Kyoto Summer Workshop on Applied Economics 2018
Co-organized by International Workshop on Empirical Studies on Smart Community and Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University
August 3-4, 2018
Mizuho Lecture Room, Second Floor
Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University
Program Friday, August 3
8:30-8:55 Registration
Session 1
9:00-9:50 Tomomichi Amano (Columbia University)
"Ratcheting, Competition, and the Diffusion of Technological Change: The Case of Televisions under an Energy Efficiency Program"
(joint with Hiroshi Ohashi)
9:50-10:30 Hidenori Takahashi (University of Mannheim)
"Bidding for Contracts under Uncertain Demand:
Skewed Bidding and Risk Sharing" (joint with Yao Luo)
Session 2
10:50-11:30 Mizuki Komura (Musashi University)
"Consequences of War: Japan's Demographic
Transition and the Marriage Market" (joint with Kota Ogasawara)
11:30-12:10 Yoko Okuyama (Yale University)
"The Causes and Consequences of Increased Women's Representation in Politics"
12:10-14:00 Lunch
Session 3
14:00-14:30 Hisaki Kono (Kyoto University)
"T.B.A. (To Be Arbitraged)? Arbitrage Behavior of Commodity Dealers and Estimating Frictions in Madagascar Rice Trading"
14:30-15:00 Kentaro Nakajima (Hitotsubashi University)
"Estimating the Impact of Building Height Restrictions on Land Price" (joint with Keisuke Takano)
15:00-15:30 Kensuke Teshima (ITAM)
"Globalization and Nutrition Transition"
Session 4
15:50-16:20 Ken Yamada (Kyoto University)
"The Impact of Taxes and Transfers on Skill Premium (joint with Shuhei Takahashi)"
16:20-16:50 Ryo Kambayashi (Hitotsubashi University)
"Management Practice meets Human Resource Management" (joint with Taisuke Kameda, Takuma Kawamoto, Shigeru Sugihara and Mari Tanaka) 16:50-17:20 Shintaro Yamaguchi (University of Tokyo)
"Dynamic Effects of Age at School Entry: What Roles Do Parents, Teachers, and Peers Play?" (joint with joint with Hirotake Ito and Makiko Nakamuro)
Session 5
17:40-18:30 Masayuki Sawada (Yale University)
Identification and Inference of Post-treatment Subgroup Effects
Saturday, August 4 Session 6
9:00-9:40 Mitsukuni Nishida (Johns Hopkins University)
"Franchising and Preemption in Retail Expansion:
Evidence from the Convenience-Store Industry"
9:40-10:20 Kosuke Uetake (Yale University)
"Market Segmentation and Managerial Efforts" (joint with Kevin Williams)
Session 7
10:40-11:30 Shinsuke Tanaka (Tufts University)
"Gasoline Price, Driving Behavior, and Demand for Gasoline: Evidence from Fueling Level Micro Data"
11:30-12:10 Hiroko Okudaira (Doshisha University)
"Regulating the Timing of Job Search in Entry-Level Labor Markets: Evidence from New College
Graduates in Japan"
(joint with Shintaro Yamaguchi)
12:10-14:00 Lunch
Session 8
14:00-14:40 Hiroyuki Kasahara (UBC)
"Excess Entry and Exit among Chinese Exporting Firms"
14:40-15:20 Yuhei Miyauchi (Stanford Post-doc/Boston U)
"Information Frictions in Firm-to-Firm Trade"
(joint with Jie Bai and Daisuke Miyakawa)
Session 9
15:40-16:20 Takanori Ida (Kyoto University)
"Information Frictions, Inertia, and Selection on Elasticity: A Field Experiment on Electricity Tariff Choice" (joint with Koichiro Ito and Makoto Tanaka) 16:20-17:00 Shuhei Kitamura (Osaka University)
"Public Broadcasting Against Ideological Bias?:
Evidence from a Field Experiment in Japan" (joint with Toshifumi Kuroda)
