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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.

Faculty of Economic at The University of Tokyo
2206: Labor Economics
Winter Saguchi

This course will cover the theory, insitutions and history of labor markets and employment relations.

Game Theory and Applications
General Information
This course covers game theory and its applications to various fields of economics. It studies static games with complete information, dynamic games with complete information, static games with incomplete information, dynamic games with incomplete information, and the equilibrium concepts corresponding to these games. It considers applications of these concepts to the study of industrial organization, international trade, labor economics, public economics, corporate finance, and monetary economics. Applications to auction and bargaining are also considered. Finally, it offers an introduction to mechanism design and its application to the procurement problem.

Management Program at College of Management Guizhou University
The College of Guizhou University has the following undergraduate programs: Management of Human Resources, Industrial and Commercial Management, Tourism Management, Forestry Economic Management, Engineering Management, Administrative Management, Public Service Management, Labor and Social Security and Librarianship. The College also offers 5 Master’s programs in Agricultural Economic Management, Forestry Economic Management, Enterprise Management, Administrative Management and Social Security, and 1 specialized Master of Business Administration (MBA) program. The College has 1 provincial key disciplinary area (Agricultural and Forestry Economic Management), and 4 research institutions at university level, namely, Institute of Regional Economy, Research Center of Modern Management, Research Center of Public Polices and Research Center of the Development of Less-developed Areas. In 2004, the College undertook 5 research projects at the State level, 21 at the province-/ministry-level and 8 lateral ones, with a funding of 3.7 million RMB for research.

Presently, the College has an enrolment of 2,890 undergraduates and 551 postgraduates (of whom 425 are MBA students). The full-time teaching staff number 107, of whom 15 are full professors and 28 associate professors.

The College provides programs of education in a full range of disciplines with a rational structure at different levels. The College hopes to be authorized to confer PhD degree before 2006. Meanwhile, it will strive to promote the development of MA study on specialized subjects, trying to be qualified in operation and enrolment of MPA while quickening the development of the MBA program. At present, the application for being authorized to confer MPA degree has been assessed by the State Council Academic Degree Appraisal Committee.