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February, 2008

Institute of Economic Research Hitotsubashi University

2-1 Naka, Kunitachi City,
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Previous Seminars
February, 2008
Economic Theory Workshop
Date

Thursday, February 7, 2008 16:30-18:00

Place

Mercury Tower (Floor: 5, Room:3506)

Faculty Building 2, 2nd floor, seminar room #217

Speaker Professor Dov Samet (Tel Aviv University)
Title "Agreeing to Disagree: The Non-Probabilistic Case"
http://www.tau.ac.il/~samet/papers/generalized-agreement-theorem.pdf
Contact

Professor Daisuke Oyama [Graduate School of Economics](oyama@econ.hit-u.ac.jp)

Economic Statistics Workshop/International Seminar
Date

Thursday, February 14, 2008, 16:00-

Place

Seminar room (1) 3rd floor, Institute of Economic Research

Speaker Professor W.T.M. Dunsmuir (School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales)
Title "Large Sample Properties for Exponential Family Time Series Models"
Contact

Professor Eiji Kurozumi [Graduate School of Economics](kurozumi@stat.hit-u.ac.jp, phone 042 580 8485)

Symposium on Law and Economics of IP
Date

Monday, February 18, 2008, 13:00-

Place

Josui Kaikan, 2nd floor Star Hall [http://www.kaikan.co.jp/josui/company/access.html]

  Program
Opening Remarks

[13:00-13:20]

Geoffrey Manne, Microsoft Academic Relations Manager (Law and Economics)

Takehiko Sugiyama, Hitotsubashi University, President

 
Digital Information and Intellectual Property [13:20-15:20]
Speaker & Title

1. Suzanne Scotchmer (UC Berkeley, Professor, Department of Economics [http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~scotch/]) "Digital Rights Management"

Speaker & Title 2. Katsuya Tamai, (Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo [http://www.ip.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/member/tamai/tamai_01.htm]) "Information, Intellectual Property and Exhaustion"
Speaker & Title

3.Stephen Maurer (UC Berkeley?Director, Goldman School IT and Homeland Security Project [http://gspp.berkeley.edu/academics/affiliates/maurer.html]) "Open Source"

 
Question and Answer
 
Frontiers of Research on IP and Alternatives [15:40-17:30]
Speaker & Title 1.Janet Hope?(Australian National University ARC Fellow [http://rsss.anu.edu.au/~janeth/Profile.html]) "Open Source and Biotechnology"
Speaker & Title

2. Shigeo Muto (Tokyo Institute of Technology [http://www.soc.titech.ac.jp/~muto/index.html]) "Patent Licensing using Game Theory"

Speaker & Title

3. Sadao Nagaoka (The Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University [http://www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp/staff/staff_nagaoka.html]) "Research Exemption"

Speaker & Title

4.F. Scott Kieff (Professor of Law, Washington University)
[http://www.hoover.org/bios/kieff.html]“Removing Property from Intellectual Property”

Concluding Remarks Reiko Aoki (The Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)
Contact

Professor Reiko Aoki [IER](aokirei@ier.hit-u.ac.jp)

COE/RES Seminar, International Seminar
Date

Tuesday, February 19, 2008 14:15-16:30

Place

Faculty Building 2, 2nd floor, seminar room #217

Speaker 1. Professor Hodaka Morita (The University of New South Wales)[14:15-15:15]
Title "Discrete innovation, continuous improvement,and competitive pressure" (with Arghya Ghosh, Takao Kato)
Speaker 2. Professor Arghya Ghosh (The University of New South Wales)[15:30-16:30]
Title "Political Economy of Infrastructure Investment" (with Kieron Meagher)
Contact

Prof. Jota Ishikawa [Graduate School of Economics] (jota@econ.hit-u.ac.jp)

International Workshop on Insurance/International Seminar
Date

Wednesday, February 27, 2008, 15:30-17:30

Place

Sano Shoin Hall

[Route to Sano Shoin Hall   http://www.econ.hit-u.ac.jp/~coe-res/paper_doc/sano.pdf]

Speaker Professor Jean Kwon (St. John's University, New York)
Title

"Cross-accountability in Insurance Regulation"

"Risk Management and Insurance: Perspectives in a Global Economy"

Contact

Professor Takau Yoneyama [Graduate School of Commerce] yoneyama@piccolo.misc.hit-u.ac.jp, phone 042 580 8491)