All Seminars in 2016
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| Tuesday, April 5 15:30- |
RIEB Seminar | Estimation of Vulnerability to Poverty using a Multilevel Longitudinal Model: Evidence from the Philippines |
Katsushi IMAI (Economics Department, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester [UK]) |
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| Saturday, April 16 15:00- |
Monetary Economics Seminar of Kobe University | Non-standard Monetary Policy by European Central Bank for dealing with European Debt Turmoils | Sadayoshi TAKAYA (Faculty of Business and Commerce, Kansai University) |
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| Thursday, April 21 17:00- |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by:Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S)) | Financial Development, Structure and Growth: New Data, Method and Results | Kul LUINTEL （Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University [UK]) |
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| Sunday, April 24 13:00- |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by:Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)) |
Trade Liberalization and Wage Inequality in the Indian Manufacturing Sector | <Speaker> Manabu FURUTA (Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University) <Discussant> Azusa FUJIMORI (Department of Business Management and Accounting, Osaka Seikei University) |
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| Motorcycle Industry in India | <Speaker> Kohei MISHIMA (Faculty of Economics, Keio University) <Discussant> Jun OTAHARA (Faculty of Commerce, Doshisha University) |
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| Japanese Hybrid Factories in India: An International Comparative Study of Management and Production System Transferred | <Speaker> Tetsuo ABO (Emeritus Professor, University of Tokyo / RIEB Research Fellow) <Discussant> Hideki YOSHIHARA (Emeritus Professor, Kobe University) |
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| Monday, April 25 15:00- |
RIEB Seminar | Women at the Top and Executive Compensation | Yoshio YANADORI (School of Management, University of South Australia [Australia]) |
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| Saturday, May 7 15:30- |
Monetary Economics Seminar of Kobe University | Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing with a Negative Interest Rate | Ichiro MUTO (Bank of Japan) |
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| Tuesday, May 17 16:00- |
RIEB Seminar | Historical Trends in Managing Development | Sri Nidhi SRINIVAS (The New School for Public Engagement [USA] / RIEB, Kobe University) |
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| Monday, May 30 10:00- |
RIEB Seminar | How Do Organizations Learn from the Failure of an Acquisition Attempt? A Behavioral Perspective |
Katsuhiko SHIMIZU (Keio Business School, Keio University) |
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| Monday, May 30 16:00- |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by: KUMA Seminar and Rokko Forum) |
The Utilization of Micro Data: Methods and Procedures for Official Statistics | Takashi UNAYAMA (Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University) |
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| Comparison of Households Statistics: Characteristics of Surveyed Households, Household Composition and Annual Income | ||||
| The Current States and the Issues Regarding Labor Statistics | Kazufumi YUGAMI (Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University) |
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| Tuesday, June 7 15:10- |
Latin America Seminar | Policy Adjustments After the End of the Commodity Boom: The Latin American Experience | Fausto MEDINA-LOPEZ (Special Senior Advisor, Inter-American Development Bank [USA] / Former Deputy Representative, IDB Office in Asia) |
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| Thursday, June 9 13:30- |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by:Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)) |
Locating Japan's Talent Predicaments Under Global Capitalism | <Speaker> Anthony P. D'COSTA (Australia India Institute, University of Melbourne [Australia]) <Discussant> Etsuro ISHIGAMI (Faculty of Commerce, Fukuoka University) |
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| Monday, June 13 15:10- |
RIEB Seminar | Why Are Countries So Eager to Form Free Trade Areas? | Kar-yiu WONG (Department of Economics, University of Washington [USA] / RIEB, Kobe University) |
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| Tuesday, June 14 17:00- |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by: KUMA Seminar, Rokko Forum and Rokkodai Public Economics Seminar) |
Evaluation of the Fiscal Effect on Municipal Mergers: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Japanese Municipal Data | Hideo YUNOUE (School of Economics, University of Hyogo) |
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| Tuesday, June 21 15:30- |
Kanematsu Seminar (Jointly supported by:Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)) |
Analyzing Air-Conditioner Market of India: Popular Theory and the Fact of Global Firm's Strategy for Emerging Countries | <Speaker> Masaki UENO (Department of Business Administration, Nanzan University) <Discussant> Naoto SHIMOKADO (Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University) |
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| Wednesday, June 22 15:15- |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by:Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S)) |
The Heart of Cohomology | Goro KATO (Mathematics Department, California Polytechnic State University [U.S.A.]) |
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| Wednesday, June 22 15:30- |
Monetary Economics Seminar of Kobe University (Jointly supported by: Kobe University Center for Social Systems Innovation) |
FinTech and Digital Currencies: A Central Banker's Perspective |
Shuji KOBAYAKAWA (Bank of Japan) |
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| Friday, June 24 16:00- |
RIEB Seminar | Exports, Exchange Rates, and Productivity: An analysis of the Japanese manufacturing sectors | Atsuyuki KATO (Faculty of Economics and Management, Institute of Human and Social Sciences, Kanazawa University / Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry) |
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| Wednesday, June 29 11:00- |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by:Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S),(B)) |
Open-Access Renewable Resources and Urban Unemployment: Dual Institutional Failures in a Small Open Economy | Nori TARUI (Department of Economics, University of Hawai'i at Manoa [U.S.A.]) |
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| Friday, July 1 14:00- |
Workshop on: Trade, Innovation & Growth (Jointly supported by: RIEB Seminar / Rokko Forum / Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), (B)) Program |
Innovation for Sale | Colin DAVIS (Graduate School of Business, Doshisha University) |
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| Tariffs, R&D, and Two Merger Policies | Hikmet GUNAY (Department of Economics, University of Manitoba [Canada]) |
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| Does Endogenous Timing Matter in Implementing Partial Tax Harmonization? | Jun-ichi ITAYA (Graduate School of Economics and Business Administration, Hokkaido University) |
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| Tuesday, July 5 13:30- |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by:Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)) |
Economic Reforms, Infrastructure and Regional Inequality in India | Madhusudan GHOSH (Department of Economics and Politics, VISVA-BHARATI [India] / Faculty of Economics, Hosei University) |
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| Monday, July 11 15:30- |
Kanematsu Seminar | Stability and Strategy-proofness for Matching with Constraints: A Necessary and Sufficient Condition | Fuhito KOJIMA (Department of Economics, Stanford University [U.S.A.]) |
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| Thursday, July 14 17:00- |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by: KUMA Seminar and Rokko Forum) |
Policy decision and Real time Data | Yasuyuki KOMAKI (Nihon University College of Economics) |
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| Tuesday, July 19 15:30- |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by:Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S)) |
Zipf's Law: A Microfoundation | Alexis Akira TODA (Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego [U.S.A.]) |
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| Wednesday, July 20 15:00- |
RIEB Seminar | Decentralised Random Competitive Dynamic Market Processes | Zaifu YANG (Department of Economics, University of York [UK]) |
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| Wednesday, July 20 15:30- |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by:Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S),(B)) |
Sequential Implementation without Commitment | Takashi HAYASHI (Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasrow [UK]) |
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| Friday, July 22 9:30- |
Workshop on: Innovation, Trade & Wages in the East Asia Time Zones (Jointly supported by: RIEB Seminar / Rokko Forum / Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), (B)) Program |
Local Labor Market Effects of China's WTO Entry | Yifan ZHANG (Department of Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong [Hong Kong]) |
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| Identity in Public Goods Games | Fuhai HONG (Department of Economics, Nanyang Technological University [Singapore]) |
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| China's Family Planning Policies and Their Labor Market Consequences | Zhong ZHAO (School of Labor and Human Resources, Renmin University of China [China]) |
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| Competition, Product Innovation and Licensing | Hong HWANG (Department of Economics, National Taiwan University [Taiwan]) |
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| Does Housing Price Affect Cities' Comparative Advantage? | Churen SUN (School of International Business, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics [China]) |
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| Anti-dumping Duty Circumvention through Trade Re-routing | Huimin SHI (School of Economics, Renmin University of China [China]) |
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| Housing Bubble and Government Regulation: Evidence from China's Home Purchase Restriction Policy | Bihong HUANG (Asian Development Bank Institute) |
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| Friday, July 22 17:00- |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by:Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S)) Slides |
Financial Integration and the Bubbly Savings Glut | Toan PHAN (Department of Economics, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [U.S.A.]) |
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| Saturday, July 23 14:00- |
Monetary Economics Seminar of Kobe University (Jointly supported by: Kobe University Center for Social Systems Innovation) |
Artificial Intelligence for Economists: Forecasting the BoJ's Monetary Policy by Deep Learning | Takashi SHIONO (Economic Research, Credit Suisse Securities (Japan) Limited) |
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| Retail and SME Finance and Securitization in Asia-Case Study of Bank of Ayudhya among the Others | Hidefumi YAMAGAMI (Institute for World Economy, Kindai University) |
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| Wednesday, July 27 15:00- |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by:Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S)) |
What is Econophysics? -Aims, Spirit, Latest developments | Hideaki AOYAMA (Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University) |
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| Thursday, July 28 17:00- |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by: KUMA Seminar, Rokko Forum and Rokkodai Public Economics Seminar) |
How long do people keep reducing electricity consumption after public pressures? | Shigeharu OKAJIMA (Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University) |
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| Thursday, August 18 16:30- |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by:Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S)) |
Understanding heterogeneous complex systems with percolation | Michael M. DANZIGER (Department of Physics, Bar Ilan University [Israel]) |
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| Tuesday, September 20 15:00- |
Monetary Economics Seminar of Kobe University (Jointly supported by: Rokko Forum / Organization for Advanced and Integrated Research Kobe University / Kobe University Center for Social Systems Innovation) | Application of Artificial Intelligence Technology to Financial Markets | Kiyoshi IZUMI (Department of Systems Innovation, The University of Tokyo) |
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| Friday, September 23 13:30- |
RIEB Seminar | Integration of Japanese Multinationals into the Global Village | Camilla NELLEMANN (Graduate School of Business, Rikkyo University) |
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| Friday, September 23 15:30- |
RIEB Seminar | There Is No (Depression) Childhood's End, for Central Bankers too | Etienne FARVAQUE (Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, Lille 1 University [France]) |
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| Tuesday, October 18 15:30- |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by: TJAR Workshop) |
Accrual Duration | Ilia D. DICHEV (Goizueta Business School, Emory University [U.S.A.]) |
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| Saturday, October 22 14:30- |
Monetary Economics Seminar of Kobe University (Jointly supported by: RIEB Seminar / Workshop on International Finance) | Why Doesn't Capital Flow into Faster Growing Economies? : The Role of Utility Functions | Shingo IOKIBE (Faculty of Commerce, Doshisha University) |
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| Pass through of Exchange Rates into Japanese Automobile Prices | Yuri SASAKI (Department of Economics, Meiji Gakuin University) |
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| Monday, October 24 16:00- |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by: Kansai Research Group on Development Microeconomcis: KDME) |
On the Role of Media in Shifting Social Preferences toward Minorities: Evidence from Laboratory Experiments with Koreans in Japan | Yasuyuki SAWADA (Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo) |
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| Tuesday, October 25 15:30- |
RIEB Seminar | Time-Consistency, Pareto-Optimality & Hyperbolic Discounting | Jean-Pierre DRUGEON (French National Center for Scientific Research [France] / Paris School of Economics [France]) |
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| Saturday, November 5 14:00- |
Monetary Economics Seminar of Kobe University (Jointly supported by: RIEB Seminar / Kobe University Center for Social Systems Innovation) | Blockchain Technology and issues and merits to deploy Financial Market Infrastructures especially Securities Settlement | Taketoshi MORI (Senior manager Business Analytics Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu LLC) |
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| Blockchain Technology Trend and Expected Use Cases on Real Business | Atsushi KAWAMURA (Industry & Cognitive Solutions, Financial Industry Solutions No.3, IBM Japan) |
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| Friday, November 11 14:00- |
Workshop on International Management Issues and M&A (Jointly supported by: RIEB Seminar) | Project Description: The role of HR practices in organizational harmonization processes at Japanese firms owned by foreign MNCs | H Richard NAKAMURA (School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg [Sweden]) |
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| Fostering Local Managerial Capacity in China: HRM, Matched-Pairs, and Collectivity of Practice | Ramsin YAKOB (School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg [Sweden]) |
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| Acquiring for growth? The influence of managerial experience and ties on the likelihood of intra-industry acquisitions |
Pao-Lien CHEN ( Institute of Technology Management, National Tsing Hua University [Taiwan]) |
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| Wednesday, November 16 16:30- |
RIEB Seminar | On the Maximinim Principle and the Rate of Discount: A Simple Dynamic Programming Argument | Jean-Pierre DRUGEON (French National Center for Scientific Research [France] / Paris School of Economics [France]) |
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| Monday, November 21 15:30- |
RIEB Seminar | On the Determinants of the 2008 Financial Crisis: A Bayesian Approach to the Selection of Groups and Variables | Yi-Chi CHEN (Department of Economics, National Cheng Kung University [Taiwan]) |
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| Friday, December 9 15:30- |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by:Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S)) | Energy R&D and Climate Change: An Endogenous Growth and Technology Model | Youngho CHANG (Division of Economics, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University [Singapore]) |
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| Saturday, December 10 14:00- |
Monetary Economics Seminar of Kobe University | Relationship Banking in Early Modern Japan: The case of Osaka financial market | Yasuo TAKATSUKI (RIEB, Kobe University) |
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| Bank's Loans and Reserves in the pre-WW2 Japan | Masayoshi TSURUMI (Emeritus Professor, Hosei University / Institute of Comparative Economic Studies, Hosei University) |
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| Thursday, December 15 15:30- |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by: TJAR Workshop) | Career Concerns, Financial Reporting Quality, and Efficiencies | Suil PAE (SKK Graduate School of Business, Sungkyunkwan University [Korea]) |
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| Tuesday, December 20 10:30- |
Workshop on: Trade and Labor Relations in the East Asia Time Zone — IEFS Japan Annual Meeting 2016 — (Jointly supported by: IEFS Japan / RIEB Seminar / Rokko Forum / Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)・(B)) Program |
Does Health Insurance Improve Health and Save Lives? Evidence from China | Xiaoyan LEI (National School of Development, Peking University [China]) |
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| Regional Variations in Productivity Premium of Exporters: Evidence from Japanese Plant-level Data | Eiichi TOMIURA (Graduate School of Econimics, Hitotsubashi University) |
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| The Impact of Retirement on Cognitive Functioning: Evidence from Urban China | Hong LIU (China Economics Management Academy, Central University of Finance & Economics [China]) |
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| Economic Institutions and Bureaucratic Delay | Yi LIU (Jiangxi University of Finance & Economics [China]) |
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| Does Corporate Governance Matter in Competitive Industries? Evidence from China | Jie LI (Jinan University [China]) |
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| Do Multinationals Transfer Culture? Evidence on Female Employment | Heiwai TANG (School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University [U.S.A.]) |
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| Tuesday, December 20 15:30- |
RIEB Seminar | Market-Making Middlemen | Makoto WATANABE (Department of Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam / Research Fellow, Tinbergen Institute [The Netherlands]) |
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| Thursday, December 22 17:00- |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by: KUMiC Seminar and Rokko Forum) | Economic Policy and Micro Empirical Analysis | Masayuki MORIKAWA (Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry) |
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| Tuesday, December 27 15:30- |
Kanematsu Seminar | Land Use Change of Lepcha Indigenous Villages in the Sikkim Himalayas: Historical Ethno-Ecology Approach | Saori OGURA (Faculty of Forestry, The University of British Columbia [Canada]) |
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| Family Background, School Choice, and Students' Academic Achievement: Evidence from Sri Lanka | Tomokazu NOMURA (Department of Economics, Aichi Gakuin University ) |
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| Saturday, January 7 9:20～ |
Kobe Seminar of East Asian Network of Latin American Studies (EANLAS) (Jointly sponsored by: Kobe University RIEB Workshop on Economic and Political Research on Latin America & Latin America Seminar / Kobe University Center for Social System Innovation / East Asian Network of Latin American Studies (EANLAS) / Kyoto University Center for Integrated Area Studies (CIAS) / JSPS KAKENHI-PROJECT-16H03313 / Japan Society for Social Science Studies on Latin America (JSLA)) |
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| Saturday, January 7 12:20～ |
The 7th International Conference of THE JAPANESE ACCOUNTING REVIEW |
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| Tuesday, January 10 15:30- |
Kanematsu Seminar | Reconsidering Skills Mismatch beyond a 'Demand-driven' Paradigm: Toward Dynamic Skills Formation in Vietnam | Junichi MORI (School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University [UK]) |
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| Tuesday, January 17 15:30- |
RIEB Seminar | Consumption Smoothing and Risk Coping Mechanisms: Evidence from Rural India | Katsushi IMAI (Economics Department, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester [UK]) |
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| Thursday, January 19 16:00- |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by:TJAR Workshop) | Audit Hour Elasticity to Audit Fees and Lowballing | Woo-Jong LEE (College of Business Administration, Seoul National University [S. Korea]) |
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| Saturday, January 28 13:30- |
KUMiC Workshop (Hosted by: Graduate School of Economics and RIEB, Kobe University / Research Centre for Information and Statics of Social Science, Institute of Economic Reserch, Hitotsubashi University) |
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| Saturday, January 28 15:00- |
Monetary Economics Seminar of Kobe University (Jointly supported by RIEB Seminar / Kobe University Center for Social Systems Innovation) | Recent Advancement of Fintech and its Impact to Financial System | Toshio TAKI (Money Forward Inc.) |
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| Wednesday, February 1 15:00- |
RIEB Seminar (Jointly supported by: Rokko Forum / Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research) |
Harmful Pro-Competitive Effects of Trade in Presence of Credit Market Frictions | Reto FOELLMI (Swiss Institute for International Economics and Applied Economics Research, University of St.Gallen [Swiss] ) |
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| Inequality and Patience in Catching up | Laixun ZHAO (RIEB, Kobe University) |
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| Tuesday, March 7 14:00- |
RIEB Seminar | The Development of Trust in Chinese-German Subordinate-Supervisor Relations | Markus PUDELKO (Department of International Business, Tuebingen University [Germany] ) |
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| Interplay of Team Mental Models, Project Process Models, and Language in International Software-Development Teams | Tomoki SEKIGUCHI (Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University) Azusa EBISUYA (Graduate Schoo of Economics, Osaka University) |
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| Tuesday, March 7 16:30- |
RIEB Seminar | Recent Developments on Partially Identified Economic Models | Hiroaki KAIDO (Department of Econimics, Boston University [U.S.A.] ) |
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| Tuesday, March 14 10:00- |
Workshop on: Anti-Globalization Risks and Their Impacts in the East Asia Time Zone (Jointly supported by: RIEB Seminar / Rokko Forum / Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A),(B),(S)) Program |
A New Broom Skims the Cream: Zombie Firms and Tenure in China | Huihua NIE (School of Economics, Renmin University [China]) |
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| Production Chains, Exchange Rate Shocks and Firm Performance | Hongyong ZHANG (Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry) |
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| Trade Diversion Is Reversed in the Long Run | Takumi NAITO (Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University) |
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| Global Price Discovery in the Australian Dollar Market and its Determinants | Jingjing ZHANG (Institute for Social and Economic Research, Nanjing Audit University [China]) |
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| Housing Market Fluctuations and Interstate Trade in the United States | Liugang SHENG (Department of Economics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong [Hong Kong]) |
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| Subjective and Objective Risks of Food Safety in China | Xiaohua YU (Department of Agricultual Economics and Rural Development, University of Gottingen [Germany]) |
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| Friday, March 17 13:30- |
Kanebo Seminar of Kobe University (Jointly supported by: RIEB Seminar / Kanematsu Seminar) |
Outline of My Book, Big Business and Local Community | <Speaker> Masao TSUTSUI (Faculty of Economics, Shiga University) |
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| History of Cotton | <Speaker> Sadahiro TANIGUCHI (Archives of Toyobo Co., Ltd) |
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| An Interim Report Concerning the Organizing Historical Materials of Nikke | <Speaker> Tomoko HASHINO (Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University) Yasuhiro SHIMIZU (Graduate School of Business Administration, Kobe University) Kyohei HIRANO (Graduate School of Business Administration, Kobe University) |
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| Saturday, March 18 15:30- |
Monetary Economics Seminar of Kobe University (Jointly supported by RIEB Seminar) | Can FTPL be a solution?…after reviewing Mr. Kuroda's Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing | Mitsuru IWAMURA (Waseda Business School (Graduate School of Business and Finance)) |
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| Monday/Holiday, March 20 14:00- Tuesday, March 21 10:00- |
Workshop on Trade, FDI and India's Economic Development (Hosted by: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) / Jointly supported by: Kanematsu Seminar) |
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