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September, 2007

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Previous Seminars

September, 2007

COE/RES Seminar
Date	Monday, September 10, 2007, 15:00-17:00
Place	Mercury Tower (1st floor room#3101)
Speaker	Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta (Frank Ramsey Professor of Economics, University of Cambridge)
Title	"Discounting Climate Change"
Contact	Professor Kotaro Suzumura (IER) * A inquiry phone: (042 580 9076) * Please notice start time was changed to 15:00 (previously 14:00).

Workshop on market for technology and digital products
Date	Wednesday, September 12, 2007, 14:00-17:30
Place	Institute of Innovation Research, 2F, Director’s Room
	Program
Speaker	1. Kiho Yoon (Korea University)[14:00-15:15]
Title	"On the impact of digital music distribution"
Discussant	Sadao Nagaoka
Speaker	2. Reiko Aoki (IER, Hitotsubashi University)[15:15-16:15]
Title	"Coalition formation of a standard consortium and a patent pool"
Discussant	Kiho Yoon
Speaker	3. Sadao Nagaoka (IIR, Hitotsubashi University)[16:30-17:30]
Title	"Economic Analysis of Patent Law Exemption for Research on a Patented Innovation"
Discussant	Yoshihito Yasaki (Kogakuin University)
Contact	Professor Sadao Nagaoka [IIR] (Tel.042-580-8423)

COE:Hi-stat Seminar
Date	Wednesday, September 19, 2007, 13:30-15:00
Place	Meeting Room, 4th floor, IER
Speaker	Professor V.K.Ramachandran (Indian Statistical Institute and Yokohama National University)
Title	"Financial Liberalisation and Rural Banking in India"
Contact	Professor Yukinobu Kitamura[IER](kitamura@ier.hit-u.ac.jp)

Hi-Stat Workshop Week on Historical Statistics Mini-Workshop on Historical Comparison of International Income and Productivities
Date	Wednesday, September 26, 2007 9:30-13:30
Place	Sano Shoin
	I. Invited Presentation: 9:30-11:40
Speaker	1. Herman de Jong (University of Groningen)
Title	"A New Benchmark for British and German Manufacturing 1935/1936"
	Coffee break: 10:30-10:40
Speakers	2. Stephen Broadberry and Bishnupriya Gupta (University of Warwick)
Title	“The Historical Roots of India’s Service-led Development: A Sectral Analysis of Anglo-Indian Productivity Differences, 1870-2000”
	Coffee break: 10:30-10:40
	II. Discussion: 12:00-13:00
Speaker	3. Thomas Rawski (University of Pittsburgh)
Title	“Linking Pre-Communist and Post-Communist National Income in China: Data and Methodological Issues”
Speaker	4.Konosuke Odaka (Hitotsubashi University)
Title	“Research Outcome and Publication Plan of Asian Historical Statistics Project”
Speakers	5. Tangjun Yuan (Hitotsubashi University) and Kyoji Fukao (Hitotsubashi University)
Title	“Data and Methodological Issues of Production Side PPP for East Asia” Speaker
Speakers	6. Jan Pieter Smits (University of Groningen) and Debin Ma (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Title	“Asian Historical National Accounts Database at the Groningen Growth and Development Centre”
	III. General Discussion 13:00-13:30
Contact	Kyoji Fukao [IER] (phone 042 580 8359)

Hi-Stat Workshop Week on Historical Statistics China’s Industrial Structure and Economic Growth: A Historical Perspective
Date	Thursday, September 27, 2007 9:30-17:30
Place	Sano Shoin
Opening Remarks	Konosuke Odaka (Hitotsubashi University)
	I. Economic Development in the Post-war Period: 9:40-10:15
Speakers	1. Angus Maddison (University of Groningen) and Harry Wu (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Title	“China’s Economic Performance: How Fast Has GDP Grown; How Big is it Compared with the USA?”
	Coffee break: 10:15-10:30
Speaker	2. Masaaki Kuboniwa (Hitotsubashi University)
Title	“A Reappraisal of Post-war Economic Growth in China”
Discussants	Thomas Rawski (University of Pittsburgh) Jan Pieter Smits (University of Groningen)
	II. Income Distribution: 11:40-12:30
Speaker	3. Li Shi (Beijing Normal University)
Title	“Changes in Income Inequality in China”
Discussant	Ryo Kambayashi (Hitotsubashi University)
	Lunch: 12:30-13:30
Speakers	4. Hiroshi Sato (Hitotsubashi University) and Li Shi (Beijing Normal University)
Title	“Class Origin, Family Culture, and Intergenerational Correlation of Education in Rural China”
Discussant	Naohito Abe (Hitotsubashi University)
	III. Labor Migration within China: 14:20-15:10
Speaker	5. Xin Meng (Australian National University)
Title	“Has China Run Out of Surplus Labour?”
Discussant	Tomoo Marukawa (University of Tokyo)
	Coffee Break: 15:10-15:30
	IV.Agriculture: 15:30-16:20
Speaker	6. Scott Rozelle (Stanford University)
Title	"TBA"
Discussant	Hisatoshi Hoken (IDE-JETRO)
	V.Industrialization and Labor Input: 16:20-17:10
Speakers	7. Prema-Chandra Athukorala (Australian National University), Kyoji Fukao (Hitotsubashi University) and Tangjun Yuan (Hitotsubashi University)
Title	“Industrial Transition and Labour Market Adjustment in China”
Discussant	Ryoshin Minami (Hitotsubashi University)
Concluding Remarks	Thomas Rawski (University of Pittsburgh)
Contact	Kyoji Fukao [IER] (phone 042 580 8359)

Hi-Stat Workshop Week on Historical Statistics Historical Occupational Structures: Asian and European Perspectives
Date	Friday, September 28, 2007 9:30-17:15
Place	Sano Shoin
	I. Asia: 10:00-12:45
Speaker & Title	1. Daan Marks: "Occupational structure and structural change in Indonesia, 1880-2000"
Speaker & Title	2. Jae-Won Sun: "Occupational structure’s change in colonial Korea, 1930-40"
Speakers & Title	3. Osamu Saito and Tokihiko Settsu: "Unveiling rural by-employment patterns and its implications for national income estimates in early phases of Japan’s industrialisation"
Discussants	Hal Hill Erik Buyst
	II. Europe 15.00-17.45
Speaker & Title	4. Leigh Shaw-Taylor: "The occupational structure of England c.1750-1871"
Speaker & Title	5. Erik Buyst: "Changes in the occupational structure of Belgium: New estimates for the 1846-1910 period"
Speakers & Title	6. Danielle van den Heuvel and Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk: "Changing occupational structures? The Dutch labour market, c. 1580-1900"
Discussants	Marco van Leeuwen Osamu Saito
Contact	Kyoji Fukao [IER] (phone 042 580 8359)