Friday, December 4, 2015

Masahiko Aoki Memorial Conference

Masahiko Aoki Memorial Conference

The Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) Japan Program with the Freeman Spogli Institute of International Studies (FSI) as well as the Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), and the Stanford Department of Economics will be hosting a memorial conference and service on December 4th and 5th in honor of the late Masahiko Aoki. December 4th will be a full day conference featuring topics within Masa's extensive field of study and research including theoretical and applied economics, theory of institutions, corporate architecture and governance, and the Japanese and Chinese economies. The day will culminate with a cocktail reception. The Celebration of Life on December 5th will be a gathering for family and friends in remembrance of Masa with a light lunch reception to follow.
December 4, 2015
Memorial Conference
Bechtel Conference Center, 616 Serra Street
Stanford University
Agenda
8:30am - 8:50am            Breakfast & Registration
8:50am - 9:00am            Welcome Remarks: Takeo Hoshi (Stanford University)
9:00am - 9:30am            Kenneth Arrow (Stanford University), “The Role of Organizational Structure in the Economy”
9:30am - 10:00am          Paul Milgrom (Stanford University), "Designing the US Incentive Auction"
10:00am - 10:30am        Break
10:30am - 11:00am        Koichi Hamada, Yale University, “Masahiko Aoki: A Social Scientist"
11:00am - 11:30am        Kotaro Suzumura (Hitotsubashi University), “Masahiko Aoki (1938-2015): Recollections of his Pilgrimage and Legacy in Japan”
11:30am - 12:00pm       Yingyi Qian (Tsinghua University), "Masahiko Aoki and China"
12:00pm - 1:15pm          Lunch
1:15pm - 1:45pm            Jiahua Che (Chinese University of Hong Kong) presenting Masahiko Aoki's
                                            "Three-person game of institutional resilience vc transition: A model and
                                              China-Japan comparative history"
1:45pm - 2:15pm           Miguel Angel Garcia Cestona (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona), "Corporate Governance and Employee Participation: some lessons from Mondragon"
2:15pm - 2:45pm           Herbert Gintis (Santa Fe Institute), "General Social Equilibrium and its Dynamics"
2:45pm - 3:15pm           Break
3:15pm - 3:45pm           Dale Jorgenson (Harvard University), "A Half Century of Trans-Pacific Competition"
3:45pm - 4:15pm           Avner Greif (Stanford University), "Comparative Institutional Analysis: China and Europe Compared"
4:15pm - 4:45pm           Francis Fukuyama (Stanford University), "Asian Kinship, Industrial Structure, and Trust in Government"
4:45pm - 5:00pm           Closing, Takeo Hoshi (Stanford University)
5:00pm - 6:00pm           Cocktail Reception
*Agenda is subject to change and will be updated as speakers are confirmed

December 5, 2015
Celebration of Life
Bechtel Conference Center, 616 Serra Street
Stanford University
Agenda
10:30am - 11:00am          Registration
11:00am - 12:00pm          Celebration of Life
12:00pm - 1:30pm            Lunch Reception

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