{"id":132,"date":"2013-06-17T16:33:59","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T20:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rossweb.bus.umich.edu\/mitsui-life\/basic_page\/activities\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T09:58:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T13:58:50","slug":"activities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rossweb.bus.umich.edu\/mitsui-life\/activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ann Arbor, Michigan<\/strong> Symposium<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The Symposiums provide a venue for renowned researchers to present new and developing research in a setting conducive to intellectual exchange and collaboration. Most recent topics explored are Venture , Capital and Private Equity, Asset Pricing, Labor and Corporate Finance, Financial Intermediaries and Markets.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Tokyo, Japan<\/strong> Symposium<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Conferences are held annually and address emerging issues of importance to policy makers and provide Japanese practitioners life-long business education on an international stage. Some of the topics that have been addressed in the past include An Evaluation of the “New Capitalism”, Monetary Easing of Abenomics and Negative Interest Rates , Challenge of Japan\u2019s Public Pension Reform \u2013 Unification of the Public Pension Plans and New System of Asset Management, Abenomics; Results in the past and Expectation into the Future.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Mitsui Finance Seminars<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Mitsui Finance Seminars bring to campus distinguished speakers from academia and business to share their views and working knowledge with Michigan students and faculty.  Seminars are held on Fridays during the academic year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mitsui Finance Seminars
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Mitsui Finance Brown-Bag Seminars<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The finance area sponsors a brown-bag seminar series to discuss early research work by Finance faculty and Ph.D. students, and occasionally, hosts visiting speakers. Seminars are held on Wednesdays during the academic year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mitsui Finance Brown-Bag Seminars
Fall 2026 Schedule<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Publications<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Central to our mission is the ability to perform quality research that will make a positive impact in business thought and practice. The finance faculty, doctoral students, research fellows, and visiting scholars are engaged in researching a wide range of financial themes, including Corporate Finance, Asset Pricing, Social Capital, Financial Intermediation, Market Microstructure, and Real Estate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Corporate Governance Survey in Japan<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Japan Corporate Governance Research Institute (JCGR) has been conducting corporate governance surveys for companies listed on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange since 2002. In this survey, JCGR sends a questionnaire to the CEO of the all listed companies, and evaluates the corporate governance of the responding companies individually based on the returned response. JCGR reports the list of all responding companies and the list of top 50% companies as well as statistics of total responding companies. The Mitsui Life Center provides full support and funding for this study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cultural and Educational Exchanges<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Cultural and educational exchanges between Mitsui visiting research scholars and faculty, students, and staff, serve to increase mutual understanding between our country and theirs, as well as provide opportunities to pursue research collaboration within the Ross community.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Finance PhD Student Forum<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Student Forum provides Finance PhD students with the chance to present early-stage work to each other in an informal setting. The forum meetings foster collegial interaction and a sense of intellectual rigor and excitement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The forum meets on Mondays from 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. on an as-needed basis. Lunch is provided.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Collaborative Research<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Mitsui Center supports collaborative research projects with faculty in different business disciplines; projects currently being supported include two projects in Finance & Law and the ongoing corporate governance surveys in Japan. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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