Program Leader: Kyoji Fukao
(Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)

This Global Centers of Excellence (COE) program, the Research Unit for Statistical and Empirical Analysis in Social Sciences (G-COE Hi-Stat), aims at establishing a globally unique education and research base within the five-year span (2008-2012) of the program. Based on the construction of a social sciences data archive, the program, in collaboration with the Institute of Economic Research and the Department of Economics at Hitotsubashi University, focuses on the development of young academics through "on-the-job" training, empirical research using this archive, and the development of both statistical methods and economic theory directly related to the data.

Global COE programs are funded by Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) to support Japanese universities' efforts to establish education and research centers that perform at the apex of global excellence. For FY2008, 14 programs were selected in the social sciences.

Event Information

Economic Development Workshop
(co-organized by the Center for Economic Institutions and Global COE Hi-Stat Program)
Date: 10:30-12:00, September 3, 2010
Venue: Seminar Room 5, 4th Floor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
Speaker: Stephen Broadberry (University of Warwick)
Title: “British Economic Growth, 1270-1870” [PDF: 733KB] (with Bruce Campbell, Alexander Klein, Mark Overton, and Bas van Leeuwen)
Organizers:
Chiaki Moriguchi (Institute of Economic Research)
Takashi Kurosaki (Institute of Economic Research)
Kyoji Fukao (Institute of Economic Research)
Asian Conference 2010 on Applied Micro-Economics/Econometrics
Date: November 5-6, 2010
Venue: Takasago Banquet Room, 11F, Tokyo Prince Hotel (3-3-1, Shiba-koen, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-8560)
Speakers:
Kamhon Kan (Academia Sinica)
Daiji Kawaguchi (Hitotsubashi University)
Ayako Kondo (Osaka University)
Chul-In Lee (Seoul National University)
Jungmin Lee (Sogang University)
Ryo Nakajima (Yokohama National University)
Ken Yamada (Singapore Management University)
Shintaro Yamaguchi (McMaster University)
Invited Speakers:
Thomas Lemiuex (University of British Columbia)
Organizer: Daiji Kawaguchi (Hitotsubashi University)
If you would like to attend the conference, please send an e-mail, including your name and affiliation, to Ms. Kajiura (GCOE-info2@ier.hit-u.ac.jp). Registration will be closed when we reach full capacity.
Hitotsubashi Conference on Econometrics 2010
Date: November 20 (sessions in English) and 21 (sessions in Japanese), 2010
Venue: Conference Room, Mercury Tower 7F, Hitotsubashi University
Invited Overseas Speakers:
N. H. Chan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
In Choi (Sogang University)
William Dunsmuir (University of New South Wales)
Cheng Hsiao (University of Southern California)
Pentti Saikkonen (University of Helsinki)
Organizer: Eiji Kurozumi (Hitotsubashi University) kurozumi@stat.hit-u.ac.jp