Announcement of the Waseda-Australia Conference on Political Economy
The CPPE (Center for Positive Political Economy) is pleased to announce that we are having a conference on political economy as a final event of our 5-year government-sponsored project, inviting speakers from abroad.
The venue of the Conference is Conference Room #1, 10th Floor, Building No.3.
The 10th floor is accessible by elevators and escalators.
More information about the Building No.3 is available at the following link:
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Date: March, 11th, 2019
Venu: Conference Room #1, 10th Floor, Building No.3, Waseda Campus, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Registration: For those who want to participate and have not registered yet as of March 1st, email Hideki Konishi at h.konishi(at sign)waseda.jp
The invited speakers include:
Geoffrey Brennan (Australian Nationa University)
http://philosophy.cass.anu.edu.au/people/geoffrey-brennan
Chris Doucouliagos (Deakin University)
http://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/chris-doucouliagos
Paul Raschky (Monash University)
https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/paul-raschky
Madhav Aney (Singapore Management University)
https://www.smu.edu.sg/faculty/profile/9679/Madhav-Shrihari-ANEY
Toshihiro Ihori (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies)
http://www.grips.ac.jp/list/facultyinfo/ihori_toshihiro/
Haishan Yuan (University of Queensland)
http://haishan-yuan.weebly.com/
Program (PDF)
9:55-10:00 Opening remarks: Hideki Konishi
10:00-11:00 Session 1
Chair: Haishan Yuan (Queensland)
- Yasushi Asako (Waseda), Strategic Ambiguity with Probabilistic Voting (
Paper,
Slides)
- Chris Doucouliagos (Deakin), Health Aid, Infant Mortality and Governance (
Paper,
Slides)
11:10-12:10 Keynote Speech
Chair: Akira Yokoyama (Chuo)
- Geoffrey Brennan (ANU), The Public Choice: Past, Present, and Future
12:10-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:00 Session 2
Chair: Madhav Aney (SMU)
- Paul Raschky (Monash), Internet and Political Mobilization
- Hun Chung (Waseda), A Formal Theory of Democratic Deliberation (
Paper)
14:10 - 15:10 Session 3
Chair: Junichiro Wada (YCU)
- Haishan Yuan (Queensland), National Representation and Local Public Expenditure: A Natural Experiment from Japan (
Paper,
Slides)
- Yuriko Takahashi (Waseda), Vote Buying and Anti-Poverty Spending in Mexico: A Matching Method with Panel Data
15:10-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:30 Session 4
Chair: Shun Ibaragi (YCU)
- Junichi Itaya (Hokkaido), Distributive justice and social conflict in an AK model (
Paper)
- Toshihiro Ihori (GRIPS), Threat Misperceptions and the Role of NGOs (
Paper,
Slides)
16:40 -17:40 Session 5
Chair: Haruaki Hirota (Musashi)
- Madhav Aney (SMU), Jobs for Justice(s): Corruption in the Supreme Court of India (
Paper)
- Naomi Miyazato (Nihon), Distributive Impacts of Social Protection Systems in OECD Countries: Public-Private Mix and the Hidden Welfare States (
Paper,
Slides)
17:40-45 Closing remarks: Toshihiro Ihori
18:00- [email protected]
This conference is co-organized with Center for Fiscal and Monetary Policy(CFMP), Institute for Economic Studies, Keio University.