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Susumu Imai

Faculty of Economics and Business

Hokkaido University

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Faculty of Economics and Business

Hokkaido University

Kita 9, Nishi 7, Kita Ku, Sapporo, Japan, Postal Code:060-0809

Research

Susumu Imai

Refereed Publications

“A Quantile-based Test of Protection for Sale Model,” with Hajime Katayama and Kala Krishna, Journal of International Economics, September, 2013, Volume 91, Issue 1, Pages 40-52.

“A practitioner’s guide to Bayesian estimation of discrete choice dynamic programming models, ” Quantitative Marketing and Economics, June, 2012, Volume 10, Issue 2, Pages 151-196.

“Bayesian Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models,” with Neelam Jain and Andrew Ching: QED Working Paper No. 1118, Econometrica, December 2009, Volume 77, Issue 6, Pages 1865-1899.

“Protection for Sale or Surge Protection?,” with Hajime Katayama and Kala Krishna: QED Working Paper, No. 1114, European Economic Review, August 2009, Volume 53, Issue 6, Pages 675-688.

“Is Protection Really for Sale? A Survey and Directions for Future Research,” with Hajime Katayama and Kala Krishna, QED Working Paper No. 1151, International Review of Economics and Finance, March 2009, Volume 18, Issue 2, pp. 181-191.

“The Inside Scoop: Acceptance and Rejection at the JIE,” with Ivan Cherkashin, Svetlana Demidova and Kala Krishna, QED Working Paper, No. 1166, Journal of International Economics, February 2009, vol. 77, Issue, 1, pp. 120-132.

“Evaluating journal performance using inside data”, with Ivan Cherkashin, Svetlana Demidova and Kala Krishna, voxEU.org, July 2008.

“Employment, Deterrence and Crime in a Dynamic Model,” with Kala Krishna, International Economic Review, August 2004 Volume 45, Issue No. 3, pp. 845-872.

“Intertemporal Labor Supply and Human Capital Accumulation,” with Michael P. Keane, International Economic Review, February 2004, Volume 45, Issue No. 2, pp. 601-641.

“Brand and Quantity Dynamics under Price Uncertainty,” with Tulin Erdem and Michael P. Keane, Quantitative Marketing and Economics, March 2003, Volume 1, Issue No. 1, pp. 5-64.

“The Benefits of Owner-Occupation in Neighborhoods,” with Edward Coulson, Seok- Joon Hwang, Journal of Housing Research, 2003, Volume 14, Issue No. 1, pp. 21-48.

“The Value of Owner-Occupation in Neighborhoods,” with Edward Coulson, Seok-Joon Hwang, Journal of Housing Research, 2003, Volume 13, Issue No. 2, pp. 153-174.

Susumu Imai “Policy Evaluation in Labor Economics—The Structural Estimation Method and the Natural Experiment Approach,” with Toshihide Arimura, and Hajime Katayama: The Monthly Journal of Japan Institute of Labor, December 2001, No. 497, pp. 14-21.

Working Paper

"From Engineer to Taxi Driver? Language Proficiency and the Occupational Skills of Immigrants," with Derek Stacey and Casey Warman, revise and resubmit at Canadian Journal of Economics.

"Identification and Estimation of Differentiated Products Models using Market Size and Cost Data," with David Byrne, Neelam Jain, Vasilis Sarafidis and Masayuki Hirukawa: revise and resubmit at Journal of Econometrics

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"Employment, Job Skills and Occupational Mobility of Cancer Survivors," with Eskil Heinesen and Shiko Maruyama, revise and resubmit at Journal of Health Economics

Industrial Organization A (産業組織論特論A)

Lecture Note No. 1

産業組織論

目標：

企業の行動と戦略、産業組織の基礎的な経済理論を習得すること。

企業の様々な行動と戦略の原理を理論的に考察し、現実の経済問題に応用できるようになること。

成績評価

宿題等の課題：５０％。宿題は期日までに終わらせる。その時にわからないことがあった場合、期日の授業で議論し、その次の授業で提出する。期日厳守であるので、期日までの学生の努力が不足であると判断した場合、教員は期日に提出を命じることができる。

中間試験、期末試験の成績の成績のどちらかで、より成績の良い結果：５０％.

試験を止む終えない理由で欠席する場合は、教務に連絡をして許可を取る手続きを取ること。それを行わなった場合は、試験は出席したもとのみなし、成績は０点とする。

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