Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study

  1. 24 February, The HIAS Brown Bag Seminar #25: Dr. Marc K. Francke (Specially Appointed Professor, HIAS), “Graph-Laplacian Modeling of Spatio-Temporal Effects for House-Price Estimation” (onsite)

  2. 12 February, The HIAS Brown Bag Seminar #24: Robert Hill (Specially Appointed Professor, HIAS), “Are Energy Efficiency Improvements Capitalized in Property Prices? A Hedonic Analysis of Market Incentives” (onsite)

  3. David Uriel Socol de la Osa (Assistant Professor, HIAS) has been appointed Area Editor for Data & Policy (Cambridge University Press) in January 2026

  4. David Uriel Socol de la Osa (Assistant Professor, HIAS) has been appointed Senior Associate of the Oxford EARTH (Ensuring Equitable Access to Sustainable Resources for a Thriving Habitat) program in August 2025

  5. Marco Nutta (Assistant Professor, HIAS) and Hiromi Kamata (Professor, School of Business Administration, Hitotsubashi University) have been invited to serve as Guest Editors for an upcoming special issue of the Journal of Foodservice Business Research titled “Beverage Experiences and Tourism in the Asia Pacific: A Consumer Focus.”

  6. 8 January, The HIAS Brown Bag Seminar #23: Savu Rovanto (Assistant Professor, HIAS), “Navigating authenticity and legitimacy in meaningful work: Repair professionals’ experiences in Finland” (onsite)

  7. Hamza Umer (Specially Appointed Assistant Professor) delivered a guest seminar titled “Applications of Religious Nudging in Economics” at the College of Economics and Political Science, Sultan Qaboos University (SQU), Oman on Dec.16th.

  8. Hamza Umer (Specially Appointed Assistant Professor) delivered a guest lecture titled “Research Methods: Surveys” to graduate students at the Jinnah School of Public Policy and Leadership (JSPPL), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan.

  9. 4 December, The 22nd Brown Bag Seminar: “Can AI Identify Crucial Health-related Research Questions – and, if so, What AI Tool Might We Best Use?”, Dr. Maria Lohan (Specially Appointed Professor, HIAS / Professor, Queen’s University Belfast) [onsite]

  10. 13 November, The 21st Brown Bag Seminar: Mandy Ryan (Specially Appointed Professor, HIAS), “Public preferences and trade-offs for government interventions during a pandemic in the UK: a discrete choice experiment” (The 82nd HIAS Health Regular Seminar, In Person/Zoom)