Faculty of Economics

Public Economics Seminar, Spring 2004

2004 Spring Schedule

Date & Time	Room	Speaker, Title
April 9 (Fri) 2:45-4:15	108	Doi, Takero Keio University "Government Financial Institutions: What should the Japanese government reform?"
April 16 (Fri) 4:30-6:00	108	Nishiyama, Shin-Ichi Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan "Inflation Target as a Buffer against Liquidity Trap"
April 23 (Fri)	-	School Holiday
April 30 (Fri) 4:30-6:00	108	Kimura, Fukunari Keio University "The Formation of International Production/Distribution Networks in East Asia and Latin America: What Can FTAA Do"
May 7 (Fri) 4:30-6:00	108	Hosono, Kaoru Gakushuin University "Bank Regulation and Market Discipline around the World"
May 14 (Fri) 4:30-6:00	108	Balkaransingh, Radha (E) Tsukuba University "Causality and the Impact of a Shock to Public Infrastructure Spending in Japan"
May 21 (Fri) 4:30-6:00	108	Shibata, Takashi Yokohama National University "Real Options in a Duopoly Market with General Volatility Structure" (joint with Kijima, Masaaki)
May 28 (Fri) 4:30-6:00	108	Ishida, Jun-ichiro Shinshu University "Collaboration under Weak Complementarities" (Title Change)
June 4 (Fri) 4:30-6:00	108	Mukoyama, Toshihiko Concordia University "Heterogeneous Costs of Business Cycles with Incomplete Markets" (joint with Sahin, Aysegul)
June 11 (Fri) 4:30-6:00	108	Kinukawa, Shin-ya Cornell University "Did the U.S. patent reforms in the 1980s give high-tech firms opportunity, difficulty, or nothing? An empirical study"
June 18 (Fri) 4:30-6:00	108	Fukushima, Yoshihiko Nagoya University of Commerce & Business "Active Labour Market Programmes and Unemployment in a Dual Labour Market"
June 22(Tues) 4:00-6:00	E5F P3	Hashimoto, Masanori Ohio State University "Effects of Maternity Leave Coverage on Women's Labor Market Outcomes"
June 25 (Fri) 4:30-6:00	108	Tanaka, Ryuichi New York University OsakaUniversity(from June) "On the Costs and Benefits of a Mixed Educational System"
June 29(Tues) 4:00-6:00	E5F P3	Yamaguchi, kazuo University of Chicago "Three distinct methods for using a latent-class variable in regression analyses of panel data and their advantages and limitations: An application to an analysis of stability in the government support rate"
July 2 (Fri) 4:30-6:00	108	Sakata, Kei (Schedule change) Ritsumeikan University "技術革新と雇用"
July 9 (Fri) 4:30-6:00	108	Takahashi, Harutaka Meiji Gakuin University "Measuring capital Intensity in the Postwar Japanese Eonomy -A Two-sector Approach-"
July 16 (Fri) 2:45-4:15	108	Yoshino, Naoyuki (Schedule change) Keio University "Optimal Exchange Rate System in Two Countries with the Rest of the World" "The basket-peg, dollar-peg, and floating: A comparative analysis"
July16 (Fri) 4:30-6:00	108	Goto, Ujo The University of Kitakyushu "Strategic Firm Behavior in the Japanese Oil Industry"
July 23 (Fri) 4:30-6:00	108	(Spring Examination)

Coordinators (spring) : Miki Seko, Colin Mckenzie, Fukunari Kimura, Hideo Akabayashi and

Takero Doi. (Faculty of Economics) : Yoshio Higuchi (Faculty of Business and Commerce)