Apr.7, Wed. 3:30 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar
"Implicit Collusion Models of Export Pricing:　An Economic Application to the Japanese Case"
TOMIURA Eiichi ( Ministry of International Trade and Industry )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1st floor )

Apr. 15, Thu. 3:30 p.m.-
"Mergers and Acquisitions Strategies Effecting the Swedish Industry are Swedish Companies Targets for M and A?"
Sikander KHAN ( Stockholm University )
*Place: Meeting room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1st floor )

Apr. 17, Sat. 10:30 p.m.-
Monetary Economic Seminar of Kobe University
"Prices of Market Portfolio in the CAPM with Incomplete Asset Markets"
HARA Chiaki ( Kobe University/ Cambridge University )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, New Building 2nd floor )

May 1,Sat. 2:30 p.m.-
Kanematsu Seminar
"Empirical Study on Usefulness of Accounting Information"
HUJII Hideki ( Kyoto University )
*Place: Small Meeting room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1st floor )

May 15, Sat. 2:00 p.m.-
Monetary Economic Seminar of Kobe University
"Looking back upon a year after the reform of the Bank of Japan Law"
KANEGAE Takeshi ( Chukyo University )
"Monetary Policy of the European Central Bank( tentative )"
Gustav DIECKHEUER( Muenster University )
*Place: Meeting room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, New Building 2nd floor )

Jun.14, Mon. 3:30 p.m.-
Kanematu Seminar ( Jointly supported by IEFS Japan )
"Marshallian Utility Function and Social Indifference Curves"
OYAMA Michihiro ( Keio University )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, New Building 2nd floor )

Jun. 17, Thu. 3:30 p.m.-
Kanematu Seminar ( Jointly supported by IEFS Japan )
"Environmental tax, Abatement activity, and Urban Unemployment: Can the environmental protection be compatible with the reduction of domestic poverty ? "
DAITOU Ichiro ( Tohoku University )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1st floor )

Jun. 18, Fri. 3:30 p.m.-
Kanematu Seminar ( Jointly supported by IEFS Japan )
"The Golden Age of European Growth Reconsidered"
Peter TEMIN ( Massachusetts Institute of Technology )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1st floor )

Jun. 23, Wed. 3:30 p.m.-
Kanematu Seminar ( Jointly supported by IEFS Japan )
Trade Cost and the "Mystery of Missing Trade"
David WEINSTEIN ( University of Michigan )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1st floor )

Jun. 25, Fri. 3:30 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar( Jointly supported by IEFS Japan )
"On the Symmetry of the International Spillover of Industrial Policies"
ABE Naohito ( Yale University )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1st floor )

Jun. 26, Sat. 2:00 p.m.-
Monetary Economics Seminar of Kobe University
"Recent Situation of Disposal of Bank Non-performing Loan "
MURAKAMI Toshitsugu ( Sumigin Mortgage Inc )

"A General View from Ex-Generation on Japanese Financial Issues"
TUCHIBA Masaaki ( Ex-Director of National Tax Administration Agency, Japan Securities Depository Center )
*Place: Meeting room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, New Building 2nd floor )

Jul.1, Thu. 3:30 p.m.-
Ezaki-Glico Seminar in International Business
"Marketing Communication and Product Innovation"
-Potentiality Brought with "Moderate Differentiation"-
KAWAKAMI Tomoko ( Kobe University Graduate School )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1st floor )

Jul. 8, Thu. 3:30 p.m.-
Ezaki-Glico Seminar in International Business
"Productivity and Skill at a Japanese Transplant and its Parent Company"
SHIBATA Hiromichi ( Hokkaido University )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1st floor )

Jul. 24, Sat. 10:30 a.m.-
Monetary Economics Seminar of Kobe University
"The Japanese Economy : A Diagnosis and A Prescription "
NAGATANI Keizo ・ ISHIGAKI Kenichi ( Kobe University )
*Place: Meeting room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, New Building 2nd floor )

Jul. 29, Thu. 1:30 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar
( Jointly supported by IEFS Japan )
"Top Dogs, Puppy Dogs and Tax Holidays"
MIYAGIWA Kazuyuki ( Louisiana State University )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1st floor )

Jul. 29, Thu. 3:30 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar
( Jointly supported by IEFS Japan )
"Industrialization Population and Technology"
YAMADA Masao ( Tokuyama University )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1st floor )

Sep.10, Fri. 1:30 p.m.-
Ezaki-Glico Seminar in International Business
"MNEs and the Internationalization of the Alcoholic Beverages Industry"
Teresa da Silva LOPES ( University of Reading, Doctoral Candidate )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1st floor )

Sep. 10, Fri. 3:30 p.m.-
Ezaki-Glico Seminar in International Business
"Globalization, Integration and European Multinationals: Unilever since 1965"
Geoffrey JONES ( University of Reading )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1st floor )

Sep. 18, Sat. 2:00 p.m.-
Monetary Economics Seminar of Kobe University
"Current Account Imbalance and Macro Economic Policy"
FUJIWARA Hideo ( Doshisha University )
*Place: Meeting room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, New Building 2nd floor )

Sep. 28, Thu. 4:00 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar
"An Agent-Based Approach to Information Fusion from Multiple Resources"
S. Misbah DEEN ( University of Keele )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor )

Oct.. 7, Thu. 3:30 p.m.-
Ezaki-Glico Seminar in International Business
"Behavioral Similarity among Japanese Firms"
ASABA Shigeru ( Gakushuin University )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1st floor )

Oct.. 9, Sat. 10:30 a.m.-
Monetary Economics Seminar of Kobe University
"An Examination of the Japanese Monetary Policy -Since the late 1980s-"
JINUSHI Toshiki (Kobe University)
KUROKI Yoshihiro (Osaka Prefecture University)
MIYAO Ryuzo (Kobe University)
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB (Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1st floor)

Oct.. 12, Tue. 5:00 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar
"The Policy Function of a Discrete Choice is Random Number Generator"
KAMIHIGASHI Takashi ( SUNY-Stony Brook)
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor )

Oct.. 20, Wed. 3:30 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar ( Jointly supported by IEFS Japan )
"Keiretsu and Relationship-Specific Investment: A Barrier to Trade ?"
Larry QIU ( Hong Kong University of Science & Technology )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor )

Oct.. 28, Thr. 3:30 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar
The "Greening" of Trade Unions and the Demand for Eco-Taxes
Noel GASTON（Bond University）
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor )

Oct.. 29, Fri. 3:30 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar ( Jointly supported by IEFS Japan )
"A note on the effects of voluntary export restrictions under imperfect ompetition"
OKAWA Masayuki (Ritsumeikan University）
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor )

Nov. 4 Thr. 3:30 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar( Jointly supported by IEFS Japan )
"Financing Cost and Firm Structure "
TSUMAGARI Masatoshi ( Keio University )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor )

Nov. 11 Thr. 3:30 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar( Jointly supported by IEFS Japan )
"South-North Trade and Income Distribution "
OKAMOTO Hisayuki (Kobe University of Commerce )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor )

Nov. 17, Wed. 5:00 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar( Jointly supported by IEFS Japan )
"Indeterminacy and Multisector Models"
NISHIMURA Kazuo ( Kyoto University )
*Place: Meeting room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, New Building 2nd floor )

Nov. 20, Sat. 10:30 a.m.-
Monetary Economics Seminar of Kobe University
"On the Optimal Monetary Policy Response to Noisy Indicators"
AOKI Kosuke (Kobe University)
*Place: Meeting room at RIEB (Kanematsu Memorial Hall, New Building 2nd floor)

Nov. 26, Thr. 3:30 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar( Jointly supported by IEFS Japan )
"The Role of the WTO Dispute Settlement Procedure on International　Cooperation"
HURUSAWA Taiji （Yokohama National University）
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor )

Nov. 30, Tue. 1:30 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar( Jointly supported by IEFS Japan )
"Excess or Insufficient Entry under Cournot Oligopoly"
OKAWA Takao （Ritsumeikan University）
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor )

Dec. 2 Thr. 3:30 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar( Jointly supported by IEFS Japan )
"Sustained Political Culture and Transition Failure"
H. W. URSPRUNG ( Kobe University )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor )

Dec. 7 Tue. 3:30 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar( Jointly supported by American Center )
"Deregulation and Japan-US relations"
Mark Campbell TILTON （Purdue University）
*Place: Meeting room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, New Building 2nd floor )

Dec. 9 Thr. 3:30 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar( Jointly supported by IEFS Japan )
"Economic Reform and Development in Chile : An Evaluation of "Chilean Model""
HOSONO Akio (Tsukuba University)
*Place: Meeting room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, New Building 2nd floor )

Dec. 18, Sat. 2:00 p.m.-
Monetary Economics Seminar of Kobe University
"Quantitative easing under zero interest rate ─possibilities and limitations"
INOUE Kengo (Kobe University)
*Place: Meeting room at RIEB (Kanematsu Memorial Hall, New Building 2nd floor)

Jan. 11 Tue. 10:00 a.m.-
RIEB Seminar( Jointly supported by IEFS Japan )
"Incentive Compatible Core"
HARA Chiaki ( Cambridge University )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor )

Jan. 15, Sat. 2:00 p.m.-
Monetary Economics Seminar of Kobe University
"Longterm Policy of Exchange Rate of Chinese Yuan"
Liu Chang LI(Kobe University)
"Estimates of Efficiency of Finantial Institutions: Frontier Production Function Approach"
TAKEZAWA Yasuko (Kobe Univerisity)
*Place: Meeting room at RIEB (Kanematsu Memorial Hall, New Building 2nd floor)

Jan. 27 Thr. 15:30 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar( Jointly supported by IEFS Japan )
"Agglomeration and Tax Harmonization"
Richard BALDWIN ( University of Geneva )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor )

Feb. 7 Mon. 3:30 p.m.-
IEFS Japan Seminar ( Jointly supported by RIEB Seminar )
"External Effects on Labor-Augmenting Technological Progress"
FUTAMURA Hiroshi ( Hiroshima University )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor )

Feb. 21 Mon. 10:30 a.m.-
RIEB Seminar ( Jointly supported by IEFS Japan )
"The Economics of New Blood"
Ping WANG ( Vanderbilt University )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor )

Feb. 25 Fri. 3:30 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar
"Monetary Policy in Brazil"
Joaquin ANDRADE (IDE/JETRO, Universidade de Brasilia )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor )

Feb. 28, Mon. 3:00 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar
"An Examination of Scale Expansion Effects of Small Banks in Japan: A Cost Function Approach"
IWATSUBO Kamon ( Kobe University )
*Place: Joint research room ( 4th Building 2nd floor )

Mar. 2 Thu. 10:00 a.m.-
RIEB Seminar ( Jointly supported by IEFS Japan )
"Technological Comparative Advantage and Behavior of Factor Prices with Trade"
Kwan Koo YUN ( University of New York )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor )

Mar. 10, Fri. 3:00 p.m.-
Kanematu Seminar
"Exchange Rate and Price Adjustment in the Aftermath of the Asian Crisis"
FUJII Eiji ( Otaru University of Commerce )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor )

Mar. 16, Thu. 3:30 p.m.-
Kanematu Seminar ( Jointly supported by IEFS Japan )
"Characterizing the Probability of Survival in a Large Walrasian Economy"
Mukul MAJUMDAR ( Cornell University )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor )

Mar. 18, Sat. 10:30 a.m.-
Monetary Economics Seminar of Kobe University
"Bank Credit and Trade Credit"
OGAWA Kazuo ( Osaka University )
*Place: Meeting room at RIEB ( New Building 2nd floor )

Mar. 28, Tue. 11:00 a.m.-
Kanematu Seminar
"Directors' Incentives and Corporate Performance"
Shyam SUNDER ( Yale University )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor )

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