21st-Century COE-GLOPE, Waseda University
School of Economics, Renmin University of China
Beijing International Conference
Renmin University of China
December 21-22, 2005
OPEN POLITICAL-ECONOMIC SYSTEMS:
GLOBALIZATION AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE
PROGRAM
Wednesday, December 21
Moderators: Kazumi Shimizu (Waseda University)
Yu Tongshen (Renmin University of China)
9:30 Opening Remarks: Chen Yulu (Renmin University of China)
Shiro Yabushita (Waseda University)
9:50-10:40 Session 1: Keynote Speech: Koichi Hamada (Yale University)
Economic Integration and Security Conflicts in Asia
10:40-11:30 Session 2: Keynote Speech: Li Daokui (Tsinghua University)
11:30-12:20 Session 3: Keynote Speech: Eden Yu (City University of Hong Kong)
The Impact of CEPA (between HK and the Mainland) on Globalization
14:30-16:00 Session 4: Glob al Institutional Changes and Dynamism
Moderator: Li Tianyou (Renmin University of China)
Presentations:
Kazuharu Kiyono (Waseda University)
Strategic Regional Competition among Local Government Firms
Dic Lo (Renmin University of China)
Naoyuki Umemori (Waseda University)
On Some Characteri stics of the Modern Japanese Police System: The Collusive Relationship be tween the Nation State and the Colonial State
16:15-17:45 Session 5: Poli tical Economy and the Design of Institutions
Moderator: Atsuko Ueda (Waseda University)
Presentations:
Yukihiko Funaki (Waseda University)
The Design of Institutions and the Experimental Method in Political Economy
Holger Meinhardt (University of Karlsruhe, Waseda University)
Cooperation and Fairness in Asymmetric Cost Sharing Situations
Cheng Dawei (Renmin University of China)
Closing Remarks: Yang Ruilong (Renmin University of China)
Thursday, December 22
9:30-10:45 Session 6-A: Ex periments in Political Economy
Moderator: Yukihiko Funaki (Waseda University)
Presentations:
Yohei Mitani (Waseda University)
What Factors Are Responsible for Decision Making in a Threshold Environmental Goods Experiment?: A Consideration of Hypothetical Bias in Stated Preference
Hong Geng (Bonn University)
Decision Mechanisms in Tacit Bargaining: A Video Experimen tal Investigation of the Power-to-Take Game
Kumi Suzuki (Waseda University)
Experimental Analysist on the Role of a Large Speculator in Currency Crises
Session 6-B: Institutional Representation and its Change
Moderator: Cheng Dawei (Renmin University of China)
Presentations:
Alexander Bukh (LSE, Waseda University)
Exploring the Locale of National Identity Construction in Japan Beyond the History Textbooks
Cheung Mong (Hong Kong Avant-garde Policy Research Institute, Wase da University)
Japan's Perception of Anti-JapaneseProtests in China(2004-05)
11:00-12:15 Session 7-A: Su stainable Development and Economic Systems
Moderator: Ma Zihui (Renmin University of China)
Presentations:
Toshiro Kikuchi (Waseda University)
Educational Services, Individual Effort and Income Distribution, Considered from the Standpoint of Informational Asymmetry
Huang Wei (Wase da University)
The Impact of Income Inequality on Economic Growth through Financial Imperfections: Implications for China
Yu Xiuli (Renmin University of China, Waseda University)
The Experience and Dilemma of PLAS in Japan and Its Implication for MLSSS in China
Session 7-B: Globalization and International Trade
Moderator: Yasunori Ishii (Waseda University)
Presentations:
Han Yang (Renmin University of China)
Globalization and Intra-Industrial Trade in East Asia
Liu Cunsheng (Renmin University of China)
Construction of Global Production Networks
Feng Cunwan (Wuhan University, Waseda University)
EU’s Global Design and the Framework of Trade Regulatory Institutions
14:30-16:00 Session 8: Econ omic Integration in East Asia
Moderator: Kazuharu Kiyono (Waseda University)
Presentations:
Yukiko Fukagawa (University of Tokyo)
The Quality of FTA: WTO Consistency and Efficiency in East Asian Regionalism
Amy Searight (George Washington University)
Process and the Art of Diplomacy in Asian Multilate ralism: The United States, Japan, and China Compared.
Song Lifang (Renmin University of China, Waseda University)
International Antidumping Policy: Limitations and Refo rms
16:15-17:30 Session 9-A: In ternational Cooperation and Conflict Resolution
Moderator: Hidetoshi Nakamura (Waseda University)
Presentations:
Jochen Prantl (Oxford University)
The Anatomy of Informal Governance: International Security Institutions and the Resolution of Conflict
Min Ye (Princeton University)
Politics of Technology Transfer in Developing Nations: China in Com parative Perspective
Zhang Xiaojing ( Renmin University of China)
Regional Inequality and the Integration of the EU
Session 9-B: Political Economy of Institutions
Moderator: Zhang Yanhong (Renmin University of China)
Presentations:
Kenichi Tamura (Waseda University)
Contemporary Japanese Local Public Finance: From the Perspective of Partisanship
Masahisa Endo (Cornell University, Waseda University)
A Unified Model of Voters’ Behavior under Multiparty Elections (and Its Application to the Japanese Case)
Yoshihiro Tomar u (Waseda University)
Endogenous Timing in a Mixed Duopoly with Asymmetric Cost Functions
SUPPORTED BY
Graduate School of Economics, Open Research Center Project,
with matching fund subsidy from MEXT