The 145th meeting jointly organized with International Public Policy Seminar
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Date | 2022.6.10 Fri 13:30 - 15:00 |
How to apply | Send an email to: rmikami@iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp |
Contact | MIKAMI, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo 03-5841-4936 |
The Osaka Workshop on Economics of Institutions and Organizations, OEIO, meets every month to exchange research ideas on institutional and organizational economics. Participants include both people specialized in theoretical research and those in empirical research. Topics of meetings might be about microeconomic theory, macroeconomic theory, or economic history..., whatever on institutional and organizational economics.
Date
Friday, June 10, 2022 13:30 to 15:00
Place
Will be held online
Presenter
Masaki Nakabayashi, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo
Title
"One Nation Restored: The Security-Liberty Trade-off under Uncertainty" (with Keisuke Kawata)
Abstract
A rise in uncertainty tends to reveal innate heterogeneous preferences. We use the COVID-19 pandemic to measure how Japanese adults' preferences for policies to contain COVID-19 evolved from July 2020 to February 2021 through an internet panel randomized conjoint experiment where participants chose between hypothetical policy packages intended to combat COVID-19. In July 2020, Japanese adults showed divergent preferences on the critical element of the security-liberty trade-off; whether to allow the government to track social media/phone communication records as a measure to detect infection routes. In February 2021, after factoring in estimated risks of infections, death tolls, and the progress of vaccination, Japanese adults converged to restore the value to defy the government's tracking of social media/phone communication records.