Information on past RISS Research Workshops, International Conferences,
International Seminars and Workshops, and RISS Lectures on Economic Policy is posted.
International Conferences
The 14th International Conference of Socionetwork Strategies
The 2nd International Conference of Experimental Economics
- Program
- Main Theme
- Frontier Researches on Network Studies
- Date
- March 14 and 15, 2017
The 13th International Conference of Socionetwork Strategies
The 1st International Conference of Experimental Economics
- Program
- Main Theme
- Frontiers in Experimental Economics - Applications to Human Behavior in the Field, Organizations and Macroeconomic Phenomena -
- Date
- July 11 and 12, 2015
The 12th RISS International Conference & RISS Workshop
- Program
- Main Theme
- Dynamic Macroeconomic Analysis of Aging Societies- Role of Micro Data in Policy-Directed Research -
- Date
- November 22 and 23, 2014
- Venue
- Shobunkan, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan and Multimedia Laboratory, RISS, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan
The 11th RISS International Conference
- Program
- Main Theme
- Understanding Complex Society from Agent-Based Simulation
- Date
- February 27, 2014
- Venue
- Multimedia Laboratory, RISS, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan
- Program Committee Chair
- Kazuhito Ogawa (Associate Professor, Faculty of Sociology, Kansai University)
The 10th International Conference of Socionetwork Strategies
- Program
- Main Theme
- Micro-data Research of East Asian Society
- Date
- January 25, 2013
- Venue
- Tokyo Center, Kansai University, Tokyo, Japan
Multimedia Laboratory, Senriyama Campus, Kansai University, Osaka - Conference Chair
- Seiichi Inagaki (Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)
- Program Committee Chair
- Yasuharu Ukai (Director, The Research Institute for Socionetwork Strategies)
Celebration for 10th Anniversary International Symposium of Research Project for Socionetwork Strategies
- Program
- Main Theme
- New Types of Data Collection and Micro Data Analysis
- Date
- June 5 and 6, 2012
- Venue
- Kansai University Centenary Memorial Hall, Osaka, Japan ※The building "E"
- Conference Chair
- Yasuharu Ukai(Director, The Research Institute for Socionetwork Strategies)
- Program Committee Chair
- Keiichiro Matsushita (Professor, Kansai University)
The 8th International Conference will be held on December 4th, 2010.
- Program
- Main Theme
- Economic Frontier Research on Social Security and Labor Market with Various Data Sources
- Date
- December 4, 2010
- Venue
- Multimedia Laboratory, Senriyama Campus, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan
- Conference Chair
- Yasuharu Ukai(Director, The Research Institute for Socionetwork Strategies)
- Program Committee Chair
- Keiichiro Matsushita (Professor, Kansai University)
The 7th International Conference of Socionetwork Strategies
The 3rd International Conference of Policy Grid Computing
- Main Theme
- Does Cloud Computing Help Social Science?
- Date
- October 25, 2009
- Venue
- Kansai University Senriyama Campus, Osaka, Japan
- Conference Chair
- Yasuharu Ukai(Director, The Research Institute for Socionetwork Strategies)
- Program Committee Chair
- Ian Foster (Director, Computation Institute Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor of Computer Science Argonne National Laboratory & University of Chicago)
- Details
The 6th International Conference of Socionetwork Strategies
- Main Theme
- Socionetwork Strategies in Economic Policy
- Date
- January 14, 2009
- Venue
- Kansai University Senriyama Campus, Osaka, Japan
- Conference Chair
- Yasuharu Ukai
- Program Committee Chair
- Keiichiro Matsushita
- Details
The 5th International Conference of Socionetwork Strategies and The 2nd International Conference of Policy Grid Computing
- Main Theme
- Social Agent Modeling and Computation for Policy Making
- Date
- March 17 and 18, 2008
- Venue
- RCSS Tokyo Laboratory for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan
- Conference Chair
- Yasuharu Ukai, Tadahiko Murata
- Details
The 4th International Conference of Socionetwork Strategies
- Main Theme
- The Fusion between Policy Science and Information and Communication Technology
- Date
- September 1, 2006
- Venue
- Marunouchi, Chiyoda Tokyo and Kansai University Senriyama Campus, Osaka, Japan
- Conference Chair
- Yasuharu Ukai, Satoshi Matsuoka
- Details
RCSS & PG Lab Joint International Conference (The 3rd RCSS International Conference and The 1st PG Lab International Conference)
- Main Theme
- Freedom and Security in Computer Networks
- Date
- January 14, 2006
- Venue
- Kansai University Senriyama Campus, Osaka, Japan
- Conference Chair
- Yasuharu Ukai, Tadahiko Murata
- Details
The 2nd International Conference of Socionetwork Strategies
- Main Theme
- The Impact of the Internet and the Grid Computing on the Political Economy
- Date
- July 24, 2004
- Venue
- Kansai University Senriyama Campus, Osaka, Japan
- Conference Chair
- Yasuharu Ukai
- Details
The 1st International Conference of Socionetwork Strategies
- Main Theme
- Frontier of Information and Communication Technology and Political Science
- Date
- May 26 and 27, 2003
- Venue
- Kansai University Senriyama Campus, Osaka, Japan
- Conference Chair
- Yasuharu Ukai
- Details
International Seminars and Workshops
The 5th International Seminar
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- The 5th RISS International Seminar on Empirical Micro Analysis
- Title
- Delegations, Centralization, and Their Impact on Productivity in Industrial Salesforce
- Date
- June 28, 2017 17:30-19:00
- Speaker
- Desmond Lo (Assistant Professor, Santa Clara University)
- Discussant
- Kenji Matsui (Professor, Kobe University)
- flyer
The 4th International Seminar
- Title
- Life-Cycle Planning for Health Needs in Retirement
- Date
- November 19, 2016 13:00-16:40
- Title
Speaker/
Discussant - “The Role of Annuitized Wealth in Post-Retirement Behavior”
Speaker: John P. Laitner Professor, Department of Economics, University of Michigan
Discussant: Charles Yuji Horioka Vice-President, Asian Growth Research Institute
“Do Hospital-Owned Skilled Nursing Facilities Provide Better Post-Acute Care Quality?”
Speaker: Edward Norton Professor, Department of Economics, University of Michigan
Discussant: Yoko Niimi Research Associate Professor, Asian Growth Research Institute - Program
The 3rd International Seminar
- Co-host
- Tohoku University
- Title
- Joint Labor Supply Decision of Married Couples and the Social Security Pension System
- Date
- November 27, 2014 14:40-16:10
- Venue
- Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
- Speaker
- Shinichi Nishiyama (Congressional Budget Office)
The 2nd International Seminar
- Co-host
- The Canon Institute for Global Studies (CIGS)
- Title
- Modeling Key Features of Dynamic Economics
- Date
- November 26, 2014 9:45-12:20
- Venue
- The Canon Institute for Global Studies (CIGS), Tokyo, Japan
- Speaker
- John Laitner (University of Michigan)Keiichiro Kobayashi (Keio University and CIGS)R. Anton Braun (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and CIGS)
- Poster
The 1st International Seminar
- Title
- Social Security Studies in Macroeconomics
- Date
- November 25, 2014 10:30-12:00
- Speaker
- R. Anton Braun (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)Shinichi Nishiyama (Congressional Budget Office)
- Poster
The 4th International Workshop
- Title
- Micro-data in East Asia
- Date
- January 28, 2013 9:00-10:30
- Speaker
- Yasuharu Ukai (Director, The Research Institute for Socionetwork Strategies, Kansai University)
- Participants
- China Center for Economic Studies, Fudan University
- Handout
The 3rd International Workshop
- Title
- Platform Envelopment
- Date
- November 14, 2012 10:00-12:30
- Venue
- RISS Multimedia Laboratory, Senriyama Campus, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan
Tokyo Center, Kansai University, Tokyo, Japan - General Chair
- Yasuharu Ukai (Director, The Research Institute for Socionetwork Strategies, Kansai University)
- Speaker
- Marshall Van Alstyne (Associate Professor, Boston University School of Management)
- Participants
- Those who wish to attend the workshop are asked to send information including their full name, affiliation and e-mail address by e-mail to the following address.
The 2nd International Workshop
- Title
- Who Wins, Who Loses and By How Much? Predicting the Current, Future and Spatial Impact of Policy Change Using Microsimulation Models
- Date
- January 29, 2009 11:30-14:30
- General Chair
- Yasuharu Ukai (Director, The Research Institute for Socionetwork Strategies, Kansai University)
- Speaker
- Ann Harding (Professor, The University of Canberra)
- Participants
-
Invited political researchers and political practicians or RISS researchers.
Those who wish to attend the workshop are asked to send information including their full name, affiliation and e-mail address by e-mail to the following address.
The 1st International Workshop
- Theme
- Mathematical and Quantitative Research of Modern Japanese Politics
- Date
- January 22, 2009 12:30-17:50
- General Chair
- Kentaro Fukumoto (Researcher, RISS) (Professor, Gakushuin University)
Open Recruitment Research Unit: "A Mathematical and Quantitative Research on the Shift from Ex-Ante Regulations and Consensus-Oriented Society to Ex-Post Monitoring and Relief-Oriented Society" - Speaker
- Jun Saito (Associate Professor, Yale University)
Ryota Natori (Associate Professor, Kansai University)
Yusaku Horiuchi (Associate Professor, Australian National University)
Kentaro Fukumoto (Professor, Gakushuin University) - Participants
-
Invited political researchers and political practicians or RISS researchers
Those who wish to attend the workshop are asked to send information including their full name, affiliation and e-mail address by e-mail to the following address.
- Program
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- 12:30-14:00
- "Removing Boundaries to Lose Connections: Political Consequences of Local Government Reform in Japan"
Jun Saito (Associate Professor, Yale University)*, Yusaku Horiuchi (Associate Professor, Australian National University) - 14:10-15:00
- "Vertical Contamination Effects: Explaining Cross-District Variation in the Degree of Convergence towards the Duvergerian Equilibrium in Japan"
Ryota Natori (Associate Professor, Kansai University)*, Yusaku Horiuchi - 15:10-16:40
- "Mobilization and Participation: A Natural Experiment"
Kentaro Fukumoto (Professor, Gakushuin University), Yusaku Horiuchi * - 16:50-17:50
- "Towards Ex-Post Monitoring and Relief-Oriented Society from Ex-Ante Regulations and Consensus-Oriented Society: An Approach on Game Theory"
Kentaro Fukumoto *
* Speaker
RISS Research Workshops
* RISS Research Workshop held in English.
The 10th CEE and RISS Seminar Series on Experimental Economics
Co-sponsored by Center of Experimental Economics, Kansai University
- Date
- July 15, 2017 18:00-19:00
July 16, 2017 10:00-11:00 - Lecturer & Title
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July 15
Tetsuya Kawamura (PD, Center for Experimental Economics, Kansai University)
"The Higher (Lower) The Cognitive Ability, The More Generous The Elderly (Young): Evidence from Dictator Game Experiments"
"A School Choice Experiment: Students’ Cognitive Ability and Their Behavior"July 16
Yan Chen (Professor, University of Michigan)
"Identity and Impact on Public Goods Contributions: A Field Experiment on Wikipedia"
The 37th RISS Research Workshop
The 8th CEE and RISS Seminar Series on Experimental Economics
Co-sponsored by Center of Experimental Economics, Kansai University
- Date
- October 18, 2016 16:30-17:30
- Lecturer & Title
- Keith K.P. Wong (Director and Professor, School of Economics and Finance, University of Hong Kong)
"Hedging and the Competitive Firm under Ambiguous Price and Background Risk"
The 35th RISS Research Workshop
The 6th CEE and RISS Seminar Series on Experimental Economics
Co-sponsored by Center of Experimental Economics, Kansai University
- Date
- December 11, 2015 13:00-18:00
- Lecturer & Title
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James Konow (Chair of Economics and Ethics, Kiel University, German, and Professor of Economics, Loyola Marymount University, USA)
"Equity versus Equality: Experimental Analysis of Justice Rules"Nick Feltovich (Professor, Department of Economics, Monash University, Australia)
"How does the effect of pre-play suggestions vary with group size? Experimental evidence from a threshold public-good game"Tetsuya Kawamura (PD, Center for Experimental Economics, Kansai University)
"How to Promote Crowd Funding for R&D in New Sources of Energy-Evidence from Online Field Experiment-"Tomoharu Mori (PD, Center for Experimental Economics, Kansai University)
"The Effect of Age, Gender, and Earned Income in the Trust Game: A Laboratory Experiment in Japan"
The 26th RISS Research Workshop
2nd RISS Seminar Series on Data Science
Co-sponsored by Data Science Laboratory, Kansai University
- Date
- October 21, 2014 16:30-18:20
- Lecturer & Title
- Desmond Lo (Santa Clara University)
"Contract Design to Dis-incentivize Dedicated Investments: Theory and Evidence"
"The Effect of Customer Mobility on Company Survival: Evidence from Independent and Chain Restaurants"
The 21th RISS Research Workshop
The 1st RISS Occasional Seminar
Co-sponsored by The Research Institute of Advanced Technology Kyoto Sangyo University
- Date
- February 28, 2014 13:15-14:45
- Venue
- Kyoto Sangyo University, Kyoto, Japan
- Lecturer & Title
- Chung-Ching Tai (Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Tunghai University)
"Assessing the Effects of Working Memory Capacity on Market Performance: An Experimental Study"
The 11th RISS Research Workshop
- Title
- Technological Progress and the Wage Growth of Older Japanese Workers
- Date
- June 11, 2012 16:30-18:00
- Chair
- Keiichiro Matsushita (Professor, Faculty of Economics, Kansai University)
- Lecturer
- John P. Laitner (Professor, Department of Economics, University of Michigan)
The 5th RISS Research Workshop
- Title
- Negative Effects to the Factor Productivities
- Date
- December 9, 2010 9:00-11:00
- Venues
- RISS Multimedia Laboratory, Senriyama Campus, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan
Tokyo Laboratory for Policy Studies, Tokyo Center, Kansai University, Tokyo, Japan - Chair
- Keiichiro Matsushita (Professor, Faculty of Economics, Kansai University)
- Lecturer
- Yasuharu Ukai (Director, The Research Institute for Socionetwork Strategies, Kansai University)
- Commentator
- John P. Laitner (Professor, Department of Economics, University of Michigan)
The 4th RISS Research Workshop
- Title
- The Financial Crisis Surveys
- Date
- December 7, 2010 9:00-11:00
- Venues
- RISS Multimedia Laboratory, Senriyama Campus, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan
Tokyo Laboratory for Policy Studies, Tokyo Center, Kansai University, Tokyo, Japan - Chair
- Yasuharu Ukai (Director, The Research Institute for Socionetwork Strategies, Kansai University)
- Lecturer
- Michael Hurd (Senior Principal Researcher and Director, RAND Center for the Study of Aging, RAND Corporation)
- Commentator
- John P. Laitner (Professor, Department of Economics, University of Michigan)
RISS Lectures on Economic Policy
The 11th RISS Lecture on Economic Policy
- Title
- Economic Analysis of Cloud Computing
- Date
- April 20, 2013 15:00-17:00
- Chair
- Takashi Kozu (Ricoh Institute of Sustainability and Business)
- Lecturer
- Yasuharu Ukai (Acting Dean, The Research Institute for Socionetwork Strategies, Kansai University)
The 10th RISS Lecture on Economic Policy
- Title
- Knowledge Sharing & Individual Performance: Evidence from a Japanese Bank
- Date
- November 13, 2012 10:00-12:30
- Venue
- RISS Multimedia Laboratory, Senriyama Campus, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan
Tokyo Center, Kansai University, Tokyo, Japan - Chair
- Yasuharu Ukai (Director, The Research Institute for Socionetwork Strategies, Kansai University)
- Lecturer
- Marshall Van Alstyne (Associate Professor, Boston University School of Management)
The 9th RISS Lecture on Economic Policy
- Title
- New Data for Cognitive Economics
- Date
- June 8, 2012 10:30-12:00
- General Chair
- Yasuharu Ukai (Director, The Research Institute for Socionetwork Strategies, Kansai University)
- Lecturer
- Robert Willis (Professor, Department of Economics, University of Michigan)
The 8th RISS Lecture on Economic Policy
- Title
- Mortgage Contract Decisions and Mortgage Distress: Family and Financial Life Cycle Factors
- Date
- June 4, 2012 10:00-12:00
- Venue
- RISS Multimedia Laboratory, Senriyama Campus, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan
Tokyo Laboratory for Policy Studies, Tokyo Center, Kansai University, Tokyo, Japan - Chair
- Yasuharu Ukai (Director, The Research Institute for Socionetwork Strategies, Kansai University)
- Lecturer
- Frank P. Stafford (Professor, Department of Economics, University of Michigan)
- Commentator
- Yukako Ono (Associate Professor, Department of Business and Commerce, Keio University)
The 7th RISS Lecture on Economic Policy
- Title
- Integrated Database of Cooperate Statistical Survey and Plant Level
Statistical Survey between 1983 and 2005 in Japan - Date
- January 12, 2012 10:00-12:00
- Chair
- Yasuharu Ukai (Director, The Research Institute for Socionetwork Strategies, Kansai University)
- Lecturer
- Setsuo Suoh (Professor in Computer Science, Academic Information Systems Centre, The University of Hyogo)
The 6th RISS Lecture on Economic Policy
- Title
- Technological Progress and Worker Productivity at Different Ages
- Date
- December 8, 2010 9:00-11:00
- Venue
- RISS Multimedia Laboratory, Senriyama Campus, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan
Tokyo Laboratory for Policy Studies, Tokyo Center, Kansai University, Tokyo, Japan - Chair
- Yasuharu Ukai (Director, The Research Institute for Socionetwork Strategies, Kansai University)
- Lecturer
- John P. Laitner (Professor, Department of Economics, University of Michigan)
The 5th RISS Lecture on Economic Policy
- Title
- Adjustment of selection bias in Web survey data
- application to a survey of behavioral economics - - Date
- June 30, 2010 14:00-16:30
- Venue
- RISS Multimedia Laboratory, Senriyama Campus, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan
Tokyo Laboratory for Policy Studies, Tokyo Center, Kansai University, Tokyo, Japan - Chair
- Yasuharu Ukai (Director, The Research Institute for Socionetwork Strategies, Kansai University)
- Lecturer
- Takahiro Hoshino (Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Business Administration, Nagoya University)
The 4th RISS Lecture on Economic Policy
- Title
- Making Economist Network at East Asia: From the Experience of Japan Economic Policy Association (tentative)
- Date
- June 23, 2009 16:00-18:00
- Venue
- RISS Multimedia Laboratory, Senriyama Campus, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan
Tokyo Laboratory for Policy Studies, Tokyo Center, Kansai University, Tokyo, Japan - Chair
- Yasuharu Ukai (Director, The Research Institute for Socionetwork Strategies, Kansai University)
- Lecturer
- Yuko Arayama (Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Nagoya University, Japan, Senior Vice President, Japan Economic Policy Association)
The 3rd RISS Lecture on Economic Policy
- Title
- The Proposal of EcoDAAS Project
- Date
- June 20, 2009 10:30-12:30
- Venue
- RISS Multimedia Laboratory, Senriyama Campus, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan
Tokyo Laboratory for Policy Studies, Tokyo Center, Kansai University, Tokyo, Japan - Chair
- Tadahiko Murata (Director, Policy Grid Computing Laboratory, Kansai University)
- Lecturer
- Yoshiro Tsutsui (Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University, Japan)
The 2nd RISS Lecture on Economic Policy
- Title
- The Frontier of Finacial Positive Analysis (tentative)
- Date
- February 23, 2009 10:30-12:30
- Venue
- RISS Multimedia Laboratory, Senriyama Campus, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan
Tokyo Laboratory for Policy Studies, Tokyo Center, Kansai University, Tokyo, Japan - Chair
- Yasuharu Ukai (Director, The Research Institute for Socionetwork Strategies, Kansai University)
- Lecturer
- Yoshiro Tsutsui (Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University, Japan)
The 1st RISS Lecture on Economic Policy
- Title
- Economic Theory and Real Economic Policy: The Lessons of the Participatory Government in Korea
- Date
- January 14, 2009 13:05-14:05
jointly held with The 6th International Conference of Socionetwork Strategies - Chair
- Keiichiro Matsushita (Professor, Kansai University)
- Lecturer
- Lee Joung-Woo (Professor, Kyungpook National University, Korea)