Faculty of Economics 

Public Economics Seminar, fall 2011

Last update March 2, 2012

2011 fall Schedule

Date & Time

Room

Speaker

Title

PDF

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March 7(Wed

1:30-3:00

(E)

Conference room A

Schummer, James

Northwestern University

Kellogg School of

Management

"Assignment of Arrival Slots"

PDF

 

September 30 (Fri)
4:30-6:00

(E)

107

Harstad, Ron 

University of Missouri-Columbia

Department of Economics

"Political Economy Field Experiments Become Possible"

 

October 7(Fri)
2:45-4:15

 

107

Tumagari, Masatoshi

Keio University

Department of Economics

"Pseudo-Adversarialism"

(joint with Keisuke Nakao)

PDF

 

October 7(Fri)
4:30-6:00

 

107

Asako, Yasushi

Bank of Japan

Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies

Dynastic Politicians: Theory and Evidence from Japan

PDF

 

October 14(Fri)
4:30-6:00

(E)

107

Camerer, Colin F.

California Institute of Technology

Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

"Neurobiological evidence of bounded rationality in strategic thinking"

 

October 21(Fri)
4:30-6:00

 

107

Takahashi, Taiki

Hokkaido University

Graduate School of Letters

"Behavioral neuroeconomics of temporal, probability, and social discounting"

PDF

 

October 28(Fri)
2:45-4:15

 

107

Saijo, Tatsuyoshi

Osaka University

Institute of Social and Economic Research

"The Minimum Approval Mechanism Implements the Efficient Public Good
Allocation Theoretically and Experimentally" (tentative title)

(joint with Takehito Masuda and Yoshitaka Okano)

PDF

 

October 28(Fri)
4:30-6:00

 

107

Imai, Masami

Wesleyan University

Department of Economics

"Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict: Evidence from the
Constraints of the Open-Economy Trilemma,"
joint with Peter Hull

PDF

 

November 4(Fri)
2:45-4:15
 

 

107

Tanaka, Saori

Osaka University

Institute of Social and Economic Research

"The neuroeconomics of delay discounting"

PDF

 

November 4(Fri)
4:30-6:00

 

107

Sumita, Kazuto

Kanazawa Seiryo University

Department of Economics

Price Competition in the Spatial Real Estate Market: Allies or Rivals?

(joint with Shinichiro Iwata and Mieko Fujisawa)

PDF

 

November 11(Fri)
4:30-6:00

(E)

107

Benjamin, Daniel J.  
Cornell University

Economic Department

"What Do You Think Would Make You Happier? What Do You Think You Would Choose?"

PDF

November 18(Fri)

 

 Mita Festival

 

 

November 25(Fri)
2:45-4:15
 

(E)

107

Lee, In Ho 

Seoul National University

Moral Hazard and Forbearance in Financial Regulation"

PDF

November 25(Fri)
4:30-6:00

107

Takeoka, Norio 

Yokohama National University

Faculty of Economics

"Comparative impatience under random discounting: 

An application to demand for money"

 

December 2 (Fri)
2:45-4:15
 

 

107

Hamada, Fumimasa

Keio University

Faculty of Economics

"Preference Order and Consumer Demand "  

PDF

 

December 2 (Fri)
4:30-6:00

 

107

Kaneko, Mamoru

University of Tsukuba

Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences

"Critical Comparisons between

the Nash Noncooperative Theory and Rationalizability I:

Parallel Characterizations"

joint with Tai-Wei Hu

PDF

 

December 9 (Fri)
4:30-6:00

(E)

107

Ariely, Dan  

Duke University

The Fuqua School of Business

" (Dis)Honesty"

 

December 16 (Fri)
2:45-4:15

 

107

Ishise, Hirokazu

Bank of Japan

Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies

"Polarized America in Trade: the Border Effect between the Red State and the Blue
State" (joint with Miwa Matsuo)

PDF

 

December 16 (Fri)
4:30-6:00

(E)

107

Franck, Raphael 

Bar Ilan University

Department of Economics

"Democratization under the Threat of Revolution: Evidence from the Great Reform Act of 1832" (joint with Toke Aidt,)

PDF

December 23 (Fri)

 

National Holiday

 

 

January 6 (Fri)
2:45-4:15

(E)

107

D'Ambrosio, Conchita

Bocconi University in Italy

Department of Institutional Analysis and Public Managemen

"Measuring Economic Insecurity"

PDF

 

January 6 (Fri)
4:30-6:00

(E)

107

Clark, Andrew 

Paris School of Economics

"Winning Big but Feeling No Better? The Effect of Lottery Prizes on Physical and Mental Health"

 

 

January 13 (Fri)
2:45-4:15

 

107

Matsuyama, Kiminori

Northwestern University

Department of Economics

 

 

January 13 (Fri)
4:30-6:00

(E)

107

Gächter, Simon 

University of Nottingham

School of Economics 

"The roles of incentives and voluntary cooperation for contractual compliance"

 

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January 20 (Fri)
2:45-4:15

 

107

Sakuragawa, Masaya

Keio University

Faculty of Economics

"Savings and Bubbles "  

PDF

 

January 20 (Fri)
4:30-6:00

(E)

107

Zilibotti, Fabrizio 

University of Zurich

Department of Economics

"Seeds of Distrust: Conflict in Uganda"

PDF

Coordinators Nakamura, Shinsuke Okuno-Fujiwara, Masahiro Seko, Miki Mckenzie, Colin Ogaki, Masao (Faculty of Economics)
Higuchi, Yoshio (Faculty of Business and Commerce)