GEM seminar

Seminars are held as needed and utilized as a venue for research exchanges.

2009

Date	Instructor	Title of Lecture
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

Date	Instructor	Title of Lecture
May 16	Miho Hashimoto	WLB for Hospitals Employed Nurses
May 16	Yumi Nishioka	Correlation between WLB Support System and Infrastructure System as a Predictor of WLB for Employees and Business Performance
May 17	Nobuhiko Tanaka	About Monthly Labour Survey
May 17	Keiichi Akiyama	About 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?
June 14	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)
October 18	Mikio Suga	Economic Census and Input-Output Tables
November 6	Tamie Matsuura	Survey on Support of Future Work-Family Balance
November 6	Mitsuyo Matusbara	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
January 17	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

Date	Instructor	Title of Lecture
May 16	Itsuko Takemura	About 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 17	Wataru Suzuki	Economic Analysis of People Who Have Not Joined the National Pension Plan
July 18	Michio Yuda	Measurement of Full Price Elasticity of Demand in Outpatient Treatment for the Elderly
July 20	Ikuo Matsuba	Fractal Analysis of Economic Time Series Data
July 20	Hiroaki Masuhara	Cumulative Medical Expenses and Health Savings Accounts while Employed
July 24	Takuma Sugahara	Review of Relations between Use and Benefits of Nursing Care Insurance and Health Insurance for the Aged
July 27	Kazuhiro Ueda	The Impact that Market Size Has on Behavioural Biases of Market Players
September 19	Akira Wakisaka	WLB JUKU = GEM Activity Report
	Mitsuyo Matsubara	Redefinition of Work Toward Implementation of Diverse Employment Formats - Study Case of Efforts Against Implementation of Re-employment System in an Auto Parts Company Workplace
	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 - JUKU Index Trial Data Analysis
	Naomi Ushio (Commentator)
September 26	Tomomichi Nakamura	The Method of Surrogates in Time Series Analysis
November 15	Akira Wakisaka	Does Childcare Leave Impair Your Ability?
November 15	Hiroshi Kitani	WLB Implementation at Nichirei Corporation
October 27	Yukio Maeda	Storage and Disclosure of U.S. Census Data - Historical Consideration
October 27	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
November 17	Shinsuke Ito	Data Archive in England
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
December 15	Tsutomu Toida	Price Distribution Analysis Using the 1997 and 2002 National Survey of Prices
January 19	Yoshiyuki Inaba	(a) "Classification of Continuous Working Based on Employment Status Survey" (b) "Ratio Estimation Used in 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

Date	Instructor	Title of Lecture
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 the Response Rate of Public Opinion Polls and Marketing Research
May 27	Takahiro Tsuchiya	A Study of the Characteristics of Nonrespondents in a Survey
June 20	Hidenao Takahashi	Money Markets in London and New York under the Reconstructed Gold Standard - Forward Exchange and Arbitrage -
June 24	Hiroshi Kojima	International Migration Statistics in an Era of Declining Population
June 24	Futoshi Ishii	The Era of Declining Population from a Standpoint of Formative Demography
June 27	Eri Saito	French Attitudes toward the Free Trade Area Plan, 1956-58
July 4	Shinobu Majima	Trend Phenomena and the Society of Mass Consumption -Analysis of the Womenswear Market in England in the Postwar Period -
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 Husband's Company's WLB Policy on the Wife's Work Status
October 20	Dimitry Rtishev	Hyper-appropriability: profiting from innovation licensing beyond value-added
October 21	Hideo Noshiro Takashi Suzuki	Database of Teikoku Databank, Ltd.
October 21	Shigeru Yamada	The Present Situation 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.
January 16	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

2005

Date	Title of Lecture
April 19	"The Current Situation of Currency Overlay Strategy and Its Operation"
May 21	"Changes in the Number of Commercial Stores in Japan from the Viewpoint of the Census of Commerce" "About Basic Survey on Small and Medium Enterprises"
June 15	“Chaos and scaling -in financial time series”
June 20	“Collusion, Fluctuating Demand, and Price Rigidity”
June 27	“Spatial Cournot Competition and Economic Welfare”
June 29	“Rational lgnorance in Moral Hazard Problems”
July 16	"About Longitudinal Surveys of Babies in the 21st Century" "About Longitudinal Surveys of Adults in the 21st Century"
July 20	"Employment Status of Working Women and Wage Differentials between Full-Time and Part-Time Workers"
July 25	“Monotone Methods for Equilibrium Selection under Perfect Foresight Dynamics”
July 29	"Time Series Model and Its Application: Measurement of Autoregressive Conditional Poisson Model"
December 8	"Research Trend of Western Economic History in Recent Years"
January 21	"About POS Data"

2004

Date	Title of Lecture
April 10	“The Forensic-Type Phase: Fraud Detection in Auditing”
April 20	“International Differences in Management Styles”
May 15	"About 2002 National Survey of Prices" "Analysis of Individual Data of 1997 National Survey of Prices"
June 2	“Has the Business Cycle Changed in Japan? A Bayesian Analysis Based on Markov-Switching Model with Multiple Change-Points”
June 14	“Product Launch Strategies by Dominant and Fringe Firms”
June 19	"Summary of Survey of Household Economy (Summary of Survey/Results)" "Summary of Survey of Household Economy (About Inspection)"
June 29	"Goodwill Accounting: What is the Problem?"
August 23	“On the Semivalues and the Least Square Values, Average per capita formulas and relationships”
September 21	“The Country-of-Origin Effect in the Cross-National Management of Human Resources”
October 5	"Monetary Policy and a Role of Economist"
October 19	"The Present Situation, Background of Reform, and Future Prospects of the Payments System"
October 23	"About Labour Force Survey" "Labour Force Survey and Rotation Sampling"
November 2	"The Present Situation and Outlook of Application of Financial Time series Analysis Technique"
November 16	"Asset Management Business and Education System of CFA"
November 20	"The National Character of the Japanese People: The Footsteps of 50 Years - From the Japanese National Character: Nationwide Survey -" "Consciousness Survey of Japanese People"
December 7	"Misjudgment in Financial Structural Reform"
January 24	"The Present Situation and Outlook of Overall Financial Technique and Structured Finance"
January 29	"About National Survey of Time Use" "Microdata Analysis Using the 1986-1991-1996 Survey of Time Use and Leisure Activities - Analysis on Commuting, and Sharing of Household Chores and Child-Rearing between Working Couples in Terms of Commute Time -"
February 3	"The Current Situation and Challenges of Asset Management"
February 26	About "National Survey on Lifestyle Preferences" and "Life Reform Index"

2003

Date	Title of Lecture
June 5	“Security Mispricing and Investor Activism: A Coordination Problem”
June 26	"Progressive Taxation and Welfare Change: Calculation of the Social Marginal Cost of Public Funds"
June 28	"The Retail Price Survey"
July 1	“The Effects of a Consumption Tax on Effective Demand Under Stagnation”
July 7	“Ex ante Free Mobility, Ex post Immobility, and Time Consistency in a Federal System”
July 15	"Various Accounting Issues of Intellectual Assets"
July 16	“A Model of Job and Worker Flow”
July 19	"2001 Survey on Time Use and Leisure Activities"
July 23	"Restoration and Introduction of Compatibility in Management Accounting"
September 20	"From the Standpoint of the New Generation Statistics System - The Current Situation and the Future of Online Statistical Surveys -" "Understanding Regional Economic Disparities Correctly - Deviation of Regression as a Relative Evaluation -"
September 24	“Innovation by Incumbents and Entrants”
October 18	"An Analytical Case Utilizing the Basic Survey of Japanese Business Structure and Activities - the Relation between Changes in Business Performances and Research & Development of Japanese Companies (Manufacturing Industry) -" "Issues of Statistics in the Era of Intangible Assets"
October 21	"A Study on the History of Cost Accounting Theory Formation in Japan - Theoretical Analysis from the Perspective of History"
October 31	“Analysts' Forecast Revisions and Errors around CEO Turnover”
November 15	"Balance of Payments Statistics Revised Edition" "Preparation of Balance of Payments Statistics and Its Problems (the balance of capital account in particular)"
December 11	"A New Approach to Society - Artificial Society Inside the Computer -"
December 20	"Background to Creation of the 'New Course of Development of the Statistical Administration'" "The New Course of Development of the Statistical Administration"
January 17	"A Longitudinal Survey of Babies in the 21st Century"
March 2	"Thriving Industries in China and Protection of the Aerial Environment: An Analysis based on Ministry Data"
March 29	"Verification - the Myth of the Convenience Store: An Experimental Study on Factors Contributing to an Improvement in Business Performance" "Disclosure of Results of Innovation to a Rival Company - Why Has the "Technology" of the Local Supermarket Become the Standard of Japan?"

2002

Date	Title of Lecture
April 3	"Production Leveling Function of Inventory - A Verification based on Uncertainty"
May 18	Economic Statistics Research Society"Quality Adjustment in CPI Railway Fares and the Productivity of the Railway Industry in Japan" "Improvement of Calculation of Regional Difference Index in the National Survey of Prices"
June 15	"About the Japan Standard Industrial Classification as revised in March 2002"
July 1	"Mulitilateralism and Hub-and-Spoke Bilateralism"
July 5	"The long-run growth effects of rent-extracting contingent tariffs"
July 8	"Competition, Technology and Trade in Oligopolistic Industries"
July 13	Economic Statistics Research Society"Summary of Results of 2000 Population Census""The Experience of Census Takers"
September 21	Economic Statistics Research Society"A Commentary on Regional Disparities""An Analysis and Measures of the Employment Situation in Fukuoka Prefecture"
November 16	"New Stochastic Method for Preliminary GDP Estimates and Its Background"
December 21	"2000 Census of Agriculture and Forestry"
January 18	"Job-Seeker Survey" and 2002 Employment Status Survey"

2001

Date	Title of Lecture
May 29	"Is corporate governance in Japan really changing?"
July 16	"Do Profit Maximizers Maximize Profit?
July 17	"Foreign Investment and International Plant Configuration: Whither the Product Cycle?"
July 21	Economic Statistics Research Society "A Study on the Interconnection between Communication Industry and Non-Communication Industry Using Input-Output Tables" "Improvement of IT-Related Statistics"
July 28	"Liquidity, Asset Prices and Monetary Policy"
September 22	Economic Statistics Research Society "The Vital Statistics of Japan"
November 10	Economic Statistics Research Society"An Analysis of IT Investment, Productivity, and Labour" "Classification of the IT-Related Industries, Industrial Activities, and Electronic Commerce"
December 4	"Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Child Labour: Poverty and Social Costs"
December 15	"Economic Impact of the IT Revolution"
March 16	"Future Population Projections in Japan: An Idea of Presumption of Birth Rate"
March 25	"R&D Promotion Policy and Effective Demand"
March 28	"The Bank Balance Sheet and Response to Monetary Policy"

2000

Date	Title of Lecture
May 24	"Program Distribution System from Digital Broadcasting"
July 3	"Research & Development and Corporate Governance"
July 7	"Price Advertisement by Retail Stores: A Commitment Device"
July 18	"Public Pension Reforms and Economic Welfare in an Economy with Adverse Selection"
September 30	Economic Statistics Research Society"Preliminary Result of 1998 Basic Survey of Land and Corporation Surveys of Buildings"
October 21	Economic Statistics Research Society "A Survey of Research and Development Standards in Japan"
November 18	Co-hosted at Senshu University Kanda Campus by the System of National Accounts Research Society and Economic Statistics Research Society"On Cross-sectional Comparison of Consumer Prices: A Note on the Formulation of the Regional Difference Indexes of Consumer Prices" "Various Issues on Price Index"
December 16	Economic Statistics Research Society"Consumer Price Index"
January 20	Economic Statistics Research Society"The Revision of the Survey of Research and Development" The Council's Reply to Inquiry No. 265: "Planning of Establishment and Enterprise Census to be Scheduled in 2001"The Council's Reply to Inquiry No. 267: "Amendment of Basic Survey of Japanese Business Structures and Activities by Ministry of International Trade and Industry"
January 22	"The Law of the Falling Rate of Profit Reconsidered."
January 26	"The Fact of Monetary Control and the Decision of Call Rate"
February 2	Part I "A Study on Product Diffusion Theory and Application of Time Series/Econometrics Analysis in Marketing Research" Part II "The Present Status of Business Schools of City University of New York"
March 17	Economic Statistics Research Society"A Report on the Results of the Study on Business Outlook Survey" "Summary of Economy Watchers Survey"

1999

Date	Title of Lecture
April 9	"Corporate Pension Plan and Capital Market"
April 16	"Another Turn of Fundamental Analysis"
April 20	"Accounting Problems with Asset Liquidation"
May 22	Series "The Current Status and Future Prospects of Official Statistics" - "Preparation of "Tankan (the Short-Term Economic Survey of Enterprises in Japan)"
June 19	Series "The Current Status and Future Prospects of Official Statistics" - "Preliminary GDP Estimates""Current GDP Statistics as An Economic Assessment Index - Problems and Improvement Plans"
June 22	"Development of AGE (Applied General Equilibrium) Model and Economic Analysis of the Introduction of a Carbon Tax"
July 14	"Job Changes of the Middle Aged and Elderly Persons and Corporate Pension Reform in Japan"
July 15	"Cumulative Innovation, Appropriability and Cross-licensing: An Empirical Study of Patent Citations and U.S.-Japan Licenses in Electronics"
July 17	Series "The Current Status and Future Prospects of Official Statistics" - "Indices of Tertiary Industry Activity"
September 11	Workshop on Railway History
September 25	"The Current Situation and Challenges of the Estimation Method Used for the Consumption Tax in the Input-Output Table"
October 19	"Optimal trade taxes in the presence of foreign ownership and equity exchanges"
October 23	"Transport Index"
January 18	"Societal Changes and Problems after Chinese Economic Reform -About the Rural Economy-"
March 3	"Escape from Non-employment - From "Comprehensive Survey on the Employment and Non-employment Status for Young People in Okinawa-"

1998

Date	Title of Lecture
April 21	"Industrial policy in a Japanese mirror: British experience from the 1960s to recent times"
June 30	"Introduction to Matching Games"
July 15	"Sub-sampling for Time Series Data"
September 29	"Frankfort's Competitive Position as a Financial Center"
October 5	"The Impact of Assessment of Public Pension Plan on Employment Status and Savings"
November 6	"Does Agency Theory Help to Explain Japanese Management, Organization and Institution -A Professional as Agent Perspective - "
November 27	"Allocation of divisible and indivisible goods"

1997

Date	Title of Lecture
May 30	"Classification of Part-Time Workers"
June 23	"Foreign Direct Investment and the Japanese Economy"

1996

Date	Title of Lecture
June 4	"Massive Enterprise and Banking Systems in America"
July 2	"Domination / Family / Community: A Study of the Economic History of Rural Communities in Early Modern Prussia - A Review of the "Feudal System -"
July 16	"Identifying monetary policy in Japan"
September 17	"Resource Distribution during Japan's High Growth Period - Electricity Supply / Marine Transport / Iron and Steel -"
October 1	"Engineers in Britain and Japan : Their Education, Training and Employment"

1995

Date	Title of Lecture
November 29	"Indexed Bonds and Monetary Policy"

1994

N/A

1993

N/A

1992

Date	Title of Lecture
October 26	"Realization of Affluence and the New Role of Circulation"

1991

Date	Title of Lecture
June 10	"Energy Issues in Japan"

1990

Date	Title of Lecture
April 20	"Where are the US-Japan Economic Relations Heading?"
November 30	"Enterprise Rebirth Strategy"

1989

Date	Title of Lecture
June 14	"An International Role for the Japanese Economy and Finance in the Future"

1988

Date	Title of Lecture
October 24	"Software-Based Economic Society and Future of the Japanese Economy"