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Faculty of Economics TG Economics Research Group

Tohoku Gakuin University, Faculty Faculty of Economics Department of Economics
TG Economics Research Group

The TG Economics Research Group serves as a forum for faculty members within Faculty of Economics to present their research findings, as well as a platform for gaining insights from researchers outside the university.

Event Overview

2026年度
Date and Venue Report topic Reporter (Affiliation)
1st Friday, May 22nd
16:45-18:15
Hoy Memorial Hall H303
The consequences of fiscal decentralization: Decentralized police forces and local crime Naruki Nozu (Osaka University Graduate Schools)
2nd time Thursday, June 25th
15:30-16:30
Hoy Memorial Hall H303
A.C. Pigou's Macroeconomic Thought: How He Viewed Economic Intervention YOSHIHARA, Chizuru Mr. (Tohoku Gakuin University)
3rd July 17th (Friday)
16:45-18:15
Hoy Memorial Hall H303
Joneses: a study of investment in `status goods'(joint work with Nick Vriend and Yuta Shimodaira) Nobuyuki Hanaki (Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University)
4th Wednesday, August 26th
13:00-17:45
Hoy Memorial Hall H303
Co-sponsored by the KMSG Research Group
Urban and Regional Economic Research on Compact City Policies in Local Cities in an Era of Population Decline and Super-Aging Population: Focusing on the Philosophy and Practice of Urban Policy in Toyama City Yudai Fujioka (Kyoto University of Advanced Science)
The Role of Default Probability in the Nonlinear Relationship between Public Debt and Economic Growth Naoto Tanemoto (Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Finance)
TBA Shinya Horie (Onomichi City University)
The influence of the instructor for Introduction to Economics 2 on grades in Macroeconomics 1 and on students' interest in economics (tentative) Shin Imoto (Onomichi City University)
5th August 27th (Thursday)
9:00 - 11:50
Hoy Memorial Hall H303
Co-sponsored by the KMSG Research Group
Social Mobility and Endogenous Fertility (with H. Tanaka) Masaya Yasuoka (Kwansei Gakuin University)
Upstream Embedding in Global Value Chains and Its Determinants Zhao Jun (Tohoku Gakuin University)
TBA Atsushi Miyake (Kobe Gakuin University)
6th Thursday, September 3rd
16:30-18:00
Hoy Memorial Hall H303
Combatting Noise Pollution Takeshi Sugasawa (Japan Housing Comprehensive Center)
2025年度
Date and Venue Report topic Reporter (Affiliation)
1st June 13th (Friday)
17:00-18:30
Room 642, Building 6
Conspiracy Theories and Their Political Consequences: A Game Theory-Based Approach Daiki Kishishita (Hitotsubashi University)
2nd time Thursday, June 26th
15:30-16:30
Hoy Memorial Hall H202
Preferences for home AI and robots OMORI, Yoshiaki Mr. (Tohoku Gakuin University)
3rd Thursday, July 31st
16:30-18:00
Room 642, Building 6
Intransitive indifference with direction-dependent sensitivity Nobuo Koida (Iwate Prefectural University)
4th September 2nd (Tuesday)
13:00-16:50
Room 642, Building 6
Co-sponsored by the KMSG Research Group
Extension to multi-period overlapping generation models – based on the two-period overlapping generation model Masaya Yasuoka (Kwansei Gakuin University)
The Impact of Transboundary Pollution on Demographic Patterns and Social Welfare (Co-authored with Tohru Naito) Hiroyuki Hashimoto (University of Hyogo)
Impact of Energy Price on Directed Technical Change and Energy Demand: An Analysis using a Small Open Economy Model Kenichiro Ikeshita (Kyushu University)
Industrial location in the presence of competition among the big and the small Akihiko Yanase (Nagoya University)
5th Wednesday, September 3rd
9:00 - 11:50
Room 642, Building 6
Co-sponsored by the KMSG Research Group
A Trial Study on the Effects of Public Transportation Decline on Economic Growth Models (Joint Research with Satoru Hashimoto, Aomori Public University) Kazuki Tatsumi (Chukyo University)
The impact of domestic and foreign government debt on economic growth in the U.S. economy: An analysis using the TVAR model. Naoto Tanemoto (Kobe University)
Task Content and Gender Wage Gap in Japan: Evidence from Worker-Level Task Data (Co-authored with Itsuki Maeda, Sumie Sato, and Kazufumi Yugami) Tomokazu Nomura (Osaka University of Economics)
6th Thursday, November 13th
16:30-18:00
Room 642, Building 6
A data-driven approach to preventing financial troubles: Simple screening of encounter probability and identification of predictive factors for each type (Joint research with Hiromasa Takahashi (Hiroshima City University) and Toru Takemoto (Nihon University)) Akihiro Suzuki (Yamagata University)
7th February 13th (Friday)
16:30-18:00
Room 642, Building 6
Why do "foreigner issues" arise? : Drawing on research into British economic history. Shotaro Saito (Toyo University)
8th Friday, February 27th
16:30-18:00
Room 642, Building 6
Has outsourcing to private companies in water utilities contributed to cost efficiency? Yurika Shiozu (Kyoto Sangyo University)

Event Overview

2024年度
Date and Venue Report topic Reporter (Affiliation)
1st Thursday, May 30th
16:00-17:30
Hoy Memorial Hall H202
Climate change and development KUBOTA, Keiko Mr. (Tohoku Gakuin University)
A study on the relationship between intraday returns by company size and intraday liquidity risk in the US stock market under the COVID-19 shock. IWAMOTO, Nana Mr. (Tohoku Gakuin University)
Field experiment on farmland consolidation using a matching algorithm in Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture KUROSAKA, Kengo Mr. (Tohoku Gakuin University)
2nd time Thursday, July 4th
17:00-18:30
Remote method
Credit, Land Speculation, and Long-Run Economic Growth Tomohiro Hirano (Royal Holloway, University of London)
others Monday, September 2nd
September 3rd (Tuesday)

Cancelled due to Typhoon No. 10
Room 641, Building 6
The 77th KMSG Study Group Meeting (co-sponsored by the KMSG Study Group) (PDF: 690KB)
3rd Thursday, September 26th
15:00-18:15
Hoy Memorial Hall H303
Upgrading in GVCs: The case of emerging ASEAN countries Zhao Jun (Tohoku Gakuin University)
Foreign Direct Investment and Labor Market
Flexibility in Host and Source Countries
Isao Kamada (Niigata Prefectural University)
4th Thursday, November 21st
15:00-18:15
Hoy Memorial Hall H301
The impact of flight noise on urban housing markets: Evidence from the new landing flight paths of Haneda Airport in Japan Takeshi Sugasawa (Japan Housing Comprehensive Center)
Birds of a feather flock together?
A network analysis of emerging art galleries in New York City
Mr. Isidoro Mazza (Universita di Catania)
5th Thursday, January 30th
17:00-18:30
Hoy Memorial Hall H202
What do high-achieving graduates bring to nonacademic track high schools? Yuta Kuroda (Osaka Metropolitan University)
6th March 18th (Tuesday)
16:30-18:00
Hoy Memorial Museum
Faculty of Economics Educational Support Office
Paying to avoid the spotlight (joint work with Te Bao and John Duffy) Nobuyuki Hanaki (Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University)
7th Friday, March 21st
16:30-18:00
Hoy Memorial Museum
Faculty of Economics Educational Support Office
Interpersonal projection in the workplace Takeharu Sogawa (SKEMA Business School)
2023年度
Date and Venue Report topic Reporter (Affiliation)
1st August 3rd (Thursday)
15:30-17:30
Hoy Memorial Hall H301
A look back at the progress of our research to date – focusing on research on social security system reform using overlapping generation models. Kenhiro Ito (Tohoku Gakuin University)
Does disclosure of success rates induce patients to move to better clinics? Evidence from In Vitro Fertilization Atsushi Yoshida (Tohoku Gakuin University)
2nd time Thursday, February 22nd
17:00-18:30
Hoy Memorial Hall H303
Effects of Relaxing Residence Status for Foreign Workers on Native Residents (Co-authored with Masaya Yasuoka) Masatoshi Kanno (Nanzan University)
3rd March 19th (Tuesday)
16:00-17:30
Hoy Memorial Hall, Faculty of Economics Educational Support Office
How does Multinational Respond to US-China Trade War: Evidence from Japanese firm-level data Toshiyuki Matsuura (Keio University)
2022年度
Date and Venue Report topic Reporter (Affiliation)
1st Thursday, November 10th
16:30-18:00
Hoy Memorial Hall H202
Green initiatives and processes in business and governmental organizations Dries Couckuyt (Ghent University)
2nd time Wednesday, February 15th
16:30-18:00
Hoy Memorial Hall H202
Wasteful Trade Barriers in Oligopoly Keita Kamei (Seinan Gakuin University)
3rd Wednesday, March 29th
10:00-11:30
Hoy Memorial Hall H202
The effect of cultural capital on economic growth and social welfare Tsuyoshi Shinozaki (Tohoku Gakuin University)
2021年度
Date and Venue Report topic Reporter (Affiliation)
1st Thursday, December 9th
13:00-14:30
Online event
Empirical Analysis of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident and Mental Health: Based on the Continued Survey in Futaba Town Keiko Iwasaki (Nissei Basic Research Institute)
2nd time Thursday, January 20th
13:00-14:30
Online event
Natural Disasters and Firm Selection: Heterogeneous Effects of Flooding Events on Manufacturing Sectors in Japan Atsushi Yoshida (Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University)
3rd Thursday, January 27th
16:00-17:30
Online event
The long-held dream of an economic theorist: Society 5.0, Evolution Daisuke Tosai (Graduate School of Economics Tohoku University)
4th Thursday, February 10th
13:00-14:30
Online event
Are civil servants more honest than private sector workers? Manami Tsuruta (JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Doshisha University)
5th Thursday, February 17th
13:00-14:30
Online event
Discrimination against Foreigners in the Rental Housing Markets of Tokyo Takeshi Sugasawa (Japan Housing Comprehensive Center)
6th Thursday, March 3rd
13:00-14:30
Online event
Empirical analysis of the effects of infection prevention policies on controlling human movement during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yuki Sato (Yotta Informatics Research Center, Tohoku University)

All venues are located within the Tsuchitoi Campus of Tohoku Gakuin University.

Contact information

Representative of the TG Economics Study Group YOSHIDA, Jun