Apr.7, Wed. 3:30 p.m.-
"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 )

Jun. 25, Fri. 3:30 p.m.-
( 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 )

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

Sep. 28, Thu. 4:00 p.m.-
"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. 12, Tue. 5:00 p.m.-
"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.-
( 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.-
"Unions and the Desentralisation of Collective Bargaining in a Globalising World"
Noel GASTON（Bond University）
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor )

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

Nov. 4 Thr. 3:30 p.m.-
( 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.-
( 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.-
( 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. 26, Thr. 3:30 p.m.-
( 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.-
( 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.-
( Jointly supported by IEFS Japan )
"Sustained Political Culture and Transition Failure"
H. W. URSPRING ( Kobe University )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor )

Dec. 7 Tue. 3:30 p.m.-
( 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.-
( 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 )

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

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

IEFS Japan Seminar ( Jointly supported by RIEB Seminar )
Feb. 7 Mon. 3:30 p.m.-
"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.-
( 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.-
"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.-
"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 )

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

May 24, Mon. 3:30 p.m.-
"Commodity Taxation and Economic Growth"
HUTAGAMI Kouichi ( Osaka University )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor )

Jun. 14, Mon. 3:30 p.m.-
( 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.-
( 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.-
(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.-
( 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 )

Mar. 10, Fri. 3:00 p.m.-
"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.-
( 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. 28, tue. 11:00 a.m.-
"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.***