CIRJE Conferences 2017

Junior Industrial Organization workshop 2018

  • Organizer: Hiroshi Ohashi (The University of Tokyo)
  • March 10, 2018
  • Venue: Kojima Conference Room, Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall), The University of Tokyo
  • Program

CIRJE organized Junior Industrial Organization Workshop on March the 10th, 2018 at Kojima Hall. We selected 9 papers submitted by graduate students and newly minted scholars. Each paper presenter was assigned a discussant who specializes in the field. The speakers and discussants were from various universities and academic institutions, both domestically and overseas. The conference consisted of more than 40 participants overall, and full of lively discussion and debates.

The 13th Joint Economics Workshop
of the University of Tokyo and Seoul National University

  • オーガナイザー:
    Center for Distributive Justice, The Institute of Economic Research, Seoul National University
    The Center for International Research on the Japanese Economy (CIRJE), The University of Tokyo
  • 2017年11月3日
  • Seminar Room 16-655, Department of Economics, Seoul National University

program

The Joint Conference with Seoul National University (SNU) was held at Seminar Room 16-655, Department of Economics of Seoul National University on November 3, 2017. This was the Thirteenth annual conference between CIRJE and Institute of Economic Research in SNU. The theme of the conference was "Current Topics of Econometrics and Empirical Economics". At the conference, we had wonderful speakers and fruitful discussions on important policy issues in macroeconomics. At the end of the conference, we confirmed further collaborations between CIRJE and Institute of Economic Research in SNU.

IO Conference on Competition Policy 2017

  • Organizer: Hiroshi Ohashi (The University of Tokyo)
  • May 18, 2017
  • Venue: Faculty of Law, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo

-Program-

  • 16:00-17:00 Bruce Lyons (University of East Anglia)
    "Consumer Uptake of Internet Banking, Regionalised Markets and Retail Bank Concentration in Europe"
  • 17:10-18:10 Howard Shelanski (Georgetown University)
    "Keeping Merger Enforcement Relevant in the Modern Global Economy"

The theme of this year’s IO conference is on competition policy and economics. Prof Howard Shelanskifrom Georgetown University presented his work on merger control regulation, and Prof Bruce Lyons from the University of East Anglia talked on competition policy issues on banking sector.

UT Summer School in Economics 2017

  • Organizer: Akihiko Matsui(The University of Tokyo)
  • July 27-29, 2017
  • Venue: Kojima Conference Room, Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall), The University of Tokyo
  • Program
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UT Summer School in Economics was held July 27-30, 2017 at Ito Kokusai Hall and Kojima Hall in Hongo Campus, University of Tokyo. Lecturers were (Alphabetical order):

Fuhito Kojima (Stanford University)
Akihiko Matsui (University of Tokyo)
Kota Saito (California Institute of Technology)
Bruno Strulovici (Northwestern University)

The program of the summer school consisted of 90 minutes lectures and student presentations. Each of the 4 lecturers will talk about topics of his choice in economic theory. A few additional sessions will be allocated for short student presentations of their own research.

The 26th NBER-TCER-CEPR Conference on "Corporate Governance"

  • Organizers:
    Franklin Allen (Imperial College London)
    Shin-ichi Fukuda (University of Tokyo)
    Takeo Hoshi (Stanford University)
  • June 22, 2017
  • Venue:Venue: Kojima Conference Room Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall), The University of Tokyo
  • Program

In modern society, it is important that companies operate themselves with the full recognition of responsibilities to a range of stakeholders, starting with fiduciary responsibility to shareholders who have entrusted the management. Corporate governance is the system by which a company is directed and controlled to achieve such a goal. It includes the rules, practices and processes through which corporations' objectives are set and pursued in the context of the social, regulatory and market environment. Interest in the corporate governance practices of modern corporations, particularly in relation to accountability, increased following the high-profile collapses of a number of large corporations during the last decades. In recent years, initiatives for the corporate governance system have significantly accelerated in many advanced economies. The papers at the TRIO conference 2017, sponsored jointly by the Tokyo Center for Economic Research (TCER), the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), will address some of these questions and provide the most recent answers. We invited six papers to the Conference, which will be held at the University of Tokyo in June 2017. A special issue of the Journal of the Japanese and International Economies (JJIE) on the conference theme will be published under the Guest Editorship. Authors whose papers are presented at the conference are supposed to submit their papers to the JJIE special issue.

Tokyo Workshop on Spatial Economics 2017

  • June 6, 2017
  • Venue: Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)

"Tokyo Workshop on Spatial Economics" was held at RIETI on June 6, 2017. Four invited researcher presented their recent research and discussed extensively with audience. Gilles Duranton at University of Pennsylvania talked on "Measuring the cost of congestion in a highly congested city: Bogota". Michael Pfluger at University of Wurzburg talked on "Environmental policies in a system of cities", Stuart Rosenthal at Syracuse University talked on “Building specialization, anchor tenants and agglomeration economies," and Vernon Henderson at LSE talked on “Building the city: urban transition and institutional frictions".