International Conference
 on New Thinking
 in Economic Theory and Policy

September 13-15, 2014, Meiji University, Tokyo


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~~~~A Provisional Program(September 2)~~~~~~~~~~~~

September 12, 2014
Seminar for young scholars
http://www.kisc.meiji.ac.jp/~youngphd/2014.html
 
Liberty Tower, Room 1133


13:00-13:50
 
Bank of Japan: an Introduction
Takashi Yagi (Professor,School Political Science & Economics, Meiji Univ.)  

 Chair: Takumi Takeda (Meiji University)



14:00-15:00
Abenomics and Monetary Policy
Etsuko Katsu (Vice-President, Meiji University)
Chair: Takumi Takeda (Meiji University)

15:00-15:20 Coffee 

15:20-16:10
 Economic Institutions in Japan
Takumi Takeda (Professor,School Political Science & Economics, Meiji Univ.)

 
Chair: Takashi Yagi (Meiji University)
 

16:20-17:20
Political Implications of Abenomics
Kosaku Dairokuno (Dean, School Political Science&Economics, Meiji Univ.) 
  
Chair: Takashi Yagi (Meiji University)
 


18:00-20:00
Drink
Liberty Tower, 17th Floor

September 13, 2014
Seminar for young scholars


9:50-10:40
The Limits of Monetary Policy
Louis-Philippe Rochon (Laurentian University,Canada)
Chair: Takumi Takeda (Meiji University)


10:40-10:50
Coffee

10:50-11:40
How Flaws in the General Theory Render It Irrelevant to the Real World
Ezra Daver (Independent Reseacher, Isreal)
Chair: Takumi Takeda (Meiji University)

11:40-13:20 Lunch

13:20-14:20
Theories of Financial Disturbance
Jan Toporowsky (SOAS, University of London)
Chair: Takashi Yagi (Meiji University)
 

14:20-14:30
Coffee

14:30-15:30
TBA (Topic on Global Financial Problems)
Masahiro Kawai (Meiji University & University of Tokyo)
Chair: Etusko Katsu (Vice-President, Meiji University)
 

15:30-15:50
Coffee

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18:30-20:00

Reception
Global Rounge, Global Front Building, 17th Floor



September 13, 2014
International Conference
September 13 Morning Sessions
Liberty Tower, Room 1022

9:40-9:50
Openning

9:50-10:40
Push and Pull Factors to Encourage Urban-to-Rural Migration in Korea
A Case of Internal Migration in Post Developmental Stage
Akio Nawakura (Meiji University)
Chair: Taku Ishiro (Yokohama National University)



10:40-10:50
Coffee

10:50-11:40

Financial Fragility Dynamics in the American Economy
Andres Blancas​(UNAM, Mexico)
Chair: T.Yasuhara (Nanzan University)


11:40-13:20 Lunch


September 13
Afternoon Sessions
13:20-14:20 (Joint with Seminar for young)
Theories of Financial Disturbance
Jan Toporowsky (SOAS, University of London)
Chair: Takashi Yagi (Meiji University)
 

14:20-14:30
Coffee

14:30-15:30 (Joint with Seminar for young)
Financial Crisis and Central Banking: An Asian Perspective
Masahiro Kawai (Meiji University & University of Tokyo)
Chair: Etusko Katsu (Vice-President, Meiji University)


14:20-14:30
Coffee

15:30-15:50
Coffee

15:50-16:50
On the Leontief Non-Paradox
Rajas Parchure(Gokhale Institute of Politics & Economics)
Ujwala Kamble(Gokhale Institute of Politics & Economics)

Chair: Heinz D. Kurz (University of Graz)


Liberty Tower, Room 1021
15:50-16:50
Currency Internationalisation: The Twentieth Century Controversy and Its  Modern Revival in the Light of the Bretton-Woods Vision
Anthony M Endres (University of Auckland)
Chair: Etusko Katsu (Vice-President, Meiji University)

16:50-17:05 Coffee

Liberty Tower, Room 1022
17:05-18:05
Lecture
Challenges on Input-Output Analysis
  - How to Assess Impacts of R&D Investment on Productivity Gains –    

Masahiro Kuroda (Emeritus Professor, Keio University)
Chair: Makiko Tsukui (Tokyo International University)

18:05-18:30 Move to Global Rounge, Global Front Building, 17th Floor

18:30-20:00 Reception
Global Rounge, Global Front Building, 17th Floor

September 14, 2014
September 14 Morning Sessions

9:30-10:20
Academy Common, Room 309B Plenary Session
9:30-10:20 Lecture
The Keynesian Revolution from the Perspective of Kalecki
Jan Toporowsky (SOAS, University of London)
Chair: Louis-Phlippe Rochon
(Laurentian University,Canada)

10:20-10:30
Coffee 309H,J

10:30-12:10 Academy Common, Room
309A Economic Theory
10:30-11:20

Walras and Contemporary Financial-Economic Crisis
Ezra Davar (Independent Researcher)
Chair: Takashi Yagi (Meiji University)

11:20-12:10
Well-being as a Function of Consumption, Asset and Their Derivatives
Kiyoshi Yonemoto (Takasaki City University)
Chair : Testuya Saito (Nihon University)


10:30-12:10Academy Common, Room
309B Money and Finance
10:30-11:20
Empirical Evidence on Institutional Investors Allocation to Emerging Markets
Bruno Bonizzi (SOAS, University of London)
Chair : Kentaro Iwatsubo (Kobe University)

11:20-12:10
Changes in the Relationship between the Financial and the Real Sectors and the Present Financial and Economic Crisis in Japan
Mimoza Shabani (SOAS, University of London)
Chair : Shigeyuki Hattori (Fukui Prefectural University)

10:30-12:10 Academy Common, Room 309F
Empirical Studies
10:30-11:20
The Primary Sector and Economic Stagnation in Mexico 

Alberto Moritz Cruz (UNAM, Mexico)
Chair : Shibata (Meiji University)

11:20-12:10
The Impact of Open source on Software Piracy:Evidence from Developed and Emerging countries

Heger ATTAYA (CEPN-University of Sorbonne Paris CIte, France)
Chair: Kazuhiko Nakahira (Tokyo University of Science, Suwa))


10:30-12:10 Academy Common, Room
309G Economic Thought
10:30-11:20
Questioning Liberalism In between East (Eastern Asia) and West (Western Europe)
Gilles Campagnolo (National Center for Scientific Research &Aix-Marseilles School of Economics)
Chair : Yumi Horikane (Meiji University)

11:20-12:10
The Corruption of Olympian Ideals: A Study of Capitalism Through the Lens of Ancient Greece
Donni Wang (Stanford University)
Chair: Gilles Campagnolo (National Center for Scientific Research & Aix-Marseilles School of Economics):

12:10-13:50 Lunch

September 14 Afternoon Sessions

13:50-16:50 Academy Common, Room 309A Economic Theory
13:50-14:40
Stability of Disequilibrium Growth System
Masataka Dohtani (Toyama University)
Hiroshi Osaka (Toyama University)

Chair : Hiroyuki Yoshida(Nihon University)

14:40-14:45
Short Break

14:45-15:35
Reconsidering Schumpeterian Business Cycle Theory: From Spiethoff-
Schumpeter Perspectives
Takashi Seo (Kanazawa University)
Chair : Yasutaka Niisato (Toyama University)

15:35-15:45
Coffee 309H,J

15:45-16:35
An Analysis of Japan's Economy during the Lost Two Decades Using a Harrodian Approach
Hidetomo Oyaizu(Toyama University)
Yasutaka Niisato (Toyama University)

Chair: Rustem Nurrev (Financial University under the Russian Government)

16:35-16:50 Coffee
309H,J


13:50-16:50 Academy Common, Room 309B Money and Finance
13:50-14:40
International portfolio flows in the post-global financial crisis period
Ken Iwatsubo (Kobe University)
Satoru Ogasawara (Oita University)

Chair: Kazuhiko Nishimura (Nihon Fukushi Unieversity)

14:40-14:45


14:45-15:35
Testing the Rationality of Consumer Inflation Expectations in Japan

Kazuhiko Nakahira (Tokyo University of Science, Suwa)
Chair: Masahiro Ouchi (Nihoni University)

15:35-15:45 Coffee 309H,J

15:45-16:35
Foundations of Heterodox Economics
Louis-Philippe Rochon (Laurentian University,Canada)
Chair: Jan Toporowsky (SOAS, University of London)

16:35-16:50 Coffee 309H,J


13:50-16:50 Academy Common, Room 309 F
Empirical Studies
13:50-14:40
Identifying an Interregional Input-Output Framework by Means of Average Propagation Lengths: A Case Study for Tohoku Region
Michiya Nozaki (Division of Regional Studies, Graduate School, Hirosaki University)
Chair : Koichi Nidaira (Keiai University)

14:40-14:45

14:45-15:35
Fiscal Policies and the Business Cycle: Evidence from Japan
Hajime Shimakura (Saison Asset Management Co., Ltd., Japan)
Chair : Shigeyuki Hattori (Fukui Prefectural University)

15:35-15:45 Coffee 309H,J

15:45-16:35

Estimating the Benefits of Recreation at a World Heritage Site: A Travel Cost Analysis of Visits to Mount Fuji
Yang Yang (Temple University)
Tom Jones( Meiji University)

Chair : Katsuhiro Saito (University of Tokyo)

16:35-16:50 Coffee
309H,J

13:50-16:50 Academy Common, Room 309G Economic Thought
13:50-14:40
The Political Economy of Socialism: between Old and New Economic Thinking
Denis Melnik (National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow)
Chair : Masashi Izumo (Kanagawa University)

14:40-14:45

14:45-15:35
Barbarism and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Orkney

Hiroyuki Furuya (Tokushima Bunri University)
Chair : Takashi Yagi (Meiji Unieversity)

15:35-15:45 Coffee 309H,J

15:45-16:35
Great Transformation to Simultaneous Determination System
The Turning Point of a View on Economics

Satoshi Yoshii (Nagoya University of Commerce & Business)
Chair: Manabu Kasamastu (Waseda University)

16:35-16:50 Coffee 309H,J


16:50-18:00 Academy Common, Room 309A Plenary Session
16:50-18:00

Adam Smith on Markets, Competition and Violations of Natural Liberty
Heinz D. Kurz (University of Graz)
Chair : Takashi Yagi (Meiji Unieversity)



18:00-18:30 Move to 23rd floor of Liberty Tower


18:30-20:00
Dinner
at Liberty Tower, 23rd floor Kishimoto Hall
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September 15, 2014
September 15Morning Sessions

9:30-10:20 Academy Common, Room 309B Plenary Session
9:30-10:20 Lecture
Rethinking the Fiscal Multiplier: Incorporating Banks and Endogenous Money

Louis-Philippe Rochon (Laurentian University,Canada)
Chair : Takashi Yagi (Meiji Unieversity)

10:30-12:10 Academy Common, Room 309A
10:30-11:20
Inventory Adjustment and Aggregate Fluctuations (a provisional title)
Naoto Yagi (Niigata Sangyo University)
Chair : Kazuhiko Nishimura (Nihon Fukushi Unieversity)


11:20-12:10

Quality Adjustment in Non-spanning Markets with Variety Aversion
Kazuhiko Nishimura (Nihon Fukushi University)
Chair :Naoto Yagi (Niigata Sangyo University)

10:30-12:10 Academy Common, Room 309B
10:30-11:20
Unemployment: Walras's Voluntary and Keynes's Involuntary
Ezra Davar (Independent Researcher)

Chair : Ryuzo Kuroki (Rikkyo University)


11:20-12:10
A Contextualization of J. N. Keynes’ 1890 ‘Scope and Method of Political Economy’

Gilles Campagnolo (National Center for Scientific Research &Aix-Marseilles School of Economics)

Chair : Shigeki Tomo


10:30-12:10 Academy Common, Room 309G

10:30-11:20
Social Enterprises as a New Economy? : From a Solidarity Economy Perspective
(a provisional title)

Michiyo Imai (Meiji University)
Chair : Margereth Gfrerer (Nihon Fukushi Unieversity)


11:20-12:10
Distribution and Capital (a provisional title)

Takashi Yagi (Meiji University)

Chair : Koji Hayama (Wako University)

September 15Afternoon Sessions

13:50-15:35 Academy Common, Room 309A

13:50-14:40
The Input-Output Theory of Interest

Rajas Parchure(Gokhale Institute of Politics & Economics)
Chair : Yoshinori Shiozawa (Osaka City University)

14:45-15:35
Production and environmental-load disparities between Tokyo and the Rest of Japan: Detailed Multi-regional Waste Input–Output Approach for the 47 Prefectures of Japan
Makiko Tsukui (Tokyo International University)
Shigemi Kagawa (Kyushu University)
Ryoji Hasegawa (Osaka International University)
Yasushi Kondo (Waseda University)
Chair : Eiji Hosoda (Keio University)

13:50-15:35 Academy Common, Room 309B
13:50-14:40

Internationalisation Strategies in the Higher Education Sector as Anticyclical Economic Policy
Margareth Gfrerer(State Islamic University Jakarta)
Chair : Katsushi Tabata (Nishogakusha Unieversity)


14:45-15:35
Asset Price and banking in Japan
Katsushi Tabata (Nishogakusha University)

Chair : Takashi Yagi (Meiji Unieversity)

14:45-15:35 Academy Common, Room 309B
14:45-15:35
Concepts of Long-wave Economic Dynamics:Main Stages of the Development

Rustem M. Nureev (Financial University under the Russian Government)
Chair: Masaaki Kuboniwa(Professor Emeritus, Hitotsubashi University)

15:35-16:00 Move to Liberty Tower 2nd floor Room 1022

16:00-18:20 Liberty Tower Room1022 Plenary Session
16:00-16:50 Lecture
Theory of International Trade in Value-Added Revisited
Masaaki Kuboniwa (Hitotsubashi University)
Chair : Makiko Tsukui (Tokyo International University)

16:50-18:20 Lecture
David Ricardo: Elucidating economic principles vis-à-vis of a labyrinth of difficulties
Heinz D. Kurz (University of Graz)
Chair : Takashi Yagi (Meiji Unieversity)

Closing


18:30-20:00 Dinner at Liberty Tower, 23rd floor, Yashiro Hall

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Paper distribution
Impact of Strategic Protectionism Implemented by Brazil and Argentina in the Field of Mexican Auto Industry
José G.Vargas-Hernández (University of Guadalajara, Mexico)

Chair: Yumi Horikane(Meiji University)