Research Seminars

2024/25

Date	Speaker	Title
February 27	Stefan Wagner	The Hidden Cost of R&D Alliances

2023/24

Date	Speaker	Title
November 14	Bishnupriya Gupta	Conflict and Gender Norm: Economic Evidence from India
February 19	Urvi Khaitan	Women and Work in the Indian Economy: Empire, Famine, and Labour during the Second World War

2019/20

Date	Speaker	Title
September 18	Marek Jankowiak	From the Baltic Sea to Central Asia: investigating long-distance slave trade in the 9th and 10th centuries CE
October 8	Stefan Wagner	ESMT European school of Management and Technology
October 30	Bishnupriya Gupta	Global markets and long run economic development of India
December 5	Ann M Carlos	State Capacity, Land Taxes, and Tax Evasion: City of London, 1720-1725.
December 12	Debin Ma	Financial Revolution in Republican China, 1900-1937
January 31	Siobhan McAndrew	Social Capital, Culture, and Populism in Brexit Britain

2018/19

Date	Speaker	Title
November 30	Heidi Olander	Does individual innovativeness suffer from individual knowledge protection?

2017/18

Date	Speaker	Title
June 9	John Styles	How eighteenth-century America's hunger for fashion drove the British Industrial Revolution
June 20	Roderick McCrorie	The exact asymptotic first-order bias in least squares estimation of the AR(1) model under a unit root
September 26	Niyazi Taneri	Perils of Bargaining Power in R&D Licensing

2016/17

Date	Speaker	Title
June 30	Paul Bin Porodong	Conservation and Cultural revival: Some experience from Sabah, East Malaysia
September 15	Gervase Rosser and Jane Garnett	LOOKING FOR MIRACLES: Image Cults in Italy from Renaissance to the Present

2015/16

Date	Speaker	Title
July 16	Garcia Clemence	Individual and Dynamic Capital in Cost Accounting
July 23	Jiro Yoshida	Stock Prices, Regional Housing Prices,and Aggregate Technology Shocks
December 10	Paul H Kratoska	English Article Writing Class

2014/15

Date	Speaker	Title
May 21	Nobuhiro Kiyotaki	Dynamics of Firms and Trade in General Equilibrium (with Robert Dekle and Hyeok Jeong)
June 9	Yifan Zhang	A Fire-Sale Without Fire: An Explanation of Labor-Intensive FDI in China
October 24	Akiko Ono	The Possibility of Promoting Non-Regular Employees to Regular Employment: From the Perspective of the 'Brackish Water Zone' of Work Styles and Wages
December 2	Jun Ma	Comparative Analysis of the Relationship between Product Development Strategies and Human Resource Management Systems in Japan, China, and Korea

2013/14

Date	Speaker	Title
May 25	Fumihiko Nakano	Properties of Brownian Motion
May 30	Katsumi Tanaka	University-Wide Information Education at Kyoto University
July 12	Tatsuyoshi Okimoto	Interconnectedness in East Asian Stock Markets: A Long-Term Trend Analysis Using a Smooth Transition Model
October 22	Alexander Novikov	Lower and Upper Bounds for Asian-type Options: a unified approach
March 17	Avner Offer	Economic Theory and Social Democracy: The Nobel Prize Economists

2012/13

Date	Speaker	Title
May 25	Takako Hashimoto	Topic Detection about the Great Japan East Earthquake Based on Emerging Modularity
	Yukari Shirota	Visual Approach for Business Mathematics Lectures
	Michael George Salmony	Why is Use of Cash Persisting?
September 24	Pamela Stanworth	Learning with the Net Generation: Some VLE Experiences from the University of Oxford
January 21	Yoshiaki Kamata	The Attractiveness of Indonesia as a Market and Investment Destination

2011/12

Date	Speaker	Title
October 14	Eiji Okuda	Is WLB Possible for Temporary Workers? From Interview Surveys and Questionnaire Surveys
	Atsuyuki Kawakami	Corporate Responses to Minimum Wage Increases and Their Effects: An Empirical Analysis of Japanese Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
November 4	Gregg Huff	Financing Japan's War in Southeast Asia
December 9	Matthias Kipping	From Racket to Riches: The Management Consultancy Business in a Historical and Comparative Perspective
January 20	Ryuichiro Ishikawa	Analysis of Edgeworthian Competition in a Wicksell-Type Transaction Network
March 13	Avner Offer	The Economy of Obligation: Contract Ambiguity and the Finance of the Welfare State
March 27	John Brewer	The Lure of the South: A Case Study in the History of Tourism and Consumer Desire

2010/11

Date	Speaker	Title
April 23	Mio Hirata	Mutually Affective Management Utilizing Part-Time and Casual Workers
	Natsumi Machida	WLB Initiatives at Yoku Moku
June 30	Ulrike Schaede	Japan's Most Profitable Companies: Strategic Positioning through "Choose and Focus"
November 5	Akira Wakisaka	Work Attitudes of Female Managers: A Comparison Between Those With and without Children, Those Who are Single and Those Who are Married, and Those With and Without Male Managers
	Emiko Takeishi	Workplace Management Characteristics of Managers: Challenges to Achieving WLB
November 12	Arkadii Slinko	Cloning of Candidates in Elections or Products in Surveys
January 17	Matthias Kipping	From Local to Global: Insights from Two Successful Canadian Multinationals
January 21	Hyeok Jeong	Complementarity and Transition to Modern Economic Growth
	Daisuke Miyagawa	A Measurement for Bank Productivity and Its Impact on the Performance of Client Firms
	Hiroki Arato	Growth and Welfare Effect of Monetary Stabilization Policy
	Shuji Watanabe	Walking after Midnight: Measurements and Pricing Implications of Market Liquidity on Corporate Bonds
March 18*	Gregg Huff	The Problem of Inflation in the British Malaya during the Second World War

*Cancelled due to the effects of the earthquake

2009/10

Date	Speaker	Title
April 24	Mayumi Uehara	Measures to Assist Realistic WLB in Small and Medium-Sized Businesses
	Yumi Nishioka, Miho Fujinami	Small and Medium-Sized Business Analysis in Tokyo
	Yumi Eto	WLB in Small and Medium-Sized Businesses
May 7	Jonathan Coopersmith	The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine : A Comparison of Japan and the United States.
July 13	Professor Robert Dekle	Firm Level Heterogeneity and the Aggregate Disconnect Between Exchange Rates and Exports.
October 9	Hiroshi Moriyasu	Validation of Momentum Effect and Overconfidence Effect in the Japanese Stock Market
November 2	Matthias Kipping	Catalysts of Crisis: Consultants as a Systemic Risk Factor?
November 17	Takaya Miyano	Nonlinear Data Analysis and Methods of Data Synchronization: Analysis of the Days-of-the-Week Effect on the LME Return
December 22	Fuhito Kojima	Implementing Random Assignments: A Generalization of the Birkhoff-von Neumann Theorem
January 21	Makoto Goto	Optimal Investment Rule: A Real Options Approach

2008/09

Date	Speaker	Title
May 16	Miho Hashimoto	WLB for Hospitals Employed Nurses
	Yumi Nishioka	Correlation between WLB Support System and Infrastructure System as a Predictor of WLB for Employees and Business Performance
May 17	Nobuhiko Tanaka	On the Monthly Labour Survey
	Keiichi Akiyama	On the Basic Survey on Wage Structure
June 4	Makoto Nakano	Accounting for Research and Development Activities
June 14	Machiko Osawa	Why Did Regular Full-Time Employees Increase?
	Yuji Genda	Economic Statistics and Labour Economics
July 2	Ryo Jinnai	Product Innovation, Stock Price, and Business Cycle
July 10	Stephen W.J. Lin	earnings management through discontinued operations
July 16	Takaki Hayashi	Recent Developments in Volatility Measurement
July 19	Koji Kato	Introduction (overall summary)
	Hideaki Sudo	Examination of the Planning of the 2007 Employment Status Survey, and Internet Survey Status
	Katsumi Ozawa	Results of Outsourcing to Private Research Institutes in Echizen-shi
	Tomohiko Sato	Summary of the Findings of the 2007 Employment Status Survey
July 22	Tsutomu Miyagawa	Intangible Investment in Japan: New Estimates and Contribution to Economic Growth
October 18	Yasuo Kawahara	Creation and Utilization of Input-Output Table and Summary of 2005 Input-Output Table (prompt report)
	Mikio Suga	Economic Census and Input-Output Tables
November 6	Tamie Matsuura	Survey on Support of Future Work-Family Balance
	Mitsuyo Matsubara	Survey on Short-Time Regular Employees
November 15	Takeshi Iida	Public Opinion Polls by Computer-Assisted Self Interview (CASI)
January 17	Tomoko Ito	A Summary of the Census of Commerce
	Kazuhiko Manaka	A Summary of the Current Survey of Commerce
January 19	Jiro Yoshida	Real Estate, such as Residential Housing, and Asset Values
February 4	Tsutomu Miyagawa	Organizational Reform and Firm Performance
February 16	Makoto Goto	The Timing and Financing of Leveraged Buyouts: Real Option Approach
February 19	Osamu Saito	An industrious revolution in East Asia? Tokugawa Japan and the Great Divergence debate.
February 26	Fumiko Ishizaki	Organizational Reform and Firm Performance
	Yoko Araki	WLB for Doctors
	Hisao Endo (Commentator)

2007/08

Challenges of Parental Leave and Work-Life Balance Support:Toward the Promotion of Collaboration Between Companies, Families and Communities

Date	Speaker	Title
May 16	Itsuko Takemura	On the Financial Statement Statistics of Corporations by Industry
June 15	Kajendra Kanagasabai	Market Orientation and Company Performance: A Study of Selected Japanese and Sri Lankan Companies.
June 23	Ryuichi Tanigawa	Challenges and Directions of Longitudinal Survey
	Mikio Koshiji	Real Nature of Longitudinal Survey: About Longitudinal Survey of Babies in the 21st Century
	Goto Keiichiro	Real Nature of Longitudinal Survey: About Longitudinal Survey of Adults in the 21st Century
July 20	Ikuo Matsuba	Fractal Analysis of Economic Time Series Data
July 27	Kazuhiro Ueda	The Impact that Market Size Has on Behavioural Biases of Market Players
September 19	Akira Wakisaka	WLB School = GEM Activity Report
	Mitsuyo Matsubara	Redefining Work Toward the Implementation of Diverse Employment Formats: A Case Study of Efforts Against Implementation by an Auto Parts Company
	Shingou Ikeda	Challenges of Childcare Leave and Work-Family Balance Support - In Preparation for Promoting Cooperation among Company, Family, and Community
	Miho Fujinami, Yumi Nishioka	WLB - School Index Trial Data Analysis
	Naomi Ushio (Commentator)
September 26	Tomomichi Nakamura	On Surrogate Methods in Time Series Analysis
November 15	Akira Wakisaka	Does Childcare Leave Impair Your Ability?
	Hiroshi Kitani	WLB Implementation at Nichirei Corporation
October 27	Yukio Maeda	Storage and Disclosure of U.S. Census Data - Historical Consideration
	Shigenori Okuno	Evaluation of the 2005 Population Census and Preparation Status for the 2010 Population Census
November 17	Hiromi Mori	New Statistics Act and Data Archive
	Shinsuke Ito	Data Archives in the United Kingdom
December 4	Ishtiaq Mahmood	Political Connections and Business Strategy : The Impact of Types and Destinations of Political Ties on Business Diversification in Closed and Open Political Economic Contexts
December 15	Tsutomu Watanabe	The Mystery of Unchanging Prices
	Tsutomu Toida	Price Distribution Analysis Using the 1997 and 2002 National Survey of Prices
January 19	Yoshiyuki Inaba	(a) Classification of Continuous Employment Based on the Employment Status Survey; (b) Ratio Estimation Used in the Employment Status Survey
March 21	Kosuke Aoki	Adjusting to Capital Account Liberalisation
March 31	Akira Wakisaka	WLB at Small and Medium-Sized Companies
	Hiroki Sato	WLB Charter
	Hiroshi Kitani	GEM WLB - PJ Activity Report

2006/07

Date	Speaker	Title
April 7	Shoko Nakano	Validation Approach to Change of Economic Structure and Its Application
May 19	Jose Antonio Dominguez Machuca	Enhancing Business Education through a System Dynamics Approach and Transparent-Box Cross Function Simulators in a Competitive Environment.
May 27	Tokuhisa Suzuki	The Current Situation of Response Rates in Public Opinion Polls and Market Research
	Takahiro Tsuchiya	A Study of the Characteristics of Nonrespondents in a Survey
June 24	Hiroshi Kojima	International Migration Statistics in an Era of Declining Population
	Futoshi Ishii	The Era of Declining Population from a Standpoint of Formative Demography
July 14	Kentaro Iwatsubo	Foreign Ownership and Firm Value: Identification through Heteroskedasticity
August 23	Kaori Shirafuji	The Desire of Promotion among Working Mothers and the Work-Family Conflict
	Kyoko Kato	Profiling and multi-level analyses of Karasek's Demand-Control model for work-family interference
	Akira Kawaguchi	The Impact of the WLB Policy at a Husband's Company on his Wife's Working Status
October 20	Dimitry Rtishev	Hyper-appropriability: profiting from innovation licensing beyond value-added
October 21	Hideo Noshiro, Takashi Suzuki	On the Teikoku Databank, Ltd. Database
	Shigeru Yamada	The Current Status of Statics Results Prepared and Disclosed by Private-Sector Institutions
October 30	Katsushi Suzuki	Market Microstructure and the IPO
November 11	Hirotake Yazawa	Income Distribution and Family Economy in Modern Japan: A Perspective of Economic Statistics
January 16	Jose Antonio Dominguez Machuca	Enhancing Business Education through a System Dynamics Approach and Transparent-Box: Cross Functional Simulators in a Competitive Environment.
	Shigeo Takami	The Application of Neutral Networks in Economic Forecasting
January 26	Alfons Palangkaraya	Disharmony in International Patent Office Decisions
January 27	Toru Sakamoto, Hideyuki Satoyoshi, Fusao Iida, Yoshihiro Hattori	A Case Study - Comprehensive Government Statistical Surveys Outsourced to the Private Sector