GRIPS Seminar in Economics / Graduate Student Seminar Class
Fall 2011

Date/Time/Room Speaker Presentation Title Note
September 14 (Wed.)
16:40 - 18:00
Room: Room D, 5F
Tue Gorgens (ANU) Modelling health care costs and life expectancy: Insights from Australian individual health expenditure data (joint with Philip Clarke, University of Sydney)  
October  5 (Wed.)
16:40 - 18:00
Room: 5D
Andrea Ferrero (NY Federal Reserve Bank) House Price Booms and Current Account Deficits
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October  12 (Wed.)
16:40 - 18:00
Room: 5D
Ayako Kondo (Hosei University) Effects of Universal Health Insurance on Health Care Utilization, Supply-Side Responses and Mortality Rates: Evidence from Japan
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October  19 (Wed.)
16:40 - 18:00
Room: 5D
 no seminar    
October 26 (Wed.)
16:40 - 18:00
Room: 5D
Masao Ogaki (Keio University / Ohio State University) "Cultures, Worldviews, and Intergenerational Altruism"
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November 2 (Wed.)
16:40 - 18:00
Room: 5D
Marc Henry (University of Montreal) Euclidean revealed preferences: testing the spatial voting model
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November 9 (Wed.)
16:40 - 18:00
Room: 5D
Tomomi Tanaka (Arizona State Univeristy) Committing the Uncommitted: Rosca as a Saving Commitment Device for Sophisticated Hyperbolic Discounters
November 16 (Wed.)
16:40 - 18:00
Room: 5D
 Mitsuru Katagiri (Bank of Japan)  A Macroeconomic Approach to Corporate Capital Structure
November 23 NATIONAL HOLIDAY  
November 30 (Wed.)
16:40 - 18:00
Room: 5D
Ponpoje Porapakkarm (University of Macau) Welfare costs of reclassification risk in the health insurance market
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December 7 (Wed.)
16:40 - 18:00
Room: 5D
Masato Nishiwaki (GRIPS) Horizontal Mergers and Divestment Dynamics in a Sunset Industry
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December 14 (Wed.)
16:40 - 18:00
Room: 5D
Ken Yamada (Singapore Management University) Changing Unchanged Inequality: Higher Education, Aging, and the Japanese Employment System
December 21 (Wed.)
16:40 - 18:00
Room: 5D
Shigeki Kano (Osaka Prefecture University) Air Quality and Birth Outcomes: A Natural Experiment by the Miyakejima Volcano Eruption
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December 28 (Wed.)
16:40 - 18:00
Room: 5D
 HOLIDAY  
January 4 (Wed.)
16:40 - 18:00
Room: 5D
 HOLIDAY  
January 11 (Wed.)
16:40 - 18:00
Room: 5D
John B. Jones (SUNY Albany) Skill-Biased Technical Change and the Cost of Higher Education: An Exploratory Model
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January 18 (Wed.)
16:40 - 18:00
Room: 5D
 In Ho Lee (Seoul National University)  Forbearance in Prudential Regulation
January 25 (Wed.)
16:40 - 18:00
Room: 5D
 Michael Edesess (City University of Hong Kong)  Common Issues of Risk in the Finance, Nuclear Energy, and Climate Change Fields
February 15 (Wed.)
16:40 - 18:00
TBA
Somnath Basu (California Lutheran University) TBA
March 6 (Tue.)
TBA
Michele Cavallo (Federal Reserve Board of Governors) TBA
March 14 (Wed.)
TBA
Debraj Ray (New York University) TBA
March 21 (Wed.)
TBA
Francesc Ortega (CUNY) TBA


Past Seminars: Spring 2011 Spring 2010  Fall 2009  Spring 2009  Fall 2008  Spring 2008 

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