{"id":28512,"date":"2023-12-13T14:10:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T05:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/?p=28512"},"modified":"2023-12-20T15:35:47","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T06:35:47","slug":"event-report-symposium-on-the-final-results-of-top-global-university-project-tgu-center-for-positive-empirical-analysis-of-political-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/news-en\/2023\/12\/13\/28512\/","title":{"rendered":"Event Report: International Symposium \u201cWhat can Positive\/Empirical Analysis of Political Economy Do for Society?\u201d Center for Positive\/Empirical Analysis of Political Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, November 25, 2023, the Waseda University Top Global University Project(TGU) Center for Positive\/Empirical Analysis of Political Economy<\/a>\u00a0 held a symposium entitled \u201cWhat can Positive\/Empirical Analysis of Political Economy Do for Society?<\/a>\u201d to commemorate the final year of the TGU project and to present the achievements of the past 10 years.<\/h4>\n

We had five panelists (in order of appearance), Professors Charles Noussair (University of Arizona), Yukio Koriyama (Ecole Polytechnique), Yasutora Watanabe (University of Tokyo), Sona Golder (Pennsylvania State University), and Matt Golder (Pennsylvania State University), moderated by the previous Head of the Center, Professor Haruko Noguchi (Waseda University).<\/p>\n

The symposium started with opening remarks from President Aiji Tanaka of Waseda University. As the first Head of the Center, he mentioned how the Center was selected for\u00a0 Waseda\u2019s Top Global University (TGU) Project, what was achieved in the Center\u2019s ten-year of activities, and what he looked forward to in the symposium.<\/p>\n

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President Aiji Tanaka<\/p><\/div>\n

Guest Speeches<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Next, we had plenary talks by the three economists and two political scientists.<\/p>\n

Professor Charles Noussair, Eller Professor of Economics, University of Arizona<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\u201cLaboratory experiments, institutions, and political economy\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Professor Noussair introduced his latest research on institutions and economic development. Using laboratory experiments based on a growth model with poverty traps, he compared the macroeconomic performance of four politico-economic institutions.<\/p>\n\n\t\t