Japan Project

Shiro P. Armstrong, Charles Yuji Horioka, Takeo Hoshi, Tsutomu Watanabe, and David Weinstein, Organizers

July 31, 2017

Asian Development Bank Institute, Kasumigaseki Building 8F, Tokyo 100-6008, Japan

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, July 31
 Suggested Attire for all Events: Business Casual
8:30 am
Breakfast/Registration
9:00 am
Welcome Remarks: Naoyuki Yoshino, Dean of the Asian Development Bank Institute
9:10 am
Wataru Miyamoto, University of Hong Kong
Thuy Lan Nguyen, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Dmitriy Sergeyev, Bocconi University

Government Spending Multipliers under the Zero Lower Bound: Evidence from Japan
Discussant: Valerie A. Ramey, Stanford University and NBER
10:10 am
Break
10:40 am
Kentaro Nakajima, Hitotsubashi University
Kensuke Teshima, Doshisha University

Identifying Neighborhood Effects among Firms: Evidence from Location Lotteries of the Tokyo Tsukiji Fish Market
Discussant: Andrew B. Bernard, Dartmouth College and NBER
11:40 am
Makoto Saito, Hitotsubashi University

On Large-Scale Money Finance in the Presence of Black Markets: A Case of the Japanese Economy During and Immediately after World War II
Discussant: Raymond Fisman, Boston University and NBER
12:40 pm
Lunch
1:40 pm
Kozo Ueda, Waseda University
Kota Watanabe, Meiji University
Tsutomu Watanabe, University of Tokyo

Product Turnover and Deflation: Evidence from Japan
Discussant: David Atkin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
2:40 pm
Break
3:10 pm
J. Mark Ramseyer, Harvard University
Eric B. Rasmusen, Indiana University

Outcaste Politics and Organized Crime in Japan: The Effect of Terminating Ethnic Subsidies
Discussant: Chiaki Moriguchi, Hitotsubashi University
4:10 pm
Koichiro Ito, University of Chicago and NBER
Takanori Ida, Kyoto University
Makoto Tanaka, GRIPS

Information Frictions, Inertia, and Selection on Elasticity: A Field Experiment on Electricity Tariff Choice
Discussant: Tatsuo Hatta, Asian Growth Research Institute
5:10 pm
Adjourn
5:40 pm
Bus leaves ADBI for Funasei Dinner Cruise
6:30 pm
Group Dinner - Funasei Dinner Cruise of Tokyo Bay

Cruise Information
We are very grateful to the Asian Development Bank Institute for its generous assistance and support.
ESRI Conference on August 1 with a Dinner to Follow