHIMA Yaichi ( Hitotsubashi University )
Place: Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1^st floor )

September 20, Fri. 3:00 p.m. -
Kanematsu Seminar
"Communication in Science"
NISHIZUKA Yasutomi ( Kobe University )
Place: Seminar room at RIEB. ( New Building, 2^nd floor )

September 26, Thu. 3:30 p.m -
Rieb Seminar
"Vertical Integration, Market Foreclosure, and Consumer Welfare - An Empirical Investigation -"
Tasneem CHIPTY ( Ohio State University )
Place: Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Hall, 1^st floor )

September 28, Sut. 1:30 - 3:00p.m.
Rieb Seminar ( T S Mervyn Jones Seminar )
"The Effects of London's Dockland Development with Particular Reference to Leisure and Tourism"
T S Mervyn JONES ( Guest Professor of RIEB )
Place: Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1^st floor)

October 12, Sat. 1:30-3:00 p.m.
RIEB Seminar
"Theme Park in Japan-A learning Curve. (With An Open Discussion Based on the Theme. Tourism Education in the University Sector)"
Jones, Mervyn Thomas STANLEY ( Kobe University, RIEB Guest Researcher )
Place: Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Hall, 1st floor )

October 17, Thu. 3:30-5:00 p.m.
RIEB Seminar
"Japanese Foreign Direct Investment in Australia in the 1990s"
William PURCELL ( Nagoya City University Guest Professor )
Place: Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Hall, 1^st floor )

October 22, Tue. 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Seminar in Comparative Economic Analysis on Firms and
Organizations
"Contract Law and Economics : On Breach by the Seller"
Jon LUNDESGAARD (Hedmark College Assistant Professor)
Place: Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Hall, 1^st floor )

October 26, Sat. 10:30 a.m.-
Monetary Economic Seminar of Kobe University
"On the reform of the Bank of Japan Act"
YOSHINO Toshihiko ( Research Institute for Economics, Yamaichi Securities Special Advisor )
Place: Meeting room at RIEB. ( New building, 2^nd floor )

October 31, Thu. 3:30-5:00 p.m.
EZAKI-GLICO SEMINAR IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
"Explicitly defined protocols as means of inter-organizational
communications: How they are adopted and widely shared"
TAKEDA Yoko ( Keio University, Doctoral Candidate )
Place: Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Hall, 1^st floor )

November 7, Thu. 1:30 - 3:30p.m.
Kanematsu Seminar
"An Empirical Analysis of Exchange Arrangements under Multiple Key Currency"
AKIYAMA Shigeru ( Former Staff, World Bank )
Place : Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Hall, 1^st floor )

November 7, Thu. 3:30p.m. - 5:00p.m.
Rieb Seminar
"Aging and Consumption Inequality - Comparison among Japan, US and UK"
SAITO Makoto ( Kyoto University )
Place : Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1^st floor)

November 15, Fri. 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
RIEB Seminar
"Heterogeneous Expectations : Aggregation Bias and the Poolability of Survey Forecasts in Tests of the Rational Expectations Hypothesis"
Carl S. BONHAM ( Guest Professor,Graduate School of International Cooperation Studies, Kobe University )
Place : Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1^st floor)

November 16, Sat. 10:30 a.m. -
Monetary Economic Seminar of Kobe University
"Monetary Policy Goals : Estimation of Their Weights"
JINUSHI Toshiki ( Kobe University )
Place:Meeting room at RIEB. ( New building, 2^nd floor )

November 19, Tue. 2:00p.m -
Seminar in Comparative Economic Analysis on Firms and Organizations
"Central Bank Independence : A Theoretical Survey"
FUJIWARA Kenya ( Kobe University )
Place : Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1^st floor)

November 19, Tue. 4:00p.m -
Seminar in Comparative Economic Analysis on Firms and Organizations
"Financial Fragility and Recent Developments in Japanese Safety Net"
HORIUCHI Yoshiaki ( The University of Tokyo )
Place : Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1^st floor)

November 21, Thu. 3:30 - 5:00p.m.
Ezaki-Glico Seminar in International Business
"Management in Foreign Countries - Spot on Japanese Industries"
KATSURA Akiyo ( Satori Electric Co.Ltd. )
Place : Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1^st floor)

November 22, Fri. 3:30 - 5:00p.m.
Kanematsu Seminar
"On the Optional Timing of Technology Adoption by the Firm under Protection or Free Trade"
KUSUMOTO Shoichiro (Institute of Policy and Planning, Tsukuba University)
Place: Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1^st floor )

November 26, Tue. 3:30 - 5:00p.m.
Ezaki-Glico Seminar in International Business
"Networks, Hierarchies and the Management of British Trading Companies before 1940"
Geoffrey JONES ( The University of Reading )
Place: Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1^st floor)

December 5, Thu. 1:30 - 3:00p.m.
Ezaki-Glico Seminar in International Business
"Routinization of CEO (shacho) change in Japanese firms? Some preliminary results on CEO change patterns in Japan."
Candidate Hyosun KIM ( M.I.T. Sloan School of Management )
Place : Meeting room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu New Building, 2^nd floor)

December 5, Thu. 3:30 - 5:00p.m.
RIEB Seminar
"Supply of public goods : Theory and experiment"
SAIJYO Tatsuyoshi ( The Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University )
Place : Meeting room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu New Building, 2^nd floor )

December 5, Thu. 2:00p.m. -
Seminar in Comparative Economic Analysis on Firms and Organizations
"Incomplete Contracts and Observability"
ISHIGURO Shingo ( Nanzan University )
Place : Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1^st floor )

December 5, Thu. 4:00p.m. -
Seminar in Comparative Economic Analysis on Firms and Organizations
"Why not Dividing -off, but Hiving -off"
KIKUTANI Tatsuya ( Kyoto Sangyo University )
& HAYASHIDA Osamu ( Osaka Keizai University )
Place : Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1^st floor )

December 12, Thu. 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
RIEB Seminar
"The Optimal Level of Savings and the Maastricht Criteria"
Gustav FEICHTINGER ( Institute of Econometrics, Vienna University of Technology, Austria )
Place : Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1^st floor )

December 20, Fri. 1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
Kanematsu Seminar
"Towering Over Babel : Worlds Apart-But Acting Together"
Joseph GREENBERG ( McGill University )
Place : Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1^st floor )

December 20, Fri. 2:35 - 4:05 p.m.
Kanematsu Seminar
"Differential Game Models of Global Environmental Management"
Alain HAIRIE ( University of Geneva )
Place : Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1^st floor )

December 20, Fri. 4:15 - 5:45 p.m.
RIEB Seminar
"Modelling and Solving the Municipal Effluent Management Problem"
Jacek KRAWZYCK ( Victoria University of Wellington )
Place : Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1^st floor )

December 21, Sat. 2:00p.m. -
Monetary Economic Seminar of Kobe University
"Reasons for Deviating from Purchasing Power Parity and their Channels"
MIYATA Nobuaki ( Faculty of Social Information Science )
Place : Meeting room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu New Building, 2^st floor )

December 24, Tue. 2:00p.m. -
Seminar in Comparative Economic Analysis on Firms and Organizations
"Bank Governance in Postwar Japan"
TERANISHI Juro ( Hitotsubashi University )
Place : Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1^st floor )

January 16, Thu. 3:30 p.m. -
Seminar in Comparative Economic Analysis on Firms and Organizations
"Comparative Institutional Analysis: Overview"
OKUNO Masahiro ( Tokyo University )
Place : Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1^st floor )

January 23, Thu. 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
RIEB Seminar
"International Duopoly, Tariff Policies and the Case of Free Trade"
HORIBA Yutaka ( Osaka University / Tulane University )
Place : Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1^st floor )

January 25, Sat. 2:00 p.m. -
Monetary Economic Seminar of Kobe University
"Postal Banking: Lessons from Experience around the World"
Patricia KUWAYAMA ( Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, The Bank of Japan )
Place : Meeting room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu New Building, 2^nd floor )

January 29, Wed. 10:30 a.m. -
RIEB Seminar ( Jointly supported by the APEC research center )
"Manila action plan for APEC and tasks ahead"
YAMAZAKI Ippei ( Hitotsubashi University )
Place : Meeting room at RIEB. ( New Building, 2^nd floor )

January 30, Thu. 1:30 p.m. -
KANEMATSU Seminar
"Prudential Regulation of Banks: Theory and Practice"
WATANABE Tsutomu ( Research and Statistics Department, Bank of Japan )
Place : Conference room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Hall, 1^st floor )

January 30, Thu. 2:00 p.m. -
Seminar in Comparative Economic Analysis on Firms and Organizations
"Corporate Finance & Governance in the Japanese Firms"
HIROTA Shinichi ( Setsunan University )
Place : Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1^st floor )

January 30, Thu. 4:00 p.m. -
Seminar in Comparative Economic Analysis on Firms and Organizations
"Turnover of Managers and Corporate Performance of Japanese Large Firms in the Post-War: Elaboration and Change of Contingent Governance"
MIYAJIMA Hideaki ( Waseda University )
Place : Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1^st floor )

February 6, Thu. 3:30 p.m. -
RIEB Seminar
" Informed Planner, Decentralized Decisions and Incentive Compatibility "
Manimay SENGUPTA ( Kwansei Gakuin University )
Place : Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1^st floor )

February 13, Thu. 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Ezaki-Glico Seminar in International Business
" Multinational Enterprises and Cross-Border Knowledge Creation "
D. Eleanor WESTNEY ( Hitotsubashi University )
Place : Meeting room at RIEB. ( New Building, 2^nd floor )

February 19, Wed. 3:30 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar
" US-Japan Trade Barriers "
Robert M. ORR, Jr ( Director, Nippon Motorola Ltd., Vice President of The American Chamber of Commerce in Japan, Temple University )
Place : Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1^st floor )

February 28, Fri. 3:30 p.m. -
RIEB Seminar
" Randomized Uniform Allocation Mechanism and Single - peaked Preferences of Indisivible Good. "
SASAKI Hiroo ( Waseda University )
Place : Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1^st floor )

March 5, Wed. 1:15 - 3:15 p.m.
RIEB Seminar
" An Empirical Investigation of Intergenerational Resource Allocation "
SAITO Makoto ( Kyoto Unversity )
Place : Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1^st floor )

March 5, Wed. 3:30 p.m. -
KANEMATSU Seminar
" Towards A New Macroeconomics "
YOSHIKAWA Hiroshi ( The University of Tokyo )
Place : Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1^st floor )

March 12, Wed, 3:30 p.m. -
RIEB Seminar
( Jointly supported by APEC research center and Research Group of International Economic Environment )
" Where are we going in APEC ? "
Peter PETRI ( Brandeis University )
Place : Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1^st floor )

March 17, Mon, 1:15 p.m. -
RIEB Seminar " Entrepreneurial Development in Late Industrialization : A Comparative Analysis "
Chang-Ho YOON ( Korea University )
Place : Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1^st floor )

March 17, Mon, 3:30 p.m. -
RIEB Seminar
" Underemployment in a Two-Country Economy with Dynamic Optimization. "
ONO Yoshiyasu ( Tokyo Institute of technology )
Place : Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1^st floor )

March 18, Tue, 3:30 p.m. -
RIEB Seminar
" On the Role of Financial Intermediaries in Corporate Governance - Lessons from Eastern Europe for East Asia. "
Krawczyk KONRAD ( RIEB )
Place : Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1^st floor )

March 21, Fri, 1:15p.m. - 3:15p.m.
RIEB Seminar
( Jointly supported by Research Group of International Economic Environment )
" Towards a Political Economy Explanation of Rapid Growth in Southeast Asia "
Hal HILL ( The Australian National University )
Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1^st floor )

March 21, Fri, 3:30p.m.-
RIEB Seminar
" Exchange Rate Pass-through and Industry Characteristics: the Case of Taiwan's Exports of Midstream Petrochemical Products. "
Chung-Shu WU (The Institute of Economics Academia Sinica )
Place : Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1^st floor )

March 22, Sat. 2:00 p.m. -
Monetary Economic Seminar of Kobe University
"Industrial and Financial Circulations of Funds"
SADAKI Nobuo ( Yamaguchi University )
Place : Meeting room at RIEB. ( New Building, 2^nd floor )

March 26, Wed, 2:00 p.m. -
RIEB Seminar
" Accounting Institution and Professional in Malaysia "
Tho-Lai MOOI ( University of Malaya )
Place : Seminar room. ( Dai 4 Gakusya, 2^st floor )

*Paper is available one week before each seminar at the section of Research Assistants.