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May, 2009

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Previous Seminars

May, 2009

Workshop on Industry and Labor/CEI Seminar/Global COE
Date	Tuesday, May 12, 2009 16:30-18:00
Place	Isono building 1st floor Seminar room (2)
Speaker	Chul Woo Baek (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Evaluation and Planning; Hitotsubashi University [Visiting Associate Professor])
Title	"Productivity Growth and Competition across the Asian Financial Crisis: Evidence from Korean Manufacturing Firms (with Young Gak Kim and Hyeog Ug Kwon)"
Contact	Hiroyuki Okamuro [Graduate School of Economics]/Masatoshi Kato [IER](mkato@ier.hit-u.ac.jp)

Economic Theory Workshop
Date	Wednesday, May 13 and Thursday, May 14, 2009
Place	Mercury Tower (East Campus) 7th floor
	Program
	--Wednesday May 13--
9:15- 10:15	Koichi Tadenuma (Hitotsubashi University) "Universal Social Orderings"
	<10:15-10:35 Coffee Break>
10:35- 11:35	Naoki Yoshihara (Hitotsubashi University) "On Initial Conferment of Individual Rights"
11:35- 12:35	Bezalel Peleg (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) "Condorcet Jury Theorem: The Dependent Case"
	<12:35-14:15 Lunch Break>
14:15- 15:15	Jeffrey J. Kline (Bond University and Tsukuba University) "Inductive Game Theory: A Basic Scenario"
	<15:15-15:35 Coffee Break>
15:35- 16:35	Mamoru Kaneko (Tsukuba University) "Transpersonal Understanding Through Social Rules and Emergence of Cooperation"
16:35- 17:35	Aner Sela (Ben Gurion University) "Carrots and Sticks: Prizes and Punishments in Contests"
	--Thursday May 14--
9:15- 10:15	Akira Okada (Hitotsubashi University) "Non-Cooperative Bargaining and the Incomplete Information Core"
	<10:15-10:35 Coffee Break>
10:35- 11:35	Ori Haimanko (Ben Gurion University and Hitotsubashi University) "On the Existence of Bayesian Cournot Equilibrium"
11:35- 12:35	Akihiko Matsui (University of Tokyo) "Matching, Aspiration and Long-Term Relationship"
	<12:35-14:15 Lunch Break>
14:15- 15:15	Dov Monderer (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology) "Monotonicity and Implementability"
	<15:15-15:35 Coffee Break>
15:35- 16:35	Kazuya Kamiya (University of Tokyo) "Hysteresis in Dynamic General Equilibrium Models with Cash-in-Advance Constraints"
16:35- 17:35	Michihiro Kandori (University of Tokyo) "Understanding Stable Matching: A Non-Cooperative Approach"
Contact	Ezra Einy [Graduate School of Economics](einy@econ.hit-u.ac.jp)

Macro Lunch Workshop / Macro-Money Workshop
Date	Monday, May 18, 2009, 12:15-
Place	Seminar Room (1), 3rd Floor, Isono Building
Speaker	Miles Kimball (University of Michigan)
Title	"TBA"
Contact	Etsuro Shioji [Graduate School of Economics](fax 042 580 8882)

Workshop on International Trade and Investment/Center for Research on Contemporary Economic Systems
Date	Tuesday, May 19, 2009 16:20-17:50
Place	Faculty Building 2, Seminar Room 217
Speaker	Donald MacLaren (University of Melbourne, Associate Professor)
Title	"Partial and General Equilibrium Measures of Trade Restrictiveness"
Contact	Jota Ishikawa [Graduate School of Economics]

CEI-RRC Joint International Workshop on Transition Economies
Date	Friday, May 22, 2009 9:30-18:00
Place	IER, 4th floor Seminar Room (5)
Organizers	Kyoji Fukao (Hitotsubashi University) Harry X. Wu (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Stephen Broadberry (University of Warwick)
Contact	Kyoji Fukao [IER](k.fukao@srv.cc.hit-u.ac.jp)
Note	* Please see the program,and GCOE web site, in detail of the pre-conference.

CEI-RRC Joint International Workshop on Transition Economies
Date	Friday, May 22, 2009 15:00-18:00
Place	IER, 4th floor Meeting Room
Speaker	1. Professor Csaba Mako (Institute of Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences; Center for Economic Institutions, IER, Hitotsubashi University)
Title	"Organizational Innovations in Comparative Perspective: The Case of Manufacturing versus Business Service Sectors in Hungary"
Speaker	2. Professor Scott Gehlbach (Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin)
Title	"Does Privatization Increase Mortality?"
Contact	Yukinobu Kitamura [IER]/Ichiro Iwasaki[IER]
Note	* Registration in advance is necessary to attend. Please contact Suzuki [CEI] (suzukicr@ier.hit-u.ac.jp) with e-mail.

Workshop on Industry and Labor/Global COE
Date	Tuesday, May 26, 2009 16:30-18:00
Place	Isono building 1st floor Seminar room (2)
Speaker	Junichi Suzuki (University of Toronto)
Title	"Land Use Regulation as a Barrier to Entry: Evidence from the Texas Lodging Industry"
Contact	Hiroyuki Okamuro [Graduate School of Economics]/Masatoshi Kato [IER](mkato@ier.hit-u.ac.jp)