Role of experiments in social sciences

2009 Fiscal Year Self-evaluation Report

• Project Area: Experimental Social Sciences: Toward Experimentally-based New Social Sciences for the 21st Century
• Project/Area Number: 19046008
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Review Section: Humanities and Social Sciences
• Research Institution: Kyushu University
• Principal Investigator: IWASA Yoh Kyushu University, 大学院・理学研究院, 教授 (70176535)
• Project Period (FY): 2007 – 2012
• Keywords: 進化生物学 / ゲーム理論 / 契約理論 / 法哲学 / 正義

Research Abstract

本研究の目的は、第1に、社会科学における実験手法の意義と役割について、個別領域を超えた鳥瞰的・メタ理論的な視点から検討すること、第2に、特定領域「実験社会科学」の7つの計画研究班が生み出した具体的な実証知見を、社会科学あるいは自然科学の幅広い文脈に位置づけ意味を明らかにすると共に、さらなる研究展開を促すための批判装置として機能することである。

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Indirect reciprocity provides only a narrow margin of efficiency for the costly punishment. (2009)
  • Author(s): Ohtsuki, H., Y. Iwasa, M.A. Nowak
  • Journal Title: Nature 457 Pages: 179-182
• [Journal Article] Collusion as Public Monitoring Becomes Noisy: Experimental Evidence (2009)
  • Author(s): Aoyagi, M., G. Frechette
  • Journal Title: Journal of Economic Theory 144(3) Pages: 1135-65
• [Journal Article] 中間管理職の経済理論--モニタリング機能, 情報伝達とミドルのマネジメント (2009)
  • Author(s): 伊藤秀史・森谷文利
  • Journal Title: 日本労働研究雑誌 No.592 Pages: 47-59
• [Journal Article] Constitutional Legitimacy Reconsidered: Beyond the Myth of Consensus (2009)
  • Author(s): Tatsuo Inoue
  • Journal Title: Legisprudence: International Journal for the Study of Legislation 3 Pages: 19-41
• [Journal Article] Complementarities among Authority, Accountability, and Monitoring: Evidence from Japanese Business Groups (2008)
  • Author(s): Hideshi Itoh, Tatsuya Kikutani, Osamu Hayashida
  • Journal Title: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 22 Pages: 207-228
• [Journal Article] Nonlinear behavior of the socio-economic dynamics for lake water pollution control. (2007)
  • Author(s): Iwasa, Y., T. Uchida, H. Yokomizo
  • Journal Title: Ecological Economics 63 Pages: 219-229
• [Journal Article] Efficient Collusion in Repeated Auctions with Communication (2007)
  • Author(s): Aoyagi, M.
  • Journal Title: Journal of Economic Theory 134 Pages: 61-92
• [Journal Article] The Rule of Law as the Law of Legislation (2007)
  • Author(s): Tatsuo Inoue
  • Journal Title: Legislation in Context: Essays in Legisprudence, Ashgate Publishing Limited Pages: 55-74
• [Presentation] Asia-Pacific Meetings of the Economic Science Association (2010)
  • Author(s): Aoyagi, M.
  • Place of Presentation: University of Melbourne
  • Year and Date: 2010-02-20
• [Presentation] NBER Working Group in Organizational Economics Conference on Relational Contracts Formal Contracts, Relational Contracts, and the Holdup Problem (2009)
  • Author(s): H. Itoh.
  • Organizer: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
  • Place of Presentation: Cambridge MA, USA
  • Year and Date: 20091120-20091121
• [Presentation] 2007 Plenary Talk (2007)
  • Author(s): Iwasa, Y
  • Organizer: Mathematical Models in Evolution and Ecology 2007 "The leading eight: social norms that can maintain cooperation by indirect reciprocity. "
  • Place of Presentation: University of Sussex, UK
  • Year and Date: 2007-09-21
• [Book] ネットワーク財の経済分析 (2010)
  • Author(s): 青柳真樹
  • Publisher: 東洋経済新報社
• [Book] 岩波講座哲学10社会/公共性の哲学 (2009)
  • Author(s): 井上達夫
  • Publisher: 岩波書店
• [Book] 現代法哲学講義 (2009)
  • Author(s): 井上達夫
  • Publisher: 信山社
• [Book] 現代の経営理論 (2008)
  • Author(s): 伊藤秀史・沼上幹・田中一弘・軽部大
  • Total Pages: 264
  • Publisher: 有斐閣
• [Book] 生命の数理 (2008)
  • Author(s): 巌佐庸
  • Publisher: 共立出版
• [Book] 自由論 (2008)
  • Author(s): 井上達夫
  • Publisher: 岩波書店
• [Book] Business Portfolio Restructuring of Japanese Firms in the 1990s: Entry and Exit Analysis (2007)
  • Author(s): Tatsuya Kikutani, Hideshi Itoh, Osamu Hayashida
  • Total Pages: 227-256
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press