Program

• 40 minutes for each paper
• 25 minutes for presentation and 15 minutes for discussion.

Date: December 18, 2010
Venue: Building 14, Room B101, Waseda University

9:00 - Registration

9:20 - 9:30 Opening Remarks

Aiji Tanaka (Waseda University)

9:30 - 11:30 Elections

Chair: Airo Hino (Waseda University)

Ryo Nakai (Waseda University/JSPS), Enfranchisement of Ethnic Minority and Political Parties: An Instrument for Vote Share Maximization.
Discussant: Kengo Soga (Kobe University)

Atsuo Tomori (Waseda University), The Role of Elections in a Cheap-Talk Model of Lobbying.
Discussant: Kentaro Fukumoto (Gakushuin University)

Takanori Adachi (Nagoya University), Political Accountability, Electoral Control and Media Bias (joint with Yoichi Hizen).
Discussant: Motohiro Sato (Hitotsubashi University)

11:30 - 13:00 Lunch Break

13:00 - 15:00 Policy Making

Chair: Koji Takamiya (Niigata University)

Kimiko Terai (Hosei University), Strategic Voting on Environmental Policy Making: The Case for "Political Race to the Top" (joint with Yukihiro Nishimura).
Discussant: Keisuke Hattori (Osaka University of Economics)

Kazutoshi Miyazawa (Doshisha University), Preferences for Redistribution in an Aging Economy.
Discussant: Akihiko Kaneko (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Yumiko Taba (Waseda University), Trade Liberalization in a Bargaining Model of Special Interest Politics (joint with Hideki Konishi).
Discussant: Takumi Naito (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

15:15 - 17:15 Government

Chair: Masaru Kohno (Waseda University)

Kenichi Tamura (Waseda University), Testing the Partisan Bias in the Japanese Fiscal Equalization System.
Discussant: Masayoshi Hayashi (The University of Tokyo)

Hideki Konishi (Waseda University), Decentralization in Government: Career Concerns and Yardstick Competition.
Discussant: Hiroki Kondo (Sophia University)

Toshihiro Ihori (The University of Tokyo), Deficit Ceiling, Privileges, and Fiscal Consolidation.
Discussant: Junichiro Wada (Yokohama City University)

17:30 - 18:30 Keynote Speech

Chair: Hideki Konishi (Waseda University)

Amihai Glazer (University of California, Irvine), How Government Commits.

19:00 - 21:00 Welcome Reception at Rihga Royal Hotel Tokyo

Date: December 19, 2010
Venue: Building 14, Room B101, Waseda University

9:30 - 10:50 Microfoundations

Chair: Ryo Nagata (Waseda University)

Tsuyoshi Adachi (Waseda University), Coalition-Proof Equilibria in Common Agency Games with General Preferences.
Discussant: Jun Wako (Gakushuin University)

Yoshifumi Yokota (Waseda University), A Noncooperative Foundation for Political Parties.
Discussant: Yukihiro Nishimura (Osaka University)

11:00 - 12:20 Experimental Approach

Chair: Yukihiko Funaki (Waseda University)

Yoichi Hizen (Hokkaido University), Duverger's Law in the Laboratory (joint with Keigo Inukai and Kengo Kurosaka).
Discussant: Yasushi Asako (Bank of Japan)

Yoshio Kamijo (Waseda University), Sustaining Cooperation in Social Dilemmas: Comparison of Centralized Punishment Institutions (joint with Yukihiko Funaki, Ai Takeuchi, Tsuyoshi Nihonsugi).
Discussant: Robert Veszteg (Waseda University)

12:20 - 12:30 Closing Remarks

Shiro Yabushita (Waseda University)