| All Seminars in 2005 |
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| Date&Time | Seminar Type | Topic | Speaker | Details |
| Tuesday, May 10 ～ Thursday, May 12 |
10th Kobe COE Advanced Economic Study Series (Jointly supported by IEFS Japan Seminar) |
<Tuesday, May 10, 1:00pm～> Status-Seeking, Catching-Up and Policy Effects in a Dynamic Heckscher-Ohlin Model"(with Koji Shimomura) Unilateral and Multilateral Gains from Trade in International Oligopoly |
Yunfang HU (Kobe University) FUJIWARA Kenji (Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University) |
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| <Wednesday, May 11, 3:30pm～> Contracts and the Division of Labor,(a joint paper with Daron Acemoglu and Pol Antras) |
Elhanan HELPMAN | |
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| <Thursday, May 12, 10:30am～5:00pm> Kobe COE Conference on International Trade |
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| Monday, May 16, 3:30pm～ |
COE/RIEB Seminar | Maintenance Labor and Indeterminacy under Increasing Returns to Scale | Jang-Ting GUO （University of California, Riverside） |
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| Saturday, May 21, 2:00pm～ |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by Tourism Research Group) |
A New Way to Travel in Japan | GENDO Fumiaki (Rekishi Kaido Promotional Council) |
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| Monday, May 30, 3:30pm～ |
RIEB Seminar | Referrals in Search Markets | KONISHI Hideo （Boston College） |
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| Saturday, June 25, 2:00pm～ |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by Tourism Research Group) |
<2:00pm～> MACHIZUKURI in the Former Foreign Settlement of Kobe <4:00pm～> Is the Kobe Former Concession Value in Resources for Tourism ? |
YAMAMOTO Toshisada (Research Institute for Regional Planning and Development) KATSURAGAWA Koji |
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| Tuesday, June 21 ～ Friday, July 1 |
11th Kobe COE Advanced Economic Study Series (Jointly supported by IEFS Japan Seminar) |
<Tuesday, June 21, 10:00am～> The Banana Republic and Losses from Trade Vertical Production Chain, Trade, Tariffs in a Two-Factor Model |
FUJIWARA Kenji (Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University) Yan MA (Kobe University) |
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| <Thursday, June 23, 10:30am～> Kobe COE Conference on International Trade (Jointly supported by RIEB Seminar |
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| <Monday, June 27, 3:00pm～> On Chamberlinian-Ricardian Trade Patterns (with Toru Kikuchi and Koji Shimomura) <5:00pm～> The Theory of Trade Policy and Trade Agreements: A Critique |
KIKUCHI Toru (Kobe University) ETHIER Wilfred (University of Pennsylvania) |
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| <Friday, July 1, 10:00am～> Profit-enhancing parallel imports (with Toshihiro Matsumura) "Dynamic Labor Standards under International Oligopoly" |
MATSUSHIMA Noriaki (Kobe University) Yunfang HU (Kobe University) |
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| Friday, July 1 4:00pm～ |
COE Seminar (Jointly supported by IEFS Japan Seminar) |
Manipulation of endowments and sunspot equilibria | Aditya GOENKA （National University of Hong Kong） |
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| Tuesday, July 19, 4:00pm～ |
RIEB Seminar | Slavery as a repeated principal-agent problem with discounting and dragged-out punishment prospect | SAITO Tetsuya (Graduate School of Economics, Vanderbilt University) |
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| Wednesday, July 20, 4:00pm～ |
Latin America Seminar (Jointly supported by Latin American Economy Research Group) |
Comparison of trade pattern of Japan with Brazil, Chile, and Mexico | Silvio MIYAZAKI (Cathorlic University of Sao Paulo/ Institute of Social Science University of Tokyo) |
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| Friday, July 22, 10:30am～ |
RIEB Seminar | Assessing the Quality of FTAs and Implications for East Asian Economic Integration | Inkyo CHEONG (Inha University) |
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| Friday, July 22, 3:00pm～ |
COE Seminar (Jointly supported by IEFS Japan Seminar) |
How Cool is C.O.O.L? (with Grigorios Livanis and Carol West) | Elias DINOPOULOS (University of Florida) |
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| Monday, July 25, 3:30pm～ |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by IEFS Japan Seminar) |
Foreign Direct Investment & International Trade in a Continuum Ricardian Model | Leonard CHENG (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology) |
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| Wednesday, July 27, 3:30pm～ |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by IEFS Japan Seminar) |
Heterogeneous firms and trade: testable and untestable properties of the Melitz model | Richard BALDWIN (Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva) |
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| Monday, August 29 2:00pm～ |
RIEB Seminar | <2:00～3:30pm> Optimal Menu of Menus with Self-Control Preferences <3:30～5:00pm> Preference revelation games and strong cores of allocation problems with indivisibilities |
MIYAGAWA Eiichi (Columbia University) TAKAMIYA Koji (Osaka University) |
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| Wednesday, August 24 ～ Tuesday, September 6 |
12th Kobe COE Advanced Economic Study Series Invited Researcher: OGAKI Masao （Ohio State University） |
<Wednesday, August 24 10:30～12:00am Lecture #1> "Structural Macroeconometrics I "(Stochastic regressors, estimating long-run variance, etc.) <1:00～2:30pm Lecture #2> "Structural Macroeconometrics II"(Regressions in vector forms, generalized method of moments (GMM) , etc.) <2:45～4:15pm Lecture #3> "Structural Macroeconometrics III"(Empirical research based on GMM, unit root, etc.) |
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| <Thursday, August 25 10:30～12:00am Lecture #4> "Structural Macroeconometrics IV"(Cointegration, spurious regression, etc.) <1:00～2:30pm Lecture #5> "Structural Macroeconometrics V"(Rational expectations models, vector autoregression, etc.) |
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| <Friday, August 26 10:30～11:30am Special Talk> "A guide for young economists when submitting papers to refereed journals" |
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| <Friday, September 2 3:30～5:00pm (Jointly supported by COE/RIEB
Seminar)> "Structural Spurious Regressions and A Hausman-type Cointegration Test" |
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| <Tuesday, September 6 3:30～5:00pm (Jointly supported by COE/RIEB
Seminar)> "Monetary Distortions in the Consumpution-Leisure Choice: An Empirical Investigation" (with Young-Soo Bae, Vikas Kakka) |
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| Friday, September 9 10:00am ・Saturday, September 10 9:00am～ |
COE Conference | Modern Monetary Economics Summer Institute （MME SI) in Kobe | |
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| Thursday, September 15 2:00pm～ |
RIEB Seminar | Ideational Foundations of Institutions: The Origin of the Developmental State Systems in Japan and Manchuria. | SASADA Hironori (University of Washington) |
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| Saturday, September 17 2:00pm～ |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by Tourism Research Group) |
Restructuring of Urban Space and Tourism | HIRAYAMA Yosuke (Kobe University) |
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| Tuesday, October 4 10:30am～ |
COE Seminar (Jointly supported by IEFS Japan Seminar) |
The short and long run effects of tied foreign aid on pollution abatement, pollution and employment: a pilot model (with A. Woodland) | Albert G. Schweinberger (University of Konstanz) |
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| Friday, October 7 10:30am～ |
COE Seminar (Jointly supported by IEFS Japan Seminar) |
The public and private provision of pure public goods and the distortionary effects of income taxation: a political economy approach (with Jun-ichi Itaya) | Albert G. Schweinberger (University of Konstanz) |
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| Saturday, October 8 2:00pm～ |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by Tourism Research Group) |
Activation of City Center in Kobe from the point of Commerce | MUKOYAMA Masao (University of Marketing and Distribution Sciences) |
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| Tuesday, October 11 3:30pm～ |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by IEFS Japan Seminar) |
Endogenous Timing in a Strategic Trade Policy Game under the Two-Country Oligopoly Model with Many Firms | TAWADA Makoto (Nagoya University) |
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| Wednesday, October 12 1:30pm～ |
RIEB Seminar | <2:00pm～> Systematic Utilization of CAE and Product Development Performance in Japanese Auto Parts Industry <4:00pm～> The Establishment of Product Strategic Management |
PARK Taehoon (Osaka University of Economics) ITOH Munehiko （Kobe University） |
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| Thursday, October 13 11:00am～ |
COE Workshop | Kobe COE Workshop on International Trade (Jointly supported by IEFS Japan Seminar) |
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| Friday, October 14 1:30pm～ |
RIEB Seminar | Stock Market Driven Acquisitions: Theory and Evidence | John N. FRIEDMAN (Harvard University) |
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| Friday, November 18, 3:30pm～ |
RIEB Seminar | Experimental Analysis on the Role of a Large Speculator in Currency Crises | TAKETA Kenshi (Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan) |
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| Saturday, November 19, 2:00pm～ |
RIEB Seminar （Jointly supported by Tourism Research Group） |
<2:00pm～> Strategy for Attracting Guests and Tourism-A Case of Department Store <3:30pm～> Food Culture for Tourist City of Kobe and “Kobe Style” Restaurants |
SAWADA Taro (DAIMARU KOBE) AOYAMA Yumiko (Meets Regional, L Magazine) |
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| Tuesday, November 22, 4:00pm～ |
RIEB Seminar | The Bright Side of Divergence | HORI Kazumi （Hitotsubashi University） |
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| Wednesday, November 30, 3:00pm～ |
RIEB Seminar | Absorptive capacity of Japanese and European multinationals: R&D management at home and in the US | ARAI Seiko （Kobe University） |
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| Thursday, December 1, 3:30pm～ |
RIEB Seminar | What happened behind the low interest rates during Takahashi's era: the macroeconomic policy trilemma and the regime choices during the interwar period in Japan | SHIZUME Masato (Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan) |
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| Friday, December 2, 4:00pm～ |
Latin America Seminar (Jointly supported by Latin American Economy Research Group) |
Brazil's challenge for soridality economy | KOIKE Yoichi (Takushoku University) |
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| Monday, December 5, 10:30am～ |
COE/RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by IEFS Japan Seminar) |
Public Infrastructure, Employment and Sustainable Growth in a Small Open Economy With and Without Foreign Direct Investment | Dipankar DASGUPTA (Indian Statistical Institute) |
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| Wednesday, December 7, 3:00pm～ |
COE Workshop (Jointly supported by Experimental Economics Group) |
On a Support System for Classroom Oral Market Experiments | Tetsuya UCHIKI (Saitama University) |
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| Friday, December 16, 3:00pm～ |
Latin America Seminar (Jointly supported by Latin American Economy Research Group) |
Option of Introducing the Market Mechanism into the Cuban Economy | Omar E. PEREZ V. (Center for Cuban Economic Studies, University of Havana) |
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| Monday, December 19, 3:30pm～ |
Kanematsu Seminar (Jointly supported by IEFS Japan Seminar) |
The Gravity Equation in International Trade in Services (forthcoming in Welwirtschaftliches Archiv, 2006, Co-authored with Fukunari Kimura) | Hyun-Hoon LEE (Kangwon National University /Keio University) |
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| Thursday, December 22, 3:30pm～ |
COE Seminar (Jointly supported by IEFS Japan Seminar) |
Publicly Funded Education and Human Capital in the Presence of a Convex-Concave Education Function (with Cong Nghe Truong) | Binh TRAN-Nam (University of New South Wales) |
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| Thursday, January 19, 3:30pm～ |
Kanematsu・RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by International Trade Research Group and IEFS Japan Seminar) |
Information Spillovers and Strategy Correlation in Foreign Direct Investment | MIYAGIWA Kazuyuki （Emory University） |
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| Friday, February 27, 3:30pm～ |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by Latin America Seminar, Latin American Economy Research Group and International Development Seminar ) |
Argentina's economy: towards a sustainable growth | H.E. Daniel A. D. POLSKI (The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Argentina to Japan) |
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| Saturday, January 28, 2:00pm～ |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by Tourism Research Group) |
<2:00pm～> Residents are "Tourists": What sort of attractiveness for them? <3:30pm～> Looking at the theater from the viewpoint of "tourism" |
SUGIYAMA Tomoko (NPO The Conference on Art and art Projects.) KURIHARA Yoshiaki (Umeda Arts Theater) |
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| Monday, January 30, 2:00pm～ |
QOL Seminar (Jointly supported by RIEB Seminar) |
<2:00pm～> Spatial Computable General Equilibrium Analysis of Regional Productivity Shock <3:00pm～> Economic Damage Assessment of Catastrophe by using Spatial Computable General Equilibrium Analysis |
HOSOE Nobuhiro （National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies） KOIKE Atsushi （Tottori University） |
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| Wednesday, February 1, 1:30pm～ |
RIEB Policy Research Workshop | “Macroeconomic Effects of Fiscal Policy” | |
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| Thursday, February 2, 3:00pm～ |
COE Seminar (Jointly supported by Workshop in Experimental Economics) |
On Double Auction Experiments | YAMATO Takehiko (Tokyo Institute of Technology) UCHIKI Tetsuya (Saitama University) |
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| Thursday, February 9, 3:30pm～ |
Kanematsu・RIEB Seminar | Price and Death: After the death of a visual artist, does the price of his artwork go up or down, and by how much? | ITAYA Junichi (Hokkaido University) |
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| Thursday, February 23, 1:20pm～ |
RIEB Half-a-Day Conference: contemporary social issues in the world and their ecnomic analysis (Jointly supported by RIEB Seminar and IEFS Japan Seminar) |
<1:20～2:50pm> In Search of Optimized Regional Trade Agreements and Applications to East Asia <3:00～4:30pm> An Economic Analysis of Terrorism <4:40～6:10pm> International Transfer, Endogenous Environmental Policy, and Welfare (with Yasuyuki Sugiyama and Kazuharu Kiyono) |
Innwon PARK （Korea University/ Kobe University) Satya Prasanna DAS （Indian Statistical Institute/ Kobe University) ABE Kenzo （Osaka University/ Kobe University) |
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| Thursday, March 9 ～ Friday, March 24 |
17th Kobe COE Advanced Economic Study Series Invited Researcher: Peter BOSSAERTS （California Institute of Technology） |
<Thursday, March 9 10:30am～ Lecture #1> "Introduction to Theory of Finance" |
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| <Wednesday, March 22 1:30pm～ Lecture #2> "Experiments with Financial Markets" |
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| <Thursday, March 23 1:30pm～ Lecture #3> "Neuroeconomics of Decision Making" |
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| <Friday, March 24 10:00am～> (Jointly supported by COE/RIEB
Seminar) "Are Cognitive Biases Relevant for Asset Pricing?" |
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| Tuesday, March 14 ～ Thursday, March 16 |
18th Kobe COE Advanced Economic Study Series Invited Researcher: Soo Hong CHEW （Hong Kong University of Science and Technology） |
<Tuesday, March 14 1:30pm～ Lecture #1> "Theory and Experiments of Decision Making I" |
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| <Wednesday, March 15 1:30pm～ Lecture #2> "Theory and Experiments of Decision Making II" |
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| <Thursday, March 16 10:00am～> (Jointly supported by COE/RIEB Seminar) "Decision-making under uncertainty in small worlds: Probabilistic sophistication without continuity or monotonicity" |
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| Thursday, March 16, 3:00pm～ |
RIEB Seminar | Globalization, R&D and Endogenous Choice of Technology | Fuat SENER (Union College) |
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| Tuesday, March 28, 1:30pm～ |
RIEB International Conference 2006 "Technology and International
Trade" (Jointly supported by Kanematsu Seminar) |
<1:30～2:50pm> Saving Dolphins: Boycotts, trade sanctions, and unobservable technology <2:50～4:10pm> Technology Transfer and the South’s Participation in an International Environmental Agreement <4:20～5:40pm> Intellectual Property Rights Protection, FDI, and Process Innovation in North-South Trade |
MIYAGIWA Kazuyuki （Emory University) Larry QIU （The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) JINJI Naoto （Okayama University) |
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| Wednesday, March 29, 9:30am～ |
Seattle-Kobe Workshop on Dynamic Economics （Jointly supported by COREAP/IEFS Japan/RIEB） |
＜9:30-11:00am＞ The dynamics of wealth and income inequality in a neoclassical growth model ＜11:10-0:30pm＞ A dynamic two-country model of increasing returns and monopolistic competition ＜2:00-3:20pm＞ Indeterminacy in a dynamic free-trade model |
Stephen John TURNOVSKY （University of Washington） KIKUCHI Toru （Kobe University） SHIMOMURA Koji （Kobe University） |
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| Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration - Kobe University |
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