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.
What's New
- February 26, 2010
- Global COE Hi-Stat Newsletter No. 3
- February 4, 2010
- Asian Historical Economics Conference
- The third Asian Historical Economics Conference (AHEC) will be held in May 19-21, 2010 in Beijing, jointly organized by Tsinghua University, Warwick University, and Hitotsubashi University's G-COE Hi-Stat Program. An AHEC website has been established to facilitate the communication between the organizer, participants and researchers at large. It will also be linked to major economic history associations and the universities involved.
Discussion Papers
- Jouchi Nakajima and Yasuhiro Omori
- Stochastic Volatility Model with Leverage and Asymmetrically Heavy-tailed Error Using GH Skew Student's t-distribution
- Koji Miyawaki, Yasuhiro Omori, and Akira Hibiki
- Panel Data Analysis of Japanese Residential Water Demand Using a Discrete/Continuous Choice Approach
- Hideaki Sakawa and Masato Ubukata
- The Reform of Tokyo Stock Exchange and Transparency
Hi-Stat Vox
- December 29, 2009
- The illusion of improving global imbalances
- Richard Baldwin
(Graduate Institute, Geneva and CEPR)
Daria Taglioni
(ECB and CTEI Graduate Institute, Geneva)
Event Information
- JSPS Invitational Training Program for Advanced Japanese Research Institutes, Workshop on “Law and Economics of Markets”
(co-organized by the Project on Intergenerational Equity, Global COE Hi-Stat Program, and Egusa Foundation) - Date: March 14-15, 2010
- Venue: Meeting Room, 4F, Institute of Economic Research
- Invited Speakers: Andrew Daughety (Vanderbilt University), Koichi Hamada (Yale University), Jennifer Reinganum (Vanderbilt University), Michael Riordan (Columbia University)
- Organizers: Reiko Aoki (Center for Intergenerational Studies and Global COE Hi-Stat, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)
- Those interested in presenting are invited to send completed papers to Ms. Kajiura (kajiuras@ier.hit-u.ac.jp) by February 15, 2010. Both theoretical and empirical papers will be considered. Decision will be made by March 1, 2010. Presenters are expected to be discussants. Registration for participants will start in February 2010. Inquiries should be sent to Ms. Kajiura (kajiuras@ier.hit-u.ac.jp).
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- Asian Historical Economics Conference
- Date: May 19-21, 2010
- Venue: Tsinghua University, Beijing
- Organizer: Asian Historical Economics Conference (AHEC) and the Centre for China in the World Economy (CCWE), Tsinghua University
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