Contract Theory Workshop East (CTWE)

Basic Information

• When: Fridays from 16:30-18:30, unless noticed otherwise.
• Where: Room 3403 (GSCM Conference Room) on the 4th floor of Mercury Tower (building 41 in campus map) located in East Campus of Hitotsubashi University. Please note that the access to the room is restricted after 17:00.
• Please send me an e-mail if you are interested in contributing to the workshop by presenting your work or participating actively in discussion. Presentation may be in English contingent on the audience.

2010 Workshop Schedule

• January 8
  • Speaker: Takenobu Yuki (Tokyo)
  • Title: Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance---Roles of the Board---
• January 21 (thurs)
  • Speaker: Yasushi Asako (BOJ)
  • Title: Partially Binding Platforms and the Advantages of Being an Extreme Candidate
• February 5
  • Speaker: Tomoya Nakamura (Kyoto)
  • Title: Social Value of Government Research and Public Announcement
• April 9
  • Speaker: Yusuke Mori (Hitotsubashi)
  • Title: Effects of Ex Post Hold-Up on Firm Boundaries
• April 23
  • Speaker: Jun Sakimoto (Hitotsubashi)
  • Title: Incomplete Contract and Different Prior
• April 30
  • Speaker: Yasuhiro Shirata (Hitotsubashi)
  • Title: Decentralized Trading and Formation of Manufacturer-Supplier Networked Market (pdf)
• May 7
  • Speaker: Hideshi Itoh (Hitotsubashi)
  • Title: Literature review on innovation and incentives in organizations #1
• May 14
  • Speaker: Yusuke Mori (Hitotsubashi)
  • Title: Lucy White and Mark Williams (2009), Bargaining with imperfect enforcement, The RAND Journal of Economics, Volume 40 Issue 2, Pages 317 - 339. (abstract and download
• May 21
  • Speaker: Dimitri Silva (Hitotsubashi)
  • Title: Mathias Dewatripont and Jean Tirole (2005), Modes of Communication, The Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 113, No. 6 (Dec., 2005), pp. 1217-1238. (download via EconLit with Full Text)
• May 28
  • Speaker: Takenobu Yuki (Tokyo)
  • Title: TBA
• June 11
  • Speaker: Takeshi Nishimura (Hitotsubashi)
  • Title: Incomplete Procurement Contracting with Risk-Averse Agent
• June 25
  • Speaker: Yoko Sakamoto (Hitotsubashi)
  • Title: Alistair Ulph, Environmental Policy and International Trade when Governments and Producers Act Strategically, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Volume 30, Issue 3, May 1996, Pages 265-281
• July 2
  • Speaker: Yusuke Mori (Hitotsubashi)
  • Title: A Theory of Firm Scope, by Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom, QJE May 2010, Vol. 125, No. 2, Pages 483-513. (abstract and download)
• July 9
  • Speaker: Hideshi Itoh (Hitotsubashi)
  • Title: Literature review on innovation and incentives in organizations #2
• July 16 15:30-
  • Speaker: Masanori Orihara (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  • Title: Risk Aversion as Endogenous Cost of Independence under the Possibility of a Breach of Contract
• July 23
  • Speaker: Hideshi Itoh (Hitotsubashi)
  • Title: Literature review on innovation and incentives in organizations #3
• July 30 15:30-
  • Speaker: Akifumi Ishihara (LSE)
  • Title: The Interaction of Explicit and Implicit Contracts with Adverse Selection

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