This workshop focuses on current research on microeconomics such as game theory, general equilibrium theory, and contract theory. The members are faculty and graduate students who are actively engaged in research in microeconomics. The group meets every Tuesday at 5pm throughout the academic year, with each hour-and-a-half session devoted to the presentation and discussion of a research paper by a member or an invited speaker.
The seminars from April 1996 to July 1996 were as follows:
April 16
Akihiko Matsui (University of Tsukuba), "An Antifolk Theorem for a Class of Asyncronious Repeated Games".
April 23
Manabu Toda (Tokyo Keizai University), "Population Monotonicity and Characterization of Core of Matching Problems".
May 7
Serguey Braguinsky (Yokohama City University), "Microfoundations of Transition Economics".
May 14
Masako Ueda (University of Tokyo and University of Pennsylvania), "Nominal Wage Monotonicity and Non-neutrality of Money".
May 21
Fukunari Kimura (Keio University), "Invisible Trade Barriers and Price Differentials".
May 28
Yoshimasa Shirai (Keio University), "Product Development Cycles".
June 4
Jingang Zhao (Ohio State University), "The Stability and the Formation of Coalition Structures in Normal Form TU Games".
June 11
Jayasri Dutta (University of Cambridge), "The Distribution of Wealth with Imperfect Altruism".
June 18
Hideshi Itoh (Osaka University), "Side Trade and Moral Hazard in Agency Contracts".
June 25
Naohiro Yashiro (Sophia University), "Korei-ka no Keizai-teki Eikyo(On the Economic Problems of Aging Societies)". (in Japanese)
July 3
Hiroyuki Chuma (Hitotsubashi University), "Structural Changes and the State of Labor Market in Japan".
July 9
Hideo Konishi (Southern Methodist University), "Hub Cities: City Formation without Economies of Scale".