East Asian Seminar on Economics
June 15-16, 2012
Taipei, Taiwan

Friday, June 15

1

Changes in Japan's Labor Market Flows due to the Lost Decade

Julen Esteban-Pretel, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)
Ryuichi Tanaka, Tokyo Institute of Technology

2

Long-Term Changes in the Wage Structure of Taiwan

Stacey Chen, UTokyo Public Policy and GRIPS

3

Why Do Immigrants Earn So Much More Than Natives in Taiwan?

Mei Hsu, National Taipei University
Been-Lon Chen, Academia Sinica

4

Stock Market Bubbles and Unemployment

Pengfei Wang, Peking University
Lifang Xu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Jianjun Miao, Boston University

5

Financial Frictions, Misallocation and Plant-Size Distribution

Kaoru Hosono, Gakushuin University
Miho Takizawa, Toyo University

6

The bright side of State Owned Bank Lending: Evidence from Japan

Anand Srinivasan, National University of Singapore

7

Poverty, Growth and the Demand for Energy

Catherine Wolfram, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Paul J. Gertler, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Orie Shelef, University of Utah
Alan Fuchs, United Nations Development Programme

8

HEALTH, HUMAN CAPITAL FORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION

Jakob B. Madsen, Monash University

9

Contribution of Taiwan's Innovation to the Employment

Meng-Chun Liu, Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research (CIER)
Shin-Horng Chen, CIER

10

Declining Labor Shares and the Global Rise of Corporate Savings

Loukas Karabarbounis, University of Minnesota and NBER
Brent Neiman, University of Chicago and NBER

11

Employment and Productivity Dynamics in Korea

Sanghoon Ahn, Korea Development Institute

12

The Retirement Patterns in China

Xiaoyan Lei, CCER Peking University