Faculty of Economics

Public Economics Seminar, Fall 2005

Last update February 24. 2006

2005 Fall Schedule

Date & Time	Room	■Speaker	■Ｔｉｔｌｅ
NEW March 29 (Wed) 10:30-12:00	West School Building 514	■Casey, Bernard ■Cass Business School City University ■The Pensions Institute	■"The Employment of Older People: Can We Learn from Japan?"

Date & Time	Room	■Speaker	■Ｔｉｔｌｅ
September 30 (Fri) 4:30-6:00	108	■Furusawa, Taiji ■Hitotsubashi University ■Faculty of Economics	■"Policy Implementation under Endogenous Time Inconsistency" (joint with Edwin Lai)
October 7 (Fri) 4:30-6:00	108	■Lee, Hyun-Hoon ■Kangwon National University ■Division of Economics and International Trade	■"The Gravity Equation in International Trade in Services" joint with Kimura, Fukunari
October 14 (Fri) 4:30-6:00	108	■Kimura, Fukunari ■Keio University ■Faculty of Economics	■"Global Supply Chains in Machinery Trade and the Sophisticated Nature of Production/Distribution Networks in East Asia"(joint with Ando, Mitsuyo)
October 21 (Fri) 4:30-6:00	108	■Sakurai, Koujiro ■Development Bank of Japan ■	■"防衛的技術進歩" グローバル経済下の内生的技術進歩
October 28 (Fri) 4:30-6:00	108	■Taketa, Kenshi ■Bank of Japan ■Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies	■"Experimental Analysis on the Role of the Large Speculator in Currency Crises"
November 4(Fri) 4:30-6:00	108	■Fujiki, Hiroshi ■Bank of Japan ■Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies	■"Institutions of Foreign Exchange Settlement in a Two-Country Model"
November 11 (Fri) 4:30-6:00	108	■Wakasugi, Ryuhei ■Keio University ■Faculty of Economics	■"How Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Affects the International Technology Transfer:  Evidence from Japanese MNCs"
November 18 (Fri)	-	■Mita Festival	■
November 25 (Fri) 4:30-6:00	108	■Arai, Yasuhiro ■Hitotsubashi University ■Guraduate School of Economics	■"Non-govermental Copyright Protection in a Music Market"
December 2(Fri) 4:30-6:00	108	■Momota, Akira ■Osaka Prefecture University ■School of Economics	■"Population-Macroeconomic Growth Model for Developing Countries: Towards the Achievement of Development Goals"
December 9(Fri) 4:30-6:00	108	■Greve, Takako ■Keio University ■Faculty of Economics	■"Firm Size-Wage Effect for Japanese Women"   (joint with Akabayashi, Hideo and Greve, Henrich )
December 16 (Fri) 4:30-6:00	108	■Ohta, Katsunori ■Kobe University ■Faculty of Economics	■"The Value of Information in Multimarket Contact "(joint with Kobayashi, Hajime)
December 19 (Mon) 4:30-6:00 G - SEC cosponsorship	South building 3F	■Branstetter, Lee ■Columbia University ■Columbia Business School	■"Intellectual Property Rights, Imitation, and Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Evidence"
December 23(Fri)	-	■School Holiday	■
January 6(Fri) 4:30-6:00	108	■Kajitani, Shinya ■Osaka University ■School of International Public Policy	■"Job-training, pension and Job Search after Mandatory Retirement"
January 13 (Fri) 4:30-6:00	108	■Takahashi, Takaaki ■Tokyo University ■Center for Spatial Information Science	■"Economic Geography and Endogenous Determination of Transport Technology"
January 20 (Fri) 4:30-6:00	103 (change)	■Okumura, Yasunori ■Keio University ■Faculty of Economics	■"Endogenous Market Segmentation with Consumers Switching Costs"
	January 27 (Fri)	-	■Fall Examination

Coordinators (Fall) ■ Seko, Miki ■ Mckenzie, Colin ■ Kimura, Fukunari ■ Wakasugi, Ryuhei ■ Fujiwara Greve, Takako

(Faculty of Economics) / ■Higuchi, Yoshio ■ Nakajima, Takanobu (Faculty of Business and Commerce)