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    [Accepting] IDE School on Spatial Economics for Young Economists @IDE-JETRO, October 15-17, 2025 The IDE School is a short-intensive academic program for young economists coming from all over the world. The school has a three-day program of lectures and workshops by inviting two eminent scholars. The aim of this program is to provide young economists an opportunity to join in on the latest developments in the field of Spatial Economics, and to present their own ongoing research followed by vital feedback and discussion in a relaxed and open atmosphere. While the school will primarily be appealing to those who work in the fields of Spatial, Urban and Regional Economics, we would very much ... Seminar Event Date： 2025.10.15 ～ 2025.10.17
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    [Accepting] Professor Yuki Higuchi (Sophia University): Gaming for Cohesion: A Study on Integrating Refugees Through Virtual Intergroup Contact This paper investigates the effects of intergroup contact in a virtual environment on social cohesion between ingroups and outgroups. By leveraging a virtual setting and using computer bots, we provide causal evidence on the heterogeneous effects of intergroup contact based on perceived outgroup performance levels. Developing an original gaming application, we conducted a nationwide pre-registered randomized controlled trial in Bangladesh, where Bangladeshi participants interacted virtually with Rohingya. We found that virtual interactions with Rohingya of similar or lower performance fostered... APL Event Date：2025.09.04
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    [Accepting] Professor Jun Goto (GRIPS): Judicial Independence and Economic Development: Evidence from the Constitutional Reinterpretation in India This paper investigates the causal impact of establishing judicial independence on economic development. We exploit a natural experiment arising from the 1993 “Second Judges Case” in India, in which the Supreme Court reinterpreted the constitution to eliminate direct political influence over judicial appointments. Under the new system, judges themselves began selecting High Court appointees, a peer-selection rule that applied to all appointments after 1993. Employing a difference-in-differences approach, we leverage variation introduced by the mandatory retirement age for High Court judges: ne... APL Event Date：2025.07.31
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    [Accepting] Dr Makoto Fukumoto (Waseda University): Good Lord, Bad Democrat?: Legacy of Competent Feudal Lord and Stagnation in Democratic Governance in Japan 1840-1937 Are high-quality institutions under nondemocratic regimes always beneficial for democratic development? This paper investigates the long-run political consequences of competent governance in feudal lords in the Tokugawa-era Japan (1600–1868), asking whether effective feudal rule fostered or hindered democratic participation and local initiative in the modern era. Using original measures of domain-level governance—riot frequency (1700–1868), Dutch-speaking scholar density (1868), and the 1870 discount rate of domain currencies—I examine their effects on voter turnout (1890–1900), anti-democrati... APL Event Date：2025.07.24