CIRJE News

• International Symposium "Social Capital and Health in Disaster"
  is held on May 25, 2013, in Kojima Conference Room of Economics Research Annex, Faculty of Economics. Professor Ichiro Kawachi (Harvard School　of Public Health) will be one of the guest speakers.　We are asking all participants in this symposium register in advance. If you would like to register to attend it, please send e-mail to jages_admin@ml.n-fukushi.ac.jp, stating your name and affiliation.
  
  
• Lecture and Special Screening: "Saving 10,000: Winning a War on Suicide in Japan"
  are held on June 14 , 2013, in Lecture Hall No. 1, Economics Research Building, Faculty of Economics. Rene Duignan, who directs this movie gives a lecture there, in addition to a special screeing of the shortened version of the film. Registration in advance is required; click here for the registration form.
  Contact e-mail address for inquiries is saving10000.ut2013@gmail.com.
  
  
  
• Akihiko Matsui appointed CIRJE director from April 1, 2013.
  
  

People
CIRJE is pleased to welcome the following new visitors and guests:

• Political Economy Workshop
  
  
• Applied Statistics Workshop
  Tests for Parameter Instability in Dynamic Factor Models
  Atsushi Inoue (North Carolina State University)
  date: 5/24
  
  
• Research Meeting on Economic History
  date: 5/27
  
  
• Microeconomics Workshop
  Cognitive Games and Cognitive Traps
  Jean Tirole （Chairman of the board of the Jean-Jacques Laffont Foundation/Toulouse School of Economics (TSE))
  date: 5/24
  
  Learning to Simulate Others' Decisions
  Hiroyuki Nakahara (RIKEN Brain Science Institute)
  date: 5/28
  
  
• Macroeconomics Workshop
  Exchange Rates and Fundamentals: Closing a Two-Country Model
  Takashi Kano （Hitotsubashi University)
  date: 5/23
  
  Cognitive Games and Cognitive Traps
  Jean Tirole （Chairman of the board of the Jean-Jacques Laffont Foundation/Toulouse School of Economics (TSE))
  date: 5/24
  
  
• Workshop on Management
  date: 6/5
  
  
• Urban Economics Workshop
  Evolutionary Implementation with Estimation of Unknown Externalities
  Shota Fujishima（University of Tokyo）
  Air Transport Impacts of International Trade and Tourism
  Tae Oum (University of British Columbia)
  date: 6/14
  
  
• Macro-Finance, Monetary Economics and International Finance Workshop
  TBA
  Takanori Ishikawa (University of Tokyo)
  TBA
  Hayato Obu (University of Tokyo)
  TBA
  Yuki Yao (University of Tokyo)
  date: 5/29
  
  
• Empirical Micro Research Seminar
  How Do Supply Chain Networks Affect the Resilience of Firms to Natural Disasters? Evidence from the Great East Japan Earthquake
  Yasuyuki Todo (University of Tokyo)
  date: 5/27
  
  
• Tokyo Workshop on International Development
  How Do Supply Chain Networks Affect the Resilience of Firms to Natural Disasters? Evidence from the Great East Japan Earthquake
  Yasuyuki Todo (University of Tokyo)
  date: 5/27
  
  
• Public Economics Workshop　
  Optimal Income Taxation and Risk: The Extensive-Margin Case
  Motohiro Sato (Hitotsubashi University)
  date: 5/23
  
  
• CIRJE Special Seminar
  

• CIRJE-F-888　Sugawara, Shinya and Jiro Nakamura, "Is Elderly Care Socialized in Japan? Analyzing the Effects of the 2006 Amendment to the LTCI on the Female Labor Supply", May 2013.
• CIRJE-F-887　Sugawara, Shinya, "An Interval Regression Analysis for Tenures of Japanese Elder Care Workers Using Matched Employer-Employee Data", April 2013.
• CIRJE-F-886　Nagamachi, Kohei, "Task Trade and the Size Distribution of Cities", April 2013.
• CIRJE-F-246　Isogawa, Daiya, Hiroshi Ohashi, Tsuyoshi Nakamura, Kohei Nishikawa and Shin-ichi Hanada, "An Overview on Survey Results on Industrial electricity demand in Japan", April 2013.
• CIRJE-F-860　Takahashi, Akihiko and Masashi Toda, "Note on an Extension of an Asymptotic Expansion Scheme", September 2012; Revised in January and April 2013.
• CIRJE-F-885　Ueda, Kazuo, "The Response of Asset Prices to Abenomics: Is It a Case of Self-Fulfilling Expectations?", April 2013.
  
• CIRJE-F-884　 Kojima, Masahiro and Tatsuya Kubokawa, "Bartlett Adjustments for Hypothesis Testing in Linear Models with General Error Covariance Matrices", April 2013.
  
• CIRJE-F-245　Watanabe, Junko, "The U.S. Trade Adjustment Assistance after WWII"", March 2013.
• CIRJE-F-883　 Fujii, Masaaki, "Momentum-Space Approach to Asymptotic Expansion for Stochastic Filtering", March 2013.
• CIRJE-F-882　 Sugawara, Shinya and Yasuhiro Omori, "An Econometric Analysis of Insurance Markets with Separate Identification for Moral Hazard and Selection", March 2013.
  
• CIRJE-F-881　 Miyawaki, Koji, Yasuhiro Omori and Akira Hibiki, "A Discrete/Continuous Choice Model on the Nonconvex Budget Set", March 2013.
• CIRJE-F-880　Shirota, Shinichiro, Takayuki Hizu and Yasuhiro Omori, "Realized Stochastic Volatility with Leverage and Long Memory", March 2013.
• CIRJE-F-879　Matsushima, Hitoshi, Tomomi Tanaka and Tomohisa Toyama, "Behavioral Approach to Repeated Games with Private Monitoring", March 2013.
• CIRJE-F-624　Takahashi, Akihiko and Kyo Yamamoto , "Generating a Target Payoff Distribution with the Cheapest Dynamic Portfolio: An Application to Hedge Fund Replication", June 2009; Revised in March 2010 and February 2013.
  
• CIRJE-F-878　Hannah, Leslie, "A Global Census of Corporations in 1910", February 2013.
• CIRJE-F-877　Hannah, Leslie, "The Corporate Economies of America and Europe 1790-1860", February 2013.
• CIRJE-F-876　Matsushima, Hitoshi, "Impact of Financial Regulation and Innovation on Bubbles and Crashes due to Limited Arbitrage: Awareness Heterogeneity", February 2013.
• CIRJE-F-872　 Hyodo, Masashi and Tatsuya Kubokawa, "A Variable Selection Criterion for Linear Discriminant Rule and its Optimality in High Dimensional Setting", December 2012; Revised in February 2013.
• CIRJE-F-875　Matsushima, Hitoshi, "Interlinkage and Generous Tit-for-Tat Strategy", February 2013.