Hitotsubashi GCOE Conference series on Choice, Games, and Welfare:
Equality and Welfare
We are very pleased to announce the international conference on Equality
and Welfare as a part of Hitotsubashi G-COE Conference series on Choice,
Games, and Welfare. The purpose of this conference is to exchange research
works relevant to the issue of equality and welfare in a broader sense.
The presented topics by the speakers would be on theory of justice and
fairness based on social choice theory, Sen-type of normative economics,
multi-dimensional criteria on social welfare, empirical research on inequality,
exploitation, and implementation, etc, whose covered fields are economic
philosophy, welfare economics and social choice theory, political economy,
behavioral economics, etc. These topics would be also relevant to hot issues
of sociology, ethics, and political sciences, in a broader sense. All researchers
and students who are interested in these fields are more than welcome to
participant. The conference will he held on March 16(Friday) and 17(Saturday),
2012, at
Sincerely yours,
Naoki Yoshihara
(The conference organizer)
The More
Information about the Conference:
Dates: March 16(Fri) and 17(Sat), 2012
Location: Mercury Tower (7th floor, Building 39 on the campus map), Hitotsubashi University,
Kunitachi, Tokyo, Japan
Go to the following link to see ``Where is Hitotsubashi University?''
Organizers: Naoki Yoshihara (
Speakers: Walter Bossert (University of Montreal), Reiko Gotoh (Ritsumeikan University),Toru Hokari (Keio University), Biung-Ghi Ju (Seoul National University), Woojin Lee (Korea University), Michele Lombardi (University of Surrey), Prasata K. Pattanaik (University of California at Riverside), Tatsuyoshi Saijo (Osaka University), Martin Van Hees (University of Groningen), Roberto Veneziani (University of London, Queen Mary)
Note: if you want
to know what ``GCOE'' stands for, go to the following link: What
is GCOE?
Registration Procedure: If you plan to participate in
this conference, we ask you to follow the registration procedure below:
(1) You send email to Chieko Takada (our secretary of this conference) with
the title of ``equality and welfare.'' Her email address is
``GCOE-Info5@ier.hit-u.ac.jp
''.
(2) You provide us with the
following information:
(i) Name, (ii) Affiliation,
(iii) Position, (iv) whether or not you prefer lunch being provided; and (v)
whether or not you plan to participate in the conference reception (around
18:30 on March 16(Fri)). For items (iv) and (v), you just answer either ``YES''
or ``NO''.
Please let us know your
participation with the associated information by Feb 17 (Ｆｒｉ).
Program: .
March 16:
10:00-10:10, Opening Remark
10:10-11:10, Michele Lombardi (
“Natural
implementation with partially honest agents”
11:10-11:40, Coffee
Break
11:40-12:40, Toru Hokari (
“Anti-duality in TU-games applied to solutions, axioms, and axiomatizations”
12:40-14:00, Lunch Break
14:00-15:00, Tatsuyoshi Saijo (
15:00-15:30, Coffee Break
15:30-16:30, Biung-Ghi Ju (
"Fair adjudication of claims on multiple goods"(with J.D. Moreno-Ternero）
16:30-17:00, Coffee Break
17:00-18:00, Martin Van Hees (
“The Formula of Universal Law: A Reconstruction” (with M. Braham)
18:30-20:00, Reception
March 17:
10:00-11:00, Roberto Veneziani (
“Exploitation as the Unequal Exchange of
Labour : An Axiomatic Approach” (with
11:10-11:40, Coffee Break
11:30-12:30, Woojin Lee (
Father's education and son's achievement in Korea, Japan, and Taiwan"(with
A. Ueda, J. Ko, and F.Sun)
12:30-14:00, Lunch Break
14:00-15:00, Reiko Gotoh (
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15:00-15:30, Coffee Break
15:30-16:30, Walter Bossert (
“Product Filters, Acyclicity and Suzumura Consistency” (with K. Suzumura)
16:30-17:00, Coffee Break
17:00-18:00, Prasata K. Pattanaik (
“The ethical bases of public policies: a conceptual framework” (with Y.
Xu)
18:00-18:05, Closing Remark