RIEB,Kanematsu SEMINAR in Fiscal Year 2001
[RIEB Seminar] [Kanematsu Seminar]

RIEB Seminar

April. ‚X Mon. 3:30 p.m.-
"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.-
"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. 27 Fri. 3:30 p.m.-( 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.-
"Japanese Households' Portfolio Choice over the Life-cycle"
IWAISAKO Tokuo (Hitotsubashi University )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor )

May. 26, Sat. 1:30 p.m.- ( 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 )


July. 6, Fri. 3:30 p.m.-
"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.-( 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.-( 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.-
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.-
"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.-
"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.-
"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.-
"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.
"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.-
"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.
"Spillover Effects of IT Investment"
MIYAGAWA Tsutomu (Gakushuin University)
"Estimation of spillover effects"
HARADA Nobuyuki (Japan Center for Economic Research)

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

Nov.30, Fri. 3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
"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.-( 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.-
"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 -8:00p.m.( 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.-
"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.-
"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. ( 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.-
gForeign 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.-
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 )


Jan.25, Fri. 3:30 p.m.-
JImport Penetration and U.S. Firms' Technological Change"
MATSUBARA Kiyoshi@(Nagoya City University )
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor )


Feb.2, Sat. 2:00 p.m.-( 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.-
"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 )


Mar.15, Fri. 2:00 p.m.-
– 1 hour speech and 15 minutes discussion each person

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"Reconsideration of Endogenous Information under Asymmetric Information in Insurance Markets"
SOGA Nobuyuki (Kobe University)

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"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.- ( 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 )

Kanematsu Seminar

Apr. 2, Mon. 3:30 p.m.- ( 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 )

Apr. 27, Fri. 1:30 p.m.- ( Jointly supported by IEFS Japan Seminar )
"The Doctrine 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 )


Jun. 1, Fri. 10:00.- 12:00 a.m( 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.- 5:30 a.m( Jointly supported by Latin America Seminar )
"Cuba: The Dilemma of Adjusting to a Free Market Economy"
Franklin KNIGHT (Johns Hopkins University)
*Place: Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall, 1st floor )


Jan.18, Fri. 3:30 p.m.-
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.-
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.-
JImport Penetration and U.S. Firms' Technological Change"
MATSUBARA Kiyoshi@(Nagoya City 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.***