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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 Mercury Tower Room No.3201
Invited Speakers Andrew Daughety (Vanderbilt University)
Koichi Hamada (Yale University)
Jennifer Reinganum (Vanderbilt University)
Michael Riordan (Columbia University)
Organizer 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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Global COE International Seminar on Public Economics

Date and Time 9:30-17:20, March 8, 2010
Venue Meeting Room, F7, Mercury Tower, Hitotsubashi University
Organizer Motohiro Sato (Hitotsubashi University)

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CEI Workshop on Governance, Institutions, and Performance

Date and Time 10:30-19:30, March 4, 2010
Venue Sano-Shoin Hall, Hitotsubashi University
Organizer Yupana Wiwattanakantang (Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University) and Masatoshi Kato (Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)

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The 2nd Winter Institute of Macroeconomics

Date February 27-28, 2010
Venue Biwako Resort Club (Moriguchi, Shiga)
Organizers Shinichi Fukuda (The University of Tokyo)
Koichi Futagami (Osaka University)
Akihisa Shibata (Kyoto University)
Etsuro Shioji (Hitotsubashi University)
Makoto Saito (Hitotsubashi University)

GCOE Hi-Stat Workshop on Industrial Organization and Competition Policy

Date 14:00-18:00, February 20, 2010
Venue Sano-Shoin Hall, Hitotsubashi University
Speakers Sang-Seung Yi (Department of Economics, Seoul National University)
Noriaki Matsushima (Osaka University)
Jun Nakabayashi (University of Tsukuba)
Organizers Yosuke Okada (Hitotsubashi University)
Hiroyuki Okamuro (Hitotsubashi University)

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Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control Conference on Frontiers in Structural Macroeconomic Modeling: Thirty Years after "Macroeconomics and Reality" and Five Years after "Nominal Rigidities and the Dynamic Effects of a Shock to Monetary Policy"

Co-hosted by the Global COE Program Hi-Stat at Hitotsubashi University and the Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan

Date January 23-24, 2010
Venue Mercury Tower 7F Conference Room, Hitotsubashi University
Invited Overseas Speakers Christopher Sims (Princeton University)
Lawrence Christiano (Northwestern University)
Frank Smets (European Central Bank)
Siddhartha Chib (Washington University)
Martin Eichenbaum (Northwestern University)
Organizers Ippei Fujiwara (Bank of Japan)
Michel Juillard (Bank of France and CEPREMAP)
Shigenori Shiratsuka (Bank of Japan)
Toshiaki Watanabe (Hitotsubashi University)

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The papers presented at the conference are compiled in Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, vol. 35, no. 12 (December 2011) Frontiers in Structural Macroeconomic Modeling.

Global COE Lecture
Econometrics of Auctions

Date and Time October 13, 20, 27; November 10, 24; December 1, 8:50-10:50AM
Venue Seminar Room No. 5, 4F, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
Lecturer Harry Paarsch (University of Melbourne)

References
(1) Auction Theory, Vijay Krishna. San Diego: Academic Press,2002.
(2) An Introduction to the Structural Econometrics of Auctions, Harry J. Paarsch and Han Hong. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2006.
(3) Mastering MATLAB 7, Duane Hanselman and Bruce Littlefield. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Prentice–Hall, 2005.
Lecture Website
Lectures will cover Paarsch & Hong Chapter 3, 4 and part of 5, and recent papers. Students are expected to be familiar with Chapters 1 and 2.
Prior to the Lecture, participants should do exercises at end of Paarsch&Hong Chapter 1 in LaTeX.

Hitotsubashi GCOE Conference on International Trade and FDI 2009
Co-hosted by the Global COE Hi-Stat Program and the Center for Research on Contemporary Economic Systems at Hitotsubashi University

Date December 12-13, 2009
Venue Mercury Tower, Hitotsubashi University
Organizers Jota Ishikawa (Hitotsubashi University) and Taiji Furusawa (Hitotsubashi University)

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Mini Workshop on Philippine Historical Economic Statistics

Date November 18-19, 2009
Venue Sano-shoin, Hitotsubashi University

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Hitotsubashi COE Trade Workshop for Young Researchers

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

Date November 14-15, 2009
Venue Mercury Tower, Hitotsubashi University
Organizers Jota Ishikawa (Hitotsubashi University) and Taiji Furusawa (Hitotsubashi University)

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Quantitative Analysis of Newly Evolving Patterns of Japanese and U.S. International Trade: Fragmentation; Offshoring of Activities; and Vertical Intra-Industry Trade

Date October 16-17, 2009
Venue Classroom 0770 Wyly Hall, 2009 Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Organizers Robert M. Stern (Economics and Public Policy in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and Department of Economics of the University of Michigan); Kyoji Fukao (Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University); and Kozo Kiyota (Yokohama National University)

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Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data (CAED) 2009 Conference

Co-organized by the Global COE Program Hi-Stat at Hitotsubashi University and the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)

Date 9:30 - 18:00, October 2-4, 2009
Venue Hitotsubashi Memorial Hall (National Center of Sciences Building, 2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)

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Hitotsubashi G-COE Conference on Choice, Games, and Welfare 2009: Mechanism Design

Date September 24-25, 2009
Venue Meeting Room, F7, Mercury Tower, Hitotsubashi University
Organizers Daisuke Oyama (Hitotsubashi University)
Koichi Tadenuma (HitotsubashiUniversity)

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Hitotsubashi G-COE Lectures on Choice, Games, and Welfare 2009

co-organized with the Center for Research on Contemporary Economic Systems and International Exchange Seminar

Date August 24, September 1 and 3, 2009
Venue Meeting Room, F7, Mercury Tower, Hitotsubashi University
Organizers Koichi Tadenuma (HitotsubashiUniversity)
Naoki Yoshihara (Hitotsubashi University)

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3rd CFEE Conference on Financial Engineering Education

Date August 8, 2009
Venue Meeting Room, F7, Mercury Tower, Hitotsubashi University
Overseas Speakers William Dunsmuir (University of New South Wales, Sydney)
Lim, Kian Guan (Singapore Management University)
Cornelis W. Oosterlee (Delft University of Technology)

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2009 International Symposium on Econometric Theory and Applications (SETA 2009)

Date July 31, August 1-2, 2009
Venue Inamori Hall, Kyoto University
Organizers Osaka University, Kyoto University, the University of Tokyo, and the Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice (CeMMAP)

Lectures in Law and Economics

Date July 30, 2009
Venue Seminar Room No.5, 3F, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
Speaker Mark Ramseyer (Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies, Harvard Law School)

16:00-16:30 Law and Economics at Harvard Law School
16:30-18:00 The Allocation of Talent under National Health Insurance: Cosmetic Surgery in Japan

Mini Workshop on "East Asian Economic Development in Historical Perspective"

Co-hosted by the Center for Economic Institutions (CEI) and Global COE Hi-Stat Program at Hitotsubashi University

Time and Date 10:00-17:30, July 3, 2009
Venue Meeting Room, 4F, Institute of Economic Research
Organizer Kyoji Fukao (Hitotsubashi University) k.fukao@srv.cc.hit-u.ac.jp

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5th Annual Meeting of the Asia Pacific Trade Seminars (APTS)

Time and Date June 29-30, 2009
Venue University of Hong Kong
Organizers Jota Ishikawa (Hitotsubashi University)
Taiji Furusawa (Hitotsubashi University)

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Pre-Conference Meeting for the “International Comparison of Output and Productivity in History” Session, XVth World Economic History Congress, Utrecht

Time and Date 9:30 - 18:00, May 22, 2009
Venue Seminar Room 5, Institute of Economic Research
Organizers Kyoji Fukao (Hitotsubashi University) k.fukao@srv.cc.hit-u.ac.jp
Harry X. Wu (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Stephen Broadberry (University of Warwick)

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