Research Presentations by Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellows (Session 4)
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In this session of the Shorenstein APARC Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellows Research Presentations, the following will be presented:
Jun Ding, “Corporate Social Responsibility in State-Owned Enterprises”
State-owned enterprises (SOEs) play an important role in China’s industrialization achievement and support social service functions in the planning era. After China entered the marketing era, SOEs declined substantially and are in need of reform. Ding believes SOEs should be restructured and that supernumeraries and social services functions should be separated from the primary mission of SOEs into society. Ding’s research emphasizes recommendations found in corporate social responsibility that exists in China.
Mitsutoshi Kumagai, “Impact on Growing On-line Video Services on Pay TV Business Model”
Recently, YouTube is not the only online video service many people enjoy. Big players of traditional broadcasting industries are making strategic approaches in online space. Kumagai’s presentation reviews and assesses those challenges in TV industries and its value as advertisement media.
Tadashi Ogino, “Smart Meters in the United States and Japan”
A smart meter is an advanced electric meter that measures the electricity usage in more detail than a conventional meter. Utility companies and customers can use this data for energy efficiency. A smart meter is a key component for the next generation electric grid. Many smart meters have already been installed in the US, but smart meters are not used in Japan. Ogino analyzes the current situation of smart meter projects in the US and in Japan. He tries to understand why smart meters are not prominent in Japan.
Ayaka Takashima, "Women Entrepreneurs in Japan and the United States”
Recently in Japan, women entrepreneurs have been becoming one of the career choices for women. As an employee of Nissouken, which provides entrepreneurship program, Takashima is trying to reveal women entrepreneurs' habitat and tendency through comparative research.
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Jun Ding
Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellow, PetroChina
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Mitsutoshi Kumagai
Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellow, Sumitomo Corporation
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Tadashi Ogino
Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellow, Mitsubishi Electric
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Ayaka Takashima
Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellow, Nissoken
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Research Presentations by Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellows (Session 2)
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In this session of the Shorenstein APARC Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellows Research Presentations, the following will be presented:
Hiroyuki Koyano, "The Strategy for Accerlation of Patent Examination - Focusing on Human Resource Management"
The number of patent application filings has increased across the world as a result of the globalization of the world economy. In addition, technology has become more complex and the demands for a quality patent has grown. Working against this trend, the period of patent examination has become longer, so patent offices have adopted plans to remedy the situation and accelerate patent examination. Hiroyuki Koyano attempts to compare the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) plans with those of JPO’s and analyze the problems focusing mainly on human resource management.
Mitsue Kurihara, "The Recent M&A Boom in Japan"
Mergers and Acquisitons in Japan have been booming since the late 1990s. What initially started as a method for industrial rehabilitation, today, M&A is put to use by many companies as part of their corporate strategy. Utilizing her experiences as an advisor for M&A, Kurihara researches the remarkable trend in the boom of Japanese M&A over the last ten years, as well as the future of Japanese M&A market in terms of where it should be headed.
Bhavna Sharma, “Polymorphisms in Breast Cancer Mutation Carriers: Comparative Studies in Caucasian and Hong Kong Population”
Breast cancer rates differ significantly in Asia compared to the United States and other western countries. Lifestyle and genetic differences between these populations are probably causes of this variation. Sharma presents findings from her study that hypothesized that the genetic breast cancer risk factors that differ between BRCA1/2 mutation carriers in Asia and the U.S. may result in a different magnitude of breast cancer risk among Asians versus Caucasians who carry BRCA1/2 mutations.
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Hiroyuki Koyano
Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellow, Japan Patent Office
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Mitsue Kurihara
Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellow, Development Bank of Japan
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Bhavna Sharma
Corporate Affiliate Visiting Fellow, Reliance Industries, India
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A New Era in Cross-Strait Relations--Challenges, Opportunities, and Constraints
The symposium will bring together scholars and current and former government officials from Taiwan, China, and US to take stock of cross-strait relations over the past decade. It will also assess the future development of cross-strait interactions from different angles including economic, political, and security perspectives.
Friday, May 29, 2009 |
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Registration & Reception |
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8:45 am to 9:00 am |
Introduction by Larry Diamond, Director of CDDRL; Senior Fellow of Hoover Institution and FSI, Stanford University |
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9:00 am to 10:30 am |
Session I: Cross-Strait Relations under the DPP Administration Moderator: Larry Diamond, Director of CDDRL; Senior Fellow of Hoover Institution and FSI, Stanford University Speakers:
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10:50 am to 12:15 pm |
Session II: Recent Development under the KMT Administration Moderator: Ramon Myers, Senior Fellow Emeritus of Hoover Institution, Stanford University Speakers:
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1:30 pm to 3:00 pm |
Session III: Economic Dimension of Cross-Strait Relations Moderator: Henry Rowen, Senior Fellow of Hoover Institution; Emeritus Director, Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, Stanford University Speakers:
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3:20 pm to 4:45 pm |
Session IV: Taiwan's Domestic Politics and Cross-Strait Relations Moderator: Eric Yu, Research Fellow & Program Manager, CDDRL, Stanford University Speakers:
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Saturday, May 30, 2009 |
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Session V: Taiwan's Security and Cross-Strait Relations Moderator: Larry Diamond, Director of CDDRL; Senior Fellow of Hoover Institution and FSI, Stanford University Speakers:
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Session VI: Impact of Cross-Strait Exchanges on Mainland China Moderator: TJ Cheng, Class of 1935 Professor of Political Science, College of William and Mary Speakers:
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| 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm | Roundtable Conclusion |
Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center
Symposiums
Three Challenges in One - The Economy, Energy and the Environment: Engaging China
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PESD Faculty Fellow David Victor spoke at the plenary session "Three Challenges in One -- The Economy, Energy, and the Environment." His talk, "Engaging China", focused on China and the U.S.'s key role in negotiating talks that tackle specific ways to address the current energy challenges.
The talk was part of the World Affairs Council's 63rd Annual International Affairs Conference "Global Priorities: Critical Choices for the Obama Administration".
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David G. Victor
School of International Relations and Pacific Studies
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David Victor on KQED's 'City Arts and Lectures' discusses China and energy
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The World Affairs Council is broadcasting the keynote and plenary sessions from its 2009 Annual International Affairs Conference on KQED Public Radio (88.5 FM) for four nights at 8 pm, starting May 4-7. The theme of this year's conference was "Global Priorities: Critical Choices for the Obama Administration.
David Victor's talk on "Engaging China", part of a plenary session entitled "Three Challenges in One – The Economy, Energy, and the Environment", airs Tuesday, May 5 at 8 pm.
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AHPP sponsors special journal issue on health service provider incentives
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AHPP sponsors special journal issue on health service provider incentives
The Director of the Asia Health Policy Program, Karen Eggleston, served as guest editor of the International Journal of Healthcare Finance and Economics for the June 2009 issue. The eight papers of that issue evaluate different provider payment methods in comparative international perspective, with authors from Hungary, China, Thailand, the US, Switzerland, and Canada. These contributions illustrate how the array of incentives facing providers shapes their interpersonal, clinical, administrative, and investment decisions in ways that profoundly impact the performance of health care systems.
The collection leads off with a study by János Kornai, one of the most prominent scholars of socialism and post-socialist transition, and the originator of the concept of the soft budget constraint. Kornai’s paper examines the political economy of why soft budget constraints appear to be especially prevalent among health care providers, compared to other sectors of the economy.
Two other papers in the issue take up the challenge of empirically identifying the extent of soft budget constraints among hospitals and their impact on safety net services, quality of care, and efficiency, in the United States (Shen and Eggleston) and – even more preliminarily – in China (Eggleston and colleagues, AHPP working paper #8).
The impact of adopting National Health Insurance (NHI) and policies separating prescribing from dispensing are the subject of Kang-Hung Chang’s article entitled “The healer or the druggist: Effects of two health care policies in Taiwan on elderly patients’ choice between physician and pharmacist services” (AHPP working paper #5).
In “Does your health care depend on how your insurer pays providers? Variation in utilization and outcomes in Thailand” (AHPP working paper #4), Sanita Hirunrassamee of Chulalongkorn University and Sauwakon Ratanawijitrasin of Mahidol University study the impact of multiple provider payment methods in Thailand, providing striking evidence consistent with standard predictions of how payment incentives shape provider behavior. For example, patients whose insurers paid on a capitated or case basis (the 30 Baht and social security schemes) were less likely to receive new drugs than those for whom the insurer paid on a fee-for-service basis (civil servants). Patients with lung cancer were less likely to receive an MRI or a CT scan if payment involved supply-side cost sharing, compared to otherwise similar patients under fee-for-service. (This article is open access.)
The fourth paper in this special issue is entitled “Allocation of control rights and cooperation efficiency in public-private partnerships: Theory and evidence from the Chinese pharmaceutical industry” (AHPP working paper #6). Zhe Zhang and her colleagues use a survey of 140 pharmaceutical firms in China to explore the relationships between firms’ control rights within public-private partnerships and the firms’ investments.
Hai Fang, Hong Liu, and John A. Rizzo delve into another question of health service delivery design and accompanying supply-side incentives: requiring primary physician gatekeepers to monitor patient access to specialty care (AHPP working paper #2).
Direct comparisons of payment incentives in two or more countries are rare. In “An economic analysis of payment for health care services: The United States and Switzerland compared,” Peter Zweifel and Ming Tai-Seale compare the nationwide uniform fee schedule for ambulatory medical services in Switzerland with the resource-based relative value scale in the United States.
Several of the papers featured in this special issue were presented at the conference “Provider Payment Incentives in the Asia-Pacific” convened November 7-8, 2008 at the China Center for Economic Research (CCER) at Peking University in Beijing. That conference was sponsored by the Asia Health Policy Program of the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University and CCER, with organizing team members from Stanford University, Peking University, and Seoul National University.
As Eggleston notes in the guest editorial to the special issue, AHPP and the other scholars associated with the issue “hope that these papers will contribute to more intellectual effort on how provider payment reforms, carefully designed and rigorously evaluated, can improve ‘value for money’ in health care.”
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