
	Tuesday, December 13
8:30 am	Breakfast/ Registration
9:00 am	Opening Remarks: Seungju Baek, Deputy Dean, Asian Development Bank Institute
	Chair: Charles Yuji Horioka, Kobe University and NBER
9:10 am	Why Women Work the Way They Do in Japan: Roles of Fiscal Policies Sagiri Kitao, University of Tokyo Minamo Mikoshiba, Nagoya University Discussant: Linh T. Tô, Boston University
10:10 am	Access to Formal Childcare for Toddlers and Parental Employment and Earnings Taiyo Fukai, University of Tsukuba Ayako Kondo, University of Tokyo Discussant: Katherine Meckel, University of California, San Diego and NBER
11:10 am	Break
	Chair: Tsutomu Watanabe, University of Tokyo
11:30 am	Lunch Talk: Shinichi Uchida, Bank of Japan Eric Rosengren, former President of the Federal Reserve
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Yardstick Competition-Driven Political Cycles Hitoshi Shigeoka, Simon Fraser University and NBER Yasutora Watanabe, University of Tokyo Discussant: Emir Kamenica, University of Chicago
2:30 pm	Break
	Chair: Takeo Hoshi, University of Tokyo
3:00 pm	The Consequences of Hometown Regiment Kentaro Asai, Vienna University of Economics and Business Ryo Kambayashi, Hitotsubashi University Discussant: Junichi Yamasaki, Kobe University
4:00 pm	Misallocation under the Shadow of Death (slides) Daisuke Miyakawa, Waseda University Koki Oikawa, Waseda University Kozo Ueda, Waseda University Discussant: Eric Rosengren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5:00 pm	Adjourn
6:00 pm	Dinner, Sponsored by The Canon Institute for Global Studies (CIGS) The Okura Tokyo, Banquet Room, 41st Floor, The Okura Prestige Tower, 2-10-4 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo.
	Wednesday, December 14
8:30 am	Breakfast/ Registration
	Chair: Shiro P. Armstrong, Australian National University
9:00 am	Measuring Discrimination in Spatial Equilibrium: 100 Years of Japan’s Invisible Race Atsushi Yamagishi, Hitotsubashi University Yasuhiro Sato, University of Tokyo Discussant: John P. Tang, University of Melbourne
10:00 am	Break
	Chair: David Weinstein, Columbia University and NBER
10:30 am	Firm Size and Complementarity between Geography and Products (slides) (Video Presentation) Yoko Shibuya, Duke University Discussant: Chad Syverson, University of Chicago and NBER
11:10 am	Place-Based Policies and the Geography of Corporate Investment (slides) Cameron LaPoint, Yale University Shogo Sakabe, LMU Munich Discussant: Edward L. Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER (slides)
12:10 pm	Lunch and Adjourn
	The ESRI Meetings on December 14 & 15 at the Akasaka Intercity Conference Center Roundtable Conference
	*We are grateful to the Asian Development Bank Institute for its generous assistance and support.*
	Emergency Contact available during the days of the conference: Yayoi Hatano, Watanabe Laboratory tel: 070-3325-4378/ email: watlab@e.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Participants

Ali Akkemik, Fukuoka University
Shiro P. Armstrong, Australian National University
Kentaro Asai, Vienna University of Economics and Business
Andrew Atkeson, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Alan J. Auerbach, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Tatyana Avilova, Bowdoin College
Caroline Betts, University of Southern California
Jorge Tavares Borges, Yamaguchi University
Jennifer Corbett, Australian National University
Xiaohan Deng, University of Tokyo
Takero Doi, Keio University
Janice C. Eberly, Northwestern University and NBER
Taiyo Fukai, University of Tsukuba
Taiji Furusawa, University of Tokyo
Edward L. Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER
Gary Hansen, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Tatsuo Hatta, Asian Growth Research Institute
Charles Yuji Horioka, Kobe University and NBER
Takeo Hoshi, University of Tokyo
Toshiaki Iizuka, University of Tokyo
Takatoshi Ito, Columbia University and NBER
Ryo Kambayashi, Hitotsubashi University
Emir Kamenica, University of Chicago
Akiko Kamesaka, Aoyama Gakuin University
Kamhon Kan, Academia Sinica
Anil K Kashyap, University of Chicago and NBER
Daiji Kawaguchi, University of Tokyo
Shuhei Kitamura, Osaka University
Sagiri Kitao, University of Tokyo
Ayako Kondo, University of Tokyo
Konstantin Kucheryavyy, Baruch College
Cameron LaPoint, Yale University
Kiminori Matsuyama, Northwestern University

Katherine Meckel, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Minamo Mikoshiba, Nagoya University
Daisuke Miyakawa, Waseda University
Peter Morgan, ADBI
Ryo Nakajima, Keio University
Nobuyuki Oda, Kyorin University
Hiroshi Ohashi, University of Tokyo
Koki Oikawa, Waseda University
Hiroshi Ono, Hitotsubashi University
Hélène Rey, London Business School and NBER
Eric Rosengren, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Yuri Sasaki, Meiji Gakuin University
Yasuhiro Sato, University of Tokyo
Miki Seko, Keio University
Yoko Shibuya, Duke University
Hitoshi Shigeoka, Simon Fraser University and NBER
Etsuro Shioji, Hitotsubashi University and TCER
Shigenori Shiratsuka, Keio University
Chad Syverson, University of Chicago and NBER
John P. Tang, University of Melbourne
Kensuke Teshima, Doshisha University
Linh T. Tô, Boston University
Shinichi Uchida, Bank of Japan
Kenichi Ueda, University of Tokyo, CEPR, and TCER
Kozo Ueda, Waseda University
Takashi Unayama, Kyoto University
Tsutomu Watanabe, University of Tokyo
Yasutora Watanabe, University of Tokyo
David Weinstein, Columbia University and NBER
Atsushi Yamagishi, Hitotsubashi University
Linus Yamane, Pitzer College
Junichi Yamasaki, Kobe University
Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago and NBER