Workshops

Workshops This Week

About Workshops

The Institute for Economic Studies (IES) holds the following research workshops.

Microeconomics Workshop

This workshop provides researchers in wide areas of Microeconomics and related fields with opportunities to present papers and exchanging research ideas. The topics include microeconomics theory, mathematical economics, game theory, contract theory, social choice theory, and their applications.This workshop is held on the last Monday (of the normal class days) of each month.

Macroeconomics Workshop

This workshop provides researchers in wide areas of Macroeconomics and related fields with opportunities to present papers and exchanging research ideas. The topics include both theoretical and applied research in economic growth, business cycles, monetary policy, and empirical studies of macroeconomics.

Econometrics Workshop

This workshop provides researchers in wide areas of Econometrics and related fields with opportunities to present papers and exchanging research ideas. The topics include both theoretical and empirical research in Econometrics, Financial Econometrics, Mathematical Finance, Macroeconometrics, Microeconometrics, Marketing, Mathematical Statistics, Computational Statistics.

Applied Economics Workshop

This workshop provides researchers and graduate students in wide areas of applied economics with opportunities to present papers and exchanging research ideas. We allow any research methods for economic theory, empirical studies, and experiments, to enhance understanding of common methodologies in different subfields of economic research. The topics include labor, environment, urban, health, education, development, family, public policy, industrial organization, political economy, and behavioral economics.

History of Economic Thought Workshop

This workshop provides researchers and graduate students in the history of economics and the history of social thought with opportunities to present papers and exchange research ideas. We welcome diverse methodological approaches, including textual analysis, contextual historical analysis, and comparative analyses, to deepen the historical understanding of economic and social ideas across different periods and intellectual traditions. Topics include classical political economy, history of economics, intellectual history, and broader social and political theories.

Economic History Workshop

This workshop aims to promote discussion and academic exchange among researchers on a wide range of topics related to economic history. It provides a forum for deepening our understanding of economic phenomena from historical perspectives and for sharing new insights. Please refer to individual announcements for details on participation and registration.

Economy and Society Workshop

This workshop aims to shed light on economic phenomena in a broad sense, providing a platform for intellectual exchange among researchers across various fields of the social sciences. We envision bringing together scholars from environmental economics, public finance, economic thought, demography, history, and other disciplines to propose concrete proposals and disseminate information on diverse societal issues.

Special Workshops

Special Workshop Series invite leading economists whose research activities cannot be confined into a small piece of research area and aim at higher-graded workshops. It is open to all who wish to make any contribution to the development of economics science.

The Keio‐IES workshops are supported by the Canon Institute for Global Studies