2025年度の活動報告
Kenta Tanaka (Research Group Representative)
Activity results
In order to achieve the objectives of this study group, which are to deepen academic knowledge for building a sustainable society and economy and to stimulate research activities that contribute to building a sustainable society and economy, this study group has been working to build a research system through exchanges and discussions with related researchers both in Japan and abroad.
In fiscal year 2025, as before, the study group activities were mainly conducted through seminars inviting domestic and international researchers. This year's research meetings included a total of 12 research seminars and meetings, including those co-hosted with funding from other research sources. We were able to invite not only researchers affiliated with Japanese research institutions but also those conducting research overseas, and as in the previous year, we gained multifaceted insights for building sustainable societies and economies. The research seminars held in fiscal year 2025 are as follows. (The affiliation of the reporter is as of the time of reporting.) )
<Research meetings held>
・Ryo Takahashi (Waseda University / UC Santa Barbara)
Date: Thursday, June 19, 2025
Time: 13:30-15:00
Title: Gaming for Cohesion: A Study on Integrating Refugees Through Virtual Intergroup Contact
・Shōu Tanaka (Kanazawa Seiryo University)
Date: Thursday, September 7, 2025
Time: 13:30-15:00
Title: Technological progress, firm selection, and unemployment
- Kotaku Komatsu (Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University)
Date: Thursday, October 9, 2025
Time: 16:30-18:00
Title: Temporary Layoffs and Unemployment Insurance
- Junpei Hamamura (Kwansei Gakuin University)
Date: Thursday, October 16, 2025
Time: 16:30-18:00
Title: Harakiri: Is Japanese Managerial Compensation "Sticky"?
・Masanori Tsuruoka, Takashi Sano (Yokohama National University)
Date: Thursday, November 6, 2025
Time: 16:30-18:00
Title: Beyond Quasilinearity: Exploring Nonlinear Scoring Rules in Procurement Auctions and Uncertain Quality Evaluation in Procurement Auctions
・Taketaka Sugasawa (Japan Housing Center)
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2025
Time: 16:30-18:00
Title: The Effect of the Property Tax Reform on High-Rise Condominium Transactions
- Jun Yamaoka (Kobe University, Graduate School of Economics ・ Faculty of Economics)
Date: Thursday, November 27, 2025
Time: 16:30-18:00
Title: Emergency Transport Data and Economic Research—From Micro-Behavioral Change to Institutional Design Evaluation
・Masayuki Sawada (Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)
Date: Thursday, December 11, 2025
Time: 16:30-18:00
Title: A unified test for regression discontinuity designs
・Lizi Yu (University of Queensland)
Date: Thursday, January 15, 2026
Time: 13:00-14:30
Title: Air Pollution and Job Search: Workers' Willingness to Pay for Clean Air
・Kensei Nakamura (Hitotsubashi University)
Date: Friday, January 30, 2026
Time: 16:30-18:00
Title: Agreement with reservation of judgment under risk
・Hiroto Sato (Nagoya University)
Date: Monday, February 16, 2026
Time: 16:30-18:00
Title: Managing Learning Structures
- Shinpei Noguchi (Hitotsubashi University)
Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2026
Time: 16:30-18:00
Title: Robustly Optimal Voting Rule
Furthermore, after discussions in previous study groups, applications are also made for joint research within the group members, as well as for external research grants such as scientific and technological research grants and foundations for future joint research.
Future developments
Regarding future developments for this study group, in order to achieve the goal of this study group, which is to advance research that contributes to the creation of a sustainable society and economy, we plan to continue to hold study groups, research seminars, research workshops, etc., inviting related researchers from Japan and abroad. Furthermore, based on the knowledge gained from the study group's activities so far, we will more actively promote collaborative research that makes use of the networks that have been formed between and through the study group's activities. Furthermore, we would like to further promote exchanges with researchers in other academic fields and expand our study group activities so that study group members can also participate.