1996

December 25
Wednesday
Christmas Day No Seminar Day
December 19
Thursday
Joseph Greenberg
(McGill)
Towering over Babel: Worlds Apart... but Acting Together
December 16
Monday
Luigi Ermimi
(Hawaii)
Testing the Joint Hypothesis of Rationality and Neutrality under Seasonal Cointegration
December 11
Wednesday
Toshio Yamagishi
(Hokkaido)
Recent Developments in Social Dilemma Research
December 4
Wednesday
Kazuhiko Ohashi
(Tsukuba and Hitotsubashi)
Futures Innovation under Asymmetric Information with Rational Investors
November 27
Wednesday
Giorgio Brunello
(Udine and ISER)
Education, Training and Labor Market Structure: Italy and Japan in Comparative Perspective (with Tsuneo Ishikawa)
November 20
Wednesday

Masatoshi Yamada
(Osaka)
Equilibrium & Stability in Factor-Market Distortion Model (Tentative)
November 13
Wednesday
Naoki Yoshihara
(ISER)
A Characterization of Natural and Double Implementation in Production Economies
November 6
Wednesday
Ben Lockwood
(Exeter)
Commodity Tax Harmonisation with Public Expenditure
October 30
Wednesday
Tasneem Chipty
(Ohio State and ISER)
Vertical Integreations, Market Foreclosure, and Consumer Welfare: An Empirical Investigation
October 23
Wednesday
Atsushi Tsuneki
(ISER)
The Trading Mechanisms for Tort Liability
October 16
Wedensday
Atsushi Yoshida
(Osaka Prefectural)
Tests of Infinitely Many Linear Constraints of
Parameters in Panel Data Models
October 9
Wednesday
Shin-ichi Fukuda
(Tokyo)
Multiple Equilibria in the Endogenous Economic
Growth Model with the Cash-in-Advance Constraint
October 2
Wednesday
Jon Lundesgaard
(Hedmark College)
Team Production, Kinked Schemes, and Communication
September 25
Wednesday
Quarter Break
No Seminar Day
September 20
Friday
Koichi Hamada
(Yale)
Economic Foundations of Litigation-less Society
September 13
Friday
3:00 - 5:30PM
Takeshi Hiromatsu
(Tokyo)
Tsuruhiko Nambu
(Gakushuin)
IER Seminars on Regulation and Telecommunication in Honor of Hajime Oniki
(by invitation only:3F Osaka University Suita Alumni House)
September 5
Thursday
Kenneth D. West
(Wisconsin, Madison)
Business Fixed Investment and the Recent Business Cycle in Japan
September 4
Wednesday
Sobei Oda
(Kyoto Sangyo)
An Application of Cellular Automata to Network Externalities in Consumer Theory
August 28
Wednesday
Yukiko Abe
(Nagoya City)
An Analysis of College Brand Effects in Japanese Entry Level Job Markets: 1984 to 1995
August 21
Wednesday
Koichi Futagami
(Ritsumeikan)
Quality Ladder and Product Variety: Larger Economies May Not Grow Faster
August 14
Wednesday
Obon Week Holidays
No Seminar Day
August 7
Wednesday
Jingang Zhao
(Ohio State and ISER)
Stability and Formation of Coalition Structures in Normal Form Games
July 29
Monday
Yutaka Suzuki
(Hosei)
Incomplete Contracts, Collusion and Authority Delegation in Hierarchical Agency
July 24
Wednesday
15:00-16:30PM
Mamoru Kaneko
(Tsukuba)
Coherent Interpretations and Prejudices
July 17
Wednesday
Donald Katzner
(Massachusetts, Amherst)
Misuse of Measurement in Economics
July 10
Wednesday
Fumio Hayashi
(Tokyo and Columbia)
A Review of Empirical Studies of Household Saving
July 3
Wednesday
Hideo Konishi
(Southern Methodist)
Hub Cities: City Formation without Economies of Scale
June 28
Friday
Edward J. Green
(Minneapolis FRB)
A Rudimentary Model of Search with Divisible Money and Prices
June 21
Friday
Albert Ando
(Pennsylvania)
On Aggregation of Consumption-Saving Behavior and the Life Cycle Theory
June 12
Wednesday
Kazumitsu Nawata
(Tokyo)
Finite Sample Properties of the T-Type Tests
June 10
Monday
Randall D. Wright
(Pennsylvania)
A Dynamic Equilibrium Model of Search, Bargaining and Money
June 5
Wednesday
Hiroshi Osano
(Kyoto)
Security Design, Insider Monitoring, and Financial Market Equilibrium
May 29
Wednesday
Yukihiro Kidokoro
(ISER)
The Rate of Return Regulation and Intertemporal Valuation Effects in Urban Transit Systems
May 22
Wednesday
Hideki Konishi
(Seikei)
Relative Efficiency of Tariffs and Quotas:
Strategic Investment and Oligopoliesy
May 15
Wednesday
Hideo Suehiro
(Kobe)
Optimal Supervision in Hierarchies
(with Nahum Melumad, Columbia Business School)
May 8
Monday
Wen S. Chern
(Ohio State and ISER)
Consumer Information, Health Concerns, and the Demand for Food
May 1
Wednesday
Golden Week Holidays
No Seminar Day
April 24
Wednesday
Ken'ichi Shimomura
(osaka)
The Prekernel of Cooperative Games without Side Payments
April 17
Wednesday
Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara
(Tokyo)
Toward a Comparative Institutional Analysis of Government-Business Relationship
April 10
Wednesday
Ryo'ichi Nagahisa
(Kansai)
Gibbard-Satterthwaite Theorem for Restricted Economic Domains
April 3
Wednesday
Yukiko Hirao
Seikei
Quality versus Quantity in Arms Race