CIRJE News

Symposium"Abenomics and the Japanese economy: Would the future become better?"
(Presentation in Japanese) will be held on March 27.
Organizers: CIRJE/Japan Federation of Housing Organizations
(2/19 update)

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

• Political Economy Workshop
  date: 3/26-27
  
  
• Applied Statistics Workshop
  Robust Deviance Information Criterion for Latent Variable Models
  Jun Yu (Singapore Management University)
  date: 3/28
  
  
• Research Meeting on Economic History
  date: 3/14
  
  
• Microeconomics Workshop
  Measuring Network Effects in a Dynamic Environment
  Marc Rysman (Boston University)
  The value of incumbency in heterogenous networks
  Jacques Crémer (University of Toulouse I)
  date: 3/13 15:30-
  
  Auctions of Real Options
  Lin William Cong (Stanford Graduate School of Business)
  date: 3/18 12:00-
  
  Testing for Age Discrimination
  David Neumark (University of California-Irvine)
  date: 3/18 16:40-
  
  
• Macroeconomics Workshop
  
  
  
• Workshop on Management
  
  
  
• Urban Economics Workshop
  City Status and Agglomeration Economies: Evidence from Indonesia
  Mohammad Irfan Saleh (GRIPS)
  A Scale-Free Transportation Network Explains the City-Size Distribution
  Marcus Berliant (Washington University at St. Louis)
  date: 3/17
  
  
• Macro-Finance, Monetary Economics and International Finance Workshop
  
  
  
• Empirical Micro Research Seminar
  Testing for Age Discrimination
  David Neumark (University of California-Irvine)
  date: 3/18
  
  
• Tokyo Workshop on International Development
  
  
• Public Economics Workshop　
  Financing Social Security by Consumption Tax: a Political Economy Perspective
  Hideki Konishi （Waseda University）
  Structural Operations and Net Migration within the European Union
  Wolfgang Eggert (University of Freiburg)
  date: 3/18
  
  
• CIRJE Special Seminar
  

• CIRJE-F-924　 Sugawara, Shinya and Jiro Nakamura, "Can Formal Elderly Care Stimulate Female Labor Supply? The Japanese Experience", March 2014.
• CIRJE-J-257　 Shoji, Masahiro and Takayuki Akaike, "Social Isolation of Evacuees in Fukushima", February 2014.
• CIRJE-F-923　 Shoji, Masahiro, " Channels of Peer Effects and Guilt Aversion in Crime: Experimental and Empirical Evidence from Bangladesh", February 2014.
• CIRJE-F-922　 Mochida, Nobuki, " Does Local Spending Have Repercussion from Tax Structure? － Evidence from Japan －", February 2014.
• CIRJE-F-921　 Takahashi, Makoto, Toshiaki Watanabe and Yasuhiro Omori, "Volatility and Quantile Forecasts by Realized Stochastic Volatility Models with Generalized Hyperbolic Distribution", February 2014.
• CIRJE-J-256　Miwa, Yoshiro, "Improving Economic Statistics in order to Improve Economic Policy and Research: An Invitation", February 2014.
• CIRJE-F-920　 Ihori, Toshihiro, "Commitment, Deficit Ceilin g, and Fiscal Privilege ", February 2014.
• CIRJE-F-912　 Bessho, Shun-ichiro and Masayoshi Hayashi, "Intensive Margins, Extensive Margins, and Spousal Allowances in the Japanese System of Personal Income Taxes: A Discrete Choice Analysis", December 2013; revised in February 2014.
• CIRJE-F-919　 Baba, Satoshi, "Urban Land Policy in Frankfurt am Main at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: A Case Study of a German 'Social City'", February 2014.
• CIRJE-F-918　 Ghosh, Malay, Tatsuya Kubokawa and Yuki Kawakubo, "Benchmarked Empirical Bayes Methods in Multiplicative Area-level Models with Risk Evaluation", February 2014.
• CIRJE-F-917　 Takahashi, Akihiko and Yukihiro Tsuzuki, "A New Improvement Scheme for Approximation Methods of Probability Density Functions", February 2014.
• CIRJE-F-913　 Shiraya, Kenichiro and Akihiko Takahashi, "Pricing Basket Options under Local Stochastic Volatility with Jumps", January 2014; revised in February 2014.
• CIRJE-F-916　 Sugawara, Shinya and Jiro Nakamura, "Incentive for Gatekeepers and Their Demand Inducement: An Empirical Analysis of Care Managers in the Japanese Long-Term Care Insurance", January 2014.
• CIRJE-F-915　 Tabuchi, Takatoshi, Jacques-François Thisse and Xiwei Zhu, "Technological Progress and Economic Geography", January 2014.
• CIRJE-F-914　 Fujii, Masaaki and Akihiko Takahashi, "Optimal Hedging for Fund & Insurance Managers with Partially Observable Investment Flows", January 2014.
• CIRJE-J-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; revised in January 2014.
• CIRJE-F-909　 Takahashi, Akihiko and Toshiaki Yamada, "A Weak Approximation with Asymptotic Expansion and Multidimensional Malliavin Weights", December 2013; Revised in January 2014.