9月4日、5日の2日間、本学神山ホールにて、本学部の菅原宏太教授が主催する日伊国際研究フォーラムが開催された。 “Political economics on the market,non-market,and collective activity”と題して行われたフォーラムでは、イタリア人研究者７名、日本人研究者７名のそれぞれから研究発表がなされ、総勢33名の日伊の研究者間で公共経済学の様々なテーマが議論された。発表内容は以下のとおりである。

• Corporate tax rates and investment and location choices of Canadian firms
• On the allocation of talents
• Operating cost for public nursery schools and the effects of the 2004 reform in Japan
• Cultural heritage policies: a new framework for our past
• Interaction between public and private Investment: evidence from Japanese prefectures
• An assessment of the relationship between teaching and research performances in a static and dynamic perspective
• Strategic delegation in public investment competition
• Does fiscal decentralization improve health outcomes? Evidence from infant mortality in Italy
• Evaluation of fiscal effect on municipal mergers: Quasi-experimental evidence from Japanese municipal data
• Social interactions in inappropriate behavior for childbirth services: Theory and evidence from the Italian hospital sector
• A politico-economic approach on public debt in an endogenous growth economy
• Is competition able to mitigate the waste effects of corruption?
  Empirical findings on Italian public work contracts
• The effect of improving information on a mixed oligopolistic long-term care market
• Treasury Auctions and Secondary Market Dynamics. An Analysis Based on the MTS Market for Italy