Organizer:Yasuyuki Sawada(University of Tokyo)
August 3, 2015
Venue: Meeting Room, Economics Research Building, University of Tokyo
Program
Yasuyuki Sawada of University of Tokyo organized an international workshop, “‘Poor Economics’ in Tokyo: Frontiers of Development Economics” on August 3rd, 2015. Keynote lectures were given by Professors Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), co-directors of Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), who are the leaders of modern micro development economics using randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Abu Shonchoy of Institute of Developing Economies (IDE), Yasuyuki Sawada, Jun Goto of Hitotsubashi University, and Minhaj Mahmud of BRAC Institute of Governance and Development also made presentations based on RCTs and other quasi-experimental methods. Speakers and participants made lively discussions on forefront development economics research.
Organizers:
In-Koo Cho (University ofo Illionis)
Ariel Rubinstein (Tel Aviv University)
Akihiko Matsui (University of Tokyo)
August 3-7, 2015
Venue: Kojima Conference Room Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall), University of Tokyo
Program
2015 Summer School of Econometric Society was held at the Kojima Hall in Hongo campus, the University of Tokyo in the period of August 3-7, 2015. The participation in this school was by invitation only and 6 lecturers and 40 graduate students attended from sixteen countries. Professor Ariel Rubinstein, an ex-President of the Econometric Society acted as chair of this school. 6 renowned researchers, In-Koo Cho, Matthew O. Jackson, Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, Vijay Krishna, Debraj Ray and Ariel Rubinstein, gave lectures on the most prominent researches and 18 graduate students gave presentations about forefront research in economics.
Organizers:
Kei Kawai (New York University)
Hiroshi Ohashi (University of Tokyo)
June 26 and 27, 2015
Venue:Venue: Kojima Conference Room Economics Research Annex (Kojima Hall), University of Tokyo
Program
We organized a second empirical IO (industrial organization) conference on the 26th and 27th of June, 2015. The first conference was held in the summer of 2013. Speakers were John Asker (UCLA), Michael Dickstein (Stanford), Igal Hendal (Northwestern), Robin Lee (Harvard), Ariel Pakes (Harvard), along with Michal Farbinger (UT), Naoki Wakamori (Manheim), Hiroshi Ohashi (UT). Lively discussions were made among speakers and a selective group of audience.
Organizers:
Hideo Owan (University of Tokyo)
Yasuyuki Sawada (University of Tokyo)
April 9, 2015
Venue: Meeting room, Economics Research Building
Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo
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