※ 特に表記のない限りセミナー発表は英語で行われます（Unless otherwise mentioned, presentations are in ENGLISH）。
※ 2020年3月17日現在 近予定から順に掲載しています。
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| 報告 | Jonathan Guryan (Northwestern University) |
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| Organizer | Shintaro Yamaguchi |
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| 日時 | 2019年4月2日（火 Tuesday）10:25-12:10 |
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東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Thibault Fally (University of California-Berkeley) "A New Engel on Price Index and Welfare Estimation" (joint with David Atkin, Ben Faber and Marco Gonzalez-Navarro) [paper] |
| Abstract | Measuring changes in welfare, and particularly the price index, is challenging. Recent em-pirical contributions have addressed this challenge by drawing on rich and newly availablesources of microdata to measure changes in household nominal incomes and price indices.While such data have become available for some components of household welfare, andfor some locations and periods, they are typically not available for the entire consumptionbasket. In this paper, we propose and implement an alternative approach that uses rich,but widely available, expenditure survey microdata to estimate theory-consistent changesin income-group specific price indices and welfare. Our approach builds on existing workthat uses linear Engel curves and changes in expenditure on income-elastic goods to inferunobserved real incomes. A major shortcoming of this approach is that while based on non-homothetic preferences, the price indices it recovers are homothetic and hence are neithertheory consistent nor suitable for distributional analysis when relative prices are changing.To make progress, we show that we can recover changes in income-specific price indicesand welfare from horizontal shifts in Engel curves if preferences are quasi-separable (Gor-man, 1970; 1976) and we focus on what we term “relative Engel curves”. Our approach isflexible enough to allow for the highly non-linear Engel curves we document in the data,and for non-parametric estimation at each point of the income distribution. We first imple-ment this approach to estimate changes in cost of living and household welfare using Indianmicrodata. We then revisit the impacts of India’s trade reforms across regions. |
| Organizer | Taiji Furusawa |
| 日時 | 2019年4月9日（火 Tuesday）10:25-12:10 |
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東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Akifumi Ishihara (The University of Tokyo) Cooperation or Collusion? Rents in Relational Contracts for Teams |
| Abstract | We consider relational contracts for teams in which the agents monitor each other. We demonstrate that providing rents to the agents strengthens peer sanction endowed within the agents' ongoing relationship, which may have a negative effect to induce unproductive collusion as well as a positive effect to establish a productive working practice. An optimal relational contract could establish cooperation through peer monitoring even under relative performance evaluation, which outperforms working environments operated by a multitasking single agent. Our result also suggests an implication on how privately observed individual signals should be aggregated to a commonly observed team signal. |
| Organizer | Keisuke Kawata |
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2019年4月15日（月 Monday）10:30-12:00 ※日時に注意 ※主催：ミクロ実証分析ワークショップ |
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東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Giulio Zanella (University of Adelaide and University of Bologna) "Prison Work and Recidivism" [Slides] |
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| Organizer | Shintaro Yamaguchi |
| 日時 | 2019年4月16日（火 Tuesday）10:25-12:10 |
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東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Andrea Weber (Central European University) Female Leadership and Gender Gap within Firms: Evidence from an Italian Board Reform (joint with Agata Maida) [paper] |
| Abstract | Over the last decade, several countries have followed the Norwegian example and introduced laws mandating gender quota for corporate board membership. The main aim of these laws is breaking the “glass ceiling” which prevents women from advancing into top corporate positions. In this paper, we evaluate the Italian law of 2011, which installed a step-wise increase in gender quota that remain effective for three consecutive board renewals of listed limited liability firms. We link firm-level information on board membership and board election dates with detailed employment and earnings records from the Social Security registers. Exploiting the staggered introduction of the gender quota regulation and variation in board renewals across firms, we evaluate the effect of the board gender composition on measures of gender diversity in top positions over a period of 4 years. While the reform substantially raised the female membership on corporate boards, we find no evidence of spillover effects on the representation of women in top executive or top earnings positions. Our results confirm the findings by Bertrand et al. (2019) who study the introduction of a gender quota for board members in Norway. Given that Italy is a much less egalitarian society than Norway, with a larger scope of establishing gender equality, our results confirm that board quota policies alone are ineffective in raising female representation in top corporate positions, at least in the short run |
| Organizer | Daiji Kawaguchi |
| 日時 | 2019年4月16日（火 Tuesday）16:50-18:35 ※時間に注意 |
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東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Yuval Heller (Bar Ilan University) Renegotiation and Coordination with Private Values (joint with Christoph Kuzmics) [paper] |
| Abstract | We study coordination games with pre-play communication in which agents have private preferences over the feasible coordinated outcomes. We present a novel intuitive equilibrium strategy with the following properties: (1) each agent reports his preferred outcome (and nothing else), (2) agents never miscoordinate, (3) if the agents have the same preferred outcome, then they coordinate on this outcome, and (4) otherwise, there is a “fallback norm” that determines the coordinated outcome. We show that this behavior is essentially the unique renegotiation-proof strategy, and that it satisfies appealing properties: independence of the distribution of private preferences, Pareto optimality, high ex-ante expected payoff, and evolutionary stability. |
| Organizer | Daisuke Oyama |
| 日時 | 2019年4月23日（火 Tuesday）10:25-12:10 |
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東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Galina Zudenkova （University of Mannheim） "Information and Communication Technologies, Protests, and Censorship" joint with Maxim Ananyev, Maria Petrova and Dimitrios Xefteris. |
| Abstract | We develop a theory of information flows and political regime change, when citizens use information and communication technologies (ICTs) for both information acquisition and protest coordination. Governments can respond by obfuscation of citizen´s signal or by restricting access to ICTs used for coordination. We find that introduction of communication technologies lowers the probability of regime survival, but this effect is weaker in economies that don´t use ICTs for production. We also expect less competent governments to use coordination censorship, though this effect is weaker in economies that use ICTs extensively. Some high-frequency empirical evidence is consistent with our predictions. |
| Organizer | Naoki Wakamori |
| 日時 | 2019年5月7日（火 Tuesday）10:25-12:10 |
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東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Johann Caro Burnett (Hiroshima University） Are We Ready for A.I. Ethical Decision Making? A Study on Autonomous Cars (joint with Shinji Kaneko) |
| Abstract | This paper studies how humans react to the ethical decision making of Artificial Intelligence; and it has contributions in two levels: methodological and applied. (i) From an applied point of view, we study whether there is an unjustifiable fear towards technology. To answer this question, we use a standard RCT/questionnaire. Moreover, (ii) we contrast two methodologies to estimate preferences: an indirect method (revealed preferences) and a direct method (stated preferences). We find that a direct method shows that such unjustifiable fear towards technology exists. In contrast, an indirect method shows that humans are not really against the implementation of new technologies. Then we discuss the cause of this discrepancy. We propose that the responses to a direct method largely weight the respondents' believes about the social preferences rather than their own preferences. |
| Organizer | Daniel Marszalec |
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2019年5月13日（月 Monday）10:30-12:00 ※日時に注意 ※主催：ミクロ実証分析ワークショップ |
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東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Ayumu Ken Kikkawa（University of British Columbia） "The Impact of NAFTA on Prices and Competition: Evidence from Mexican Manufacturing Plants" [paper] |
| Abstract | This paper assesses the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement on Mexican manufacturing plants' prices and markups. We distinguish between Mexican goods that are exported and those sold domestically, and decompose their prices sepa- rately into markups and marginal costs. We then analyze how these components were aected by reductions in Mexican output taris, intermediate input taris, and U.S. taris. We nd that declines in these taris led to signicant reductions in the marginal costs of Mexican products. However, prices of exported goods slightly increased as ex- porters increased their markups in response to declines in U.S. taris. |
| Organizer | Taiji Furusawa |
| 日時 | 2019年5月14日（火 Tuesday）10:25-12:10 |
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東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Martin Adler (VU University Amsterdam) The congestion relief benefit of public transit: evidence from Rome (joint with Federica Liberini, Antonio Russo, and Jos N. van Ommeren) [paper] |
| Abstract | We estimate the effect of public transport supply on travel times of motor-vehicle and bus users in Rome, Italy. We apply a quasi-experimental methodology exploiting hourly information on public transport service reductions during strikes. We find that a 10 percent reduction in public transit supply increases the travel time of motor-vehicles users by 1.6 percent in the morning peak. The effect of this reduction on travel time of bus users is similar. The congestion-relief benefit of public transport is sizeable and bus travel time gains account for an important share of this benefit. We also estimate the effects of dedicated bus lane provision on travel times of bus and motor-vehicle users. It appears that for specific roads dedicated bus lanes reduce overall travel time, despite the lane loss, and are undersupplied from a welfare perspective. |
| Organizer | Yasuhiro Sato |
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2019年5月20日（月 Monday）10:30-12:00 ※日時に注意 ※共催：ミクロ実証分析ワークショップ |
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東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Matilde Bombardini（University of British Columbia） Hall of Mirrors: Corporate Philanthropy and Strategic Advocacy (joint with Marianne Bertrand, Raymond Fisman, Brad Hackinen, and Francesco Trebbi) [paper] |
| Abstract | Politicians and regulators rely on feedback from the public when setting policies. For-profit corporations and non-profit entities are active in this process and are arguably expectedto provide independent viewpoints. Policymakers (and the public at large), however, maybe unaware of the financial ties between some firms and non-profits – ties that are legaland tax-exempt, but difficult to trace. We identify these ties using IRS forms submitted bythe charitable arms of large U.S. corporations, which list all grants awarded to non-profits.We document three patterns in a comprehensive sample of public commentary made byfirms and non-profits within U.S. federal rulemaking between 2003 and 2015. First, we showthat, shortly after a firm donates to a non-profit, the grantee is more likely to comment onrules for which the firm has also provided a comment. Second, when a firm comments on arule, the comments by non-profits that recently received grants from the firm’s foundationare systematically closer in content similarity to the firm’s own comments than to thosesubmitted by other non-profits commenting on that rule. Comments by non-profits thatrecently received grants are also not opposing in terms of sentiment of their content. Third,when a firm comments on a new rule, the discussion of the final rule is more similar to thefirm’s comments when the firm’s recent grantees also comment on that rule. These patterns,taken together, suggest that corporations strategically deploy charitable grants to inducenon-profit grantees to make comments that favor their benefactors, and that this translatesinto regulatory discussion that is closer to the firm’s own comments. |
| Organizer | Taiji Furusawa |
| 日時 | 2019年5月21日（火 Tuesday）10:25-12:10 |
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東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Francesco Trebbi （University of British Columbia） Unbundling Polarization (joint with Nathan Canen and Chad Kendall) [paper] |
| Abstract | This paper investigates the determinants of political polarization, a phenomenon ofincreasing relevance in Western democracies. How much of polarization is driven by divergencein the ideologies of politicians? How much is instead the result of changes in the capacity ofparties to control their members? We use detailed internal information on party discipline inthe context of the U.S. Congress – whip count data for 1977-1986 – to identify and structurallyestimate an economic model of legislative activity where agenda selection, party discipline, andmember votes are endogenous. The model delivers estimates of the ideological preferences ofpoliticians, the extent of party control, and allows us to assess the effects of polarization throughagenda setting (i.e. which alternatives to a status quo are strategically pursued). We find thatparties account for approximately 40 percent of the political polarization in legislative votingover this time period, a critical inflection point in U.S. polarization. We also show that, absentparty control, historically significant economic policies, including Debt Limit bills, the SocialSecurity Amendments of 1983, and the two Reagan Tax Cuts of 1981 and 1984 would havenot passed or lost substantial support. Counterfactual exercises establish that party control ishighly relevant for the probability of success of a given bill and that polarization in ideologicalpreferences is instead more consequential for policy selection, resulting in different bills beingpursued. |
| Organizer | Taiji Furusawa |
| 日時 | 2019年5月28日（火 Tuesday）10:25-12:10 |
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東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | 加藤隼人(Hayato Kato) (Osaka University) Economic integration and agglomeration of multinational production with transfer pricing (joint with Hirofumi Okoshi) [paper] |
| Abstract | Do low corporate taxes always favor multinational production in the course of economic integration? We build a two-country spatial model with di erent corporate tax rates in which multinational enterprises (MNEs) can manipulate transfer prices in intra- rm trade. Using transfer pricing, MNEs can shift pro ts between domestic production plants and foreign distribution aliates. In the initial stage of integration, more MNEs locate their production plants in the low-tax country, and then in the later stage, this location pattern reverses. Contrary to conventional wisdom, high taxes may favor multinational production, which does not yet necessarily bring greater tax revenues. The results have implications for empirical studies and tax competition between unequal-sized countries. |
| Organizer | Yasuhiro Sato |
| 日時 | 2019年5月28日（火 Tuesday）16:50-18:50 ※時間に注意 |
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東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Mira Frick (Yale University)
Ryota Iijima (Yale University) Stability and Robustness in Misspecified Learning Models |
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| Organizer | Daisuke Oyama |
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2019年5月29日（水 Wednesday）10:25-12:10
主催：Tokyo Workshop on International and Development Economics (TWID) ※日時・場所に注意 |
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| 場所 | 東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）2階 小島コンファレンスルーム |
| 報告 | 松山公紀 (Kiminori Matsuyama) (Northwestern University) "Reconsidering the Market Size Effect in Innovation and Growth" |
| Abstract | In the standard R&D-based endogenous growth model, a larger country innovates more and grows faster. Because of the homotheticity of preferences, however, it does not matter whether the large market size is due to a large population size or a high per-capita expenditure. In this paper, we develop a balanced growth model of innovation with nonhomothetic preferences, containing the standard model as a limit case. We show, among others, that, holding the aggregate market size fixed, a country with higher per capita expenditure and a smaller population size innovates more and grows faster under the empirically relevant cases. |
| Organizer | Taiji Furusawa |
| 日時 | 2019年6月4日（火 Tuesday）10:25-12:10 |
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東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Kosuke Uetake (Yale University) Designing Context-based Marketing: Product Recommendations under Time Pressure (joint with Kohei Kawaguchi and Yasutora Watanabe)[paper] |
| Abstract | We study howto design product recommendationswhenconsumers’ attention and utility are influenced by time pressure—a prominent example of the context effect—and menu characteristics, such as the number of recommended products in the assortment. Using unique data on consumer purchases fromvending machines on train platformsin Tokyo,we develop and estimate a structural consideration set model in which time pressure and the recommendationmenuinfluence attention and utility. We find that time pressure reduces consumer attention but increases utility in general. Time pressure moderates the effect of recommendations for attention of both recommended and non-recommended products, and utility for recommended products. Moreover, the number of total recommendations increases consumer attention in general, but in a diminishing way. In our counterfactual simulation, we find that the revenue-maximizing number of recommendations decreases with time pressure. Optimizing the number of recommendations for each vending machine and for each time of day increases the total sales volume by 4.5% relative to the actual policy, 1.9% points more than traditional consumer-segment-based targeting. |
| Organizer | Hiroshi Ohashi |
| 日時 | 2019年6月11日（火 Tuesday）10:25-12:10 |
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東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Konrad Grabiszwski (Keio University and Mohammad bin Salman College (MBSC)) Profiling Players in Dynamic Games: A Mobile Experiment |
| Abstract | This article has two distinct objectives. The first objective is to explore what mobile technology has to offer for experimental research. To that end, a team of app developers was recruited to create Blues and Reds, a mobile app (Android/iOS) that operates as an experiment designed to study behavior in dynamic games. In less than six months, the app generated a database consisting of 35,826 observations from 6,463 subjects located in 141 countries. The second objective is to design and test a novel method of profiling players in dynamic games using data from Blues and Reds that satisfies both descriptive and predictive requirements. To describe the reasoning process in dynamic games, a profile consists of two dimensions. The first dimension depicts the quality of the subject's reasoning (savvy vs naive); the second dimension captures the speed of that reasoning (fast vs slow). Predictive power requires that the subject's profile indicates her likelihood to behave consistently with backward induction. The proposed hypothesis is that this probability is the highest for savvy-fast profile, followed by savvy-slow, then naive-fast, and naive-slow at the end. This hypothesis is successfully confirmed and replicated in 22 various dynamic games. |
| Organizer | Daniel Marszalec |
| 日時 | 2019年6月13日（木 Thursday）16:50-18:35 ※日時・場所に注意 |
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東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）2階 小島コンファレンスルーム
in Kojima Conference Room on the 2nd floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Jiangtao Li (Singapore Management University) Robustly Optimal Reserve Price (joint withWei He) [paper] |
| Abstract | We study a robust version of the single-unit auction problem. Theauctioneer has confidence in her estimate of the marginal distribution of ageneric bidder’s valuation, but does not have reliable information about thejoint distribution. In this setting, we analyze the performance of second-price auctions with reserve prices in terms of revenue guarantee, that is,the greatest lower bound of revenue across all joint distributions that areconsistent with the marginals. For any finite number of bidders, we solvefor the robustly optimal reserve price that generates the highest revenueguarantee. Our analysis has interesting implications in large markets. For anymarginal distribution, the robustly optimal reserve price converges to zeroas the number of bidders gets large. Furthermore, the second-price auctionwith no reserve price is asymptotically optimal among all mechanisms. |
| Organizer | Daisuke Oyama |
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2019年6月14日（金 Friday）17:00-18:30 ※日時と場所に注意 |
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東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）2階 小島コンファレンスルーム in Kojima Conference room on the 2nd floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | John Kagel (The Ohio State University) Infinitely Repeated Prisoner Dilemma Games: Comparing Teams with Individuals (joint with David Cooper) [paper] |
| Abstract | Teams are less cooperative than individuals in infinitely repeated PD games to begin with, but are more cooperative with experience. Strategies from team discussions are similar to maximum likelihood estimates at an aggregate level. However, discussions identify strategies that are substantially more complicated than standard strategies. Around 65% of teams use Always Defect to begin with, primarily out of safety concerns as well as a failure even consider the benefits of cooperating. Stage 1 cooperation rates are the same, or higher, in a comparable set of finitely repeated games, for both super-game 1 and the last common super-game. |
| Organizer | Hidehiko Ichimura |
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2019年6月17日（月 Monday）10:30-12:00 ※日時に注意 |
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東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Joshua Goodman (Harvard Kennedy School) "Heat and Learning" [paper] |
| Abstract | We demonstrate that heat inhibits learning and that school air-conditioning may mitigate this effect. Student fixed effects models using 10 million PSAT-retakers show hotter school days in years before the test reduce scores, with extreme heat being particularly damaging. Weekend and summer temperature has little impact, suggesting heat directly disrupts learning time. New nationwide, school-level measures of air-conditioning penetration suggest patterns consistent with such infrastructure largely offsetting heat’s effects. Without air-conditioning, a 1°F hotter school year reduces that year’s learning by one percent. Hot school days disproportionately impact minority students, accounting for roughly five percent of the racial achievement gap. |
| Organizer | Ayako Kondo |
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2019年6月18日（火 Tuesday）10:25-12:10 |
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東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | 小島武仁 (Fuhito Kojima) （Stanford University and CREPE) Job Matching under Constraints (joint with Ning Sun and Ning Neil Yu) [paper] |
| Abstract | In a Kelso-Crawford job matching framework, we consider arbitrary con-straints imposed on sets of doctors that hospitals can hire. Constraints pre-serve the substitutes condition if and only if they are “generalized intervalconstraints,” slightly generalizing “interval constraints” that specify minimumand maximum numbers of doctors allowed. Given the substitutes condition, amild assumption ensures existence of competitive equilibria; equilibrium salariesform a lattice; a rural hospital theorem holds. We study comparative staticsabout changing interval constraints, and also show that instead of compellinghospitals to obey interval constraints, the government can entice them throughsubsidy and taxation. |
| Organizer | Michihiro Kandori |
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2019年6月24日（月 Monday）10:30-12:00 ※日時に注意 ※主催：ミクロ実証分析ワークショップ |
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東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Michela Tincani (University College London ) "Rank Incentives, Misperceptions and the Design of Education Policy" |
| Abstract | In this paper, we combine merged administrative and novel survey data that we collected in the context of a randomized national policy with structural econometric modelling to study how agents respond to rank incentives, and to analyze the design of such incentives. By combining a randomized experiment with structural modelling we are able to cleanly identify policy impacts and key model parameters, and use model simulations to provide evidence on the mechanisms driving policy impacts. |
| Organizer | ShintaroYamaguchi |
| 日時 | 2019年6月25日（火 Tuesday）10:25-12:10 |
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東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Philip Bond （University of Washington） Failing to forecast rare events [paper] |
| Abstract | We analyze the allocation of trading talent across different types ofassets, taking intoaccount equilibrium considerations in both labor and financial markets. We identify a strongeconomic force that leads the highest-skill traders to focus on trading “common event” assetsthat pay off frequently. Less talented traders instead trade “rare event” assets that pay offonly rarely, so that short positions pay off with high probability, i.e., “nickels in front of asteamroller” strategies. This allocation of talent leads to higher bid-ask spreads in commonevent assets, and reduces the ability of financial markets to predict rare events. |
| Organizer | Kenichi Ueda |
| 日時 | 2019年6月26日 （水 Wednesday） 16:50-18:35 ※日時に注意 主催：Tokyo Workshop on International and Development Economics (TWID) |
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| 場所 | 東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室 in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Samuel Kortum (Yale University) "Firm-to-Firm Trade: Imports, Exports, and the Labor Market” (joint with Jonathan Eaton and Francis Kramarz) |
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2019年7月1日（月 Monday）10:30-12:00
※日時に注意 ※主催：ミクロ実証分析ワークショップ |
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東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Mitsukuni Nishida (Johns Hopkins University) "Are Mergers Beneficial for Firms? Evaluating Intangible Factors behind a Slowdown after a Financial Integration" |
| Abstract | Although the profitability of firms drives the desire to merge, nearly half of all mergers are considered failures. We analyze whether a past merger made merging firms more or less profitable, and through what channels did the merger affect profitability. We examine the effects of mergers on revenues, costs, and intangible assets (e.g., corporate culture, managerial talent, and organizational learning/forgetting) with limited data. The model relies on publicly available information on sales and store count of the convenience-store chains in 47 geographical markets in Japan, before and after an actual merger event. Our descriptive analysis documents that the merging firms experienced a slowdown in sales performance and the magnitude of the slowdown differs across geographic markets. To examine the effect of the merger on intangible, we estimate a dynamic model of retail expansion by modeling intangible assets as serially correlated unobservables in economic profits that evolve both endogenously and stochastically. The estimates reveal these intangible factors declined following the merger, and such decay is associated with the distance from the parent company's headquarters. |
| Organizer | Daiji Kawaguchi |
| 日時 | 2019年7月2日（火 Tuesday）10:25-12:10 |
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東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | 鎌田雄一郎 (Yuichiro Kamada)（Universityof California, Berkeley） Flash Pass (joint with Zihao Zhou) |
| Abstract | We consider a model in which an amusement park sells different priority passes to customers in a queue whose utilities depend on positions in the queue. A customer’s valuation of a priority pass depends on the number of customers buying a higher-or-equal priority pass and hence other customers’ purchase decisions have an externality on the customer’s valuation. This externality differentiates our model from the standard screening model and we discuss implementability of selling multiple passes for different utility patterns. In our model, the externality makes the implementation of multi-pass schemes difficult, an issue that persists even when there are multiple types of customer types. |
| Organizer | Michihiro Kandori |
| 日時 | 2019年7月8日（月 Monday）10:30-12:00 ※日時に注意 |
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東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | 吉田二郎(Jiro Yoshida) (Pennsylvania State University and CREPE) "The Inheritance Tax and Household Mobility: An Exploration of Empty Nest Problem"[paper] |
| Abstract | The underutilized housing stock is a problem caused by the mismatch between housing stock and demand. Two forms of mismatch are vacant homes and empty nests. Vacant homes reflect a thin second-hand housing market whereas empty nests are associated with low mobility. This study sheds light on the cause of empty nests by focusing on bequest motives and the inheritance tax. By using Japanese household panel data, we first explore how the characteristics of household and housing are associated with empty nests, bequest motives, mobility, and renovation decisions. By the two-stage estimation of the bequest and mobility/renovation equations, we find that the inheritance tax exemption exacerbates the empty nest problem by decreasing household mobility and renovation through greater bequest motives. Bequest motives are also positively impacted by a coresident male child, financial wealth, and a self-employment status. Mobility decreases by age but increases by house size. In contrast, renovation decreases by retirement but increases by financial wealth, a self-employment status, and if a house is constructed under new earthquake-resistance standards. |
| Organizer | Tsutomu Watanabe |
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2019年7月9日（火 Tuesday）10:25-12:10 |
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東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）2階 小島コンファレンスルーム
※会場が変更されましたのでお気を付けください。 |
| 報告 | 高木悠貴(Yuki Takagi) (Stanford University and CREPE) "Weighted Voting and Information Acquisition in Committees" [paper] |
| Abstract | In a weighted voting system, votes are assigned based on predetermined criteria, such as population for the decision-making at the EU Council, shares at shareholder meetings, and financial contribution at the IMF and the World Bank. The criterion is typically unrelated to the voters’ ability to make a correct judgment. Do these unequal decision power distributions undermine the accuracy of group decisions? The goal of this paper is to analyze how the distribution of votes affects the accuracy of group decisions. I introduce an information aggregation model in which voters are identical except for voting shares. If the information is free, the accuracy of group decisions is always higher under unweighted majority rule than any weighted majority rules. When acquiring information is costly, by contrast, I show that the accuracy of group decisions may be higher under some weighted majority rules than under unweighted majority rule. This may justify giving someone greater decision power even if the person is no more capable than others. More generally, I characterize the equilibrium in which weighted voters invest in information and unweighted voters do not. The number of voters who invest in equilibrium is decreasing in the cost of improving their information. |
| Organizer | Michihiro Kandori |
| 日時 | 2019年7月16日（火 Tuesday）16:50-18:35 ※時間に注意 |
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東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | 小西秀男(Hideo Konishi) (Boston College) Incentivizing Team Production by Indivisible Prizes (joint with Benoit Crutzen, Sabine Flamand and Nicolas Sahuguet) [paper] |
| Abstract | This paper formulates proportional representation in a parliamental election as a multi-prize contest among political parties. In particular, we analyze the performance of commonly-used list rule, and investigate what the optimal list rule is when candidates differ in their abilities to contribute. We show that, in order to maximize the aggregated effort exerted by the party candidates, each party should assign the highest ability candidates to the middle of the list, while the top priority ranks and low priority ranks should be assigned to lower ability candidates under the optimal list rule. Turning to the optimal mechanism, we can show that the optimal list rule is indeed the optimal monotonic rule when individual effort cost function is not too convex and the complementarities of individual efforts are not too strong. We also consider a situation in which some of the party members get extra benefits by the party’s winning the majority of the parliament seats, and show that the party leader may place the highest ability group at the top of the list so that the party leader may place the highest ability group at the top of the list so that both the highest and the middle-level ability party members to exert the maximum efforts as the whole. |
| Organizer | Taiji Furusawa |
※Master's Thesis Presentations ※ We can print your thesis paper to be distributed at the seminar venue if needed. Please send an electronic file of it to CIRJE at cirje [at mark] e.u-tokyo.ac.jp, so that CIRJE can duplicate it. You can also bring its hardcopy directly to the CIRJE office on the 6th floor of Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall).The submission deadline is (please be punctual): July 23: 4:30pm. July 22 (Monday)
You MUST attend an official oral examination in addition to this master thesis presentation: for details, please see the schedule to be distributed by the Graduate Office when you submit your thesis. Presenters can use equipment such as a computer and a pointer in a locker in the seminar venue on the presentation day: make sure they should be back into place after use.
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Master's Thesis presentations
2019年7月23日（火 Tuesday）10:30-11:30 |
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| 場所 |
東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | 10:30-11:00 CONG Tianxiang (神取、尾山、松井） 11:00-11:30 Kenneth S. Reyes （岡崎） The Sweetness of Power:Human Capital Accumulation in America's Philippines" |
| 日時 |
2019年7月23日（火 Tuesday）14:55-16:40, 16:50-18:35 ※日時・場所に注意 |
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東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）2階 小島コンファレンスルーム
in Kojima Conference Room on the 2nd floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | 14:55-16:40 山本祐一 (Yuichi Yamamoto) (Hitotsubashi University) "Asymptotic Behavior of Bayesian Learners with Model Misspecification" (joint with Ignacio Esponda and Demian Pouzo)
16:50-18:35 郡山 幸雄 (Yukio Koriyama) （Ecole Polytechnique, CREST） |
| Abstract | This paper considers collective decision-making when individuals are partitioned into groups (e.g., states or parties) endowed with voting weights. We study a game in which each group chooses an internal rule that specifies the allocation of its weight to the alternatives as a function of its members’ preferences. We show that under quite general conditions, the game is a Prisoner’s Dilemma: while the winner-take-all rule is a dominant strategy, the equilibrium is Pareto dominated. We also show asymptotic Pareto dominance of the proportional rule. Our numerical computation for the US Electoral College verifies the sensibility of the asymptotic results. |
| Organizer | Michihiro Kandori |
| 日時 | 2019年7月26日（金 Friday）10:25-12:10 ※曜日に注意 |
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| 場所 |
東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Yeon-Koo Che (Columbia University) A Dynamic Model of Bayesian Persuasion |
| Abstract | We consider a model in which a sender performs series of experiments to persuade a receiver to take a desired action. Constraints on information flow force the sender’s persuasion to take real time, and the receiver may walk away at any time without listening. In addition, persuasion is costly for both players. To incentivize the receiver to listen, the sender must leave rents that compensate his listening costs, but neither player can commit to her/his future actions. Persuasion may totally collapse in Markov perfect equilibrium (MPE) of this game. But, for persuasion cost sufficiently small, there is a folk theorem: outcomes that approximate Kamenica and Gentzkow (2011)’s optimal persuasion and full revelation, as well as anything in between are obtained in MPE, as the persuasion cost vanishes. |
| Organizer | Daisuke Oyama |
| 日時 |
2019年7月29日（月 Monday）10:30-12:00 ※日時に注意
※主催：ミクロ実証分析ワークショップ |
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| 場所 |
東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Yoshito Takasaki (The University of Tokyo) "Disability, vocational training, and psychological externalities: Experimental evidence from Cambodia" |
| Abstract | This paper reports a randomized control trial on vocational training for persons with disabilities (PWDs). The program seeks to promote skilled work in mechanics and service for persons with limb amputation or paralysis in heavily mined areas of rural Cambodia. The program is small scale but intensive, involving long stay at the training center, up to one year. Eligible PWDs were randomly recruited and only recruited PWDs could participate in the program, if they wished (one-sided noncompliance). I examine economic, psychological, and social impacts of the training. On one hand, the training greatly increased employment (salary employment, not family enterprise) and earnings. Moreover, this led to employment among nondisabled household members (i.e., positive economic intrahousehold spillover). On the other hand, the training rather increased people’s discrimination against disabilities, which led to an increase in PWDs’ stigma of disability (i.e., negative psychological intergroup spillover). This unintended consequence was not caused by PWDs’ economic inclusion (e.g., envy), but by their negative interactions with nondisabled people who were not familiarity with disabilities in the community. I address potential threats to identification of these psychological externalities: perception bias in discrimination experienced by PWDs and psychological intragroup spillover among PWDs. |
| Organizer | Andrew Griffen |
| 日時 | 2019年7月30日（火 Tuesday）10:25-12:10 |
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東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Hülya Eraslan （Rice University） Efficiency with Political Power Dynamics and Costly Policy Change (joint with Adriana Piazza) |
| Abstract | We consider a dynamic model in which two parties decide on a unidimensional policy in each period over an infinite horizon. The policy implemented in any period becomes the next status quo. Given the status quo, adjusting the policy upwards involves a cost that may differ between the party in power and the party out of power due to favoritism. A second source of tension is ideological: the two parties may be polarized in their ideal policies. We show that efficiency requires no policy reversals in the long run and efficient policies are bounded above. After fully characterizing equilibrium, we analyze its efficiency properties. When polarization is high, equilibrium is inefficient due to perpetual policy reversals. When polarization is not high but favoritism is, equilibrium is inefficient due to an "overshooting" effect. When neither polarization nor favoritism is high, equilibrium is efficient in the long run. |
| Organizer | Naoki Wakamori |
| 日時 |
2019年7月30日（火 Tuesday）16:50-18:35 ※時間に注意
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| 場所 |
東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | 齊藤紘多（Kota Saito) (California Institute of Technology and CREPE） |
| Abstract | We provide a repeated-choice foundation for stochastic choice. We obtain necessary and sufficient conditions under which observed stochastic choice of an agent can be represented as a limit frequency of the agent's repeated choice over time. In the representation, the agent repeatedly chooses today’s consumption and tomorrow’s continuation menu, aware that future preferences will evolve according to a subjective ergodic utility process. Using our model, we demonstrate how not taking into account the agent’s preference for early (late) resolution of uncertainty would lead an analyst to underestimate (resp., overestimate) the agent’s risk aversion. Estimation of preferences can be performed by the analyst without explicitly modeling continuation problems (i.e. stochastic choice is independent of continuation menus) if and only if the utility process takes on the standard additive and separable form. Applications include estimation under dynamic discrete choice. |
| Organizer | Hidehiko Ichimura |
| 日時 | 2019年7月31日（水 Wednesday）10:25-12:10 ※曜日・場所に注意 |
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東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）2階 第3セミナー室
in Seminar Room 3 on the 2nd floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | 野田俊也 (Shunya Noda) （University of British Columbia） A Lucas Critique to the Difficulty Adjustment Algorithm of the Bitcoin System (joint with Kyohei Okumura and Yoshinori Hashimoto) [paper] |
| Abstract | The design of the difficulty adjustment algorithm (DAA) of the Bitcoin system is vulnerable as it dismisses miners' response to the difficulty adjustment. We develop an economic model of the Proof-of-Work based blockchain system. Our model allows miners to pause operation when the expected reward is below the shutdown point. Hence, the supply of aggregate hash power can be elastic in the cryptocurrency price and the difficulty target of the mining puzzle. We prove that, when the hash supply is elastic, the Bitcoin DAA fails to generate a new block at a constant rate. In contrast, the DAA of another blockchain system, Bitcoin Cash, is shown to be stable even when the cryptocurrency price is volatile and the supply of hash power is highly elastic. We also provide empirical evidence and simulation results supporting the model's prediction. Our results indicate that the current Bitcoin system might collapse once a sharp price fall lowers the reward for mining denominated in fiat money. However, such a crisis can be prevented through upgrading. |
| Organizer | Hitoshi Matsushima |
| 日時 | September 4, 2019 （水 Wednesday） 19:00-21:00 ※日時・場所に注意 |
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| 場所 | 東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）2階 小島コンファレンスルーム in Kojima Conference Room on the 2nd floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | 赤石 れい (Rei Akaishi) (RIKEN Center for Brain Science ) Decision (Neuro)Science in Society |
| Abstract | Data and its analysis create value by assisting humans in the decision making process. The mergence of decision science and data science opens new perspectives and opportunities for research and industry. In this talk Rei Akaishi gives an introduction to decision neuroscience and behavioral economics and discusses the synthesis of decision science and data science with the audience. |
| Organizer | Yoshito Takasaki, Michal Fabinger |
| 日時 |
2019年9月9日（月 Monday）16:30-18:00
※日時に注意 ※主催：ミクロ実証分析ワークショップ |
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| 場所 |
東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Jessica Pan (National University of Singapore) "The Effects of Sexism on American Women: The Role of Norms vs. Discrimination"[paper] |
| Abstract | We examine the extent and channels through which reported sexism affects American women. Using a sample of internal migrants and an IV approach, we show that higher prevailing sexism where a woman currently lives (residential sexism) as well as where she was born (background sexism) adversely affect her labor market outcomes relative to men, increases marriage, and reduces childbearing age. The pattern of whose sexism (men vs. women, and specifc percentiles) matters for which set of outcomes suggest that residential sexism primarily a ects labor market outcomes through prejudice-based discrimination, and non-labor market outcomes through the in uence of current norms.? |
| Organizer | Daiji Kawaguchi |
| 日時 | 2019年9月24日（火 Tuesday）10:25-12:10 |
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| 場所 |
東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | 高橋秀典 (Hidenori Takahashi) (Hitotsubashi University) Bidding for Contracts under Uncertain Demand: Skewed Bidding and Risk Sharing (joint with Yao Luo) [paper] |
| Abstract | Procurement contracts often involve substantial uncertainty in project outcomes at the time of bid- ding. Whether the procurer of a contract bears such project risk depends on the specific contractual agreement. Using data from the Florida Department of Transportation, we document evidence that i) the procurer’s choice over the type of contract depends on unobserved project heterogeneity, and ii) potential contractors behave opportunistically via skewed bidding for contracts wherein the contractor bears the project risk. We develop and estimate a model of bidding for contracts that captures the bidder’s tradeoff between skewed bidding and risk exposure. Both efficient and inefficient bidders bid aggressively via skewed bidding. Counterfactual experiments suggest that the onus of bearing project risk should fall on the procurer (contractor) when project risk is large (small). |
| Organizer | Naoki Wakamori |
| 日時 | Empirical Microeconomics Workshop (The 4th CREPE Conference on Program Evaluation) September 26, 2019 (Thursday) 9:30-17:20 ※日時と場所に注意 |
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東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）2階 小島コンファレンスルーム
in Kojima Conference Room on the 2nd floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| Program | For the latest program, please look at the Conference Website.
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| Registration | Registration has already been closed. |
| Organizers | Stacey H. Chen (GRIPS), Daiji Kawaguchi (The University of Tokyo), Ryuichi Tanaka (The University of Tokyo), Shintaro Yamaguchi (The University of Tokyo) |
| Sponsors | Grant-in-Aid in Scientific Research (Service Sector Productivity in Japan: Determinants and Policies, PI: Kyoji Fukao, Hitotsubashi University) CREPE (The University of Tokyo) |
| 日時 |
2019年10月1日（火 Tuesday）10:25-12:10 |
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| 場所 |
東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Eric Weese (The University of Tokyo) Creative Destruction in the European State System: 1000-1850 (joint with David Schönholzer) [paper] |
| Abstract | We argue that the optimal level of competition between states is subject to a tradeoff between short-term losses and long-term gains in economic growth. In a process of creative destruction, higher quality states displace lower quality states in the market for governance at a cost. We provide evidence for both the costs and benefits of state competition using newly available data on the universe of boundary changes for all European states combined with city population data over 1000-1850. In event studies, we show that cities switching between states suffer large transitory losses in population, while cities that end up under new governance enjoy sustained population increases. Using decomposition techniques, we then estimate the relative growth contributions of switching and unobserved state effects. We find that the estimated state effects are highly correlated with data on parliamentary activity and that improvements in the quality of states occur both due to improvement of the pool of states over time as well as due to cities gravitating towards higher quality states. |
| Organizer | Shunichiro Bessho |
| 日時 |
2019年10月7日（月 Monday）10:30-12:00
※日時に注意 ※主催：ミクロ実証分析ワークショップ、 |
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東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Eric Zou (University of Oregon) "Unwatched Pollution: The Effect of Intermittent Monitoring on Air Quality"[paper] |
| Abstract | Intermittent monitoring of environmental standards may induce strategic increases in polluting activities during unmonitored times. This paper documents local strategic responses to a cyclical, once-every-sixday air quality monitoring schedule under the federal Clean Air Act. Using satellite data of monitored areas, I show that air quality is significantly worse on unmonitored days. Correspondingly, cities’ use of air quality warnings increases on monitored days, which suggests local governments’ role in coordinating emission reductions. Higher levels of pollution on unmonitored days lead to measurable changes in outcomes, including lower school test scores and elevated crime. |
| Organizer | Andrew Griffen |
| 日時 |
2019年10月8日（火 Tuesday）10:25-12:10 ※ 共催： ミクロ実証分析ワークショップ、Tokyo Workshop on International and Development Economics (TWID) |
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東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | 内藤久裕 (Hisahiro Naito) (University of Tsukuba) Birth Month Education Puzzle and A Selection Hypothesis |
| Abstract | We find that the number of the living population born in the second half of each year (who experienced malnutrition and malaria infection in utero during the first two trimesters in the gestation period) in Malawi is almost 50 percent lower than those who were born in the first period. On the other hand, we find that those who were born in the second half of each year have 1.6 more years of schooling than those who were born in the first half of each year. The di erence is substantial, given that the average number of years of schooling in Malawi is six years. This pattern is persistent in di erent times, geographic locations, and demographic groups. We find similar patterns in the literacy rates and probability of accomplishing higher grades. This suggests that those born in the second half of the year experience severe conditions while in utero compared to those who were born in the first half. However, they perform better in educational scenarios. To explain these puzzling patterns, we propose the following selection hypothe- sis. When a developing organ, either in utero or within a newborn baby, experiences malnutrition and malaria infection, only individuals with certain genetic traits that positively correlate with health and educational outcome can survive. Consequently, individuals born in the second half who are alive today have those innate traits, and they have better educational outcomes. We prove our hypothesis by examining conception pattern, correlation between par- ents' and children's birth months, and correlation between the degree of selection and educational outcome. We also demonstrate that, due to this selection e ect, children of parents who were born in the first half (who did not experience selection pressure) have much higher mortality when they are born in the second half, suggesting this particular groups need for government intervention. |
| Organizer | Yoshito Takasaki |
| 日時 |
2019年10月9日（水 Wednesday）10:30-12:00
※日時、会場に注意 ※主催：ミクロ実証分析ワークショップ |
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東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第2セミナー室
in Seminar Room 2 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | 五反田紘志 (Hiroshi Gotanda) (UCLA) "Out-of-Pocket Spending and Catastrophic Health Expenditure among Low-Income Families during the First 3 Years of Medicaid Expansions under Affordable Care Act" |
| Abstract | Intermittent monitoring of environmental standards may induce strategic increases in polluting activities during unmonitored times. This paper documents local strategic responses to a cyclical, once-every-sixday air quality monitoring schedule under the federal Clean Air Act. Using satellite data of monitored areas, I show that air quality is significantly worse on unmonitored days. Correspondingly, cities’ use of air quality warnings increases on monitored days, which suggests local governments’ role in coordinating emission reductions. Higher levels of pollution on unmonitored days lead to measurable changes in outcomes, including lower school test scores and elevated crime. |
| Organizer | Daiji Kawaguchi |
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2019年10月15日（火 Tuesday）10:25-12:10 ※ 共催： ミクロ実証分析ワークショップ、Tokyo Workshop on International and Development Economics (TWID) |
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東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Alistair Munro (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)) Married by the Rev. Bayes? An experiment testing joint reasoning within married couples. [paper] |
| Abstract | Although there are many views on how married couples process information, no attempt has been made to examine this process experimentally or to compare it to how individuals and pairs of unrelated individuals behave in similar circumstances. In this lab-in- eld experiment, held in eastern Uganda, participants get rewards for correctly choosing the identity of an unknown bag after learning some information about its contents. In some sections, some individuals work alone while other pairs share the information and make a joint decision. In some sections, individual partners see di erent information sets and the only communication allowed between partners is a recommendation. I nd that faced with the basic task, married pairs perform consistently better than individuals. However, married couples are signi cantly outperformed by the teams consisting of unrelated partners. When players are separated from their partners, and can only communicate in a restricted way, performance falls below that of individuals. Married couples are not better at these tasks than unmarried pairs, but they are no worse. Wives are more likely to defer to their husbands than vice versa and are less sensitive to context in their deference. More generally, subjects place less weight than they should on their partner's information and more weight on their own observations. Taken at face value the results suggest that there is no obvious information-processing gain from making decisions with spouses. |
| Organizer | Yoshito Takasaki |
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2019年10月21日（月 Monday）10:30-12:00 ※ 共催： ミクロ実証分析ワークショップ、Tokyo Workshop on International and Development Economics (TWID) |
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東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | 山内 太 (Futoshi Yamauchi) (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)) Asymmetric Information on Non-cognitive Skills in the Indian Labor Market An Experiment using an Online Job Portal [paper] |
| Abstract | This paper examines the impact of non-cognitive (socio-emotional) skills on job market outcomes using a randomized control trial implemented in an online job portal in India. Job seekers who registered in the portal were asked to take a Big Five personality test and, for a random sub-sample of the test takers, the results were displayed to potential employers. Outcomes are measured by whether a potential employer unlocks a seeker by opening his/her application and background information. The results show that the treatment group for whom test results were shown generally enjoyed a higher probability of unlock. That is, employers are more interested in those for whom they can see personality test results. Such a relationship was not detected in the pre-test period. The effect was more significant among female, more educated and/or more experienced applicants. We also found a significant impact among cooperative, organized, realistic, calm, and/or outgoing applicants, which seems to indicate employers’ preferences. |
| Organizer | Yoshito Takasaki |
| 日時 |
2019年10月28日（月 Monday）10:30-12:00 |
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| 場所 |
東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Robert A. Miller (Carnegie Mellon University) |
| Abstract | This paper develops and estimates a dynamic structural model of demand for a multiattribute product. The demand side equilibrium supports a product spectrum, the characteristics of which evolve over time in response to supply innovations induced by the composition and extent of aggregate demand. The direction and speed of innovation is inefficient because individuals create an externality by not accounting for their influence on the discovery process. We apply the model to drugs invented to combat the HIV epidemic, during which frequent, incremental innovations in medication were punctuated by sporadic breakthroughs. In this application products differ in their efficacy and their propensity to cause side effects. Our biennial data on four American cities track a replenished panel of individuals for over twenty years, from when drugs were not only ineffective but also created debilitating side effects, to when the market matured. We find that the externalities are quantitatively important and that even a temporary subsidy would have improved average social welfare and been more equitable. |
| Organizer | Naoki Wakamori |
| 日時 | 2019年10月29日（火 Tuesday）10:25-12:10 |
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| 場所 |
東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | 1. Takeshi Kawahara (The University of Tokyo) The Chip Strategies Approximately Achieve Efficiency at the Optimal Rate [paper]
2. Kyohei Okumura (The University of Tokyo) Border patrolling games with multiple agents (joint with Akitoshi Kawamura)
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| Abstract | 1.For a two-player repeated favor-exchange game with private information, I compare the rates at which the chip-strategy equilibrium and the optimal perfect public equilibrium achieve the efficient payoff as the discount factor δ tends to 1. I show that (i) the convergence rate for the optimal perfect public equilibrium is no smaller than (1−δ)1/2; and (ii) that for the optimal chip-strategy equilibrium is no greater than (1 − δ)1/2, where the number of total chips grows at rate (1 − δ)−1/2. In this sense, the chip-strategy equilibrium approximately achieves efficiency at the optimal rate (1 − δ)1/2.
2.Patrolling games are a two-player zero-sum game between Attacker and Patroller. Attacker chooses a time and a point in the terrain (typically a line segment, called the border). He needs to stay there for a fixed amount of time to conduct the attack. Patroller tries to intercept the attack by designing a schedule to walk along the border. In this paper, we give a first study of the border patrolling game where Patroller is a team of multiple agents (the k-vs.-1 border patrolling game). We start by showing that several slightly different formulations of patrolling problems in earlier work are equivalent in the sense that they have the same value, at least in the limit in appropriate senses. Using this, the (known) value of the 1-vs.-1 game can be derived by a simpler proof. Then we observe that already in $2$-vs.-$1$ games, there are interesting phenomena not present in single-agent settings: there are patrolling strategies that can be shown to perform strictly better than any strategy obtained by combining oscillations on finitely many subintervals.
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| Organizer | Shunichiro Bessho |
| 日時 |
2019年11月4日（月 Monday）10:30-12:00
※日時に注意 ※主催：ミクロ実証分析ワークショップ |
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| 場所 |
東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 |
Shaoda Wang (University of Chicago) The Environmental and Economic Consequences of Internalizing Border Spillovers |
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| Organizer | Andrew Griffen |
| 日時 |
2019年11月5日（火 Tuesday）10:25-12:10 |
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| 場所 |
東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | 関 絵里香 (Erika Seki) (Osaka Univeresity) Coordination and free-riding problems in blood donation (joint with Ai Takeuchi) |
| Abstract | This article theoretically and experimentally examines the twin problems of free-riding and coordination failure faced by blood banks, by investigating the effects of information provision on the efficiency of blood donation. We augment a standard linear public goods game, incorporating the following features of blood donation: multiplicity of public goods (to reflect intertemporal coordination issues), current and upcoming upper bound demands (to incorporate the perishable nature of blood and the embargo period of consecutive donations), and semi-binary choices (to account for individual options to withhold donations or make donations and when). We analyze whether a provision of deterministic information on the potential blood demand (full information) would improve the efficiency of blood donation when compared to the provision of probabilistic information (partial information). The theory predicts that if each individual maximizes the payoff-sum of all players, then the full information provision would achieve donation efficiency in equilibrium. The results of laboratory experiment show that the full information provision does not improve the efficiency of donation, on an average. We find that full information improves intertemporal coordination, but it worsens the free-riding problem. Although information helps individuals to direct donations in response to the demand, it drives individuals to withhold donations to avoid potential wastage against the risk of donation over the upper bound. When the predicted total demand is relatively small, that is, when strategic uncertainty about others donation matters for achieving efficiency, the provision of information about intertemporal demand in upper bounds tends to lower efficiency because the “donation withholding” effect becomes dominant. |
| Organizer | Yoshito Takasaki |
| 日時 |
2019年11月11日（月 Monday）10:30-12:00 ※日時に注意 |
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| 場所 |
東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | David Neumark (University of California, Irvine) Older Workers Need Not Apply? Ageist Language in Job Ads and Age Discrimination in Hiring |
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| Organizer | Daiji Kawaguchi |
| 日時 |
2019年11月18日（月 Monday）10:30-12:00 ※日時に注意 ※主催：ミクロ実証分析ワークショップ |
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| 場所 |
東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Dean Hyslop (Motu) Female Earnings Inequality: The Changing Role of Family Characteristics on the Extensive and Intensive Margins (joint with David Card) [paper] |
| Abstract | Although women make up nearly half the U.S. workforce, most studies of earnings inequality focus on men. This is at least in part because of the complexity of modeling both the decision to work (i.e., the extensive margin) and the level of earnings conditional on work (the intensive margin). In this paper we document a series of descriptive facts about female earnings inequality using data for three cohorts in the PSID. We show that inequality in annual earnings of women fell sharply between the late 1960s and the mid-1990s, with a particularly large decline in the extensive margin component. We then fit earnings-generating models that incorporate both intensive- and extensive-margin dynamics to data for the three cohorts. Our models suggest that over 80% of the decline in female earnings inequality can be attributed to a weakening of the link between family-based factors (including the number of children of different ages and the presence and incomes of partners) and the intensive and extensive margins of earnings determination. |
| Organizer | Daiji Kawaguchi |
| 日時 |
2019年11月19日（火 Tuesday）10:25-12:10 |
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| 場所 |
東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Tong Wang (Waseda University) Purchasing Seats for High School Admission in China [paper] |
| Abstract | Many Chinese cities once gave students the option of paying higher tuition to attend their preferred schools. This seat-purchasing mechanism is neither strategy-proof nor stable. Our paper combines administrative and survey data to estimate students' preferences and conduct welfare analysis. We find that changing from a deferred acceptance mechanism to the so-called cadet-optimal stable mechanism reduces students' welfare but that adopting the observed seat-purchasing mechanism alleviates this welfare loss. Under the latter approach, upper-tier schools collect significantly more tuition with a minimal change in student quality whereas collecting more tuition results in middle-tier schools facing substantial uncertainty about student quality. |
| Organizer | Shunichiro Bessho |
| 日時 |
2019年11月26日（火 Tuesday）10:25-12:10
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| 場所 |
東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | 手島健介 (Kensuke Teshima) （Hitotsubashi University） North-South Displacement Effects of Environmental Regulation: The Case of Battery Recycling (joint with Shinsuke Tanaka and Eric Verhoogen) |
| Abstract | This study examines the effect of tightening the U.S. environmental standard on lead in 2009 on the relocation of battery recycling to Mexico and on health outcomes in Mexico. In the U.S., airborne lead dropped sharply near plants affected by the regulation, most of which were battery-recycling plants. Exports of used batteries to Mexico rose markedly. In Mexico, birth outcomes deteriorated within two miles of battery-recycling plants, relative to areas slightly further away. These findings demonstrate that environmental regulation in developed countries can induce relocation of pollution-intensive production to developing countries with weaker regulation and cause negative health spillover effects. |
| Organizer | Yoshito Takasaki |
| 日時 |
This seminar has been cancelled. 本セミナーは中止となりました。 2019年12月3日（火 Tuesday）10:25-12:10 |
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| 報告 | Wooyoung Lim (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) |
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| Organizer | Yasutora Watanabe |
| 日時 |
2019年12月9日（月 Monday）10:30-12:00 ※日時に注意 ※主催：ミクロ実証分析ワークショップ |
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| 場所 |
東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Daisuke Adachi (Yale University) Multinational Production and Labor Share |
| Abstract | We study the role of multinational enterprises (MNEs) on the labor share of income distribution in the source country. We propose a general equilibrium model that features heterogeneous and non-parametric production function with the employment of foreign factors with augmentation. First-order approximation points out that the differences in the factor demand elasticities are key parameters for the implication to the labor share. To identify them, we develop a method of moment estimator that leverages foreign factor augmentation shocks. We then apply the method to a unique natural experiment, the 2011 Thailand Floods and the impact on Japanese multinational firms. We employ a uniquely combined Japanese firm- and plantlevel datasets. The estimate indicates that the foreign factor augmentation increased capital demand in Japan more than labor demand, which suggests that the foreign factor augmentation contributes to a reduction in the labor share in Japan. Our quantitative exercise reveals that between 1995 and 2007, the factor augmentation in foreign countries explains 59 percent of the decrease in the labor share. |
| Organizer | Drew Griffen |
| 日時 | 2019年12月10日（火 Tuesday）10:25-12:10 |
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| 場所 |
東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | 粟屋祐 (Yu Awaya) (University of Rochester) Startups and Upstarts (joint with Vijay Krishna) [paper] |
| Abstract | We study a continuous-time R&D race between an established firm and a startup under asymmetric information. R&D investment brings success stochastically but only if the innovation is feasible. The only asymmetry between the firms is that the established firm has better information about the feasibility of the innovation. We show that there is an equilibrium in which the poorly-informed startup wins more often, and has higher expected profits, than the better-informed incumbent. When the informational asymmetry is large, this is the unique equilibrium outcome. Even though better information is a competitive disadvantage, the value of information is positive. |
| Organizer | Michihiro Kandori |
| 日時 |
2019年12月11日（水 Monday）10:30-12:00 ※日時に注意 |
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| 場所 |
東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第2セミナー室
in Seminar Room 2 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] ※会場に注意 |
| 報告 | Kala Krishna (Pennsylvania State University) "Does Class Size Matter? How, and at What Cost?" [paper] |
| Abstract | Using high quality administrative data on Greece we show that class size has a hump shaped effect on achievement. We do so both nonparametrically and parametrically, while controlling for potential endogeneity and allowing for quantile effects. We then embed our estimates for this relationship in a dynamic structural model with costs of hiring and firing. We argue that the linear specification form used in past work may be why it found mixed results. Our work suggests that while discrete reductions in class size may have mixed effects, discrete increases are likely to have very negative effects while marginal changes in class size would have small negative effects. We find optimal class sizes around 27 in the absence of adjustment costs and achievement maximizing ones around 15, and ring costs much larger than hiring costs consistent with the presence of unions. Despite this, reducing ring costs actually reduces achievement. Reducing hiring costs raises achievement and reduces class size. We show that class size caps are costly, and more so for small schools, even when set at levels well above average. |
| Organizer | Konstantin Kucheryavyy |
| 日時 | 2019年12月17日（火 Tuesday）10:25-12:10 |
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| 場所 |
東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Alessandro Pavan (Northwestern University) Persuasion in Global Games with Application to Stress Testing [slides] |
| Abstract | We study robust/adversarial information design in global games of regime change. We show that the optimal policy coordinates all market participants on the same course of action. Importantly, while it removes any "strategic uncertainty," it preserves heterogeneity in "structural uncertainty". When the designer is constrained to public disclosures, we identify conditions under which the optimal policy is a "pass/fail" test, as well as conditions under which the test is monotone in the banks' fundamentals. Finally, we show that the benefits from discriminatory disclosures come from "dividing-and-conquering" the market, and relate them to the type of securities issued by the banks. |
| Organizer | Daisuke Oyama |
| 日時 |
2019年12月23日（月 Monday）10:30-12:00 ※日時に注意 ※主催：ミクロ実証分析ワークショップ |
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| 場所 |
東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | David Schonholzer (Stockholm University) "Measuring the efficacy and Effciency of School Facility Expenditures"[paper] |
| Abstract | We offer new evidence on the effects and efficiency of school facility investment on student and neighborhood outcomes, linking data on new facility openings to administrative student and real estate records in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). Since 1997, LAUSD has built and renovated hundreds of schools as a part of the largest public school construction program in US history. Using an event study design that exploits quasi-random variation in the timing of new facilities and a residential assignment instrument, we find strong positive impacts on math, English, and attendance. Effects are not driven by changes in class size, peers, teachers, or principals, but rather by increased facility quality and, to a lesser extent, reductions in overcrowding. House prices increase by 6% in neighborhoods that receive new schools. Using a residential choice model, we then estimate that a dollar spent on school facilities raises the sum of housing values and adult earnings by 1.62 dollars, with only 22% of this valuation due to academic benefits of the program. The housing market valuation of academic benefits captures most but not all of the implied future earnings gains. |
| Organizer | Eric Weese |
| 日時 | 2019年12月24日（火 Tuesday）10:25-12:10 |
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| 場所 |
東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Kentaro Asai (Australian National University) Ownership Networks and Bid Rigging [paper] |
| Abstract | Using a dataset of public procurement auctions and registered shareholders of all participating firms in Singapore, we study the effects of suppliers’ ownership connections on prices and efficiency in the product market. We find identical bidding in the same sealed-bid auction is prevalent and positively correlated with ownership connections among bidders. Moreover, the identical bidding attributable to ownership connections is positively associated with contract price when the lowest bidder wins. Structural estimates based on a model of first-price auctions show the removal of an ownership connection can improve a contractor’s cost efficiency by more than it reduces contract price, highlighting how ownership networks hinder competition. |
| Organizer | Hiroshi Ohashi |
| 日時 |
2020年1月10日（金 Friday) 15:30-17:00 ※日時、会場に注意 共催：東京労働経済学研究会 政策評価教育研究センター(CREPE) |
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| 場所 | 東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第2セミナー室 in Seminar Room 2 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Shiko Maruyama (University Technology Sydney) |
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| Organizer | Shintaro Yamaguchi |
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2020年1月14日（火 Monday） 10:25-12:10※会場に注意 共催： ミクロ実証分析ワークショップ, Tokyo Workshop on International and Development Economics (TWID) |
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| 場所 |
東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）1階 第1セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Stacey Chen （National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies ） |
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| Organizer | Daiji Kawaguchi |
| 日時 | ※ 2020年1月 修士論文報告会 Master's Thesis Presentations ※
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| 日時 | January 7, 2020 （火 Tuesday） 18：00-18：30 |
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| 場所 | 東京大学大学院経済学研究科棟 3階 第4教室 in Lecture Hall No. 4 on the 3rd floor of the Economics Research Building [Map] |
| 報告 | 18:00-18:30 八下田 聖峰 （Readers：澤田 松井 （渡辺(安） ）） Human behavior toward machine: Evidence from a trust game |
| 日時 | January 14, 2019 （火 Tuesday） 15:00-17:00 |
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| 場所 | 東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室 in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | 15:00-15:30 平沢 俊彦 （Readers：松島 尾山 （神取 ）） Review Manipulation by Intermediary
15:30-16:00 松下 旦 （Readers：神取 尾山 （松井 ）） Information Design in Congestion Games
16:00-16:30 秋田 勇太郎 （Readers：松井 尾山 （神取 ）） Learning through Consumption and Costly Contemplation
16:30-17:00 古澤 優也 （Readers：尾山 松井 （神取 ）） Network Game with Endogenous Formation and Peer-Effects |
| 日時 | January 20, 2019 （月 Monday） 12:00-17:10 |
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| 場所 | 東京大学大学院経済学研究科 センター会議室（赤門総合研究棟5階549） in Center Conference Room (Room 549) on the 5th floor of the Akamon General Research Building [Map] |
| 報告 | 12:00-12:30 高橋 雅士 （Readers：川田 Weese （中林 ）） Inheritance Tax, Altruism and Real Estate Prices: Evidence from Tax Reforms in Japan
12:35-13:05 CHENG Ming （Readers：近藤 田中 （Weese ）） Moving towards a Higher Income? The Annual Income Gap between Rural-to-Urban Migrants and Permanent Rural/ Urban Residents
13:10-13:40 SHU Ying （Readers：田中 近藤 （Weese ）） Mandarin Wage Premium: Evidence from CGSS
13:45-14:15 XIE Ziyi （Readers：田中 近藤 （川田 ）） Gender Peer Effects on Students' Cognitive and Noncognitive Outcomes
14:20-14:50 LI Qian （Readers：田中 中林 （川田 ）） Economic returns to schooling in China: Did expansion in higher education make any difference
14:55-15:25 ZHANG Meixia （Readers：中林 川田 （田中 ）） Is commercial pension insurance an way to retain talents
15:30-16:00 CHENG Hao （Readers： 中林 近藤 （田中 ）） The Impact of Demographic Changes on Housing Prices: Based on Provincial Panel Data from China
16:05-16:35 ZHOU Xinyi （Readers：川田 近藤 （田中「 ）） The effect of minimum wage on household consumption in China between 2010 to 2018
16:40-17:10 LEI Nuo （Readers：川田 中林 （田中 ）） Research on job preference in China's Internet industry based on the conjoint analysis
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| 日時 | January 21, 2019 （火 Tuesday） 10:00-15:30 |
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| 場所 | 東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室 in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall)[Map] |
| 報告 | 10:00-10:30 Jun He （Readers：佐々木 Griffen （大橋 ）） Can Smoking be Rational? An Analysis on Rationality behind Risky Behaviors
10:30-11:00 Xiang Li （Readers：古澤 佐藤 （Kucheryavyy）） Trade with China: International Influences on Japanese Labor Market
11:00-11:30 Ying Chen (Readers: 岡崎 古澤 （城山）） The Impact of Technical Barriers to Trade on China’s Imports
13:00-13:30 ZHOU Yuxi （Readers：柳川 若森 （石原）） インターネット産業は中国経済に与える影響に関する研究
13:30-14:00 XU Fan （Readers：柳川 石原 （若森 ）） Housing Prices and the Debt Ratio of Households in China
14:00-14:30 BAO Tianqi （Readers：柳川 若森 （石原）） 中国上海株式市場Auction closing modeの導入と日内効果についての分析
14:30-15:00 吉田 侑弥 （Readers：加藤 松村 （石原）） The Impossibility of Minimal Judgement Aggregation
15:00-15:30 TANG Cheng （Readers：松村 加藤 （石原 ）） プラットフォーム事業者の事業選択と社会厚生：マッケートプレイス運営者になるかリセラーになるか |
| 日時 | 2020年1月28日（火 Monday） 10:25-12:10 |
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東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | 花木伸行 (Nobuyuki Hanaki) （Osaka University） |
| Abstract | In this research project, we ask which of the two non-cooperative bargaining mechanisms,Winter (1994, ET) or Hart and Mas-Collel (1996), better implements Sharpley value (Shapley, 1953). Winter’s mechanism is demand based while that of Hart and Mas-Collel is proposal based. Preliminary analyses show that average normalized allocation under the latter mechanism is closer to Shapley value than the one under the former. Furthermore, the latter results in allocation closer to equal division. We also test axioms characterizing Shapley values. |
| Organizer | Yoshito Takasaki |
| 日時 | 2020年2月4日（火 Tuesday） 10：25−12：10 |
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東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Pavel Kireyev (INSEAD) |
| Abstract | I develop an empirical model of idea generation contests with heterogeneous participants and endogenous entry, fit the model to data from a platform used by major advertisers, and simulate counterfactual contest designs. The empirical model resolves ambiguous predictions yielded by contest theory about the effects of different prize structures on contest outcomes. Simulations reveal the impact of strategies that hold fixed total award and balance competition by handicapping advantaged participants. The results provide guidance for the design of large ideation contests. Subsequent work explores how machine learning can be used to identify the best ideas with less human effort. |
| Organizer | Daniel Marszalec |
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2020年2月17日（月 Monday）10:30-12:00 ※日時に注意 ※主催：ミクロ実証分析ワークショップ 共催：東京大学社会科学研究所 |
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| 場所 |
東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Lu Zhang (CPB Netherlands) "Do house prices matter for household consumption? Evidence from Dutch administrative data" [paper] |
| Abstract | To what extent do large drops in house prices drive household consumption? Using a large panel of Dutch households over the period 2007 to 2014, when house price dropped 27%, we find a significantly positive relationship between house prices and household (durable) consumption. A 10% change in home values leads to a 0.7% change in household consumption for homeowners, but a negligible response for renters. Young and middle-aged homeowners have larger consumption sensitivities to house prices than old households. Delving into the underlying channels, a pure wealth effect can explain part of the consumption sensitivity to house prices. Furthermore, we find strong evidence that house prices affect consumption through the borrowing collateral (and precautionary saving) channel.? |
| Organizer | Ayako Kondo |
| 日時 | 2020年2月18日（火 Tuesday） 10：25−12：10 |
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| 場所 |
東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Meng-Yu Liang (Academia Sinica) |
| Abstract | Being "hooked" on tempting goods is a serious problem for today's society. Modeling such behavior with tractable utility functions can help us understand better the predicament facing such "wretched men." We use revealed preference approach to identify preferences for external control when willpower constraint is binding for self-control. We revisit the classic story of Ulysses and the Sirens to demonstrate such choice behavior over menus that cannot be accommodated by uphill self-control cost. |
| Organizer | Michihiro Kandori |
| 日時 |
2020年2月20日（木 Thursday） 10:30-12:00 ※日時・会場に注意 |
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| 場所 |
東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）2階 第3セミナー室
in Seminar Room 3 on the 2nd floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | 大西 健 (Ken Onishi) (Federal Reserve Board) |
| Abstract | We empirically study the effects of mergers on quality, product space positions, and prices in the U.S. banking industry. We find that in the short-run, bank mergers increase market concentration, encourage bank entry, usher changes to branch networks (observed quality and position in the product space), and initiate interest rate (price) competition between the merged entity and its closest rivals. However, we find that in the long-run the merged entity reverts to pre-merger interest rates and closes branches, horizontally repositioning, but destroying some of the initial post-merger gains in quality, albeit maintaining a branch network larger than the acquirer's or target'spre-merger networks. In the long-run, the closest rival continues to raise deposit interest rates, while opening branches to occupythe product space vacated by the merged entity. Our results suggest that it is important to consider long-run dynamics when reviewing merger proposals, and to consider product provisions and quality in addition to prices when assessing the impact of mergers on consumers. |
| Organizer | Naoki Wakamori |
| 日時 |
2020年2月27日（木 Thursday） 16:30-18:00 ※日時・会場に注意 |
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| 場所 |
東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）2階 小島コンファレンスルーム
in Kojima Conference Room on the 2nd floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Chritian Dustmann (University College London and The Australian National University) |
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| Organizer | Daiji Kawaguchi |
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This seminar has been cancelled. 本セミナーは中止となりました。
※共催：Tokyo Workshop on International and Development Economics (TWID) |
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| 報告 | Joel Rodrigue (Vanderbilt University) |
| Organizer | Taiji Furusawa |
| 日時 |
The seminar has been cancelled. 本セミナーは中止となりました。
※共催：ミクロ実証分析ワークショップ |
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| 場所 |
東京大学大学院経済学研究科 学術交流棟 （小島ホール）１階 第１セミナー室
in Seminar Room 1 on the 1st floor of the Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall) [Map] |
| 報告 | Gautam Gowrisankaran (Arizona State University) |
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| Organizer | Naoki Wakamori |