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June, 2008

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Previous Seminars

June, 2008

Workshop on International Trade and Investment
Date	Tuesday, June 3, 2008, 14:40-16:10
Place	Isono Building, 3rd floor, seminar room #317
Speaker	Megumi Nishimura (University of Colorado)
Title	"International Trade in the Presence of the History, History-dependent Differentiated Goods and the Cost of Relocation"
Contact	Prof. Taiji Furusawa [Graduate School of Economics](furusawa@econ.hit-u.ac.jp)

Workshop on International Trade and Investment
Date	Tuesday, June 3, 2008, 16:20-17:50
Place	Isono Building, 3rd floor, seminar room #317
Speaker	Yoichi Sugita (Columbia University)
Title	"Matching, Quality-Upgrading, and Trade in Intermediate Goods between Heterogeneous Firms"
Contact	Prof. Taiji Furusawa [Graduate School of Economics](furusawa@econ.hit-u.ac.jp)

Economic Theory Workshop / International Seminar
Date	Thursday, June 5, 2008 16:30-18:00
Place	Mercury Tower (Floor: 5, Room:3506) ~~3rd floor, seminar room #317, Isono Building,~~
Speaker	Professor Olivier Tercieux (Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE) and CNRS)
Title	“Continuous Implementation” (joint with Marion Oury) http://www.pse.ens.fr/tercieux/ContUTP.pdf
Contact	Professor Daisuke Oyama [Graduate School of Economics] (oyama@econ.hit-u.ac.jp)
Noteice	* Please note that the seminar room was changed.

Economic Theory Workshop
Date	Friday, June 6, 2008 14:40-16:10
Place	Mercury Tower (Floor: 5, Room:3506)
Speaker	Professor Jakub Steiner (University of Edinburgh)
Title	"Contagion through Learning" (joint with Colin Stewart) http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/jsteiner/learning.pdf
Contact	Daisuke Oyama [Graduate School of Economics] (oyama@econ.hit-u.ac.jp)

Macro-Money Workshop
Date	Monday, June 9, 2008, 16:30-
Place	Meeting Room, 4th Floor (Institute of Economic Research)
Speaker	Professor Oded Galor (Brown University)
Title	"Diversity and Comparative Development"
Contact	Etsuro Shioji [Graduate School of Economics](fax 042 580 8882)

Corporate Governance: The role of Family, CEO, Foreign Investors / International Seminar ORGANIZERS: University of Alberta School of Business, Canada, Chinese University of Hong Kong and Hitotsubashi University, Japan
Date	Tuesday, June 17, 2008 10:30-21:30
Place	IER, 4th floor, Meeting room
	Program (New)
	Session 1: CEOs
	CHAIR: Morten Bennedsen (Copenhagen Business School)
10.30- 11.30	1. Lucian A. Bebchuk (Harvard Law School and NBER), Martijn Cremers (Yale School of Management), and Urs Peyer (INSEAD) “CEO Centrality” Discussant: Katsuyuki Kubo (Waseda Univesity)
11.30- 12.30	2. Maurice D. Levi (University of British Columbia), Kai Li (University of British Columbia), Feng Zhang (University of British Columbia) “Mergers and Acquisitions: The Role of Gender Discussant: Seki Obata (Keio University)
	Lunch: 12.30- 14.30
	Session 2: FAMILY
	CHAIR: Vikas Mehrotra (University of Alberta and CEI visiting scholar)
14.30- 15.30	1. Marco Pagano (University of Naples Federico II), Giovanni Immordino (Universita di Salerno and CSEF)“Inheritance Law and Investment in Family Firms” Discussant: Asim Khwaja (Harvard University)
15.30- 16.30	2. Asim Khwaja (Harvard University), Atif Mian (University of Chicago) and A. Qamar (State Bank of Pakistan) “The Value of Business Networks” Discussant: Urs Peyer (INSEAD)
	Coffee/tea time: 16.30- 17.00
	Session 3: FOREIGN INVESTORS
	CHAIR: Yupana Wiwattanatankang (Hitotsubashi University)
17.00- 18.00	1. Jun Koo Kang (Micigan State University, CEI Visiting Professor), Jini-Mo Kim (University of Missouri-Kansas City) “Do Foreign Investors Exhibit a Corporate Governance Disadvantage? An Information Asymmetry Perspective” Discussant: Morton Bennedsen (Copenhagen Business School)
18.00- 19.00	2. Steen Thomsen (Copenhagen Business School) “Delistings from European Stock Exchanges 1996-2004” Discussant: Cong Wang Chinese University of Hong Kong)
19.00- 21.30	Discussion and open forum
Contact	Yupana Wiwattanakantang [IER] (yupana@ier.hit-u.ac.jp)

Macro-Money Workshop / Money and Finance Seminar
Date	Thursday, June 26, 2008, 16:30-
Place	Meeting Room, 4th Floor (Institute of Economic Research)
Speaker	Dr. Doo Yong Yang (Korea Institute for International Economic Policy)
Title	“Why is there so little regional financial integration in Asia?” (with Alicia Garcia-Herrero and Philip Wooldridge)
Contact	Etsuro Shioji [Graduate School of Economics](fax 042 580 8882)/Professor Takashi Misumi [Graduate School of Commerce] (phone 042 580 8826)

Russian and East European Workshop / International Seminar
Date	Friday, June 27, 2008 16:00-18:00
Place	Seminar room (1), Institute of Economic Research
Speaker	Tatibekov, Bolat (Institute of Economics, Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences)
Title	"Human Resources Development in Kazakhstan"
Contact	Ichiro Iwasaki [IER] (iiwasaki@ier.hit-u.ac.jp)