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Center on Japanese Economy and Business

Australia-Japan Research Centre

Japan Project Meeting

Jenny Corbett, Charles Horioka, Takatoshi Ito, Anil Kashyap, and David Weinstein, Organizers

June 25-26, 2010

Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

Kasumigaseki Building, 8F
3-2-5, Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku,
Tokyo 100-6008, Japan

Program

Friday, June 25:

8:30 am Breakfast/Registration

9:00 am Mary Amiti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

David Weinstein, Columbia University and NBER

Exports and Financial Shocks

Discussant: Simon Johnson, MIT and NBER

10:00 am Break

10:30 am Kazuo Ogawa, Osaka University

Elmer Sterken, University of Groningen

Ichiro Tokutsu, Kobe University

Financial Distress and Industry Structure: An Inter-Industry Approach to the “Lost Decade” in Japan

Discussant: Iichiro Uesugi, Hitotsubashi University

11:30 am Jenny Corbett, Australian National University

Kazuki Onji, Australian National University

David Vera, Kent State University

Capital Injection, Restructuring Targets and Personnel Management: The Case of Japanese Regional Banks

Discussant: Joe Peek, University of Kentucky

12:30 pm Lunch

2:00 pm Yasushi Hamao, University of Southern California

Kenji Kutsuna, Kobe University

Pedro Matos, University of Southern California

Foreign Investor Activism in Japan: The First Ten Years

Discussant: Chester Spatt, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER

3:00 pm Break

3:30 pm Chad Steinberg, International Monetary Fund

Shakedown: Economic Geography Meets the Kobe Earthquake

Discussant: Ralph Ossa, University of Chicago and NBER

4:30 pm Panel: Exit Strategies

Moderator: Jenny Corbett, Australian National University

Panelists:

Kazumasa Iwata, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan

Richard Jerram, Macquarie Group Ltd.

Peter Morgan, Asian Development Bank Institute

6:00 pm Adjourn

6:30 pm Reception and Dinner

Torafuku

Shiroyama JT Trust Tower 2F

4-3-1 Toranomon

Minato-ku, Tokyo

Tel: +81 (0)3 5733 5400
http://r.gnavi.co.jp/g150120/

Saturday, June 26:

8:30 am Breakfast

9:00 am Takayuki Mizuno, Hitotsubashi University

Makoto Nirei, Hitotsubashi University

Tsutomu Watanabe, Hitotsubashi University

Closely Competing Firms and Price Adjustment: Evidence from an Online Marketplace

Discussant: Jeffrey Campbell, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

10:00 am Break

10:30 am Yuki Hashimoto, University of Tokyo

Ayako Kondo, Osaka University

Long-Term Effects of Labor Market Conditions on Family Formation for Japanese Youths

Discussant: Daiji Kawaguchi, Hitotsubashi University

11:30 am Ayako Suzuki, Waseda University

An Empirical Analysis of Entrant and Incumbent Bidding in Electric Power Procurement Auctions

Discussant: Flavio Menezes, University of Queensland

12:30 pm Lunch

Speaker: Yoshiyasu Ono, Cabinet Office and Osaka University

Economic Policy of the Present Government: A Theoretical Analysis

Background papers: Paper 1 and Paper 2

2:00 pm Adjourn

We are very grateful to the Asian Development Bank Institute and to Miki Futagawa of the European Institute of Japanese Studies

for their generous assistance and support.

6/10/10