Kyoto Summer Workshop on Applied Economics 2019
July 13 and 14, 2019
Mizuho Lecture Room, Second Floor
Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University Program
Saturday, July 13
9:30-9:55 Registration
Session 1
10:00-10:50 Ayumu Kikkawa (University of British Columbia)
"Imperfect Competition in Firm-to-Firm Trade"
(joint with Emmanuel Dhyne and Glenn Magerman)
10:50-11:40 Jun Goto (Kobe University)
"Historical Origins and Persistence of Altruistic Norms in Colonial India: Evidence from Natural and Field Experiments"
11:40-13:30 Lunch
Session 2
13:30-14:10 Shinsuke Tanaka (Tufts University)
"Driving the Gap: Tax Incentives and Incentives for Manipulating Fuel Economy in the Automobile
Industry"
14:10-14:50 Mari Tanaka (Hitotsubashi University)
"Human and Nature: The Impacts of Community Settlements on Environmental Resource in Amazon"
Session 3
15:10-15:50 Hiroyuki Kasahara (University of British Columbia and Hitotsubashi University)
"Nonidentifiability of Markups from Revenue-based Production Function Estimates" (joint with Yoichi Sugita)
15:50-16:30 Takahide Yanagi (Kyoto University)
"Treatment Effect Models with Strategic Interaction in Treatment Decisions" (joint with Tadao Hoshino)
Session 4
16:50-17:40 Yoko Sakamoto (Meiji Gakuin University)
"Patent Laws and Innovation Selection in the Global Firm" (joint with Kamran Bilir)
17:40-18:30 Yutaro Izumi (Northwestern University)
"Rebellion, Education, and Indoctrination"
Sunday, July 14 Session 5
9:00-9:50 Kei Kawai (University of California Berkeley)
「談合内での入札価格の調整と連絡」
9:50-10:30 Hitoshi Shigeoka (Simon Fraser University)
"Spatial Competition and Election Cycles: Case of Child Healthcare Policy" (joint with Yasutora Watanabe)
Session 6
10:50-11:40 Chishio Furukawa (MIT and CREPE)
"On Confused vs Clear Thoughts: A Model of Experimentation under Imperfect Recall"
11:40-12:20 Takeshi Murooka (Osaka University)
"The Development of Consumer Credit Plans:
Theory and Historical Evidence from U.S. Mail- Order Catalogs" (joint with Mary Zaki)
12:20-14:00 Lunch
Session 7
14:00-14:50 Yusuke Narita (Yale University)
"Machine Learning is Natural Experiment" (joint with Kohei Yata)
14:50-15:40 Toru Kitagawa (University College London)
"Boosting for Policy Learning" (joint with Yu-Lin Lin)
Session 8
16:00-16:50 Takanori Ida (Kyoto University)
"Policy Design with Advantageous Selection:
Experimental Evidence from Electricity Plan Choice"
(joint with Koichiro Ito and Makoto Tanaka) 16:50-17:40 Junichi Yamasaki (Kobe University)
"Lot fragmentation and Long-run Urban
Development" (joint with Kentaro Nakajima and Kensuke Teshima)
