1997

December 24
Wednesday
Toichiro Asada
(Chuo)
Investment, Finance, and Tobin's
December 17
Wednesday
Masuyuki Nishijima
(Yokohama City)
Shunto: A Critical Survey and Some New Facts (Tentative)
December 10
Wednesday
Tatsuyoshi Saijo
(ISER)
Emergence of Cooperation (with Takehiko Yamato, Konomu Yokotani and Timothy N. Cason)
December 3
Wednesday
Koji Shimomura
(Kobe)
The Kemp-Wan Proposition Concerning the Formation of Customs Union under Oligopolistic Competition
November 26
Wednesday
Uri Ben Zion
(Technion and ISER)
A Characterizaion of the Price Behavior of Internatinal Dual Stocks: An Error Correction Approach (with Offer Lieberman and Shmuel Hauser)
November 19
Wednesday
Jota Ishikawa
(Hitotsubashi)
Control of Foreign Pollution Through Import Restrictions under Asymmetric Infromation (with Keisaku Higashida and Taiji Furusawa)
November 12
Wednesday
Akihiko Matsui
(Tokyo and Tsukuba)
Policy Reversals: A Democratic Nixon and a Republican Clinton (with Cesar Martinelli)
November 5
Wednesday
Yoshihiko Otani
(Tsukuba)
The Structure of Equilibrium Allocations of Strategic Lindh al Games
October 31
Friday
Michio Morishima
(LSE)
Toward a Comprehensive Political Economy
October 29
Wednesday
Koichi Tadenuma
(Hitotsubashi)
Equity, Efficiency, and Rationality
October 22
Wednesday
Takashi Ui
(Bank of Japan)
Quantal Responses, Potentials, and Stochastic Stability of Equilibria
October 15
Wednesday
Tsutomu Harada (Kobe)
CANCELLATION
Seminar, as of 9/23/97.
October 13
Monday
Yoshitsugu Hayashi
(Kwansei Gakuin)
Studies in the Revenue Sources of Local Governments under D ecentralization
October 8
Wednesday
Andrew McLennan
(Minnesota)
Consequences of the Condorcet Jury Theorem for Beneficial Information Aggregation by Rational Agents
October 1
Wednesday
Yoh Iwasa
(Kyushu)
The Evolution of Cooperation and Spite in a Spatially Structured Population
September 24
Wednesday
Shin'ichi Hirota
(Setsunan)
The Capital Structure of Japanese Firms: 1977-1992
September 3
Wednesday
Tetsuji Okazaki
(Tokyo)
Foreign Exchange Allocation Policy in Postwar Japan: Institutional Framework and Function (with Takafumi Korenaga)
August 26
Tuesday
David Wildasin (Vanderbilt)
CANCELLATION
Seminar, as of 8/19/97
August 21
Thursday
4:00-5:30PM

Sajal Lahiri
(Essex)
Lecture Workshop
BRITISH COUNCIL LECTURE 2
Tax Competition in the Presence of Cross Hauling (with Yoshiyasu Ono)
August 20
Wednesday
Sajal Lahiri
(Essex)
BRITISH COUNCIL LECTURE 1
Trade Policy Reform in Pakistan
August 11
Monday
Noriyuki Yanagawa
(Tokyo)
Limited Court Knowledge and an Optimal Organizational Structure
August 6
Wednesday
Jiro Akita
(Kyoto)
Precautionary Saving and the Timing of Taxes Reconsidered
July 30
Wednesday
Takehiko Yamato
(Tokyo Metropolitan)
'A Solution to the Free-Rider Problem' Twenty Years After (with Tatsuyoshi Saijo)
July 23
Wedensday
Hideo Akabayashi
(Keio)
Are Decentralized Schools Better Schools?
An Economic Model of Learning and Demand for Education
July 16
Wednesday
Takeo Hoshi
(UC San Diego and Osaka)
Competition and Financial Structure in Japanese Firms
(with John McMillan and Ulrike Schaede)
July 9
Wednesday
Toshimasa Maruta
(Osaka Prefectural)
Binary Games with State Dependent Stochastic Choice
July 2
Wednesday
Quarter Break
No Seminar Day
June 25
Wednesday
Kazumi Asako
(Hitotsubashi)
Effectiveness of Fiscal Policy in Japan
June 18
Wednesday
Jordi Brandts
(Autonoma de Barcelona)
Cooperation and Noise in Public Goods Experiments: Applying the Contribution Function Approach
(with Arthur Schram)
June 11
Wednesday
John Tomas Sjostrom
(Harvard and ISER)
Overlapping Generations and Moral Hazard
June 4
Wednesday
Makoto Saito
(Kyoto)
An Empirical Investigation of Intergenerational Consumption Distribution: A Comparison among Japan, the US, and the UK
May 28
Wednesday
Mark L. Skidmore
(Northern Illinois and
Nagoya City)
Uncertainty, Natural Disasters, and National Household Saving
May 21
Wednesday
Charles Noussair
(Purdue)
The Principles of Exchange Rate Determination in an International Finance Experiment
May 19
Monday
Roger Lagunoff
(Georgetown)
A Theory of Constitutional Standards and Civil Liberty
May 14
Wednesday
Larry Epstein
(Toronto)
A Revelation Principle for Competing Mechanisms
May 7
Wednesday
Jay Pil Choi
(Columbia and ISER)
A Dynamic Analysis of Licensing: The 'Boomerang'Effect and Grantback Clauses
April 30
Wednesday
Golden Week Holidays
No Seminar Day
April 23
Wednesday
Shigeo Muto
(Tokyo Metropolitan)
Farsighted Stability in Prisoner's Dilemma
April 16
Wednesday
Mototsugu Fukushige
(Nagoya City)
On the Size of Diagnostic Tests
April 9
Wednesday
Raul V.Fabella
(Philippines and Kyoto)
Moral Hazard in Competing Teams
April 2
Wednesday
Toshiaki Tachibanaki
(Kyoto)
Wage Differentials: An International Comparison
March 26
Wednesday
Manabu Toda
(Tokyo Keizai)
Characterization of the Core of Matching Problems with Fixed Populationn in Multilatera
March 19
Wednesday
Yoshiyasu Ono
(Tokyo Inst. of Technology and ISER)
Underemployment in a Two-Country Economy with Dynamic Opti mization
March 12
Wednesday
Manimay Sengupta
(Kwansei Gakuin)
Unemployment Duration and the Measurement of Unemployment
March 6
Thursday
Hiroshi Yoshikawa
(Tokyo)
Recent Business Cycles and Fixed Investment in Japan (with Hidetaka Ohara)
February 26
Wednesday
Hiroshi Yamada
(Tshkuba and ISER)
Inference in Possibly Integrated Vector Autoregressive Mod els:Finite Sample Evidence (with Hiro Y. Toda)
February 19
Wednesday
Akira Okada
(Kyoto)
Inefficiency and Renegotiation in Multilateral Bargaining
February 12
Wednesday
Atsushi Kajii
(Tsukuba)
A Weak Sure-Thing Principle(with Ben Polak and Simon Grant)
February 10
Monday
Tetsunori Koizumi
(Ohio State and Ryukoku)
Reinventing the Wheel of Dharma: The Noble Eightfold Path as a Comprehensive Program for Individual and Societal Transformation
February 5
Wednesday
Yutaka Horiba
(Osaka and Tulane)
International Duoploly, Tariff Policies and the Case of Fr ee Trade
January 29
Wednesday
Masamitsu Ohnishi
(Osaka)
Comparative Statics for the Price System of a Complete Security Market
(with Masaaki Kijima)
January 22
Wednesday
Kotaro Suzumura
(Hitotsubashi and ISER)
Partial Welfare Judgements as a Preliminary Step for Socia l Choice
January 15
Wednesday
Adulthood Day National Holiday/No Seminar Day
January 8
Wednesday
Tomoya Mori
(Kyoro)
Transport Development and the Evolution of Economic Geography
January 1
Wednesday
New Year's Day National Holiday/No Seminar Day