Seminar & Workshop

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
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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
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Main Theme
Frontiers in Experimental Economics - Applications to Human Behavior in the Field, Organizations and Macroeconomic Phenomena -
Date
July 11 and 12, 2015
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The 12th RISS International Conference & RISS Workshop

Program
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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
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The 11th RISS International Conference

Program
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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)
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The 10th International Conference of Socionetwork Strategies

Program
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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)
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Celebration for 10th Anniversary International Symposium of Research Project for Socionetwork Strategies

Program
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Main Theme
New Types of Data Collection and Micro Data Analysis
Date
June 5 and 6, 2012
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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The 3rd International Workshop

Title
Platform Envelopment
Date
November 14, 2012 10:00-12:30
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.

Handouts
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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
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

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

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)