Past International Economics Seminar Reports and Summaries
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July 29, 2015
No.18 Do Place-Based Policies Work? Micro-Level Evidence from China's Economic Zone Program
- Reporter: Yi LU (Associate Professor, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore )
- Time: 13:30-15:00
- Paper [PDF:1.2MB]
- Handout [PDF:1.3MB]
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July 23, 2012
No.17 Productivity, Trade and the R&D Content of Intermediate Inputs
- Reporter: NISHIOKA Shuichiro (Assistant Professor, West Virginia University)
- Time: 15:30-17:00
- Handout [PDF:1,1MB]
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June 5, 2012
No.16 Economic Agglomerations and Interregional Trade: From the viewpoint of spatial economics
- Reporter: MORI Tomoya (Professor, Kyoto Institute of Economic Research (KIER), Kyoto University)
- Time: 17:00-18:30
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April 3, 2012
No.15 Preferential Trade Agreements, Technology Adoption and the Speed of Attaining Free Trade
- Reporter: MUKUNOKI Hiroshi (Professor, Faculty of Economics, Gakushuin University)
- Time: 17:00-18:30
- Paper [PDF:291KB]
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February 28, 2012
No.14 Outsourcing and Market Thickness: The Case of U.S. Credit Unions
- Reporter: ONO Yukako (Associate Professor, Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University)
- Time: 17:00-18:30
- Paper [PDF:725KB]
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January 25, 2012
No.13 Networked FDI: Sales and sourcing patterns of Japanese foreign affiliates
- Reporter: Richard E. BALDWIN (Professor of International Economics, The Graduate Institute, Geneva)
- Time: 17:00-18:30
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November 16, 2011
No.12 Ownership Structure and Export Performance: Firm-Level Evidence from Korea
- Reporter: Donghyun PARK (Principal Economist, Economics and Research Department, Asian Development Bank)
- Time: 17:00-18:30
- Paper [PDF:196KB]
- Handout [PDF:120KB]
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October 4, 2011
No.11 Multinationality and Downside Risk: The Contingent Roles of Option Portfolio Characteristics and Organizational Factors
- Reporter: René BELDERBOS (Professor, Faculty of Economics and Business, The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
- Time: 17:00-18:30
- Handout [PDF:2.8MB]
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September 28, 2011
No.10 Product Quality in Different Markets and Cost Structure
- Reporter: MATSUBARA Kiyoshi (Associate Professor, College of Commerce, Nihon University)
- Time: 17:00-18:30
- Paper [PDF:304KB]
- Handout [PDF:470KB]
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June 24, 2011
No.9 Simulating Heterogeneous Multinational Firms
- Reporter: TANAKA Kiyoyasu (Research Fellow, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization)
- Time: 17:30-19:00
- Paper (Discussion Paper)
- Handout [PDF:1.3MB]
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February 23, 2011
No.8 How is Consumption Smoothed against Income and Asset Shocks Induced by an Earthquake? The Case of the Chuetsu Earthquake
- Reporter: SAWADA Yasuyuki (RIETI Faculty Fellow/ Associate Professor, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo)
- Time: 17:30-19:00
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December 17, 2010
No.7 External Shocks and the Japanese Business Cycles: Impact of the 'Great Trade Collapse' on the automobile industry
- Reporter: SHIOJI Etsuro (Professor, Department of Economics, Hitotsubashi University)
- Time: 17:00-18:30
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November 16, 2010
No.6 Trade, Wages, and Productivity
- Reporter: MURATA Yasusada (Associate Professor, Advanced Research Institute for the Sciences and Humanities (ARISH), Nihon University)
- Time: 17:00-18:30
- Paper [PDF:499KB]
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October 29, 2010
No.5 Foreign Threat and Economic Growth: Political Coase Theorem vs. Northian Political Constraints
- Reporter: MURASE Hideaki (Professor, Faculty of Economics, Nagoya City University)
- Time: 17:00-18:30
- Paper [PDF:173KB]
- Handout [PDF:230KB]
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September 13, 2010
No.4 World views and Intergenerational Altruism
- Reporter: OGAKI Masao (Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University)
- Time: 17:00-18:30
- Paper [PDF:328KB]
- Handout [PDF:1.35MB]
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July 30, 2010
No.3 Measuring Switching Costs in the Japanese Mobile Telecommunications Market: The effects of number portability
- Reporter: OHASHI Hiroshi (RIETI Faculty Fellow/ Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo)
- Time: 17:00-18:30
- Paper (Japanese) [PDF:465KB]
- Handout (Japanese) [PDF:781KB]
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July 23, 2010
No.2 Globalization under Financial Imperfection (with Noriyuki Yanagawa)
- Reporter: FURUSAWA Taiji (RIETI Faculty Fellow/ Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University)
- Time: 17:00-18:30
- Paper [PDF:180KB]
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June 28, 2010
No.1 Comparative Advantage, Firm Heterogeneity, and Selection of Exporters
- Reporter: KAMATA Isao (RIETI Visiting Scholar / Assistant Professor of Public Affairs and Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- Time: 17:00-18:30
- Paper (University of Wisconsin-Madison) [PDF:560KB]