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

• R. Anton Braun     2012.5.17 to 2012.6.1:   Short Term Visitor,
       Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, USA
• Atsushi Inoue    2012.5.14 to 2012.5.18:  Nomura Foundation Short-term visitor,
       Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, North Carolina State University,
  USA
• Donata Favaro     2012.5.10 to 2012.6.11:   Short Term Visitor,
       Department of Economics M Fanno, University of Padova, Italy
• Kentaro Nakajima      2012.4.1 to 2012.7.31:   Visiting Associate Professor,
       Graduate School of Economics, Tohoku University, Japan

• Political Economy Workshop
  
  
  
• Applied Statistics Workshop
  Frequentist Inference in Weakly Identified DSGE Models
  Atsushi Inoue （North Carolina State University)
  date: 5/18
  
  
• Research Meeting on Economic History
  Trade under protest: Sweden, Japan and the East Asian crisis in the 1930s
  Ingemar Ottosson （Lund University）
  date: 5/21
  
  
• Microeconomics Workshop
  Efficiencies of Scale in Local Public Good Provision: Estimation via Coalition Panel Data
  Eric Weese (Yale University)
  date: 5/22
  
  
• Macroeconomics Workshop
  Financial Frictions, Misallocation, and Plant-Size Distribution
  Kaoru Hosono (Gakushuin University)
  date: 5/17
  
  
• Workshop on Management
  date: 5/23
  
  
• Urban Economics Workshop
  date: 5/18
  
  
• Macro-Finance, Monetary Economics and International Finance Workshop
  TBA
  Kazushige Matsuda (University of Tokyo)
  TBA
  Satofumi Ushigami (University of Tokyo)
  date: 6/6
  
  
• Empirical Micro Research Seminar
  Information Aggregation in Large Double Auctions with Interdependent Values
  Eiichiro Kazumori (State University of New York, Buffalo）
  date: 5/28
  
  
• Tokyo Workshop on International Development
  Emergence of multiplex mobile phone communication networks in a rural setting: An Ethiopian experiment
  Petr Matous (University of Tokyo)
  Mode Choice Behavior of Urban Commuters in Dhaka: A Pilot Study
  Minhaj Mahmud (Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies)
  date: 6/26
  
  
• CIRJE Special Seminar
  

• CIRJE-J-241 Obata, Michiaki, "Reply to Shigekatu Yamaguchi's "Michiaki Obata's Criticism of Uno's Theory"", May 2012.
• CIRJE-F-760　Kano, Kazuko Takashi Kano and Kazutaka Takechi, "Exaggerated Death of Distance: Revisiting Distance Eects on Regional Price Dispersions", September 2010; Revised in May 2012.
• CIRJE-F-850　Lin, Ching-Yang and Hiroaki Miyamoto, "Estimating a Search and Matching Model of the Aggregate Labor Market in Japan", April 2012.
• CIRJE-J-240 Matsushima, Hitoshi, "4G Spectrum Auction in Japan: Japanese Package Auction (JPA)", April 2012.
• CIRJE-F-849　Sugawara, Shinya and Yasuhiro Omori, "An Econometric Analysis of Insurance Markets with Separate Identification for Moral Hazard and Selection", April 2012.
  
• CIRJE-F-827　Yoshikawa, Hiroshi, "Stochastic Macro-equilibrium and the Principle of Effective Demand", December 2011; Revised in April 2012.
• CIRJE-F-841　Kato, Takashi, Akihiko Takahashi and Toshihiro Yamada, "An Asymptotic Expansion for Solutions of Cauchy-Dirichlet Problem for Second Order Parabolic PDEs and its Application to Pricing Barrier Options", February 2012; Revised in March 2012 and April 2012.
• CIRJE-J-239 Obata, Michiaki, "Stage Theory of Capitalist Development and Principles of Political Economy", April 2012.
• CIRJE-F-848　Bessho, Shun-ichiro and Masayoshi Hayashi, "Should the Japanese Tax System Be More Progressive? An Evaluation Using Simulated SMCFs Based on the Discrete Choice Model of Labor Supply", April 2012.
  
• CIRJE-F-847　Hayashi, Masayoshi, "Channels of Stabilization in a System of Local Public Health Insurance: The Case of the National Health Insurance in Japan", April 2012.
  
• CIRJE-F-846　Hayashi, Masayoshi, "Forecasting Welfare Caseloads: The Case of the Japanese Public Assistance Program", April 2012.