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, SUNY Buffalo 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, Universtiy of Minnesota 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. | ||||