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3rd Hitotsubashi University-Kansai Academia
Forum on Economic Outlook and Policy Responses: From a Financial Crisis to an Economic Crisis

Time and Date 13:30 – 17:00, March 7, 2009
Venue The Phoenix Hall (4-15-10 Nishi-tenma, Kita-ku, Osaka)
Commentators Wataru Takahashi (Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, the Bank of Japan), Fumio Otake (Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University), Yoshiyasu Ono (Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University)
Panelists Yukinobu Kitamura (Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)
Makoto Saito (Department of Economics, Hitotsubashi University)
Etsuro Shioji (Department of Economics, Hitotsubashi University)
Masahiko Takeda (Department of Economics, Hitotsubashi University)
Daiji Kawaguchi (Department of Economics, Hitotsubashi University)

Program Overview
Video (in Japanese)
Summary Report

Hitotsubashi Game Theory Workshop 2009

Date March 5-7, 2009
Venue Meeting Room, F7, Mercury Tower, Hitotsubashi University
Organizer Okada Akira (Hitotsubashi University)

Program[PDF: 130KB]

Hitotsubashi Global COE Lectures on International Trade

Date 12:55 - 16:10, March 5-6, 2009
Venue Room 3201, Mercury Tower, Hitotsubashi University
Organizer Jota Ishikawa (Hitotsubashi University)

Hitotsubashi Global COE One-Day Trade Workshop

Date 9:30 - 18:00, March 4, 2009
Venue Room 3201, Mercury Tower, Hitotsubashi University
Organizer Jota Ishikawa (Hitotsubashi University)

Program [PDF: 40KB]

The 1st Winter Institute of Macroeconomics

Date February 27 - March 1, 2009
Venue International Productivity Center (Shonan, Kanagawa)
Organizer Shinichi Fukuda (University of Tokyo)
Koichi Futagami (Osaka University)
Akihisa Shibata (Kyoto University)
Etsuro Shioji and Makoto Saito (Hitotsubashi University)

Global COE Lecture
“Topics in Antitrust Economics”

Time and Date 10:30 - 12:00, 13:30 - 15:00, February 21, 2009
Venue Meeting Room, 4F, Institute of Economic Research
Speaker Jay Pil Choi (Michigan State University)
Organizer Reiko Aoki
(Institute of Economic Research, e-mail: aokirei@ier.hit-u.ac.jp )

Reading List [PDF: 28KB]

Global COE Workshop (Co-hosted by the Law and Economics Group, Hitotsubashi University)
“Patent Pools and Standards Workshop: Theory and Empirical Evidence ”

Time and Date 9:00 - 18:00, Friday, February 20, 2009
Venue Meeting Room, 4F, Institute of Economic Research
Speakers Marc Rysman (Boston University)
Noriyuki Yanagawa (The University of Tokyo)
Sadao Nagaoka (Hitotsubashi University)
Jay Pil Choi (Michigan State University)
Yann Meniere (Ecole des Mines)
Organizer Reiko Aoki
(Institute of Economic Research, e-mail: aokirei@ier.hit-u.ac.jp )

See Program for details.

Global COE Lecture
“Structural Estimation in Industrial Organization”

Time and Date 10:00 - 12:00, 14:00 - 16:00, Thursday, February 19, 2009
Venue Meeting Room, 4F, Institute of Economic Research
Speaker Marc Rysman
(Boston University)
Organizer Reiko Aoki
(Institute of Economic Research, e-mail: aokirei@ier.hit-u.ac.jp )
Contact Mikiko Goto (e-mail: goto@ier.hit-u.ac.jp )

References: Rust, J. 1987. “Optimal Replacement of GMC Bus Engines: An Empirical Model of Harold Zurcher”, Econometrica 55: 999-1033.
Berry, S., Levinsohn, J. and Pakes, A. 1995. “Automobile Prices in Market Equilibrium”, Econometrica, 63: 841-890.

Handout1 [PDF: 223KB]
Handout2 [PDF: 104KB]

Global COE Lecture
"Networks and Competition"

Time and Date 10:00 - 12:00, 14:00 - 16:00, January 28-29, 2009
Venue Meeting Room, 4F, Institute of Economic Research
Speaker John Panzar
(University of Auckland and Professor Emeritus, Northwestern University)
Organizer Reiko Aoki
(Institute of Economic Research, e-mail: aokirei@ier.hit-u.ac.jp )

Program [PDF: 9KB]

Hitotsubashi COE Lectures and Workshop on Choice, Games, and Welfare

Co-hosted by the Center for Research on Contemporary Economic Systems (CCES) and the Global COE Program Hi-Stat at Hitotsubashi University

Date Date: January 10-12, 2009
Venue Mercury Tower 7F, Conference Room, Hitotsubashi Univeristy, Kunitachi East Campus
Organizer Koichi Tadenuma (Hitotsubashi University)
and Naoki Yoshihara (Hitotsubashi University)

Program

Global COE Hi-Stat Data Archive / Supervisory Group Seminar

“The Productivity Race between India and China in Manufacturing during the Reform Era”

Time and Date 15:30 - 17:00, Monday, January 5, 2009
Venue Seminar Room No. 1, Institute of Economic Research
Speaker Harry Wu
(the Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Organizer Kyoji Fukao
(Institute of Economic Research)

Asia Historical Statistics Project (AHSTAT) Workshop on Korea Volume

Time and Date 9:00 - 18:00, December 16, 2008
Venue Hoam Conference Room, Seoul National University
Organizer Kyoji Fukao
(Institute of Economic Research)

Program

Hitotsubashi COE Conference on International Trade and FDI 2008

Co-hosted by the Global COE Hi-Stat and the Center for Research on Contemporary Economic Systems

Date December 13-14, 2008
Venue Conference Room, 7F, Mercury Tower, Hitotsubashi University
Organizer Jota Ishikawa (Hitotsubashi University)
and Taiji Furusawa (Hitotsubashi University)

Program

Workshop and Special Lecture: "Construction of Longitudinal Network with Middle Eastern Countries: Toward the Mutual Understanding and Development of Joint Researches"

Date December 6, 2008
Venue Room 3506, Mercury Tower, Hitotsubashi University
Organizer Hiroshi Kato (Institute of Economic Research)

Program [PDF: 64KB]

Forum on the Financial Crisis

Date 14:30 - 17:00, November 19, 2008
Venue Kanematsu Auditorium, Hitotsubashi University
Panelists Eiji Ogawa (Graduate School of Commerce and Management)
Makoto Saito (Department of Economics)
Etsuro Shioji (Department of Economics)
Yasuhiro Maehara (School of International and Public Policy)
Toshiaki Watanabe (Institute of Economic Research)
Coordinator Yukinobu Kitamura (Institute of Economic Research)

The Applied Statistics Workshop 2008

Co-hosted by the Global COE Hi-Stat

Time and Date 16:00 - 18:10, October 29, 2008
Venue Conference Room No. 1 on the 12th floor of the Economics Building, the University of Tokyo

16:00 - 17:00 Fulvio Corsi (University of Siena) "Volatility forecasting: the jumps do matter"
17:10 - 18:10 Torben Andersen (Northwestern University)"Model-Free Implied Volatility"

International Conference
"High-Frequency Data Analysis in Financial Markets"

Co-hosted by the Global COE Hi-Stat

Date October 25-26, 2008
Place Mercury Tower, Hitotsubashi University
Organizer Toshiaki Watanabe
(Hitotsubashi University)
Invited Overseas Speakers Torben Andersen (Northwestern University)
Federico Bandi (University of Chicago)
Peter Hansen (Stanford University)
Fulvio Corsi (University of Siena)
Jun Yu (Singapore Management University)
Siem Jan Koopman (Free University)
Almut Veraart (University of Aarhus)

Program and Papers

2008 Japan-Korea Industrial Database Workshop

Date August 29-30, 2008
Venue Faculty of Economics, Shinshu University
Hosts Shinshu University; Korea Productivity Center; Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Research Institute of Oriental Cultures, Gakushuin University; College of Economics, Nihon University
Organizer Kyoji Fukao
(Institute of Economic Research)

Program and Papers

Harvard-Hitotsubashi-Warwick Conference
"Economic Change Around the Indian Ocean in the Very Long Run"

Date July 22-24, 2008
Venue The University of Warwick in Venice, Palazzo Pesaro Papafava
Organizer Kyoji Fukao
(Institute of Economic Research)

Program [PDF: 14KB]
Papers (Link to the University of Warwick )

4th Annual Meeting of the Asia Pacific Trade Seminars (APTS)

Date July 14-15, 2008
Venue Merewether Building, the University of Sydney
Organizer Jota Ishikawa (Hitotsubashi University)
Taiji Furusawa (Hitotsubashi University)

Program and Papers

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