Faculty of Economic at The University of Tokyo
4405: Economic History of Asia
Summer Yasutomi
An alternativei vision on economy which depends on the Asian history and thoushts is presented.
Faculty of Economic at The University of Tokyo
4402: History of Japanese Economic Thought
Winter Takeda
This course covers the historical development of Japanese economic thought by focusing the following aspects. Premodern and modern in economic thought; market. firm, manager, labour, contract, economic policy etc. socio-economic backgraund.
Faculty of Economic at The University of Tokyo
4302: Information Network
Summer Nojima
In this lecture the role of Information Technology (IT) in company management will be discussed. One of the aims of this course is for undergraduate students to gain a basic comprehension of information management theory. We will review the history of the relationship between IT and company management chronologically. Company case studies in the IT industry will also be included in this lecture.
Faculty of Economic at The University of Tokyo
4220: Disability Studies II Winter Nagase
Disability Studies is a discipline which looks at disability from social and cultural perspective.
Faculty of Economic at The University of Tokyo
4219: Disability Studies I
Summer Kuramoto
This course is an introduction to Disability studies, in which we will explore the key concepts and issues in sociology of disability.
Faculty of Economic at The University of Tokyo
4218: Environmental Economics
Summer Fujiwara & Sawa
In this lecture, we describe various environmental problems that we face in the contemporary society, provide economic analyses toward social issues associated with these problems, look into the decision making process in the national and local governments in Japan, and explain policies to encounter them.
First we describe environmental problems in general and that of pollution, waste disposals and global warming. In particular, we deal with the Kyoto Protocol whose commitment period of reducing greenhouse gases has begun this year from the political and administrative perspective.
We then examine their implications to the necessity of creating a recycling society, and relationship between global warming, economic development and population explosion. We then turn to economic analyses of these problems: problems of static resource allocations such as externality and public goods and problems of dynamic resource allocations such as depletable and renewable resources, while comparing those theories with what really happened in some historical environmental problems. We discuss various policy tools that resolve these problems, e.g., regulations, Pigovian tax and subsidy, tradable permits, deposit system, as well as their implications to informational asymmetry and international trade. In particular, emission trading system which began with the Kyoto Protocol will be discussed. A short discussion of cost-benefit analysis for environmental protection and diplomacy for post-Kyoto is also planned.
Faculty of Economic at The University of Tokyo
4205: Russian Economy
Winter Okuda
This course addresses a general economic history of Russia, from the latter half of the 19th century up to the collapse of the Soviet Union, with a detailed account of the historical backgroung and formation of Stalinist economic regime.
Faculty of Economic at The University of Tokyo
4202: Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations
Winter Jinno
Public finance does not depict a single entity. By this remark, I do not mean that the public finances vary because there are over 190 countries in the world. Rather, the point is that in any given country there is no single state and hence no monolithic edifice of public finance. The state instead comprises many sub-sectors; and is in addition embodied in a central government and a multiplicity of subnational governments whose overall structure resembles a pyramid. In this lecture, we shall discuss the institutions that compose the nation-state as well as the fiscal transfers that allocate resources among them.
The lecture outline is as follows:
1) The concept of intergovernmental transfers
2) The evolution of the theory of intergovernmental transfers
3) Intergovernmental relations in budget making
4) The theory of tax-base allocation
5) The theory of control of fiscal resources
6) The theory of fiscal transfers
7) Centralization and decentralization in intergovernmental fiscal relations
Faculty of Economic at The University of Tokyo
4201: Regulatory Economics
Winter Matsumura & Kanemoto
This course introduces students to economic analysis of regulation, including both economic and social regulation. The main goal is to familialize students with the important topics in regulation policies today, and put students in a position to do their own policy analysis in this area. The course begins with an extensive discussion of economic theories necessary to understand regulatory policies.
Faculty of Economic at The University of Tokyo
4156: Advanced Topics on Macroeconomcis
Summer Esteban-Pretel
This is an advanced topics on macroeconomics course, where we will study and reproduce some papers in the macroeconomics literature. Topics from growth, to empirical analysis of the labor market will be covered in the course. The course will alternate lectures on the basic theory of the topics, lectures analyzing the specific papers and recitations with student presentations on the homeworks assigned on the papers. Homeworks will include the reproduction of theoretical and empirical results of the papers.
The three main objectives of the course are that the student learns some advance topics in the field of macroeconomics through the analysis of some important papers, that he/she learns how to reproduce some of the results of these papers and that he/she acquires presentation skills. This is an advance topics course and knowledge of basic econometrics is required, hence students planning to take this course are required to have taken at least one econometrics course. Students are also required to have a good knowledge of English, since the classes ,the papers assigned in the course and the students presentation will be in English.