RIEB,Kanematsu SEMINAR in Fiscal Year 1996
[RIEB Seminar] [Kanematsu Seminar]

RIEB Seminar

June 1, Sat. 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
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 21, Fri. 1:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Economic Growth Conference
1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
"Growth and Risk-Sharing with Incomplete International Assets Markets"
SAITO Makoto ( Kyoto University, RIEB)
3:00 - 3:30 p.m.
break
3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
"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.
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 )


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

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

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


October 12, Sat. 1:30 - 3:00p.m.
*T S Mervyn Jones Seminar

"Theme Park in Japan-A learning Curve. ( With An Open Discussion Based on the Theme. Tourism Education in the University Sector )"
Prof. T S Mervyn JONES ( Guest Professor of RIEB )

October 17, Thu. 3:30 - 5:00p.m.
"Japanese Foreign Direct Investment in Australia in the 1990s"
Prof. William PURCELL ( Nagoya City University Guest Professor )

Place : Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1st floor )


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

November 15, Fri. 1:30 - 3:00p.m.
"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 Studies, Kobe University )
Place: Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1st floor )


December 5, Thu. 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
"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, 2nd floor )

December 12, Thu. 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
"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, 1st floor )

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


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

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


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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

March 21, Fri, 3:30 p.m. -
" 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 )
Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1st floor )

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

Kanematsu Seminar

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

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

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


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

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


August 1, Thu. 3:30-5:00 p.m.
" Trade Gains When the Opportunity to Trade Changes the State of Information"
Murray C. KEMP ( University of New South Wales )

August 27, Tue. 10:30a.m.-
"Dynamic Efficiency of Resource Allocation and Capital Market"
Prof. NAGATANI Keizo ( University of British Columbia )

Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Hall, 1st floor)


September 6, Fri. 9:30a.m.-
"Business Fixed Investment and the Recent Business Cycle in Japan"
Prof. Kenneth D. WEST ( University of Wisconsin )
*Place : Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Hall, 1st floor )
*Paper is available one week before each seminar at the section of Research Assistants.

September 20, Fri. 3:00 p.m.-
"Communication in Science"
Prof. NISHIZUKA Yasutomi ( Kobe University )
*Place : Meeting room at RIEB. ( New Building, 2nd floor )
*Paper is not available this time.
**Only the member of the Kobe University can attend this seminar.


November 7, Thu. 1:30p.m. -
"An Empirical Analysis of Exchange Arrangements under Multiple Key Currency"

Mr. AKIYAMA Shigeru ( Former Staff, World Bank )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Hall, 1st floor )

November 22, Fri. 3:30 p.m. -
"On the Optional Timing of Technology Adoption by the Home Firm under Protection or Free Trade"

Mr. KUSUMOTO Shoichiro ( Institute of Policy and Planning, University of Tsukuba )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB. ( Kanematsu Hall, 1st floor )


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

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


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


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


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