Apr. 2, Mon. 3:30 p.m.-
KANEMATSU Seminar ( Jointly supported by IEFS Japan Seminar )
"Fundamental Trade Theorems under External Economies
of Scale"
Kar-yiu WONG ( University of Washington )
*Place: Meeting room at RIEB ( New Building 2nd floor )
April. 9 Mon. 3:30 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar
"The Role of Firm Age and Firm Behavior on the Firm Growth;
An Analysis on the Japanese Manufacturing Sector"
YASUDA Takehiko (Shinshu University)
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor)
Apr. 18 Wed. 3:30 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar
"Productivity Change in Prewar Japanese Iron and Steel
Industry with International TFP Comparison"
ODAKI Kazuhiko (Osaka University)
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor
)
Apr. 21, Sat. 10:30 a.m.-
Monetary Economics Seminar of Kobe University
"The Development of Monetary policy Regime -Case of Australia-
"
ISHIGAKI Kenichi ( Kobe University)
*Meeting room at RIEB( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, New Building 2nd
floor )
Apr. 27, Fri. 1:30 p.m.-
KANEMATSU Seminar ( Jointly supported by IEFS Japan Seminar
)
"The Doctorine of Comparative Advantage: A Restatement"
Murray C. KEMP ( The University of New South Wales / Ritsumeikan
University )
*Place: Meeting room at RIEB ( New Building 2nd floor )
Apr. 27 Fri. 3:30 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar ( Jointly supported by IEFS Japan Seminar )
"WTO Rules and International Capital Movement"
SUZUKI Katsuhiko (Kwansei Gakuin University)
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor
)
May. 10, Thu. 3:30 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar
"Japanese Households' Portfolio Choice over the Life-cycle"
IWAISAKO Tokuo (Hitotsubashi University )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor)
May. 12, Sat 2:00 p.m.-
Monetary Economics Seminar of Kobe University
( Jointly supported by Section of International Finance, Japan
Society of Monetary Economics )
"Global Business of German Financial Institutions and
International Capital Flow "
NOMURA Yukihiro ( Osaka City University, Graduate School)
"Monetary Theoretical Problems of the Euro "
TANAKA Motoka ( Tohoku University)
*Meeting room at RIEB( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, New Building 2ndfloor )
May. 17 Thu. 3:30 p.m.-
Laten America Seminar
"The New Regionalism in the Americas: The Case of MERCOSUR"
GOTO Junichi (Kobe University)
*Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor )
May. 26, Sat. 1:30 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar
( Jointly supported by Information Strategy for Regional Development
Research Group )
"Master Plan for Regional Tourism"
TERAMOTO Mitsuo ( Southern Osaka University )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor)
Jun. 1, Fri. 10:00.- 12:00 a.m
Kanematsu Seminar
( Jointly supported by IEFS Japan Seminar )
"Public Capital Stock and Leisure in a One-Sector Growth
Model"
Been-Lon CHEN ( Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica/University
of Tsusukuba )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor)
Jun. 7, Thu. 3:30 p.m.-
Latin America Seminar
( Jointly supported by Kanematsu Seminar )
"Cuba: The Dilemma of Adjusting to a Free Market Economy"
Franklin KNIGHT (Johns Hopkins UniversityEThe Former President
of LASA)
*Seminar Room at RIEB (Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st Floor)
June. 16, Sat 10:30 a.m.-
Monetary Economics Seminar of Kobe University
" Estimating GDP Gap in Japan: A Reexamination Based on Production
Function Approach"
MIYAO Ryuzo ( Kobe Universityl)
*Meeting room at RIEB( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, New Building 2nd
floor )
Jun. 27, Wed. 3:30 p.m.-
Ezaki-Glico Seminar In International Business
"Innovation as Paradigm Shift: Interaction of Strategic Intentions
in R&D Race"
FUJII Daiji ( Hitotsubashi University Graduate School )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1st floor
)
July. 6, Fri. 3:30 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar
"Efficiency in Repeated Games Revisited: the Role of Private
Strategies"
OBARA Ichiro (UCLA )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor
)
July. 28, Sat. 1:30 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar
( Jointly supported by Information Strategy for Regional Development
Research Group )
"The International Business of Japanese Travel Companies"
IMANISHI Tami (University of Marketing and Distribution Sciences
)
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor
)
Sep. 22, Sat. 1:30 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar
( Jointly supported by Information Strategy for Regional Development
Research Group )
"Conservation Movement and Photographic Information"
YAMAJI Hidetoshi (Kobe University)
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor
)
Oct. 30, Tue. 3:30 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar
JBank relationships and firm performance: Evidence from selected
Japanese firms in the electrical machinery industry"
TSURU Kotaro (RIETI)
*Place: Meeting room at RIEB ( New Building 2nd floor )
Nov.5, Mon. 3:30 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar
"International Spillover of Economic Fluctuations: A Dynamic
Optimization Approach"
ONO Yoshiyasu (Osaka University)
*Place: Meeting room at RIEB ( New Building 2nd floor )
Nov.6, Tue. 3:30 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar
"Liquidity demand and asset pricing: Evidence from the periodical
settlement in Japan"
jointly written with Shigenori Shiratsuka, Tsutomu Watanabe, and
YANAGAWA Noriyuki
SAITO Makoto (Hitotsubashi University)
*Place: Meeting room at RIEB ( New Building 2nd floor )
Nov.16, Fri. 1:30 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar
"Market Failure Due to Diverse Desirability and Large Population"
YAMAZAKI Akira (Hitotsubashi University)
*Place: Meeting room at RIEB ( New Building 2nd floor )
Nov.16, Fri. 3:30 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar
"Preliminary results for cooperative extensions of the Bayesian
game"
jointly written with Akira Yamazaki
ICHIISHI Tatsuro (The Ohio State University/Hitotsubashi University)
*Place: Meeting room at RIEB ( New Building 2nd floor )
Nov.26, Mon. 10:30 a.m.-12:00 a.m.
RIEB Seminar
"Are Telecommunications and Trasnportation Substitutes?"
IMAGAWA Takuo (Osaka University)
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1st floor
)
Nov.26, Mon. 1:30 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar
"Structural Adjustment in Finance and Industry in Korea"
"Capital Liberalization, the Real Exchange Rate and Domestic
Policies in Developing Economies"
Yen Kyun WANG (UNU/IAS)
*Place: Meeting room at RIEB ( New Building 2nd floor )
Nov.29, Thu. 3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1st floor
)
RIEB Seminar
"Spillover Effects of IT Investment"
MIYAGAWA Tsutomu (Gakushuin University)
"Construction of IT capital stock by industry"
ITO Yukiko (Japan Center for Economic Research)
"Estimation of spillover effects"
HARADA Nobuyuki (Japan Center for Economic Research)
Nov.30, Fri. 3:30 p.m.-5:00p.m.
RIEB Seminar
"Economic Pre-Conditions for China's Interest Rate Liberalization"
Li-Gang LIU (Asian Development Bank Institute)
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1st floor
)
Dec.1, Sat. 1:30 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar ( Jointly supported by Information Strategy for Regional
Development Research Group )
"Disney's Newest Show is a Town"
KITANO Nobuji (Hannan University)
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor)
Dec.5, Wed. 3:10 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar
"Changes in Attitudes toward the State's Role in Reducing
Inequalities in the Transition from Socialism to Capitalism: Evidence
from Poland and Hungary, 1987 - 1999"
Albert SIMKUS ( University of Tromso/ Kobe University )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor
)
Dec.6, Thu. 6:00 -8:00 p.m.
RIEB Seminar ( Jointly supported by Latin America Seminar)
"Latin American Economy and Exchange Rate Systems"
Guillermo A. CALVO (University of Maryland)
*Place: Presentation room at GSICS ( 4th floor )
Dec.7, Fri. 3:30 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar
"Search and Knightian Uncertainty"
OZAKI Hiroyuki (Tohoku University)
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor
)
Dec.14, Fri. 3:30 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar
"Globalization and Labor Market"
SAKURAI Kojiro (Development Bank of Japan)
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor
)
Dec.17, Mon. 1:30 p.m.-3:00p.m.
RIEB Seminar ( Jointly supported by IEFS Japan Seminar)
"Intertemporal Substitution, Risk Aversion, and Economic
Performance in a Stochastically Growing Open Economy"
Stephen TURNOVSKY(University of Washington)
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor
)
Dec.17, Mon. 3:30 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar
"Foreign Direct Investment in Japan: Empirical Analysis Based
on Establishment and Enterprise Census"
jointly written with Keiko Ito
FUKAO Kyoji (Hitotsubashi University)
*Place: Meeting room at RIEB ( New Building 2nd floor )
Dec.20, Thu. 3:30 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar
gHouses as collateral: has the link between house prices and consumption
in the UK changed?"
AOKI Kosuke ( Bank of England )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor
)
Dec.21, Fri. 11:00 a.m.-
RIEB Special Seminar ( Jointly supported by IEFS Japan Seminar)
One-day Conference
Theme: uGrowthv
Kar-Yiu WONG (University of Washington)
"Housing Market Bubbles and Currency Crisis:The Case of Thailand"
MINO Kazuo (Kobe University)
"Occupational Choice and Complex Dynamics"(co-authored
with SHIMOMURA Koji and Ping WANG)
Chong-Kee YIP (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
"Investment, Monetary Policy, and Equilibrium Determinacy."
SHIMOMURA Koji (Kobe University)
"Indeterminacy and bifurcation in a dynamic two-country model
without market distortion" (co-authored with NISHIMURA Kazuo )
*Place: Meeting room at RIEB ( New Building 2nd floor )
Jan.18, Fri. 3:30 p.m.-
KANEMATSU Seminar
JSearching for the Liquidity Effect of Money"
Richard Anton BRAUN ( University of Tokyo )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor
)
Jan.22, Tue. 3:30 p.m.-
KANETATSU Seminar
JConstitutional Democracy and Public Judgement"
SUZUMURA Kotaro (Hitotsubashi University )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor)
Jan.25, Fri. 3:30 p.m.-
KANEMATU Seminar
JImport Penetration and U.S. Firms' Technological Change"
MATSUBARA Kiyoshi@ (Nagoya City University )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor
)
Feb.1, Fri. 10:30 a.m.- 5:20 p.m.
One Day Conference on Trade
1 hour speech and 10 minutes discussion each person
Session 1: Geography
Chair: TOMIURA Eiichi (Kobe University)
@ 10F30`11F40
FUJITA Masahisa iKyoto Universityj@
" Agglomeration and Growth with Migration and Knowledge Externalities
"
A 13F30`14F40
Stephen REDDINGiLondon University of Economicsj@
" Economic Geography and International Inequality "
Session 2: Trade Policy
Chair: SHIMOMURA Koji (Kobe University)
B 14F50`16F00
Eden YUiCity University of Hong Kongj
" Impacts of Environmental Measures on Optimal Trade and
Investment Policies"
C 16F10`17F20
TANIGAKI Kazunori iRitsumeikan Universityj
"Trade Policy under Cournot Duopoly with Sales Activity "
*Place: Meeting room at RIEB ( New Building 2nd floor )
Feb.2, Sat. 2:00 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar ( Jointly supported by Information Strategy for Regional
Development Research Group )
"The tourism for local promotion"
YAMAMOTO Seijiro (21st century Hyogo project accosiation)
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor
)
Feb.25, Mon 2:00p.m.-
RIEB Seminar
"Do Mergers of Small Banks Reduce Average Cost ?: Evidence
from Japanese Shinkin Banks, Credit Cooperatives"
IWATSUBO Kamon (Okayama Shoka University)
*Place: Meeting room at RIEB ( New Building 2nd floor )
Feb.15, Fri. 2:00 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar
* 1 hour speech and 15 minutes discussion each person
@ 14F00`15F15
"Reconsideration of Endogenous Information under Asymmetric
Information in Insurance Markets"
SOGA Nobuyuki (Kobe University)
A 15F25`16F40
"Technical Progress and Unemployment"
YAMAMOTO Tomoji (Kobe University)
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor )
Mar.23, Sat. 2:00 p.m.-
RIEB Seminar ( Jointly supported by Information Strategy for Regional
Development Research Group )
JThe Future of USJ"
JOE Toshihiko iUSJ Co., Ltd.j
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor
)
***Paper is available one week before each seminar at the section of Research Assistants.***