Past Seminars 2005 April~

1. April 15 ,"Husband's Unemployment and the Wife's Labor Supply"
Miki Kohara (Osaka University)

2. April 16 ,"Reconsideration of the Concept of Farm House"
Shinnosuke Tama (Iwate University)

3. April 22 , "Technology Diffusion and International Environmental Agreements" (joint work with Geoffrey Heal)
Nori Tarui (Columbia University)

4. April 22 ,"Time Series Relationships among Secondhand Condominium Price Indices
in Greater Tokyo AREA: Cointegration and Granger Causality Tests"
Kazuto Sumita (Kanazawa Seiryo University)

5. May 6, "Voluntarily Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma"
Takako Fujiwar-Greve (Keio University)

6. May 6 ,"Multiple-belief Rational-expectations Equilibria in OLG
Models with Ambiguity" (joint work with Kiyohiko Nishimura)
Hiroyuki Ozaki (Keio University)

7. May 9, "Marriage in the Industrializing West Yorkshire, 1680-1830"
Pat Hudson (Cardiff University)

8. May 12, "The impact of State Labor Legislation on Manufacturing During the Early 1900s in the U.S.A."
Price Fishback (TheUniversity of Arizona)

9. May 13, "Regional Allocation of Public Capital and Pork-Barrel Politics"
Keiko Tamada (Fukuoka University)

10. May 20, "Improvements in Telecommunications Technology Make Cities More Active"
Michio Naoi (Keio University)

11. May 24, "A Network Formation Game with an Endogenous Cost Allocation Rule"
Nobuo Matsubayashi (Tokyo University of Science)

12. May 27, "A Noncooperative Approach to General N-Person Cooperative Games"
Akira Okada (Hitotsubashi University)

13. May 27, "Firm-Provided Training in Japan; Empirical Evidences of the Recent Change of Its Role"
(joint work with Yoshio Higuchi)
Junji Toda (Keio University)

14. June 3,, "Trend and Cycles in a Bivariate System: What does a Technology Shock Do?"
Tatsuma Wada (Boston University, Department of Economics)

15. June 3, "Regional Inequality in Japan, 1892-1941:The Relation Between Stature, Income, and Health Further Explored"
Jean-Pascal BASSINO (Paul Valery University)

16. June 10, "Standards and Technical Regulations: Do They Matter to Export Success in Developing Countries?"
(joint work with John S. Wilson and Xiaoyang Maggie Chen)
Tsunehiro Otsuki (Osaka University)

17. June 17, "The Optimal Choice of Moments in Dynamic Panel Data Models"
Okui Ryo (University of Pennsylvania)

18. June 17, "Reconsidering the Backward Vertical Linkage of Foreign Affiliates: Evidence from Japanese Multinationals"
(joint work with Toshiyuki Matsuura, Shujiro Urata, and Yuhong Wei))
Kozo Kiyota (Yokohama National University)

19. June 21, "Uniqueness of Stationary Equilibrium Payoffs in Coalitional Bargaining"
Andrew McLennan (University of Minnesota, Osaka University)

20. June 24, "Credible Deviations and Retaliations in a Class of Strategic Games"
(joint work with Takuya Masuzawa & Toshiyuki Hirai)
Mikio Nakayama (Keio University)

21. June 28, "The Adjusted Solow Residual and Asset Returns"
Jeong- Joon Lee (Towson University)

22. July 1, "Asymptotic Optimality of Empirical Likelihood for Selecting Moment Restrictions"
"Minimax Estimation and Testing for Moment Condition Models via Large Deviations" (joint work with Yuichi Kitamura)
Otsu Taisuke (Yale University)

23. July 8, "Voice Matters in a Dictator Game"
Tetsuo Yamamori (The University of Tokyo)

24. July 15, "Network Externalities as a Source of Comparative Advantage"
Toru Kikuchi (Kobe University)

25. July 16, "The promotion of Aiiku-son Program by the Imperial Organization of Aiiku-kai:
the case of Minamoto -mura, Yamanashi, 1930s-1940s"
Masako Yoshinaga (The University of Tokyo)

26. July 16, "Life, Patent, and Global Aids"
Tatsuya Mima (Kyoto University)　

27.September 12, "Whose Keynes?"
Roger Backhouse (The University of Birmingham)

28. September 30, "Policy Implementation under Endogenous Time Inconsistency" (joint work with Edwin Lai)
Taiji Furusawa (Hitotsubashi University)

29. October 7, "The Gravity Equation in International Trade in Services" (joint work with Fukunari Kumura)
Lee, Hyun-Hoon (Kangwon National University)

30. October 14, "Global Supply Chains in Machinery Trade and the Sophisticated Nature of Production/Distribution Network in East Asia"
Fukunari Kimura (Keio University)

31. October 22, "Articles on Disease in a Holistic Medical Magazine for Laymen in Germany:Leipziger Pupulaere Zeitschriftfuer Homoeopathie 1870-1935"
Osamu Hattori (Doshisha University)

32. October 22, "The Trend of Nursing Schools in Japan from 1960s to1970s: Relating to the Shortage of Nurse"
Mai Yamashita (Kyoto Sangyo University)

33. October 26, "The Hot Spring Use in a Spa: The Case Study of the Atami Spa, Shizuoka Prewar"
Tomohiko Takayanagi (The University of Tokyo)

34. October 28, "Experimental Analysis on the Role of the Large Speculator in Currency Crises"
Kenshi Taketa (Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan)

35. October 31, "The Ptolematic Economy"
Joseph Manning (Stanford University)

36. November 4, "Institutions of Foreign Exchange Settlement in a Two-Country Model"
Hiroshi Fujiki (Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan)

37. November 11, "How Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Affects the International Technology Transfer: Evidence from Japanese MNCs"
Ryuhei Wakasugi (Keio University)

38. December 2, "A Population-Macroeconomic Growth Model for Developing Countries: Towards the Achievement of Development Goals"
Akira Momota (Osaka Prefecture University)

39. December 9, "Firm Size-Wage Effect for Japanese Women"
(joint work with Hideo Akabayashi & Henrich Greve)
Takako Greve (Keio University)

40. December 13, "Monetary Distortions in Consumption-Leisure Choice: An Empirical Investigation"
Masao Ogaki (Ohio State University)

41. December 16, "The Value of Information in Multimarket Contact "
(joint work with Hajime Kobayashi)
Katsunori Ohta (Kobe University)

42. December 19, "Intellectual Property Rights, Imitation, and Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Evidence"
Lee G. Branstetter (Columbia Business School)　

43.January 6, "Job-training, pension and Job Search after Mandatory Retirement"
Shinya Kajitani (Osaka University)

44. January 13, "Economic Geography and Endogenous Determination of Transport Technology"
Takaaki Takahashi (The University of Tokyo)

45.January 20, "Endogenous Market Segmentation with Consumers Switching Costs"
Yasunori Okumura (Keio University)

46. March 7, "On the Studies of War Economy in Japan"
Akira Hara (Tokyo International University, Visiting professor of Keio Univ. Department of Economics)　

47. March 8, "In Search of Optimizing Trade Agreements and Applications to East Asia"
Innwon Park (Korean University)

48. March 24 , "Keynes and Cambridge"
Maria Marcuzzo (University of Rome)

49. March 29, "The Employment of Older People: Can We Learn from Japan?"
Bernard H. Casey (The Pensions Institute, Cass Business School, City University (London))