August 6, 2009

Laixun Zhao (RIEB, Kobe University)

TBA

Kazuyuki Miyagiwa (Emory University)

"Trade and occupational choice in a Cournot model with free entry"

 

April 7, 2009

Ronald Jones (University of Rochester)

“Production Fragmentation and Outsourcing: General Concerns”
at Sophia University

 

March 23, 2009

Workshop on "Challenges in the Global Economy"

 

March 18, 2009

Hisashi Sawaki (Tezukayama University)

“Costly signals sent by the monetary to the fiscal authority”
                            
Lex Zhao (Kobe University)

“Tainted Food, Low-Quality Products and Trade”

Ronald W. Jones (University of Rochester)

“Real Wages and Non-traded Goods”

 

March 4-6, 2009

Hitotsubashi COE One-day Trade Workshop on March 4

Lectures on International Trade on March 5 and 6

 

November 29-30, 2008

Seminar on International Economy 

Hitotsubashi University           

 

November 14, 2008

One-Day Workshop on: Trade and Growth

RIEB seminar

Kozo Kiyota (Yokohama National University)

“Trade Liberalization, Economic Growth, and Income Distribution in A Multiple-cone Neoclassical Growth Model”

Kaz Miyagiwa (Emory University)

“Innovation, protection and retaliation”

 

July 11, 2008

One-Day Workshop on: Trade, Dynamics and Contracts

        Program

 

May 20, 2008

Tsuyoshi Toshimitsu (Kwansei Gakuin University)

“On a Consumer-based Environmental Subsidy/Tax Policy

in the Case of an Environmentally Differentiated Products Market”

 

Tetsuya Saito (SUNY, Buffalo)

“What is the worst number of trading blocs: Krugman's model revisited”

 

March 15, 2008

One-day workshop on "Trade, IO and Regional Growth"

 

February 28, 2008

Ngo Van LONG (McGill University)

“Conspicuous Consumption and Resource Exploitation”

 

February 22, 2008

One-Day Workshop on: Growth, Finance and Public Policy

November 20, 2007

Ritsumeikan International Trade Workshop

 

October 26, 2007

One-Day Workshop on: Trade, Growth and Inequalities

                                             

July 19, 2007

Hiroshi Mukunoki (Gakushuin University)

“FDI in Services and Product Market Competition”

 

May 30, 2007

Takumi Naito (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

“Aid, growth, and welfare in an interdependent world economy”

 

May 11, 2007

Ritsumeikan Economic Workshop      

 

Kobe Workshop

December 21, 2006

Kenji Fujiwara, Kwansei Gakuin University, Koji Shimomura, Kobe University,

and Kar-yiu Wong, University of Washington,

“Choosing between Innovation and Imitation in a Model of International Rivalry”

 

Amy Glass, University of Texas A & M,

“Imitation as a Stepping Stone to Innovation”

 

Fahad Khalil, University of Washington,

“Allowing the Lesser of Two Evils: Bribery or Extortion?”

 

Kazumichi Iwasa,

“A Utility Function Can Generate Giffen Behavior”

 

December 22, 2006

Yu-chin Chen, University of Washington,

“Adaptive Learning and Monetary Policy in an Open Economy: Lessons from Japan”

 

Yunfang Hu, Kobe Univesity,

“Human Capital Accumulation, Home Production and Equilibrium Dynamics”

 

Kenji Fujiwara,

“Foreign aid and transboundary pollution in a dynamic factor endowment model”

 

Junko Doi,

“A Variety Expansion Model of Growth with Rent Seeking Activities”

 

Shun-Fa Lee,

“Import tariffs and growth in a model with habits”

 

Ichiro Daito,

“Productive Consumption and Population Dynamics in an Endogenous Growth Model”

 

CITED seminar

November 29, 2006

Jacek Krawczyk (Victoria University of Wellington)

“A Discrete-Time Dynamic Game of Seasonal Water-Allocation”

 

November 27, 2006

Yuichi Furukawa (Keio University)

“A Model of Innovation, Standardization, and Imitation: the Effects of Intellectual Property Rights Protection”

 

November 13, 2006

Koyo Miyoshi (Keio University)

“The Non-Regular Workers Wage Penalty in Japan

 

July 21, 2006

Dipankar Dasgupta (Indian Statistical Institute)

“On the Relationship between the Number of Firms and the Endogenous Growth Rate for a Model with Public Infrastructure”

 

March 29, 2006

Seattle-Kobe Workshop on Dynamic Economics

 

February 23,  2006
Innwon PARK
“In Search of Optimized Regional Trade Agreements and Applications to
East Asia

Satya Prasanna DAS
“An Economic Analysis of Terrorism”
   

Kenzo Abe
“International Transfer, Endogenous Environmental Policy, and Welfare”


January 19, 2006
Kaz Miyagiwa (Emory University)
 “Information Spillovers and Strategy Correlation in Foreign Direct Investment”


December 22, 2005
Binh TRAN-NAM (University of New South Wales)

"Publicly Funded Education and Human Capital in the Presence of
a Convex-Concave Education Function"

December 19, 2005
Hyun-Hoon LEE
Kangwon National UniversityKeio University
"The Gravity Equation in Internaitonal Trade in Services"


December 5, 2005

Dipankar Dasgupta (Indian Statistical Institute)
“Public Infrastructure, Employment and Sustainable Growth in a Small Open Economy

With and Without Foreign Direct Investment”

October 13, 2005

Kobe COE One-day Workshop on International Trade

 

October 11, 2005        
Makoto Tawada (Nagoya University)        
“Endogenous Timing in a Strategic Trade Policy Game under the
Two-Country Oligopoly Model with Many Firms”

 
 

October 7, 2005
Albert Schweinberger (
University of Constanz)
"The public and private provision of pure public goods and the distortionary effects
of income taxation: a political approach " (with Jun-ichi Itaya)

October 4, 2005
Albert Schweinberger (
University of Constanz)
"The short and long run effects of tied foreign aid on pollution
abatment, pollution and employment: a pilot model" (with Alan Woodland)

July 27, 2005
Richard Baldwin
 (Graduate Institute of International Studies) 
"Heterogeneous firms and trade: testable and untestable properties of the Melitz model"

July 25, 2005
Leonard Cheng
 (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
"Foreign Direct Investment & International Trade in a Continuum Ricardian Model"

July 22, 2005
Elias Dinopoulos (
University of Florida)
"How Cool is C.O.O.L?"

July 1, 2005
Aditya Goenka
 (National University of Hong Kong
"Manipulation of endowments and sunspot equilibria"

June 27, 2005
Toru Kikuchi (
Kobe University)
"On Chamberlinian-Ricardian Trade Patterns"(with Dao-Zhi Zeng and Koji Shimomura)

Wilfred Ethier University of Pennsylvania
"The Theory of Trade Policy and Trade Agreements: A Critique"

March 7, 2005        
Morihiro Yomogida (
Hitotsubashi University)                      
"Fragmentation, outsourcing, immigration and the labor market"

February 14, 2005
Vladimir Petkov
Victoria University Of Wellington
"Equity-based compensation and intertemporal incentive in dynamic games"

Takashi Shimizu (Kansai University)
"On the Role of the Tax-Subsidy Scheme in Money Search Models"

January 19, 2005
Yuqing Xing (
International University of Japan)
"Exchange Rates and Competition for FDI"

December 13, 2004
Yan Ma (
Kobe University)
"Vertical production chain, trade and tariffs in a two-factor model"

December 4, 2004 
Anthony Venables (London School of Economics & Political Science)
"The dynamics of city formation: finance and governance"

November 12, 2004
Dao-Zhi Zeng (
Kagawa University)
"Industrial Re-dispersion: A Synthesis of Chamberlin and Ricardo"

November 9, 2004
Savas Alpay (TOBB Economy and
Technology University)
"Environmental Regulations, International Trade, Innovation and Strategic Behavior"

October 22, 2004
Kenji Fujiwara
Kobe University
"A modified Heckscher-Ohlin theorem under quasi-linear utility functions"

Elias Dinopoulos  (University of Florida
"Recent Developments in Schumpeterian Growth Theory"

Chongwoo Choe University of New South Wales, Osaka University
"Delegated Contracting and Corporate Hierarchies"

October 15, 2004
Jacek Krawczyk (
Victoria University, Kyoto University)
"A viability theory in a simple macroeocnomic model"

September 17, 2004
Kazuhiro Ohnishi (
Osaka University)
"A Unilateral Pricing Policy and the Stackelberg Equilibrium"

September 10, 2004
Kazuko Shirono (IMF)
 
"Are WTO Tariff Negotiations Reciprocal?
 An Analysis of Tariff Liberalization"

 

Professor Henry Wan Jr (Cornell University)

Lectures on East Asian Development: Interdependent Evolutions

July 30, World Development: Last Six Decades

August 2, Interaction Promotes Development: The East Asian Nexus

August 4, Policies Facilitate Interaction: Cases from Japan to Penang

August 6, Korea and Taiwan - Alternative Modes of Development

August 9, Hong Kong, Singapore and Penang: Contrasting Lessons

August 11, Aspects  of Chinese Trade Expansion: Nature and Impact

 

June 22, 2004

Ping Wang (Vanderbilt University

"Sorting by Foot: Consumable Travel-for Local Public Good and Equilibrium Stratification"

 

May 28, 2004

Kobe COE/RIEB Workshop on Economic Theory

Kwan Choi Iowa State University
"Are Counterfeit Products Harmful to Trading Countries? "

Sajal Lahiri (Southern Illinois University
"Temporary Tariffs and Capital Market Restrictions:Strategic Interactions and Endogenous Leadership "

Toru Kikuchi (Kobe University)
"Monopolistic Competition with Efficiency Gaps and a Heckscher-Ohlin Trade Pattern"

Michihiro Ohyama (Toyo University)
"Partial Free Agreement and Economic Welfare "


May 21, 2004

Xavier de Vanssay (York University
"Institutional Foundations of Economic Freedom:A
time-series cross-section analysis"

 

February 5, 2004

Kobe COE/RIEB Workshop on Economic Theory

 

Murray C. Kemp (University of New South Wales)

"Existence of Equilibrium in the Arrow-Debreu and McKenzie Models of General Equilibrium"

 

Ronald W. Jones (University of Rochester)

"Real Wages and Trade: Insights from Extreme Examples"

 

Ping Wang (Vanderbilt University)

"On the Public Economics of Casino Gambling"

 

Eric Bond (Vanderbilt University)

"The Economics of International Agreements and Dispute Settlement with IPRs"

 

January 19, 2004
Tadashi Inoue (
Hiroshima Shudo University)
"On the Dynamic Properties of the Labor-Surplus Economy"

 

December 19, 2003

Kobe COE/RIEB Workshop on Economic Theory

 

Ngo Van Long (McGill University)

"Dynamic Duopoly with Congestion Effects"

 

Laixun Zhao (Hokkaido University)

"Global Outsourcing and Currency Devaluation"

 

Toru Kikuchi (Kobe University)

 "Monopolistic Competition with Efficiency Gaps and a Heckscher-Ohlin Trade Pattern"

 

November 26, 2003
Taiji Furusawa (Hitotsubashi University)

"Threats and Concessions in Tariff Settings"

 

November 21, 2003
Ichiroh Daitoh (Tohoku University)
 "Interconnection Agreement between Internet Service Providers
and the Optimal Policy Intervention: The Case of Cournot-type
Competition under Network Externalities"


October 31, 2003
Masayuki Okawa (Ritsumeikan University)
 "Income transfer under international monopoly"

August 29, 2003
Makoto Tawada (Nagoya University)
"International Trade with a Public Intermediate Good and the Gains from Trade"


July 4, 2003
Murray C. Kemp (University of New South Wales)
"Optimal Commodity Taxation"
 

Wilfred J. Ethier University of Pennsylvania
"Trade agreements based on political externalities"
 
June 25, 2003
Ken-Ichi Shimomura (University of Osaka)
"Dynamics of Monopolistic Competition in the Short-run and in the Long-run"


March 25, 2003
Takumi  Naito (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
"Revenue-neutral tariff reform and growth"


February 28, 2003
Horst Raff
University of Kiel)
"Exclusive Dealing as a Barrier and as a Catalyst to International Trade"

February 14, 2003
Hajime Kubota (Hokkaido University)
"On the Existence of Competitive Equilibrium in Classical Finite Economies
without Survival Assumption: Resource Relatedness Case"

December 12, 2002
Laixun Zhao (Hokkaido University)

"Competing to Invest in the Foreign Market"

November 22, 2002
Chiaki Hara (Hitotsubashi University)
"Representative Consumer's Risk Aversion and Efficient Risk-Sharing Rules"


September 6, 2002
Hong Hwang
National Taiwan University)
"Production Function and Optimal Trade Policy in Vertically Related Markets"

August 19, 2002
 
Martin McGuire (University of California, Irvine)

"Implicit Mercantilism, Oligopoly, and Trade"

May 27, 2002
Ping Wang  (
Vanderbilt University)
"Formation of Buyer-Seller Trade Networks
 in a Quality-Differentiated Product Market"

May 17, 2002
Andrew McLennan (University of Minnesota)

"Strategic Candidacy for Multivalued Voting Procedures"

May 10, 2002
Eiji Fujii (Otaru University of Commerce)
"Cross-Country Relative Price Volatility: Its Components and Effects of Market Structure"

February 1, 2002

One-day Conference on Trade

Masahisa Fujita (Kyoto University)
" Agglomeration and Growth with Migration and Knowledge Externalities "

Stephen Redding (London School of Economics & Political Sciences)
" Economic Geography and International Inequality "

Eden Yu ( City University of Hong Kong)
" Impacts of Environmental Measures on Optimal Trade and
Investment Policies "

Kazunori Tanigaki (Ritsumeikan University)
"Trade Policy under Cournot Duopoly with Sales Activity "

December 21, 2001

One-day Conference on Growth

Kar-yiu Wong (University of Washington)
"Housing Market Bubbles and Currency Crisis: The Case of Thailand"

Kazuo Mino(Kobe University)
"Occupational Choice and Complex Dynamics"

Chong-Kee Yip (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
"Investment, Monetary Policy, and Equilibrium Determinacy."

Koji Shimomura (Kobe University)
"Indeterminacy and Bifurcation in a Dynamic Two-country Model without Market Distortion"

December 17, 2001
Stephen Turnovsky (University of Washington)
"Intertemporal Substitution, Risk Aversion, and Economic Performance
in a Stochastically Growing Open Economy"

June 1, 2001
 Been-Lon Chen (Institute of Economics Academia Sinica, Tsukuba University)
 "Public Capital Stock and Leisure in a One-Sector Growth Model"

April 27, 2001
Murray C. Kemp (UNSW and Ritsumeikan University)
"The Doctorine of Comparative Advantage: A Restatement"

Katsuhiko Suzuki (Kwansei Gakuin University)
"WTO Rules and International Capital Movement"

April 2, 2001
Kar-yiu Wong (University of Washington)
"Fundamental Trade Theorems under External Economies of Scale"

March 23, 2001
Yasukazu Ichino (University of Washington)
"Filing a petition for administered protection as a provision of a binary public good"

March 9, 2001
Hiroshi Fujiu (Chiba Keizai University)
"Intergenerational Transfers Motivated by Altruism from Children
towards Parents: Children's Gifts and Parents' Education Investments"

January  9, 2001
Morihiro Yomogida (
University of Rochester)
"Vertical Intra-Industry Trade and Factor Proportions"

December 11, 2000
Fukunari Kimura (Keio University)
"Globalization and Intra-firm Trade: Further Evidence"

November 9, 2000
Kunhong Kim (
Victoria University of Wellington)
"Asset Pricing Puzzles and the Business Cycle in Agency Cost Model"

Zhihao Yu (University of Nottingham)
"Entrepreneurship, Export Variety and Economic Welfare"

October 27, 2000
Noriyuki Yanagawa (University of Tokyo)
"Liability and Formal Authority: An Effect on Communication"

October 6, 2000
Ling Qi (Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University)
"The Lens Condition in the Four-commodity Case"

October 5, 2000
Yoshimasa Shirai (Keio University)
 "Commitment Problem in Credit Market and Economic Growth"

July 25, 2000
David Weinstein (Columbia University)
"The Factor Content of North-north Trade"

July 7, 2000
Jun-ichi Itaya (Hokkaido University)
"Conjectural Variations and Public Good Provision in a Repeated Game Setting"

July 3, 2000
Ryuzo Sato (New York University)
"International Competition and Asymmetric Technology Game"

June 30, 2000
Noritsugu Nakanishi
"An overlapping-generations model of international trade
with a durable consumption good"

June 23, 2000
Hajime Sugeta (Kansai University)
"Horizontal Mergers and Trade Policy towards an International Oligopoly
with a General Firm-Specific Cost Structure"

June 8, 2000
Fumiko Takeda (Yale University)
"Why capital inflows may increase the likelihood of bank runs"

May 25, 2000
Tadashi Inoue (University of Tsukuba)
"On the Dynamic Properties of Government Expenditures"

May 19, 2000
Henryk Kierzkowski (Graduate Institute of International Studies)
"A Framework for Fragmentation"

March 16, 2000
Mukul Majumdar (Cornell University)
"Characterizing the probability of survival in a large Walrasian economy"

March 2, 2000
Kwan Koo Yun (New York University)
"Technological Comparative Advantage and Behavior of Factor Prices with Trade"

February 21, 2000
Ping Wang (Vanderbilt University)
"The Economics of New Blood"

February 7, 2000
Hiroshi Futamura (Hiroshima University)
"External Effects on Labor-Augmenting Technological Progress"

January 27, 2000
Richard Baldwin (Graduate Institute of International Studies)
"Agglomeration and Tax Harmonization"

January 11, 2000
Chiaki Hara (Cambridge University)
"Incentive Compatible Core"

December 9, 1999
Akio Hosono (University of Tsukuba)
Economic Reform and Development in Chile: An Evalution of "Chilean Model"

December 2, 1999
H. W. Ursprung (Kobe University)
"Sustained Political Culture and Transition Failure"

November 30, 1999
Takao Ohkawa (Ritsumeikan University)
"Excess or Insufficient Entry under Cournot Oligopoly"

November 26, 1999
Sajal Lahiri (University of Essex)
"Child Labor: Some Policy Options"

November 25, 1999
Taiji Furusawa (Yokohama National University)
"The Role of the WTO Dispute Settlement Procedure on International Cooperation"

November 17, 1999
Kazuo Nishimura (Kyoto University)
"Indeterminacy and Multisector Models"

November 11, 1999
Hisayuki Okamoto (Kobe University of Commerce)
"North-South Trade and Income Distribution"

November 4, 1999
Masatoshi Tsumagari (Keio University)
"Financing Cost and Firm Structure"

October 29, 1999
Masayuki Ohkawa (Ritsumeikan University)
"A Note on the Effects of Voluntary Export Restrictions under Imperfect Competition"

October 28, 1999
Noel Gaston (Bond University)
"Unions and the Decentralisation of Collective Bargaining in a Globalising World"

October 20, 1999
Larry Qiu (
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology)
Keiretsu and Relationship-Specific Investment?A Barrier to Trade ?

July 29, 1999
Kaz Miyagiwa (Louisiana State University)
Top Dogs, Puppy Dogs and Tax Holidays

July 29, 1999
Masao Yamada
(Tokuyama University)
Industrialization, Population, and Technology

 

June 25, 1999
Naohito Abe (Brookings Institution/Yale University)
On the Symmetry of the International Spillover of Industrial Policies

June 23, 1999
David Weinstein (University of Michigan)
Trade Cost and the "Mystery of Missing Trade"

June 18, 1999
Peter Temin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
The Golden Age of European Growth Reconsidered

June 17, 1999
Ichiro Daito (Tohoku University)
Environmental Tax, Abatement Activity, and Urban Unemployment:
Can the Environmental Protection be Compatible with the Reduction
of Domestic Poverty?

June 14, 1999
Michihiro Ohyama (Keio University)
Marshallian Utility Function and Social Indifference Curves

March 13, 1999
Eden Yu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Trims, Pollution Tax and Foreign Investment

March 1, 2 and 4, 1999
Wilfred Ethier (University of Pennsylvania)
Lectures on International Commercial System

February 23, 1999
Sheng-Cheng Hu (Institute of Economics, Acdemia Sinica)
Population Aging and Endogenous Economic Growth

January 22, 1999
Robin Stonecash (University of New South Wales)
A General Theory of Privatisation

January 22, 1999
Manimay Senguputa (Otaru University of Commerce)
Rights, Rationality and Social Choice

December 11, 1998
Murray C. Kemp (University of New South Wales, Chukyo University)
A Second Elementary Proposition Concerning the Formation of Customs Union

December 3, 1998
Peter J. Hammond (Stanford University, Hitotsubashi University)
Gains from Trade versus Gains from Migration: What Makes Them So Different?

October 30, 1998
Hajime Kubota (Shiga University)
Trade, Welfare, and Comparative Advantage in General Equilibrium
with Many Commodities

July 23, 1998
Wilfred Ethier, University of Pennsylvania
Unilateralism in a Multilateral World

June 15, 1998
Akira Momota, Tezukayama University
Demographic Structure, International Lending and Borrowing,
and Growth in an Interdependent Economy

May 14, 1998
Makoto Yano, Keio University
Trade Imbalance and Domestic Market Competition Policy

January 20, 1998
Paul Oslington, Deakin University
Japanese Contributions to the Theory of International Trade

August 28, 1997
Sajal Lahiri, University of Essex
Commercial policies in the presence of intermediate inputs
and smuggling with special reference to Pakistan

May 9, 1997
Kar-yiu Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong
and University of Washington
Endogenous growth and international labor migration:
the case of a small, emigration country