Japan Project Meeting
Shiro P. Armstrong, Charles Yuji Horioka, Takeo Hoshi, Tsutomu Watanabe, and David Weinstein, Organizers
December 13-14, 2022
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| 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 |
Sagiri Kitao, University of Tokyo Minamo Mikoshiba, Nagoya University Why Women Work the Way They Do in Japan: Roles of Fiscal Policies
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| 10:10 am |
Taiyo Fukai, University of Tsukuba Ayako Kondo, University of Tokyo Access to Formal Childcare for Toddlers and Parental Employment and Earnings
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| 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 |
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| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |||
| 1:30 pm |
Hitoshi Shigeoka, Simon Fraser University and NBER Yasutora Watanabe, University of Tokyo Yardstick Competition-Driven Political Cycles
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| 2:30 pm | Break | |||
| Chair: Takeo Hoshi, University of Tokyo | ||||
| 3:00 pm |
Kentaro Asai, Paris School of Economics Ryo Kambayashi, Hitotsubashi University The Consequences of Hometown Regiment
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| 4:00 pm |
Daisuke Miyakawa, Waseda University Koki Oikawa, Waseda University Kozo Ueda, Waseda University Misallocation under the Shadow of Death
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| 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. |
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| Wednesday, December 14 | ||||
| 8:30 am | Breakfast/ Registration | |||
| Chair: Shiro P. Armstrong, Australian National University | ||||
| 9:00 am |
Atsushi Yamagishi, Princeton University Yasuhiro Sato, University of Tokyo Measuring Discrimination in Spatial Equilibrium: 100 Years of Japan’s Invisible Race
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| 10:00 am | Break | |||
| Chair: David Weinstein, Columbia University and NBER | ||||
| 10:30 am |
Yoko Shibuya, Duke University Firm Size and Complementarity between Geography and Products (Video Presentation)
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| 11:10 am |
Cameron LaPoint, Yale University Shogo Sakabe, LMU Munich Place-Based Policies and the Geography of Corporate Investment
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| 12:10 pm | Lunch and Adjourn | |||
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The ESRI Meetings on December 14 & 15 at the Akasaka Intercity Conference Center Conference |
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| 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 | ||||