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September, 2009

Institute of Economic Research Hitotsubashi University

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Previous Seminars
September, 2009
Hitotsubashi GCOE Lectures on Choice, Games, and Welfare 2009/International Semiar
Date

Tuesday, September 1, 2009 15:00-18:00

Place

Mercury Tower  7th floor  Conference Room

Mercury Tower #3506

Speaker Marc Flerubaey (University Paris Descartes)
Title

"Beyond GDP: The Quest for a Measure of Social Welfare"

Contact

Koichi Tadenuma[Graduate School of Economics]/Naoki Yoshihara[IER]

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Hitotsubashi GCOE Lectures on Choice, Games, and Welfare 2009
Date

Thursday, September 3, 2009 16:30-18:00

Place

Mercury Tower  7th floor  Conference Room

Mercury Tower #3506

Speaker Bhaskar Dutta (University of Warwick)
Title

"Honest Implementation"

Contact

Koichi Tadenuma[Graduate School of Economics]/Naoki Yoshihara[IER]

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Economic Development Seminar
Date

Monday, September 7, 2009 10:30-12:00

Place Seminar Room (5) 4th Floor (Institute of Economic Research)
Speaker John Gibson (University of Waikato)
Title

"Can Variation in Household Survey Methods Explain a
Consumption Puzzle? Evidence from an Experiment in Tanzania"

Contact

Ryo Kambayashi[IER](phone 042 580 8364, kambayas@ier.hit-u.ac.jp)

International Seminar
Date

Monday, September 14, 2009 15:00-17:00

Place Main Building 1st floor
Speaker Martin Daunton (Cambridge University)
Title

"From Bretton Woods to Havana: multilateral deadlocks in historical perspective"

Contact

Tamotsu Nishizawa [IER] (phone 042 580 8310)

Frontier of Economic Analysis Based on Microdata
Date

Wednesday, September 16, 2009 14:00-18:20

Thursday, September 17, 2009 9:30-12:20

Place Meeting Room 4th floor, IER
  16 September (Wednesday) SESSION 1
14:00-
15:20
1. Tsutomu Watanabe (Hitotsubashi University), Takayuki Mizuno (Hitotsubashi University) and Makoto Nirei (Hitotsubashi University)
"Real Rigidities: Evidence from an Online Marketplace"
15:30-
17:00
2. Iichirou Uesugi (Hitotsubashi University) and Yukiko Umeno Saito (Hitotsubashi University)
"Measuring Economic Localization: Evidence from Japanese Firm-level Data"
17:00-
18:20
3. Andrew Leicester (The Institute of Fiscal Studies)
"Using British Household Scanner Data for Applied Microeconomic Research"
  17 September (Thusday) SESSION 2
9:30-
10:50
1. Yoko Konishi (RIETI, Yale University) and Yoshihiko Nishiyama (Kyoto University)
"On the Productivity of Hair Salons"
11:00-
12:20
2. Naohito Abe (Hitotsubashi University) and Noriko Inakura (Japan Center for Economic Research)
"How Inventory, Bargain Sales, and Shopping Interval"
Contact

Naohito Abe[IER](nabe@ier.hit-u.ac.jp)

CEI Seminar/ Innovation Forum (Center for Research on Contemporary Economic Systems)
Date

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 15:00-18:00

Place Isono building 1st floor Seminar room
Speaker 1. Roberto Fontana (University of Pavia & Bocconi University, Italy)
Title "Demand, Entry and Survival in the Semiconductor Industry" (with Franco Malerba)
Speaker 2. Chih-Hai Yang (National Central University, Taiwan)
Title "R&D, Technology Imports and Patents in China's High-tech Industries: Do Patent Reform and Ownership Matter?"
Contact

Hiroyuki Okamuro [Graduate School of Economics]/Sadao Nagaoka[IIR]/Masatoshi Kato [IER](mkato@ier.hit-u.ac.jp)