| Economic Theory Workshop/Contract Theory Workshop |
| Thursday, December 7, 2006, 16:30-18:00 |
| Seminar Room #215, 2nd floor, Isono Building |
| Prof. Zhijun Chen (Zhejiang University) |
| "Optimal Design of Leniency Mechanism" (joint with Patrick Rey) |
Prof. Hideshi Itoh [Graduate school of Commerce and Management]
Prof. Daisuke Oyama [Graduate School of Economics](oyama@econ.hit-u.ac.jp) |
| Monday, December 11, 2006, 16:30-18:00 |
| Seminar Room (5), 4th Floor (IER) |
| Professor Azeem M. Shaikh (University of Chicago and Yale University) |
| "Inference for Partially Identified Models" |
| Prof. Yoko Konishi [IER](phone 042 580 8367) |
| Monday, December 11, 2006, 10:30-18:15 |
| Meeting Room 4th floor (IER) |
| 1. Roger Backhouse (Birmingham Univ.), Tamotsu Nishizawa (Hitotsubashi Univ.) |
| "Reinterpreting the history of welfare economics" |
| 2. Hiroyuki Shimodaira (Yamagata Univ.) |
| "Cambridge economists on consumer's cooperation in the early 20th century" |
| 3. Yuichi Kimura (Hitotsubashi Univ.) |
| "Kaldor on the equilibrium of the firm:1934-1938" |
| 4. Martin Daunton (Cambridge Univ.) |
| "Equality, inequality and welfare in Britain 1850-2000" |
| 5. Eugenio Biagini (Cambridge Univ.) |
| "The politics of humanitarianism, the origins of the welfare state and the "strange death" of Liberal England, 1873-1925." |
| Professor Tamotsu Nishizawa [IER](nisizawa@ier.hit-u.ac.jp, phone 042 580 8362) |
