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

>> Past updates

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

Donatella Gatti, Ryo Kambayashi, and Sébastien Lechevalier
Wage and Productivity Differentials in Japan: The Role of Labor Market Mechanisms
Jun Nakabayashi
Small Business Set-asides in Procurement Auctions: An Empirical Analysis
Takashi Kurosaki
Long-term Agricultural Growth in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh

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

>> List of past seminars

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
More information

>> List of upcoming events

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