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)

• slides(PDF-Format 413 KB)

• paper(PDF-Format 260 KB)

Masahiro Hori, ESRI: Japanese Economists' Views on the Fiscal Multiplier: Findings from a Twin Survey on the Japanese Economy and Policy Effects

• slides(PDF-Format 529 KB)

Comment: Justin Wolfers, University of Michigan

• slides(PDF-Format 909 KB)

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

• slides(PDF-Format 1.30 MB)

• paper(PDF-Format 399 KB)

Comment: Hisakazu Kato, Meiji University

• slides(PDF-Format 363 KB)

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

• slides(PDF-Format 588 KB)

Comment: Naohiro Yashiro, Showa Women’s University

• slides(PDF-Format 504 KB)

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