Japan Project Meeting
Shiro P. Armstrong, Charles Yuji Horioka, Tsutomu Watanabe, and David Weinstein, Organizers
August 1-2, 2023
FORMAT: The format for each paper will be a 20-minute presentation by the author, followed by one 20-minute discussion and then another 20 minutes of general discussion.
| Tuesday, August 1 | ||||
| 8:30 am | Registration and Coffee | |||
| 9:00 am | Opening Remarks: John Beirne, Vice-Chair of Research and Senior Research Fellow, Asian Development Bank Institute | |||
| 9:10 am |
Anton Braun, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Daisuke Ikeda, Bank of Japan Why Aging Induces Deflation and Secular Stagnation
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| 10:10 am | Break | |||
| 10:40 am |
Kohei Takeda, National University of Singapore Atsushi Yamagishi, Princeton University The Economic Dynamics of City Structure: Evidence from Hiroshima's Recovery
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| 11:40 am |
Haruhiko Kuroda, Former Governor of the Bank of Japan Fragmentation of the World Economy: Its Causes and Future |
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| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |||
| 1:30 pm |
Elisa Giannone, Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) Yuhei Miyauchi, Boston University Nuno Paixao, Bank of Canada Xinle Pang, Pennsylvania State University Yuta Suzuki, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Living in a Ghost Town: The Geography of Depopulation and Aging
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| 2:30 pm |
Ernest Liu, Princeton University and NBER Song Ma, Yale University and NBER Innovation Networks and R&D Allocation
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| 3:30 pm | Break | |||
| 4:00 pm |
Cameron LaPoint, Yale University Shogo Sakabe, LMU Munich Coming in at a Trickle: The Optimal Frequency of Public Benefit Payments
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| 5:00 pm | Adjourn | |||
| 6:00 pm |
Reception (Food & Drinks) - Sponsored by Unison Capital The Okura Tokyo, 2-10-4 Toranomon, Minato-ku Tokyo 105-0001 |
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| Wednesday, August 2 | ||||
| 8:30 am | Coffee | |||
| 9:00 am |
Daisuke Fujii, University of Tokyo Taisuke Nakata, University of Tokyo Sohta Kawawaki, University of Tokyo Yuta Maeda, University of Tokyo Masataka Mori, Middlebury College Understanding Cross-Country Heterogeneity in Health and Economic Outcomes during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Revealed-Preference Approach
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| 10:00 am | Break | |||
| 10:30 am |
Gary Hansen, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER Selahattin Imrohoroglu, University of Southern California Demographic Change, Government Debt and Fiscal Sustainability in Japan: The Impact of Bond Purchases by the Bank of Japan
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| 11:30 am | Lunch | |||
| 1:00 pm |
Shinnosuke Kikuchi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Automation, Concentration, and Labor Share
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| 2:00 pm |
Takeo Hoshi, University of Tokyo Yoko Shibuya, Duke University Personal Guarantees on Bank Loans and SMEs' CEO Succession
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| 3:00 pm | Adjourn | |||
| 6:30 pm |
Funasei Dinner Cruise |
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The ESRI events will take place on August 2 at Asian Development Bank Institute and on August 3 at Akasaka Intercity Conference Center ESRI Event Details |
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| We are grateful to the Asian Development Bank Institute for its generous assistance and support. | ||||