Past Seminars 2014

1. April 7, "Interim Equilibrium Implementation"
Takashi Kunimoto( Hitotsubashi University)

2. April 11, "A Reformulation of Normative Economics for Models with Endogenous Preferences"
Masao Ogaki(Keio University)

3. April 11, "Capital Values, Job Values and the Joint Behavior of Hiring and Investment"
Eran Yashiv (Tel Aviv University)

4. April 18, "The MDP Procedure for Public Goods and Local Strategy Proofness"
　Kimitoshi Sato (International Christian University)

5. April 18, "Policy Regime Change against Chronic Deflation?: Policy Option under Long-Term Liquidity Trap"
　Ippei Fujiwara(Keio University)

6. April 21, "Welfare Effects of Information Acquisition Costs"
　Takashi Ui(Hitotsubashi University)

7. April 28, "Trade-off between Risk and Uncertainty Premiums"
　Yoshihiro Tamai(Kanagawa University)

8. May 2, "Health Insurance Exchange Design in an Empirical Equilibrium Labor Market Model"
　Naoki Aizawa (University of Pennsylvania, Department of Economics)

9. May 9, "Selling Boxes of Fish Sequentially vs. Selling Them as a Bundle: An Experimental Study" (joint work with Yoshio Iida and Joseph Swierzbinski)
　Erika Seki (Ritsumeikan University)

10. May 9, "On the Timing of Capital Issuance: Market timing vs. Pseudo-Market timing"
　 Bong Soo Lee (Florida State University, College of Business)

11. May 16, "Sustaining Cooperation in Social Dilemmas: Comparison of Centralized Punishment Institutions"
　 Ai Takeuchi (Ritsumeikan University)

12. May 16, "Revealed Willpower"
"Exploiting Naive Consumers with Limited Attention" （ joint work with Yusufcan Masatlioglu and Emre Ozdenoren）
　 Daisuke Nakajima (Otaru University of Commerce)

13. May 19, "Fiscal Volatility Shocks and Economic Activity" （joint work with Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Keith Kuester, and Juan Rubio-Ramírez）
　 Pabro Guerron (FRB of Philadelphia)

14. May 19, "Search, Adverse Selection and Market Clearing"
　 Akihiko Matsui (University of Tokyo)

15. May 23 "Innovation, Trade, and the Environment in a Model with a Non-Traded Energy Sector" （joint work with Eric Bond）
　 Morihiro Yomogida (Sophia University)

16. May 23 "Emissions Trading, Firm Heterogeneity, and Intra-Industry Reallocations in the Long Run"
　 Nori Tarui (University of Hawaii, Department of Economics)

17. May 26 "The Multiple Hierarchical Legislatures in Representative Democracy"
　 Katsuya Kobayashi (Hosei University)

18. June 13 "Defensive Medicine and Physician Asset Protection"
　Jeffrey Traczynski (University of Hawaii, Department of Economics)

19. June 16 "An Indirect Method of Nonconvex Variational Problems in Asplund Spaces: The Case for Saturated Measure Spaces"
　Nobusumi Sagara (Hosei University)

20. June 23 "Repeated Games with Recursive Utility: Cournot Duopoly under Gain/Loss Asymmetry"(joint work with Tadashi Sekiguchi)"
　Katsutoshi Wakai (Kyoto University)

21. June 30 "Rank-based Market Models"
　Tomoyuki Ichiba (University of California-Santa Barbara)

22. July 4 "The Opportunity Cost of Conflict: Statistically Comparing Israel and Synthetic Israel"
　Yusaku Horiuchi (Dartmouth College, Department of Government)

23. July 4 "An Estimated DSGE Model with a Deflation Steady State: An Application to the Japanese Economy"
　Yasuo Hirose (Keio University)

24. July 7 "On Weak Convergence Rate of Stochastic Differential Equations with Non-regular Drift"
　Kazuihiro Yasuda (Hosei University)

25. July 11 "Municipality Amalgamation, Free-ride Behavior, and Regulation"
　Katsuyoshi Nakazawa (Toyo University)

26. July 14 "The Effect of Fragmentation in Trading on Market Quality in the UK Equity Market" (joint work with Oliver Linton and Michael Vogt)
　　Lena M. Koerber (Bank of England, Economist in Monetary Analysis)

27. July 14 "Local Comonotonicity and Axiomatizations for Updating Ambiguous Beliefs"
　　Takao Asano (Okayama University)

28. July 18 "The Role of Cognitive Ability, Personality Traits and Gender in Gift Exchange Outcomes"
　　John Ham (University of Maryland, Department of Economics)

29. July 18 "Tips and Tells from Managers: How the Market Reads Between the Lines of Conference Calls"
　　Alexander Wagner (University of Zurich, Department of Banking and Finance)

30. July 18 "Strategic Interaction between Inter Vivos Gifts and Housing Acquisition"
　　Shinichiro Iwata (Toyama University)

31. September　22 "Logarithmic Dynamic Programming"
　　Hiroyuki Ozaki (Keio University)

32. September　26 "Altruistic Economic Behaviors and Implicit Worldviews" (joint work with Sun Youn Lee, Byung-Yeon Kim, Hyeog Ug Kwon, Hyoung-Seok Lim, and Fumio Ohtake)
　　Masao Ogaki (Keio University)

33. September　26 "Repeated Games with Outside Options" (joint work with Yosuke Yasuda)
　Takako Greve (Keio University)

34. September　29 "A Decomposition of Strategy-proofness"
　Shin Sato (Fukuoka University)

35. October　3 "Sovereign Debt Restructurings: Preemptive or Post-Default"
　Tamon Asanuma (International Monetary Fund (IMF) Debt Policy Division Strategy Policy and Review Department)

36. October　3 "Combined Effects of Bank Competition and Employment Protection: Importance of Stakeholder Corporate Governance" (joint work with Stijn Claessens)
　Kenichi Ueda (University of Tokyo)

37. October　6 "Fixed Point Theorems, Recursive Utility and the Solution to the Bellman Equation"
Masayuki Yao (Keio University)

38. October　17 "A Dynamic Agency Theory of Investment and Managerial Replacement" (joint work with Hiroshi Osano)
Keiichi Hori (Ritsumeikan University)

39. October　20 "DEA Game and its Solution Concepts"
Jing Fu (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

40. October　24 "Assortative Matching of Exporters and Importers" (joint work with Kensuke Teshima and Seira Enrique)
Yoichi Sugita (Institute of Developing Economies)

41. October　27 "Existence of Pure Strategy Equilibria in Finite Games with Direction-Preserving Best Reply Functions"
Takahiro Watanabe (Tokyo Metropolitan University)

42. October　31 "Repeated Partnerships with Decreasing Returns" (joint work with Hajime Kobayashi and Katsunori Ohta)
Tadashi Sekiguchi(Kyoto University)

43. November　7 "Emotion and the Market: A Model of Anticipated Regret, Investor Behavior and Market Turbulence"
Jie Qin (Ritsumeikan University)

44. November　14 "Securing Basic Well-being for All"(joint work with Reiko Gotoh)
Naoki Yoshihara (Hitotsubashi University)

45. November　17 "Anticipated Stochastic Choice"
Nobuo Koida (Iwate Prefectual University)

46. December　1 "Comparative Impatience under Random Discounting"
Youichiro Higashi (Okayama University)

47. December　5 "How Informal Caregivers’ Health Affects Recipients" (joint work with Lee Jinkook)
Michio Yuda (Chukyo University)

48. December　8 "Demand Reduction in Average-Pricing Multi-Unit Discriminatory Auction‐Market Consequence of Reciprocal Buyers?"
Naoko Nishimura (Shinshu University)

49. December　12 "Regime Switching Model with Endogenous Autoregressive Latent Factor" (joint work with Yongok Choi and Joon Y. Park)
Yoosoon Chang (Indiana University)

50. December 15 "Numerical Analysis of Rating Transition Matrix Depending on Latent Macro Factor Via Nonlinear Particle Filter Method"
Hideyuki Takada (Toho University)

51. December 19 "Truth-telling and Stability in School Choice Problem with Affirmative Action: Theory and Experiment"
Toshiji Kawagoe (Future University Hakodate)

52. December 22 "Local Risk-Minimization for Levy Markets"
Takuji Arai (Keio University)

53. January 7 "Testable Implications of Models of Intertemporal Choice: Exponential Discounting and Its Generalizations"(joint work with Federico Echenique and Taisuke Imai)
Kota Saito (California Institute of Technology)

54. January 8 "Comparing Consumption-based Asset Pricing Models: The Case of an Asian City"
Charles Leung (City University of Hong Kong)

55. January 9 "Globalization and Synchronization of Innovation Cycles"
Kiminori Matsuyama (Northwestern University)

56. January 9 "Stochastic Games with Hidden States"
Yuichi Yamamoto (University of Pennsylvania)

57. January 16 "Economic Valuation of Environmental Quality Using Property Auctions Data: A Structural Estimation Approach" (joint work with Tadao Hoshino)
Hayato Nakanishi(Tokyo Institute of Technology)