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Year 2024

Thursday, April 18th, 2024 at 4:45pm-6:15pm (JST)

Speaker Prof. Mitsuo INADA (Miyazaki Municipal University)
Title The Impact of policy uncertainty on foreign direct investment in services: Evidence from affiliate-level data and the role of regional trade agreements
Room 106 seminar room, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Economics East Bldg 1F, Kyoto University
Note This webinar will be conducted in English.

Thursday, January 25th, 2024 at 4:00pm-6:00pm (JST)

Speaker Prof. Yoshitaka KAWAGOSHI (Kyoto Sangyo University)
Title The Effects of R&D Subsidies for Joint R&D in a Vertically Related Industry
Room

106 seminar room, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Economics East Bldg 1F, Kyoto University

Note This webinar will be conducted in English.

(Presentations of Master's Thesis)

Speaker 1 Shigenobu KAWAGUCHI (Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University, M2)
Title How Did Shocks on Gender Composition Affect Regional Economic Activities in Japan?: A Heckscher-Ohlin Approach
Speaker 2 Eisuke KOBAYASHI (Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University, M2)
Title An Empirical Study on the Effects of Exchange Rate Fluctuations on Japan’s Exports to the United States
Room

106 seminar room, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Economics East Bldg 1F, Kyoto University

Note Presentations will be given in English. Questions and discussions will be made in both English and Japanese.

Thursday, January 18th, 2024 at 4:45pm-6:15pm (JST)

Speaker Prof. Koji SHINTAKU (Hiroshima Shudo University)
Title Inward FDI Subsidy and Technology Adoption
Room

106 seminar room, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Economics East Bldg 1F, Kyoto University
and online meeting room (hybrid)

Note This webinar will be conducted in English.

Year 2023

Thursday, December 21st, 2023 at 4:45pm-6:15pm (JST)

###The seminar on December 21 was cancelled.###

Speaker Prof. Hodaka MORITA (Hitotsubashi University)
Title Product Market Competition, Labor Mobility, and Firm-Sponsored Training: New Implications of Market Power (with Arghya Ghosh and Susumu Sato)
Room

106 seminar room, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Economics East Bldg 1F, Kyoto University
and online meeting room (hybrid)

Note This webinar will be conducted in English.

Thursday, December 7th, 2023 at 4:45pm-6:15pm (JST)

Speaker Prof. Keiko ITO (Chiba University)
Title The Changing Structure of Global Value Chains and Technological Change: Evidence from the Firm-Level Patent Data
Room

106 seminar room, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Economics East Bldg 1F, Kyoto University
and online meeting room (hybrid)

Note This webinar will be conducted in English.

Thursday, November 2nd, 2023 at 4:45pm-6:15pm (JST)

Speaker Prof. Sawako MARUYAMA (Kindai University)
Title Estimation of task content of trade
Room

106 seminar room, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Economics East Bldg 1F, Kyoto University
and online meeting room (hybrid)

Note This webinar will be conducted in English.

Thursday, October 26th, 2023 at 4:45pm-6:15pm (JST)

Speaker Prof. Kenta YAMANOUCHI (Kagawa University)
Title Effects of Product-Specific Rules of Origin on Trade in Free Trade Agreements: Evidence from the Case of Japan
Room

106 seminar room, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Economics East Bldg 1F, Kyoto University
and online meeting room (hybrid)

Note This webinar will be conducted in English.

Thursday, October 5th, 2023 at 4:45pm-6:15pm (JST)

Speaker Prof. Morihiro YOMOGIDA (Sophia University)
Title Technology Transfer, Emissions Trading, and International Trade (with Jota Ishikawa and Kazuharu Kiyono)
Room

106 seminar room, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Economics East Bldg 1F, Kyoto University
and online meeting room (hybrid)

Note This webinar will be conducted in English.

Thursday, July 6th, 2023 at 5:00pm-6:30pm (JST)

Speaker Prof. Megumi Naoi (Department of Political Science, UC San Diego)
Title How Political Tensions Fuel Cross-border Investment: American Consumer Hostility and Mergers and Acquisitions by Chinese and Japanese Firms (with Sichen Li)
Room

311 seminar room, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Economics East Bldg 3F, Kyoto University
and online meeting room (hybrid)

Note This webinar will be conducted in English.

Thursday, June 15th, 2023 at 4:45pm-6:15pm (JST)

※This seminar was cancelled.
Speaker Prof. William F. Lincoln (Claremont McKenna College)
Title North Korea’s China Shock
Room

106 seminar room, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Economics East Bldg 1F, Kyoto University
and online meeting room (hybrid)

Note This webinar will be conducted in English.

Thursday, May 25th, 2023 at 4:45pm-6:15pm (JST)

Speaker Prof. Hayato KATO (Osaka University)
Title A global minimum tax for large firms only: Implications for tax competition (co-authored with Andreas Haufler)
Room

106 seminar room, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Economics East Bldg 1F, Kyoto University
and online meeting room (hybrid)

Note This webinar will be conducted in English.

Thursday, January 19th, 2023 at 5:00pm-6:30pm (JST) <Keio-Kyoto Joint International Trade (KKIT) Webinar>

Speaker Prof. Atsushi TADOKORO (Kyoto University)
Title Tariff policies with firm heterogeneity and variable markups
Room 107 seminar room and online meeting room (hybrid)
Note This webinar will be conducted in English.

Year 2022

Thursday, December 22th, 2022 at 5:00pm-6:30pm (JST) <Keio-Kyoto Joint International Trade (KKIT) Webinar>

Speaker Prof. Daisuke FUJII (University of Tokyo)
Title The Impact of Trade on Resource Reallocations with Production Networks (with Kevin Lim)
Room 311 seminar room and online meeting room (hybrid)
Note This webinar will be conducted in English.

Thursday, November 17th, 2022 at 5:00pm-6:30pm (JST)

Speaker Prof. Hirofumi Okoshi (Okayama University)
Title Keep Your Friends Close and Your Enemies Closer (with Hiroshi Mukunoki)
Room 107 seminar room and online meeting room (hybrid)
Note This webinar will be conducted in English.

Thursday, October 20th, 2022 at 5:00pm-6:30pm (JST) <Keio-Kyoto Joint International Trade (KKIT) Webinar>

Speaker Prof. Yusuke KUROISHI (Hitotsubashi University)
Title The Value of Trademarks: Micro Evidence from Chinese Exports to Africa
Room Online meeting room
Note This webinar will be conducted in English.

Thursday, July 7th, 2022 at 5:00pm-6:30pm (JST) <Keio-Kyoto Joint International Trade (KKIT) Webinar>

Speaker Mr. Shogo Sakabe (Ph.D. Candidate, Columbia University)
Title Place-Based Policies and the Geography of Corporate Investment (with Cameron LaPoint)
Room Online meeting room
Note This webinar will be conducted in English.

Thursday, June 30th, 2022 at 5:00pm-6:30pm (JST) <Keio-Kyoto Joint International Trade (KKIT) Webinar>

Speaker Prof. Tatsuya Asami (Momoyama Gakuin University)
Title Trade Liberalization, Educational Choice, and Income Distribution (With Taiji Furusawa and Yunfang Hu)
Room Online meeting room
Note This webinar will be conducted in English.

Thursday, June 2nd, 2022 at 5:00pm-6:30pm (JST) <Keio-Kyoto Joint International Trade (KKIT) Webinar>

Speaker Prof. Cheng Chen (Clemson University)
Title Multinationals and Structural Transformation
Room Online meeting room
Note This webinar will be conducted in English.

Thursday, May 26th, 2022 at 5:00pm-6:30pm (JST)

Speaker Prof. Theresa Greaney (University of Hawai'i at Manoa)
Title Gender Inequality and the Influence of Foreign Firms: Evidence from Japan (with Ayumu Tanaka)
Room Seminar Room #311 & online meeting room
Note Sponsored by the JSPS Invitational Fellowships for Research in Japan (Short-term). This webinar will be conducted in English.

Thursday, April 28th, 2022 at 5:00pm-6:30pm (JST) <Keio-Kyoto Joint International Trade (KKIT) Webinar>

Speaker Mr. Yuta Suzuki (Ph.D. Candidate, Pennsylvania State University)
Title Local Shocks and Regional Dynamics in an Aging Economy
Room Online meeting room
Note This webinar will be conducted in English.

Wednesday, March 16, 2022, 2pm-6:30pm (JST) <Kyoto Half-day Workshop on International Trade and FDI>

Speaker Prof. Tadashi Ito (Gakushuin University), Prof. Akira Sasahara (Keio University), and Dr. Kiyoyasu Tanaka (IDE-JETRO)
Room Seminar Room #311 on the 3rd floor in the East Building of the Faculties of Law and Economics at Kyoto University (Yoshida campus)
Program The program is available here.
Note This webinar will be conducted in English.

Thursday, January 20th, 2022 at 5:00pm-6:30pm <Keio-Kyoto Joint International Trade (KKIT) Webinar>

Speaker Mr. Takafumi Kawakubo (Ph.D. candidate, LSE)
Title "Supply Chain Dynamics" (with Takafumi Suzuki)
Room Online meeting room 
Note This webinar will be conducted in English.

Year 2021

Thursday, December 2rd, 2021 at 5:00pm-6:30pm <Keio-Kyoto Joint International Trade (KKIT) Webinar>

Speaker Prof. René Belderbos (KU Leuven)
Title Organizational Strategies for Knowledge Appropriation of Codified and Complex Technologies
Room Online meeting room
Note This webinar will be conducted in English.

Thursday, November 4th, 2021 at 5:00pm-6:30pm <Keio-Kyoto Joint International Trade (KKIT) Webinar>

Speaker Prof. Ryo Makioka (Hokkaido University)
Title The Values of Face-to-Face Communication in Exports: A Case of Canton Fair during the SARS Epidemic
Room Online meeting room
Note This webinar will be conducted in English.

Thursday, October 28th, 2021 at 5:00pm-6:30pm <Keio-Kyoto Joint International Trade (KKIT) Webinar>

Speaker Prof. Alex Coad (Waseda University)
Title Positioning firms along the capabilities ladder
Room Online meeting room
Note This webinar will be conducted in English.

Thursday, July. 29st, 2021 at 17:15pm-18:00pm (Presentation of the Master's Thesis)

Speaker Liu Yixuan (M2, Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University)
Title “An Empirical Study on Trade Policy Uncertainty and Firm's Innovation: Evidence from US Listed Companies”
Room Seminar room 102, Graduate school and Faculty of Economics, Kyoto University ※Online & Hybrid Events
Note This seminar will be conducted in English.

Thursday, July 1st, 2021 at 5:00pm-6:30pm <Keio-Kyoto Joint International Trade (KKIT) Webinar>

Speaker Prof. Yoichi Sugita (Hitotsubashi University)
Title "The Impacts of AI, Robots, and Globalization on Labor Markets: Analysis of a Quantitative General Equilibrium GVC Model" (with Taiji Furusawa)
Room Online meeting room
Note This webinar will be conducted in English.

Thursday, June 17th, 2021 at 5:00pm-6:30pm <Keio-Kyoto Joint International Trade (KKIT) Webinar>

Speaker Ms. Mina Taniguchi (Ph.D. candidate, LMU Munich)
Title What is the impact of EU enlargement on labor markets?: Estimating the effect of labor supply shock with a discrete choice model
Room Online meeting room
Note This webinar will be conducted in English.

Thursday, May 27th, 2021 at 5pm-6:30pm <Keio-Kyoto Joint International Trade (KKIT) Webinar>

Speaker Mr. Kohei Takeda (Ph.D. candidate, LSE)
Title On the Geography of Structural Transformation and Inequality
Room Online meeting room
Note This webinar will be conducted in English.

Thursday, April 15th, 2021 at 5pm-6:30pm <Keio-Kyoto Joint International Trade (KKIT) Webinar>

Speaker Mr. Ryo Kimoto (Ph.D. student, Keio University)
Title Exporting and Labor Biased Technology Change: Evidence from Chilean Manufacturers
Room Online meeting room
Note This webinar will be conducted in English.

Wednesday, February 17, 14:45-16:15 (Presentations of Master's Thesis)

Speaker 1 Shunya Ozawa (Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University, M2)
Title "A study on US outward investment and investment treaties with a focus on the knowledge intensity of sectors"
Speaker 2 Rinki Ito (Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University, M2)
Title "An Empirical Study of Centrality in Production Networks and International Technology Diffusion"
Room Online meeting room
Note Presentations will be given in English. Questions and discussions will be made in both English and Japanese.

Year 2020

Thursday, December 17th, 2020 at 5pm-6:30pm <Keio-Kyoto Joint International Trade (KKIT) Webinar>

Speaker Prof. Mitsuo Inada (Miyazaki Municipal University)
Title "Promotion or Liberalization: The Effect of Targeted Investment Policies on FDI Inflows"
Room Online meeting room
Note This webinar will be conducted in English.

Thursday, December 3rd, 2020 at 5pm-6:30pm <Keio-Kyoto Joint International Trade (KKIT) Webinar>

Speaker Prof. Yasuyuki Todo (Waseda University and University of Sydney)
Title "The impact of supply-chain networks on interactions between the anti-COVID-19 lockdowns in different regions" (with Hiroyasu Inoue and Yohsuke Murase)
Room Online meeting room
Note This webinar will be conducted in English.

Thursday, November 19, 2020 at 5pm-6:30pm <Keio-Kyoto Joint International Trade (KKIT) Webinar>

Speaker Mr. Yuta Watabe (Ph.D. candidate, Pennsylvania State University)
Title Triangulating Multinationals and Trade
Room Online meeting room
Note This webinar will be conducted in English.

Thursday, November 5, 2020 at 5pm-6:30pm <Keio-Kyoto Joint International Trade (KKIT) Webinar>

Speaker Prof. John Tang (University of Melbourne)
Title The age of epidemics: acute infectious disease and economic development in historical perspective
Room Online meeting room
Note This webinar will be conducted in English.

Thursday, October 15, 2020 at 5pm-6:30pm <Keio-Kyoto Joint International Trade (KKIT) Webinar>

Speaker Prof. Kozo Kiyota (Keio University)
Title "The Leontief Paradox Redux"
Room Online meeting room
Note This webinar will be conducted in English.

Thursday, July 2, 2020 at 5pm-6:20pm <Keio-Kyoto Joint International Trade (KKIT) Webinar>

Speaker Prof. Yukiko Sawada (Ryukoku University)
Title "Deep Regional Trade Agreements and Cross-border Technology Transfer: Theory and Evidence” (with Naoto Jinji, Xingyuan Zhang, and Shoji Haruna)
Room Online meeting room
Note This webinar will be conducted in English.

Thursday, June 25, 2020 at 5pm-6:20pm <Keio-Kyoto Joint International Trade (KKIT) Webinar>

Speaker Prof. Kazu Takechi (Hosei University)
Title "Quality Sorting, Alchian-Allen Effect, and Geography"
Room Online meeting room
Note This webinar will be conducted in English.

Thursday, June 11, 2020 at 5pm-6:30pm <Keio-Kyoto Joint International Trade (KKIT) Webinar>

Speaker Ms. Haruka Takayama (Ph.D. candidate, University of Virginia)
Title "Greenfield or Brownfield? Firm FDI Choice and Intangible Capital"
Room Online meeting room
Note This webinar will be conducted in English.

Mar. 26(Thu.) 15:00-16:00 <<Technical Seminar on OECD's Trade and Industrial Databases>>

***   The seminar was cancelled.   ***
First speaker Mr. Colin WEBB (Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation, OECD)
Title 1 “International harmonized trade and industrial databases at OECD”
Second speaker Dr. Norihiko YAMANO (Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation, OECD)
Title 2 “Development of OECD’s multicountry industrial database – Technical challenges and empirical applications”
Note Both talks will be conducted in English.

Feb. 20 (Thu.)  17:15-18:00 (Presentation of the Master's Thesis)

Speaker Cen Xin (Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University, M2)
Title “An empirical study on Immigration and Deep trade agreements”

Year 2019

Dec. 19 (Thu.)  16:30-18:00

Speaker 倪 彬 氏 (Hosei University)
Title "Outward FDI and firm-level employment dynamics in Japan: theory and evidence"

Dec. 13 (Fri.)  15:00-18:00

Speaker 1 松尾 美和 氏 (Kobe University)
Title 1 "Giving up job search because I don't have a car: Labor market participation and employment status among single mothers with and without cars"
Speaker 2 神事 直人 氏 (Kyoto University)
Title 2 "How much does policy uncertainty affect foreign direct investment?: Micro-evidence from Japan's International Investment Agreements"
Note Joint with Urban Economics Workshop .

Nov. 28 (Thu.)  10:30-12:00

Special Lecture by James Markusen

Title "What do multinational firms do?"

Nov. 28 (Thu.)  16:30-18:00

Speaker Prof. James R. Markusen (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Title "Per capita income and the demand for skills" (with Justin Caron and Thibault Fally)

Nov. 7 (Thu.)  16:30-18:00

Speaker 板倉健氏 (Nagoya City University)
Title "Global Value Chains and Trade Response to Trade War"

Sept. 20 (Fri.) 15:00-18:00

Speaker 1 森 知也 氏 (Kyoto University)
Title "Inter-city trade" (with Jens Wrona)
Speaker2 清水 千弘 氏 (University of Tokyo)
Title "Gravity, counterparties, and foreign investment" (with Cristian Badarinza, Tarun Ramadorai)
Note Joint with Urban Economics Workshop

Jul. 25 (Thu.) 16:30-18:00

Speaker Prof. Makoto Nirei (University of Tokyo)
Title "Self-Organization of Inflation Volatility" (with Jose A. Scheinkman)
Note Joint with Applied Macroeconomics Workshop

Jul. 4 (Thu.) 16:30-18:00

Speaker Prof. Alireza Naghavi (University of Bologna)
Title "Intellectual Property Rights, Innovator Migration and Innovation" (with Olena Ivus and Larry Qiu)

May. 31 (Fri.) 16:30-18:00

Speaker Prof. Akira Sasahara (University of Idaho)
Title "The Impact of Global Warming on Rural-Urban Migrations: Evidence from Global Big Data" (with Giovanni Peri)
Note Joint with Urban Economics Workshop

International Economics Seminar 2nd China-Japan Youth Conference on Trade, Exchange Rate and Labor

Time May. 14 (Tue.) 9:30-17:30
Program Program can be downloaded via this link

Feb. 21 (Thu.)  15:30-16:15 (Presentation of the Master's Thesis)

Speaker 石田和己 (Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University, M1 Tansyusei)
Title 「対日直接投資の要因と中国の関係についての研究」

International Economics Seminar Mini Workshop

Time Feb. 7 (Thu.) 14:00-18:00
Program 14:00-15:10 吉見太洋氏 (Chuo University) ・松浦寿幸氏 (Keio Economic Observatory) "Costs of Utilizing Regional Trade Agreements"
15:15-16:25 早川和伸氏 (IDE-JETRO) "A New Measure of Trade Creation Effect in Regional Trade Agreements"
16:30-18:00 Prof. Hiro Kasahara (University of British Columbia/Hitotsubashi University) "Grain Exports and China's Great Famine, 1959-1961: County-Level Evidence" (with Bingjing Li)

Jan. 24 (Thu.)  16:30-18:00

Speaker 加藤隼人氏 (Keio University)
Title "Firm Location under Trade Cost Uncertainty" (with Toshihiro Okubo)

Year 2018

Dec. 21 (Fri.)  16:30-18:00

Speaker 岸慶一氏 (Kansai University)
Title "Trade Liberalization, Inefficient New Entrants, and Productivity"
Note Joint with Applied Macroeconomics Workshop

Dec. 20 (Thu.)  10:30~12:00

Speaker Dr. Jeremie Cohen-Setton (Peterson Institute for International Economics) and Dr. Thomas Helbling (the IMF Asia-Pacific Department)
Title "Sustaining Economic Growth in Asia"
Note Lecture on the abstract of the following book: Jérémie Cohen-Setton (PIIE), Thomas Helbling, Adam S. Posen (PIIE) and Changyong Rhee (2018). Sustaining Economic Growth in Asia. N.Y.:Columbia University Press.
Joint with Economic and Business History Seminar and Applied Macro Seminar

Nov. 29 (Thu.) Special lecture by Professor James Anderson

Time 10:30-12:00
Title The Gravity Model

16:30-18:00

Speaker Prof. James E. Anderson (William B. Neenan S.J. Millennium Professor of Economics, Boston College; HIAS, Hitotsubashi University)
Title "Short Run Gravity" (with Yoto V. Yotov)

Nov. 9 (Fri.)  16:30-18:00

Speaker Prof. ByeongHwa Choi (National Taiwan University)
Title "Did Product and Geographical Diversification Soften the Impact of Global Trade Shocks?"

Oct. 12 (Fri.)  16:30-18:00

Speaker 加納隆氏 (Hitotsubashi University)
Title "Trend Inflation and Exchange Rate Dynamics: a New Keynesian Approach"
Note Joint with Applied Macroeconomics Workshop

Jul. 26 (Thu.)  16:30-18:00

Speaker 黒川義教氏 (University of Tsukuba)
Title "Factor Intensity Reversals Redux" (with Kozo Kiyota)
Note Joint with Applied Microeconomics Seminar

Jul. 24 (Tue.)  15:00-18:00 

First Speaker Ms. Yoko Sakamoto (Ph.D. candidate, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Title "Product Life-Cycle and Geography of Innovation"
Second Speaker Prof. Olena Ivus (Smith School of Business, Queen's University)
Title "Patent Reforms and Exporter Behaviour: Firm-level evidence from developing countries" (with Walter Park)

Jul. 5 (Thu.)  16:30-18:00

Speaker 川越吉孝氏 (Kyoto Sangyo University)
Title "Tariff and Tax Reform under Imperfect Competition in an International Transportation Sector"

Jun. 1 (Fri.)  14:45-16:15

Speaker Prof. Yu-Chin Chen (University of Washington)
Title "Understanding Exchange Rates through Term Structures"
Note Joint with Applied Macroeconomics Seminar

May. 24 (Thu.)  16:30-18:00

Speaker 佐藤美里氏 (Gakushin Researcher)
Title "Naked Exclusion under Exclusive-offer Competition" (with Hiroshi Kitamura and Noriaki Matsushima)

Mar. 20 (Tue.) 10:30~17:00

【Trade and Environment Workshop】
Program
10:30-11:20 東田啓作氏 (Kwansei Gakuin University) "Strategic Emission Tax/Subsidy in the Presence of Exports and Foreign Direct Investment" (with Hiroaki Ino)
11:30-12:20 鶴見哲也氏 (Nanzan University) "The effects of consumption on subjective well-being: From the perspective of sustainable consumption" (with Kazuki Kagohashi and Shunsuke Managi)
14:00-14:50 阪本浩章氏 (Chiba University) "Dynamic international agreements with no commitment" (with Larry S. Karp)
15:00-15:50 横尾英史氏 (National Institute for Environment Studies, Japan) "Subjective beliefs and estimated risks: Evidence from cooking fuel choices and health in India"
16:10-17:00 蓬田守弘氏 (Sophia University) "Border Carbon Adjustments under Foreign Direct Investment with Technology Transfer"

Mar. 1 (Thu.)  16:00-18:00

First Speaker 新宅公志氏 (Project Center, Faculty of Economics, Kyoto University, Junior Researcher)
Title "An impact of sectoral development on the distribution of trade gains through wage inequality and unemployment"
Second Speaker 伊藤公二氏 (KIER, Kyoto University)
Title 「中小企業の国際化:輸出前・輸出後のプロフィール」

Feb. 15 (Thu.)

14:45-15:30 (Presentation of the Master's Thesis)

Speaker 王敏氏 (Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University, M2)
Title "Offshoring and Employment in a Model of Heterogeneous Firms"

16:30-18:00

Speaker 伊藤萬里氏 (Aoyama Gakuin University)
Title "Trade exposure and electoral protectionism: Evidence from Japanese politician-level data"

Yeaer 2017

Nov. 30 (Thu.)  16:30-18:00

Speaker 石瀬寛和氏 (Osaka University)
Title "Trade Implications of Trend Inflation: Inflation as a Long-run Source of Comparative Advantage and Welfare Improvement"

Oct. 5 (Thu.)  16:30-18:00

Speaker 大東一郎氏 (Keio University)
Title "Open-Access Renewable Resources and Urban Unemployment: Dual Institutional Failures in a Small Open Economy"

Aug. 8 (Tue.)  16:30-18:00 

Speaker Prof. Ronald Davies (University College Dublin)
Title "The Heterogeneous Impact of Brexit: Early Indications from the FTSE" (with Zuzanna Studnicka)

Jul. 20 (Thu.)  16:30-18:00

Speaker Prof. Yan Ma (Kobe University)
Title "Innovation, Growth, and the Distribution of Human Capital" (jointly with Eric Bond)

Jun. 22 (Thu.)  16:30-18:00

Speaker Prof. Alireza Naghavi (University of Bologna)
Title "Intangible Assets and the Organization of Global Supply Chains" (Joint with S. Bolatto, G. Ottaviano, K. Zajc)

Apr. 20 (Thu.)  16:30-18:00 

Speaker Prof. Prasada Rao (University of Queensland, Australia)
Title "Spacial Chaining of Price Indexes to Improve International Comparisons of Prices and Real Incomes"
Note Joint with Applied Micro Seminar and Applied Macro Seminar

Mar. 14 (Tue.) 16:30-18:00 

First Speaker 鎌田伊佐生氏 (Kobe University)
Title "The Internationalization of Firms and Management Practices: A Survey of Firms in Vietnam" (with 佐藤仁志氏、田中清泰)
Second Speaker 佐藤仁志氏 (IDE-JTRO)
Title "Temporary Jobs and Globalization"

Feb. 23 (Thu.)

15:00-15:45 (Presentation of the Master's Thesis)

Speaker 圓花弘樹 (Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University, M2)
Title グローバル化、企業の立地選択、及び内生成長ー企業の異質性の役割ー
Note Joint with Applied Microeconomics Seminar

16:30-18:00

Speaker 大槻恒裕氏 (OSIPP, Osaka University)
Title "Consumer Safety and Technical Regulations"
Note Joint with Applied Microeconomics Seminar

Jan. 26 (Thu.) 16:30-18:00

Speaker 伊藤公二氏 (KIER, Kyoto University)
Title 企業の分業と国際化 ~独立本社・複数事業所の設立と輸出開始の関係~

Year 2016

Dec. 9 (Fri.) 16:30-18:00 

Speaker Prof. Anna Rita Bennato (Loughborough University, UK)
Title "The Incidence of Fines on Cartel Dynamic Pricing"
Note Joint with Applied Microeconomics Seminar. 

Nov. 17 (Thu.) 16:30-18:00

Speaker Prof. Cheng Chen (University of Hong Kong)
Title "Policy Uncertainty and Foreign Direct Investment: Evidence from the China-Japan Island Dispute" (with Tatsuro Senga, Chang Sun and Hongyong Zhang)

Oct. 6 (Thu.) 16:30-18:00

Speaker 遠藤正寛氏 (Keio University)
Title "The Effect of Import Competition and Offshoring on Wages: Evidence from Japanese Matched Worker-Firm Data"
Note Joint with Applied Microeconomics Seminar

Jul. 15 (Fri.) 15:00-18:00

First Speaker Prof. Nori Tarui (University of Hawaii, Manoa)
Title "Aligning Electric Utilities' Incentives with State Agenda: The Case of Revenue Decoupling in the United States"
Second Speaker 中西訓嗣氏 (Kobe University)
Title "Endogenous determination of optimal choice of product scope for multi-product firms, and trade liberalization" (with Kazuki Okahara)
Note Joint with Applied Microeconomics Seminar.

Jun. 16 (Thu.)  16:30-18:00

Speaker Prof. Joseph Mai (School of Economics and Management, Tongji University)
Title "Tariff Cooperation in Free Trade Areas"

May. 19 (Thu.) 16:30-18:00

Speaker Prof. Brian Copeland (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Title "Trade and fisheries subsidies" (with Basak Bayramoglu and Jean-Francois Jacques)

Apr. 28 (Thu.) 16:30-18:00

Speaker Prof. Masao Nakamura (University of British Columbia, Canada)
Title "Bargaining Models of Foreign Direct Investment with Host Country Market Structures and Policy Implications" (with Anming Zhang)

Feb. 18 (Thu.) 16:30-18:00

Speaker 田中鮎夢氏 (Setsunan University)
Title "How Does UNESCO's Convention on Cultural Diversity Affect Trade in Cultural Goods?" (with Naoto Jinji)

Feb. 4 (Thu.) 15:15-18:00

First Talk 15:15-16:15

Speaker Dr. Nobu Yamashita (RMIT University, Australia)
Title "An Empirical Assessment of Defensive Innovation to Chinese Import Competition in Japan"

Second Talk 16:30-18:00

Speaker Prof. Colin Davis (Doshisha University)
Title "Innovation and Production Offshoring with Fully Endogenous Productivity Growth" (with Ken-ichi Hashimoto)

Jan. 28 (Thu.) 16:30-18:00

Speaker 清田耕造氏 (Keio Economic Observatory)
Title "Understanding the Cross-country Productivity Gap of Exporters" (with Toshiyuki Matsuura and Lionel Nesta)
Note CAPS研究会 .

Jan. 8 (Fri.) 16:30-18:00

Speaker 高塚創氏 (Kagawa University)
Title "Do Larger Countries Have Higher Welfare?"

Year 2015

Dec. 17 (Thu.) 16:30-18:00

Speaker 早川和伸氏 (IDE-JTRO)
Title "Impact of Import Delay on Export Patterns"

Nov. 5 (Thu.) 15:00-16:30

Speaker Prof. Gene M. Grossman (Princeton University)
Title "Balanced Growth Despite Uzawa"
Note Joint with Market Quality Workshop

Oct. 29 (Thu.) 16:30-18:00

Speaker 服部圭介氏 (Osaka University of Economics)
Title Optimal Trade Policy under Endogenous Sequence of Firms' Price and Quantity Choices

Jul. 31 (Fri.) 16:30-18:00

Speaker 阿部顕三氏(Osaka University)
Title "The Impact of Economic Measures on Child Labor in a Dual Open Economy" (with Hiroaki Ogawa)

Jul. 23 (Thu.) 16:30-18:00

Speaker 伊藤由希子氏(Tokyo Gakugei University)
Title "Are there trade-offs between the existing and the new foreign activities?"

Jun. 17 (Wed.) 16:30-18:00  

Speaker 斉藤宗之氏 (Nara Prefectural University)
Title "Environmental Goods and Measures for their Promotion: An Analysis Using a Fair Wage Model" (with Yasuyuki Sugiyama)

May. 20 (Wed.) 16:30-18:00  

Speaker Prof. Peter M. Morrow (University of Toronto)
Title “Identification, HOV, and Factor Biased Technology” (Joint with Daniel Trefler)

Apr. 23 (Thu.) 16:30-18:00

Speaker Prof. John Gilbert (Utah State University)
Title A New Measure of Economic Distance (with Eric O'N. Fisher, Kathryn G. Marchall, and Reza Oladi)

Mar. 19 (Thu.) 16:30-18:00

Speaker Prof. Wilfred J. Ethier (University of Pennsylvania)
Title ``The Political Economy of Trade Agreements"

Feb. 19 (Thu.) 16:30-18:00 (Presentation of the Master's Thesis)

Report 1: 16:30-17:10
Speaker 小津舞里子氏 (M2)
Title ``A model of intellectual property rights, licensing and innovation"
Report 2: 17:15-17:55
Speaker 武田航平氏 (M2)
Title ``Coagglomeration: Cluster Based Approach"

Jan. 15 (Thu.) 16:30-18:00

Speaker 古沢泰治氏 (Hitotsubashi University)
Title ``Relationship Specificity, Market Thickness, and International Trade"

Year 2014

Dec. 18 (Thu.) 16:30-18:00

Speaker Dr. Pierre-Louis Vézina (University of Birmingham)
Title "Production fragmentation, Upstreamness, and Value-added: Evidence from Factory Asia 1985-2005"

Nov. 6 (Thu.) 16:30-18:00

Speaker 高内一宏氏 (Kansai University)
Title "Rules of origin and uncertain cost of compliance"
Note Paper can be downloaded via this link.

Oct. 8 (Wed.) 16:30-18:00

Speaker Prof. Lex Zhao (RIEB, Kobe University)
Title "The Chinese dual labor market and export boom"

Oct. 3 (Fri.) 16:30-18:00

Speaker Prof. Kunio Tsuyuhara (University of Calgary)
Title "On-the-Job-Search, Wage Dispersion and Trade Liberalization"
Note.1 Joint with Applied Macroeconomics Workshop
Note.2 Paper can be downloaded via this link

Jul. 24 (Thu.) 16:30-18:00

Speaker 森田忠士氏 (Kindai University)
Title Trade Integration, Welfare and Horizontal Multinationals: a three-country model

Jul. 3 (Thu.) 16:30-18:00

Speaker 手島健介氏 (ITAM, Mexico)
Title Assortative Matching of Exporters and Importers (with Yoichi Sugita and Enrique Seira)

Jun. 13 (Fri.) 16:30-18:00

Speaker Prof. Brian K. Kovak (Carnegie Mellon University)
Title ``Trade Reform and Regional Dynamics: Evidence From 25 Years of Brazilian Matched Employer-Employee"

Apr. 23 (Wed.) 16:30-18:00

Speaker Prof. Larry D. Qiu (University of Hong Kong)
Title "Foreign Acquisitions and Firm Productivity: Evidence from China"
Note Joint with Applied Macroeconomics Workshop

Mar. 5 (Wed.) 16:30-18:00

Speaker Prof. Federico Etro (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)
Title "Monopolistic competition when income matters" (with Paolo Bertoletti)
Note Joint with Applied Macroeconomics Workshop
Paper can be downloaded by this link

Jan. 23 (Thu.) 15:00~18:00

Speaker 1 若森直樹氏 (University of Mennheim)
Title How Would Hedge Fund Regulation Affect Investor Behaivor? Implications for Systemic Risk
Speaker 2 松浦寿幸 氏 (Keio Economic Observatory)
Title "Heterogeneous Impact of Trade Liberalization on Vertical FDI: Evidence from Japanese firm-level data"
Note Paper can be downloaded by this link (RIETI DP No.13-E-020)
Joint with Applied Macroeconomics Workshop

Year 2013

Dec. 18 (Wed.) 16:00~18:00

Speaker Prof. Donald Davis (Columbia University)
Title "Comparative Advantage of Cities" (with Jonathan I. Dingel)
Note Joint with Urban Economics Workshop .

Nov. 29 (Fri.) 15:00-18:00

Speaker 1 Prof. Hiroshi Mukunoki (Gakushuin University)
Title 1 "Preferential Trade Agreements, Technology Adoption and the Speed of Attaining Free Trade"
Speaker 2 Dr.Martin Berka (Victoria University of Wellington)
Title 2 "Real exchange rate and sectoral productivity in and out of the Eurozone"
Note Joint with Applied Macroeconomics Workshop

Oct. 31 (Thu.) 16:30~18:00

Speaker 内藤巧氏 (Waseda University)
Title " An Eaton-Kortum model of trade and growth "
Note Paper can be downloaded by this link (IDEAS)

Aug. 5 (Mon.) 16:00~17:30

Speaker 鎌田伊佐生氏(La Follette School of Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Title Trade, Trade Agreements, and Labor Standards
Note Special Lecture in International Economics

Jul. 25 (Thu.) 16:30~18:00

Speaker 東田啓作氏 (Kwansei Gakuin University)
Title " Trade in Used Durables and Recycling Policies "

Jul. 18 (Thu.) 16:30~18:00

Speaker 鎌田伊佐生氏 (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Title " Revealed Comparative Advantage and Extensive Margins of Heterogeneous Firms (with Steven Husted and Shuichiro Nishioka)

Jun. 20 (Thu.) 16:30~18:00

Speaker 川越吉孝氏 (Kyoto Sangyo University)
Title 「国際輸送部門が存在する下での環境税の効果」 (with 阿部顕三氏)

Jun. 14 (Fri.) 16:30~18:00

Speaker 荒知宏氏 (Fukushima University)
Title " Institutions as a Source of Comparative Advantage "
Note Joint with Applied Macroeconomics Workshop

May. 30 (Thu.) 16:30~18:00

Speaker 吉田裕司氏 (Shiga University)
Title "Intra-National Regional Heterogeneity in International Trade: Simultaneous Estimation of Exports and Production of Domestic Regions"

Mar. 8 (Fri.) 15:00~

Speaker 1 村田安寧氏 (Nihon University)
Title Spatial Frictions (with Kristian Behrens, Giordano Mion, and Jens Suedekum)
Speaker 2 Marcus Berliant氏 (Washington University in St.Louis)
Title A Scale-Free Transportation Network Explains the City-Size Distribution (with Hiroki Watanabe)
Note Joint with Urban Economics Workshop and Applied Macroeconomics Workshop

Year 2012

Mar. 9 (Fri.) 16:30~

Speaker Prof. John Conley (Vanderbilt University, The Editor of Economics Bulletin and Journal of Public Economic Theory)
Title A Dixit-Stiglitz General Equilibrium Model with Oligopolistic Markets: When Enough is Enough (with R. Driskill, and H. Konishi)
Note Joint with Applied Macroeconomics Workshop and Urban Economics Workshop

Jan. 5 (Thu.) 16:30~

Speaker Prof. Hideo Konishi (Boston College)
Title A Monopolistic Competition Model with Market for Heterogeneously Skilled Workers (with Taiji Furusawa)
Note Joint with Applied Macroeconomics Workshop and Urban Economics Workshop

Year 2011

May. 26 (Thu.) 16:30~

Speaker 神事直人氏 (Faculty of Economics, Kyoto University)
Title Does the Structure of Multinational Enterprises' ActivityAffect Technology Spillovers? (with Xingyuan Zhang and Shoji Haruna)
Note Joint with Applied Macroeconomics Workshop

Apr. 26 (Tue.) 16:30~

Speaker Dr. Martin Berka (Massey University, Department of Economics and Finance)
Title What determines the European real exchange rates? (with Michael B. Devereux)
Note Joint with Mathematical Finance Seminar

Feb. 17 (Thu.) 16:30~

Speaker 石井光氏 (Faculty of Economics, Kansai University)
Title Access Price Regulation and Strategic Infrastructure Investment in Vertically Related Markets
Note Joint with Applied Macroeconomics Workshop

Jan. 20 (Thu.) 16:30~

Speaker 石川城太氏 (Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University )
Title International Rent-shifting under Foreign Entry through R&D and Licensing (with T. Okubo)
Note Joint with Applied Macroeconomics Workshop

Year 2010

Dec. 16 (Thu.) 16:30~

Speaker 加納和子氏 (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
Title Exaggerated Death of Distance: revisiting distance effects on regional price dispersions
Note Joint with Applied Macroeconomics Workshop

Dec. 15 (Wed.) 16:30~

Speaker Prof. Ngo Van Long (McGill University, Canada)
Title Green Policies Can Harm the Environment: A Dynamic Model with Supply-Side Considerations

Dec. 2 (Thu.) 16:30~

Speaker 中嶋亮氏 (Faculty of Economics, Yokohama National University)
Title Localized knowledge spillovers and patent citations: A distance-based approach
Note Joint with Applied Macroeconomics Workshop

May. 27 (Thu.) 16:30 - 18:00

Speaker Prof. Olena Ivus (University of Prince Edward Island)
Title Stronger patent protection: Quantity, price, and variety response of exports

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