1998

December 22
Tuesday
 Tadashi Sekiguchi
(Tokyo and Penn)		 Robustness of Efficient Equilibria in Repeated Games with ImperfectPrivate Monitoring
December 16
Wednesday
 Hirotada Ohashi
(Tokyo)		 How Do Molecules Find Their Ways to Go? -Fluid Flow Simulation from the Bottom Up-
December 14
Monday
10:30-12:00PM
 Akihiko Kaneko
(TIT)		 Trade Pattern and Economic Growth in a Small Open Economy
December 9
Wednesday
 Robert Cooter
(UC Berkley and Kyoto)		 The Optimal Number of Governments: Unitary States (Japan, France) v. Federalism (USA, Australia)
December 2
Wednesday
 Peter Hammond
(Stanford and Hitotsubashi)		 Gains from Trade and Gains from Migration (with Jaime Sempere)
November 25
Wednesday
 Michael McAleer
(Western Australia and Osaka)		 A Market-augmented Model for SIMEX Brent Crude Oil Futures Contracts (wi th John Sequeira)
November 20
Friday
 Hiroo Sasaki
(MOF)		 Randomized Uniform Allocation Mechanism and Single-peaked Preference of Indivisible Good
November 18
Wednesday
 Yongsheng Xu
(Nottingham and Hitotsubashi)		 On Ranking Opportunity Sets in Economic Environments (with Prasanta Pattanaik)
November 11
Wednesday
 Soumyendranath Sikdar
(Culcutta and ISER)		 The Political Economy of India's Economic Development and Reform
October 28
Wednesday
 Peter Bohm
(Stockholm)		 Experimental Approaches to Analyzing Climate Change Policies
October 21
Wednesday
 Michihiro Kandori
(Tokyo)		 Long Term Relationships and Information Accumulation
October 14
Wednesday
 Dipankar Dasgupta
(Hokkaido)		 Growth vs. Welfare in a Model of Nonrival Infrastructure
October 7
Wednesday
 Shigehiro Serizawa
(Shiga)		 Pairwise Strategy-Proofness
September 30
Wednesday
 Hideo Owan
(Stanford)
 Specialization and Multiskilling
September 2
Wednesday
 Yishay Yafeh
(Hebrew/Tokyo)
 Institutions, Economic Growth and Country Risk: Evidence from Japanese Government Debt in the Meiji Period (with Nathan Sussman)
August 26
Wednesday
 Mamoru Kaneko
(Tsukuba)
 Historical Considerations of Game Theory and Some Foundational Problems
August 19
Wednesday
 Shingo Ishiguro
(Nanzan)		 Incomplete Contracts and Breach Remedies
August 12
Wedensday
 Masayoshi Maruyama
(Kobe)		 Marketing Channel and Product Differentiation
August 5
Wednesday		 Tatsuya Kikutani
(Kyoto)
 Hiving-Off as the Delegation of Authority in Japanese Firms: Agency Model vs. Commitment Model (with Hideshi Itoh and Osamu Hayashida)
July 29
Wednesday
Wilfred J. Ethier
(Pennsylvania/ISER)
 Unilateralism in a Multilateral World
July 24
Friday
 Shin'ichi Hirota
(Waseda)
 Do Take-over Mechanisms Work? An Experimental Perspective (with Tatsuyoshi Saijo, Yasuyo Hamaguchi and Toshiji Kawagoe)
July 23
Thursday
 Masao Ogaki
(Ohio State)
 Decreasing Risk Aversion and Tests of Risk Sharing
JJuly 15
Wednesday
 Reiko Gotoh
(IPSS)
 A Social Procedure for Fair Allocation Rules -Formalizing the Rawlsian Principles of Justice- (with Naoki Yoshihara)
July 8
Wednesday
 Eric Fisher
(Ohio State/ISER)
 Explaining Bubbles in Experimental Asset Markets
July 1
Wednesday
 John Wooders
(Arizona)
 Price Dynamics, Trading Patterns, and Delay in a Market with Pairwise Meetings and Private Information (with Diego Moreno)
June 24
Wednesday
2:00-3:30PM


4:00-5:30PM		 Miki Kohara
(Osaka)
Workshop*
3FL Annex Seminar Room		 Consumption Insurance in Japan

(Shell Seminar in 2FL Annex Seminar Room)
Karl Shell
(Cornell) 		Economic Effects of Restrictions on Government Budget Deficits (with Christian Ghiglino)
June 17
Wednesday
 Tatsuhiko Nariu
(Kyoto)
 Corporate Culture and Competition among Firms
June 10
Wednesday
 Noel Gaston
(Bond)
 Outsourcing Jobs and Enterprise Bargaining
June 3
Wednesday
 Hiroshi Yoshikawa
(Tokyo)
 Demand-Creating Innovations and Economic Growth (with Masanao Aoki)
May 29
Friday
4:00-5:30PM		 Akihisa Shibata
(Kyoto)
 Financial Business Cycles
May 27
Wednesday
 Takaaki Takahashi
(Sophia)
 On the Optimal Policy of Infrastructure Provision across Regions
May 22
Friday
4:00-5:30PM		 Tadashi Inoue
(Hosei)
 On the Global Stability, Dynamic Trade Patterns and Asset-Debt Positions of the Two Country, Two Good Endogenous Growth Model with Adjustment Costs of Educational Investment
May 20
Wednesday
 Hideo Konishi
(SMU/Boston)
 Concentration of Competing Stores
May 13
Wednesday
 Takashi Suzuki
(Meiji Gakuin)
 Existence of Monopolistically Competitive Equilibria with Differentiated Commodities
May 6
Wednesday
 Masao Nakata
(Keio)
 Investment Effects of Fiscal Investment and Loan Program (FILP)-An Econometric Analysis of Sector Level Investment Functions (with Naoyuki Yoshino)
April 29
Wednesday
 NO SEMINAR National Holiday/Green Day
April 22
Wednesday 		Shigeru Wakita
(Tokyo Metropolitan)		 Internal Limits to Labor Specialization and the Extent of the Market
April 15
Wednesday 		Toshihiro Matsumura
(Tokyo Inst. of Technology)		 A Quantity-Setting Oligopoly with Endogenous Sequencing
April 8
Wednesday		 Sajal Lahiri
(Essex/ISER)		 Protecting Environment in the Presence of Foreign Direct Investment: Tax versus Quantiative Restriction (with Yoshiyasu Ono)
March 18
Wednesday
 Kazuo Ogawa
(ISER)		 A Panel Study of Japanese Bank Lending
March 11
Wednesday		 Carsten Krabbe Nielsen
(Copenhagen) 		Floating Exchange Rates versus a Monetary Union under Rational Beliefs:The Role of Endogenous Uncertainty
March 4
Wednesday		 Jiro Hodoshima
(Nagoya City)		 Beta in the Ups and Downs of the Japanese Stock Market (with Garza-Gomez Xavier and Michio Kunimura)
February 25
Wednesday		 Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara
(Tokyo/ISER)		 Global Environmental Management: Incentives for Abatement Investment Anticipating an International Bargaining (with Kazuharu Kiyono)
February 18
Wednesday
 Yuzo Honda
(Osaka)		 Some Implications of the Basle Accord: the Case of Japan
February 11
Wednesday		 Founding Day
 National Holiday/No Seminar Day
February 4
Wednesday		 Sajal Lahiri
(Essex/ISER)		 CANCELLED AND RESCHEDULED
Seminar has moved to April 8,1998.
January 28
Wednesday		 Hitoshi Matsushima
(Tokyo)		 Inter-Contextual Reasoning and Entrepreneurship
January 21
Wednesday		 Masahisa Fujita
(Kyoto)		 A Flying Geese Model of Economic Development and Integration
(with Tomoya Mori)
January 14
Wednesday		 Kaz Miyagiwa
(Louisiana State/Kobe)		 Quota-Induced Cycles
January 7
Wednesday
 Shoichi Royama
(Osaka)		 A Personal View on Japan's Big Bang