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National Bureau of Economic Research
Center for Advanced Research in Finance
Center on Japanese Economy and Business
Australia-Japan Research Centre
Jenny Corbett, Charles Horioka, Anil Kashyap,
Kazuo Ueda and David Weinstein, Organizers
Asian Development Bank Institute
Program
Friday, June 24:
8:30 am Breakfast/Registration
9:00 am Robert Dekle,
University of Southern California
Hyeok
Jeong, GRIPS
Nobuhiro
Kiyotaki,
Dynamics
of Trade and Heterogeneity in General Equilibrium
Discussant: Brent Neiman,
10:00 am Break
10:30
am Gauti
Eggertsson, Federal Reserve Bank of
Paul Krugman,
Debt, Deleveraging, and the Liquidity Trap: A Fisher-Minsky-Koo
Approach
Discussant: Tsutomu Watanabe, Hitotsubashi
University Slides
11:30 am Ayako Kondo, Osaka University
Hitoshi Shigeoka, Columbia University
Discussant: Ilyana Kuziemko, Princeton University and NBER
Keynote Speaker:
Hideichi Okada, METI Vice Minister for
International Affairs
Great East Japan
Earthquake and Trade Policy in Japan
Takashi Unayama,
The Consumption Response to
Seasonal Income: Evidence from Japanese Public Pension Benefits
Discussant: Robert Shimer,
Employment Status Persistence in
the Japanese Labor Market
Discussant: Fumio Ohtake,
Shinji Takagi, Osaka University
The Future Role of Japan in Asia
Takero
Doi,
Takeo Hoshi, UC,
Tatsuyoshi
Okimoto,
Japanese
Government Debt and Sustainability of Fiscal Policy
Takeo Hoshi, UC, San Diego and NBER
Anil Kashyap,
University of Chicago and NBER
6:30 pm Reception
and Dinner
Bar Kasumigaseki
Tokyo Club Building, Kasumi Dining 2nd floor
3-2-6, Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Tel: +81 (0)3-3501-0877
http://r.gnavi.co.jp/g714614/lang/en/
Saturday, June 25:
8:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am Hiroyuki Kasahara,
Yasuyuki Sawada,
Michio Suzuki,
Investment
and Borrowing Constraints: Evidence from Japanese Firms
Discussant: Patrick Bolton, Columbia University and NBER
10:00 am Break
10:30 am Kohei Kubota, Nihon University
Charles Horioka, Osaka University and NBER
Akiko Kamesaka, Aoyama Gakuin
University
Masao Ogaki, Keio University
Fumio Ohtake, Osaka University
Cultures, Worldviews, and Intergenerational Altruism
Discussant: Paola Giuliano, UC,
Richard Steckel,
Property
Rights and Financial Development: The Legacy of Japanese Colonial Institutions
Discussant: Ailsa Roell,
12:30 pm Concluding Remarks by Masahiro Kawai, Dean of the
Asian Development Bank Institute
12:40 pm Lunch and Adjourn
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We are very grateful to the Asian Development Bank Institute and to
Miki Futagawa of the European Institute of Japanese
Studies
for their generous assistance and support.
6/14/11