GRIPS Seminar in Economics / Graduate Seminar Class
Fall 2009
Date/Time/Room	Speaker	Presentation Title	Note
Sept 16 (Wed) 17:00-18:30 Room: G (5^th floor)	Prof. Anming Zhang University of British Columbia	Airline Emission Charges: Effects on Airfares, Service Quality, and Aircraft Design Download the paper
Sept 30 (Wed) 16:40-18:00 Room: G (5^th floor)	Prof. Charles Yuji Horioka Osaka University	An International Comparison of Altruism, Bequest Motives, and Parent-Child Relations
Oct 2 (Fri) 16:40-18:00 Room: G (5^th floor)	Dr. Marcus Noland Peterson Institute for International Economics (USA)	Reform from Below: Behavioral and Institutional Change in North Korea Download the paper
Oct 14 (Wed) 16:40-18:00 Canceled	Dr. Fan Zhai Asian Development Bank Institute	Armington Meets Melitz: Introducing Firm Heterogeneity in a Global CGE Model of Trade Download the paper	Canceled
Oct 21 (Wed) 16:40-18:00 Room: A (5^th floor)	Prof. Jim Albrecht/Susan Vroman Georgetown University (USA)	Search by Committee Download the paper
Oct 28 (Wed) 16:40-18:00 Room: A (5^th floor)	Prof. Wade Pfau GRIPS	The Portfolio Size Effect and Lifecycle Asset Allocation Funds: A Different Perspective Download the paper
Nov 11 (Wed) 16:40-18:00 Room: A (5^th floor)	Dr. Heather Montgomery International Christian University	Interest Rate Debates in Microfinance
Nov 18 (Wed) 16:40-18:00 Room: A (5^th floor)	Prof. Ryuichi Tanaka Tokyo Institute of Technology	Industry Choice and the Returns to Education
Nov 25 (Wed) 16:40-18:00 Room: A (5^th floor)	Prof. Timothy Halliday University of Hawaii	Health Inequality over the Life-Cycle
Dec 2 (Wed) 10:40-12:10 Room: H (5^th floor)	Prof. Benjamin Templin Thomas Jefferson School of Law	The Political Economy of Government Investment
Dec 2 (Wed) 16:40-18:00 Room: A (5^th floor)	Prof OKANO, Eiji Chiba Keizai University	The Role of Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Currency Union Download the paper
Dec 3 (Thr) 16:40-18:00 Room: TBA (5^th floor)	Dr. Lise Tole University of Strathclyde, (U.K.)	Estimating the Impact on Efficiency from Voluntary Regulation: An Empirical Study of the Global Copper Mining Industry
Dec 9 (Wed) 16:40-18:00 Room: A (5^th floor)	Prof Toni Braun University of Tokyo	TBA
Dec 16 (Wed) 16:40-18:00 Room: A (5^th floor)	Prof. Chung-Ming Kuan Academia Sinica & National Taiwan University	Treatment Effects of National Health Insurance on Precautionary Saving: New Evidence from Taiwan
This seminar series is sponsored by the Graduate Seminar Class and the GRIPS research project “Advancement of Public-Economics and Economic-Policy Research” led by Prof. Takashi Fukushima.
Last update: Sept 22, 2009 Past Seminars: Spring 2009 Fall 2008 Spring 2008 How to access GRIPS? 政策研究大学院大学 National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies 〒106-8677 東京都港区六本木 7-22-1 7-22-1 Roppongi, Minato-ku Tokyo 106-8677, Japan Tel:+81-3-6439-6000 Fax:+81-3-6439-6010 For questions about the seminar, please contact: Prof. Minchung Hsu Email: minchunghsu@grips.ac.jp