| All Seminars in 2008 |
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| Date&Time | Seminar Type | Topic | Speaker | Details |
| Thursday, April 3 1：30pm～ |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by Rokko Forum) |
<1:30pm～> Why did Countries Adopt the Gold Standard? Lessons from Japan <3:00pm～> Adjusting to capital account liberalisation |
Kris James MITCHENER (Department of Economics, Santa Clara University) AOKI Kosuke (the London School of Economics) |
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| Wednesday, April 9 3：30pm～ |
RIEB Seminar | Procurement efficiency for infrastructure projects and financial needs reassessed | IIMI Atsushi (Sustainable Development Network, The World Bank Group) |
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| Wednesday, April 16 3：00pm～ |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by Study Group for Economics of Agglomeration and Innovation) |
<3:00～> Trade and Entrepreneurship with Heterogeneous Workers <4:30～> Tax Reform, Delocation and Heterogeneous Firms: base widening and rate lowering rules |
TABUCHI Takatoshi (Graduate School of Economics, the University of Tokyo) OKUBO Toshihiro (RIEB, Kobe University) |
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| Thursday, April 17 3：00pm～ |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by Rokko Forum) |
<3:00～> Do Stock Exchanges Corral Investors into Herding? <4:30～> Flight to Quality and Canadian Mutual Fund Flowss |
Vikas MEHROTRA (School of Business, University of Alberta／Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University) Aditya KAUL (School of Business, University of Alberta) |
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| Saturday, April 19 3：30pm～ |
Kanematsu Seminar (Jointly supported by Study Group on Contemporary Accounting) |
Characteristics of Local Companies from the Analysis of Financial Data | TSUJIKAWA Naoki (School of Business Administration, University of Hyogo) |
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| Tuesday, May 20 2：30pm～ |
Kanematsu Seminar (Jointly supported by Rokko Forum) |
<2:30pm～> On a Consumer-based Environmental Subsidy/Tax Policy in the Case of an Environmentally Differentiated Products Market <3:30pm～> The worst number of trading blocs: Krugman's model revisited |
TOSHIMITSU Tsuyoshi (School of Economics, Kwansei Gakuin University) SAITO Tetsuya (Department of Economics, SUNY at Buffalo) |
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| Monday, June 9 2：00pm～ |
RIEB Seminar | Relational Norms as a Source of Value Creation: The Case of Japanese General Trading Companies (GTCs) | Thomas ROEHL (Department of Management, Western Washington University) |
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| Tuesday, June 10 10：30am～ |
Kobe Univ. RIEB / Graduate School of Economics Hanyang Univ. College of Economics and Finance / Hanyang Economic Institute Joint Report |
"Economic Integration & Financial Challenges in East Asia" | |
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| Friday, June 13 3：00pm～ |
RIEB Seminar | The National Banking Act and the Transformation of New York Banking after the Civil War | John A. JAMES (Department of Economics, University of Virginia) |
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| Saturday, June 14 3：00pm～ |
Kanematsu Seminar (Jointly supported by Study Group on Contemporary Accounting) |
Assessing Beliefs, Probabilities and Risks in Auditing | FUKUKAWA Hironori (Graduate School of Commerce and Management, Hitotsubashi University) |
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| Friday, June 27 3：30pm～ |
Kanematsu Seminar | A History of Monies from the Viewpoint of Fluid Dynamics | KURODA Akinobu (The Institute of Oriental Culture, The University of Tokyo) |
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| Monday, June 30 3：00pm～ |
RIEB Seminar | Global Competition of Various Financial Institutions under Integrated Foreign Exchange Markets Worldwide in the 1980s | KAMINO Mitsushiro (Faculty of Commerce, Fukuoka University) |
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| Friday, July 11 9：30am～ |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research Workshop (Jointly supported by RIEB Seminar) |
One-Day Workshop on: Trade, Dynamics and Contracts | |
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| Friday, July 11 4：00pm～ |
RIEB Seminar | Collusion and product durability | SASAKI Dan (Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo) |
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| Tuesday, July 15 3：00pm～ |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by Research Project on the Comparative Studies on BRICs Economies Sponsored by the MEXT) |
Food and Oil Prices and their Implications for Rural Poverty | IMAI Katsushi (Economics Department, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester) |
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| Friday, July 18 3：30pm～ |
RIEB Seminar | Internationalization of the Chinese Private Enterprises: Theoretical Analysis and Case Study | ZHAO Wei (College of Economics ＆ Institute of international Economics, Zhejiang University) |
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| Saturday, August 23 3：30pm～ |
Kanematsu Seminar (Jointly supported by Study Group on Contemporary Accounting) |
Theoretical Orientation of Stakeholder Engagement | HORIGUCHI Shinji (Graduate School of Business Administration, Kobe University) |
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| Thursday, August 28 3：30pm～ |
RIEB Seminar | Would global patent protection be too weak without international coordination? | Edwin Lun-Cheung LAI (Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas／RIEB, Kobe University) |
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| Friday, September 12 2：00pm～ |
Kanematsu Seminar | Public bail-out for banks: Consequences for bank lending | Uwe Friedrich VOLLMER (Economics Department, University of Leipzig) |
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| Friday, October 10 1：00pm～ |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by Workshop on Creating and Managing Premium Value) |
<1:00～> MOT creating new value: creating and managing premium value <1:45～> Premium value brought from industrial design <2:30～> A reassessment of "new paradigm" reasoning proposed by Mr.Masaru Ibuka, the founder of Sony Corporation: shift from functional value to semantic one |
NOBEOKA Kentaro (Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University / Emeritus Professor, Kobe University) KANKI Naoto & OSANAI Atsushi (RIEB, Kobe University) OSANAI Atsushi (RIEB, Kobe University) |
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| Wednesday, October 15 3：30pm～ |
RIEB Seminar | Intergenerational Long Term Effects of Preschool -Estimates from a Structural Dynamic Programming Model |
Lakshmi K. RAUT (Social Security Administration, U.S. Government) |
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| Friday, October 25 2：00pm～ |
RIEB Policy Research Workshop (Jointly supported by Monetary Economics Seminar of Kobe University) |
"Global Financial Crisis and Monetary Policy in East Asia" | |
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| Wednesday, November 5 1：45pm～ |
RIEB Seminar | Executive Staffing Practice Patterns in Foreign MNC Affiliates Based in Japan | Ralf BEBENROTH (RIEB, Kobe University) |
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| Friday, November 14 9：30am～ |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research Workshop (Jointly supported by RIEB Seminar) |
One-Day Workshop on: Trade and Growth | |
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| Friday, November 14 3：30pm～ |
RIEB Seminar | Trade Liberalization, Economic Growth, and Income Distribution in A Multiple-cone Neoclassical Growth Model | KIYOTA Kozo (Faculty of Business Administration, Yokohama National University) |
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| Friday, November 14 4：25pm～ |
RIEB Seminar | Innovation, protection and retaliation | MIYAGIWA Kazuyuki (Department of Economics, Emory University / Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University) |
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| Tuesday, November 18 1：30pm～ |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by Latin America Seminar/Workshop on Economic and Political Research on Latin America) |
Reform and Transformation of Latin American Economy Focusing on Two Aggressive Reformers: Chile and El Salvador | HOSONO Akio (Graduate School of Policy Studies, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies) |
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| Tuesday, November 18 3：00pm～ |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by Rokko Forum) |
<3:00～> Unbundling Property Rights in India <4:30～> The US tech pulse, stock prices, and exchange rate dynamics: Evidence from Asian developing countries |
KATO Atsushi (School of Business, Aoyama Gakuin University) KUBO Akihiro (Center for Research on Economic Inequality, Osaka City University) |
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| Saturday, November 22 3：30pm～ |
Kanematsu Seminar (Jointly supported by Study Group on Contemporary Accounting) |
The Economic Function of Audit Services in Securities Market | MATSUMOTO Yoshinao (School of Accountancy, Kansai University) |
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| Friday, December 12 3：10pm～ |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by Rokko Forum) |
Technology Transfer and the Gendering of Work: Meiji Japan in Comparative Historical Perspective | Janet HUNTER (the London School of Economics / Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo) |
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| Monday, December 15 3：30pm～ |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by Latin America Seminar/Workshop on Economic and Political Research on Latin America) |
Economic Opening and Regional Development: The Case of Zhejiang Province | GU Guo-da (School of Economics, Zhejiang University) |
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| Monday, December 22 3：30pm～ |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by The Second Workshop on Iconology) |
History and Documentary | Ronald TOBY (Department of History, University of Illinois) |
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| Friday, January 16 2：00pm～ |
RIEB Seminar | Corporate Governance in Eastern Europe | Dimiter IALNAZOV (Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University) |
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| Saturday, January 24 3：00pm～ |
Workshop on "Business Science in the Global Economy" (Jointly supported by Kanematsu Seminar / Study Group on Contemporary Accounting) |
<3:00pm～> Abnormal Accrual, Informed Trader, and Long-Term Stock Return: Evidence from Japan <4:30pm～> A financial profile analysis of both dividend-increasing and dividend-decreasing firms |
MURAMIYA Katsuhiko (RIEB, Kobe University) ISHIKAWA Hiroyuki (Graduate School of Business, Osaka City University) |
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| Thursday, February 5 1：30pm～ |
Latin America Seminar | The Secondary Effects of Poverty Alleviation Programs on Migration: The Case of Mexico's Progresa-Oportunidades | AONUMA Takashi (Graduate School of Area and Cultural Studies, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) |
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| Wednesday, February 25 3：30pm～ |
RIEB Seminar （Jointly supported by Rokkodai Theory Seminar) |
Stochastic Equilibrium: Concepts and Computations for Lindley Processes | Mukul MAJUMDAR (Department of Economics, Cornell University) |
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| Friday, March 6 1：30pm～ |
Workshop on "Business Science in the Global Economy" （Jointly supported by Kanematsu Seminar / Study Group on Contemporary Accounting） |
<1:30pm～3:00pm> Managerial Ownership and Cost of Debt: Empirical Evidence from Japan <3:10pm～4:40pm> Risk-shifting Incentive of Managers: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Japanese Reorganization Procedures |
SHUTO Akinobu (RIEB, Kobe University) KITAGAWA Norio (Graduate School of Business Administration, Kobe University) TESHIMA Nobuyuki （School of Commerce, Senshu University） |
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| Thursday, March 12 1：30pm～ |
RIEB Seminar （Jointly supported by Latin America Seminar） |
Economic Reform and Fiscal Stance of State Governments in India | FUKUMI Atsushi （School of Political Science and Economics, Tokai University） |
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| Monday, March 16 2：30pm～ |
Latin America Seminar （Jointly supported by Political Economy of Comparative Area Studies Workshop） |
Historical Origins of Financial Crises: Path Dependence of Financial Systems in Korea, Thailand and Mexico | OKABE Yasunobu (Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo) |
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| Wednesday, March 18 1：30pm～ |
RIEB Seminar （Jointly supported by IEFS Japan Seminar） |
<1:30pm～2:30pm> Costly signals sent by the monetary to the fiscal authority <2:45pm～3:45pm> Tainted Food, Low-Quality Products and Trade <4:00pm～5:30pm> Real Wages and Non-traded Goods |
SAWAKI Hisashi (Faculty of Economics, Tezukayama University) ZHAO Laixun （RIEB, Kobe University） Ronald JONES (Faculty of Economics, University of Rochester) |
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| Thursday, March 19 3：30pm～ |
RIEB Seminar | Export Intensity and Impacts from Firm Characteristics, Domestic Competition and Domestic Constraints in Vietnam: A Mirco-data Analysis | Hiep NGUYEN (RIEB, Kobe University） NISHIJIMA Shoji （RIEB, Kobe University） |
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| Monday, March 23 1：00pm～ |
Workshop on "Business Science in the Global Economy" | RIEB Workshop on "Challenges in the Global Economy" | |
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| Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration - Kobe University |
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