Japan Project Meeting
Organized by Charles Yuji Horioka, Takeo Hoshi, Tsutomu Watanabe, David Weinstein, and Shiro P. Armstrong
July 31 - August 1, 2014
Tokyo

Thursday, July 31

1

Fiscal Reform and Government Debt in Japan: A Neoclassical Perspective

Gary Hansen, University of California, Los Angeles
Selahattin İmrohoroğlu, University of Southern California

2

How Much Do Official Price Indexes Tell Us About Inflation?

Jessie Handbury, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Tsutomu Watanabe, The University of Tokyo
David Weinstein, Columbia University and NBER

3

Time Consistency and the Duration of Government Debt: A Signalling Theory of Quantitative Easing

Saroj Bhattarai, University of Texas at Austin
Gauti Eggertsson, Brown University and NBER
Bulat Gafarov, University of California, Davis

4

Lending to Unhealthy Firms in Japan during the Lost Decade: Which, Technical or Financial?

Suparna Chakraborty, University of San Francisco
Joe Peek, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

5

Production Networks, Geography and Firm Performance

Andrew Bernard, Dartmouth College and NBER
Andreas Moxnes, University of Oslo
Yukiko Saito, Waseda University

6

Acquisitions, Productivity, and Profitability: Evidence from the Japanese Cotton Spinning Industry

Serguey Braguinsky, University of Maryland, College Park and NBER
Atsushi Ohyama, Hitotsubashi University
Tetsuji Okazaki, Meiji Gakuin University
Chad Syverson, University of Chicago and NBER

7

The Unfairness Trap: A Key Missing Factor in the Economic Theory of Discrimination

Jordan Siegel, Harvard University
Naomi Kodama, Meijigakuin University
Hanna Halaburda, New York University