ESRI International Conference 2017
The global decline in growth rate and possible policy responses
Date: August 1st, 2017, 9:30-18:00
Venue: Conference room in the ADBI, Tokyo
- 9:30-9:35
- Opening ceremony
- 9:35-10:05
- Keynote speech
Austan Goolsbee, University of Chicago: The global decline in growth rate and possible policy responses
- 10:05-10:25
- Q&A
- 10:25-10:35
- Coffee break
- 10:35-12:00
- First session (Chair: Fumihira Nishizaki, ESRI)
Takayuki Tsuruga, Kyoto University: Decomposing Local Fiscal Multipliers: Evidence from Japan (updated as of July 18)
Masahiro Hori, ESRI: Japanese Economists' Views on the Fiscal Multiplier: Findings from a Twin Survey on the Japanese Economy and Policy Effects
Comment: Justin Wolfers, University of Michigan
- 12:00-13:30
- Lunch
- 13:30-14:35
- Second Session (Chair: Alan Auerbach, University of California at Berkeley)
David Weinstein, Columbia University: The Crisis that Wasn't: How Japan has avoided a bond market panic
Comment: Hisakazu Kato, Meiji University
- 14:35-14:55
- Coffee break
- 14:55-16:00
- Third Session (Chair: Anil Kashyap, University of Chicago)
Betsey Stevenson, University of Michigan: How Family, Culture, and Law Have Shaped Women's Labor Force Participation
Comment: Naohiro Yashiro, Showa Women’s University
- 16:00-16:25
- Coffee break
- 16:25-17:55
- Fourth Session (Coordinator: Atsushi Seike, ESRI)
Panel Discussion: Austan Goolsbee, University of Chicago
Motoshige Itoh, Gakushuin University
Kazumasa Iwata, Japan Center for Economic Researchslides(PDF-Format 941 KB)
Anil Kashyap, University of Chicago