International Conference on Trade, Financial Integration andMacroeconomic Dynamics & IEFS Japan 2019 Annual Meeting
Nov. 15-17, 2019 Kobe University
VenueFrontier Hall for Social Sciences (Building VII),Rokkodai 1st Campus
https://www.kobe-u.ac.jp/en/campuslife/campus_guide/campus/rokkodai1.html

Supported

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) No.15H05729

by“Risk Management of Comprehensive Monetary/Fiscal Policy:
Theory, Empirics, and Simulations”
Grant-in- Aid for Scientific Research (A) No. 16H02016“Time Zones and Theory of Trade in Services and Tasks: Implications for
Economic Dynamics and Growth”
RIEB Seminar /Rokko Forum/ Kobe University Rokko Foundation

Day 1: Nov. 15, 2019 14:00~17:20

14:00~14:10

Opening Speech 1
Takashi Kamihigashi, President, IEFS Japan (Kobe University)

14:10~16:00 Afternoon Session Chair Kazuo Mino (Doshisha University)
14:10~15:00

Teruyoshi Kobayashi (Kobe University)“Characterizing the Dynamics of Financial Networks”

15:10~16:00

Makoto Nirei (University of Tokyo)“Menu Costs and the Volatility of Inflation”

16:00~16:20 Coffee Break
16:20~17:20 Poster Session
Boming Chen (Kobe University) “The Complementarity Between Skills and Communication Technologies:
Implications on the Structure of Teleworking”
Haitao Cheng (Hitotsubashi University) “Firm Locations, Consumption Pollution and Tax”
Masakazu Emoto (Kobe University) “Economic Growth and Wealth Distribution with Tax Evasion andSocial Norm”
Makoto Hirono (Doshisha University) “Pension, Retirement, and Growth in the Presence Heterogeneous
Elderly”
Kenichi Kurita (Kyusyu University) “The Effect of Ability Grouping on Student Achievement in Knowledge
Sharing”
Hai Vu Le (Kyoto University) “Credit Standards and Business Cycle in a Small Open Economy”
Shohei Momoda (Kyoto University) “Does Automation Technology Reduce Wage?”
Kunihiko Sato (Hitotsubashi University) “Two Types of Export-platform FDI with Heterogeneous Firms
Including Communication Costs”

Ryosuke Shimizu (Kyoto University) “Monetary Policy and Asset Bubbles in a Small Open Economy”
Mizuki Tsuboi (University of Hyogo) “An Analytical Inquiry into the Growth-Uncertainty Nexus”
Trang Tran (Hitotsubashi University) “Multinational Firm’s Location Decision: Distance vs. Connectivity”
Kohei Okada (Osaka University) “Intergenerational Mobility, Automation, and Development”

17:40~ Reception at Sakura
Day 2: Nov. 16, 2019 9:50~16:30
9:50~10:00

Opening Speech 2
Noritsugu Nakanishi, Dean, GSE, Kobe University

10:00~12:00 Morning Session Chair: Fumio Dei (Kobe University)
10:00~10:50

Ping Wang (Washington University in St. Louis/FRB of St. Louis / NBER)“Innovation, Growth, and Dynamic Gains from Trade” (with Wen-Tai Hsu andRaymond Riezman)

10:50~11:10 Coffee Break
11:10~12:00

Raymond Riezman (Aarhus University / UC, Santa Barbara / University of Iowa)“Trade Wars, Technology and Productivity” (wth Ching-mu Chen, Wan-Jung Cheng,Shin-Kun Peng and Ping Wang)

12:30~13:20 Lunch
13:30~16:20 Afternoon Session Chair: Tamotsu Nakamura (Kobe University)
13:30~14:20Koichi Futagami (Osaka University)“Risk Aversion, Longevity, and Fertility in an Overlapping Generations

Model” (with Miho Sunaga)
14:20~14:40 Coffee Break
14:40~15:30

Ryoji Ohdoi (Tokyo Institute of Technology)“Trade, Growth, and International Transmission of Financial Shocks”

15:40~16:30

Been-Lon Chen (Academia Sinica)“Optimal Income Taxation over the Life Cycle in a Mirrlees Model with Human
Capital Investment” (with Fei-Chi Liang)

17:30~ Conference Dinner (Academia Building, Rm. 502)
Day 3: Nov. 17, 2019 9:30~16:30

9:30~12:20 Morning Session Chair: Lijun Zhu (Peking University)
9:30~10:20

Kazuo Mino (Doshisha University)“Public Debt and Economic Growth with Financial Frictions” (with Ryo Arawatariand Takeo Hori)”

10:20~10:40 Coffee Break
10:40~11:30

Takuma Kunieda (Kwansei Gakuin University)“Financial Destabilization” (with Ken-ichi Hashimoto, Ryonghun Im, and Akihisa

Shibata)
11:40~12:30

Chong Kee Yip (Chinese University of Hong Kong)“Marketization, Balanced-Budget Taxation and Economic (In) Stability” (with Leo C.
H. Lam and Jianpo Xue)

12:40~13:30 Lunch
13:30~16:20 Afternoon Session Chair: Minchung Hsu (GRIPS)
13:30~14:20

Daisuke Ikeda (Bank of Japan)“Econometric Analysis of Monetary Policy at the Zero Lower Bound”(with Shangshang Li, Sophocles Mavroeidis, and Francesco Zanetti)

14:20～14:40 Coffee Break
14:40~15:30

Yong Wang (Peking University)“Human Capital, Industrial Dynamics and Economic Growth”

15:40~16:30

Kazuo Nishimura (Kobe University / Kyoto University / RIETI)“Flying or Trapped” (with Yunfang Hu, Takuma Kunieda and Ping Wang)

16:30~16:40

Concluding Remarks
Junko Doi (Kansai University), Yunfang Hu (Kobe University)*Notice:
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