WITS 2019
Winter International Trade Seminar (WITS) for Young Researchers
TCER Junior workshop
March 19, 2019@ Mercury Tower Room 3302, Hitotsubashi University
Sponsors: TCER; Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) (Diverse Risk Assessment in the Global Economy from the Viewpoint of International Economics)
Organizers: Jota Ishikawa, Kensuke Teshima , Yoichi Sugita (Hitotsubashi University)
Time allocation: 30 min for a presenter, 10 min for a discussant, 10 min for floor discussion
Session 1 Chair: Kensuke Teshima (Hitotsubashi University)
10:00-10:50 Junichi Yamasaki (Kobe University, Assistant Professor) “Railroads, Technology Adoption, and Modern Economic Development: Evidence from Japan.”
Discussant: Eiichi Tomiura (Hitotsubashi University)
11:00-11:50 Daiki Kishishita (University of Tokyo, PhD student) “Tax Competition and Political Agency Problems.”
Discussant: Jay Pil Choi (Michigan State University)
12:00-12:50 Haitao Cheng (Hitotsubashi University, PhD student) “Environmental Tax Harmonization in Global Value Chains.”
Discussant: Morihiro Yomogida (Sophia University)
Session 2 Chair: Taiji Furusawa (University of Tokyo)
14:20-15:10 Xiaonan Sun (Asian Growth Research Institute, Research Assistant Professor) “Productivity, Market Penetration and Allocation of Sales.”
Discussant: Kensuke Teshima (Hitotsubashi University)
15:20-16:10 Yuting Chen (Singapore Management University, PhD student) “Heterogeneous Firms in Trade: Quality Matters.”
Discussant: Yoichi Sugita (Hitotsubashi University)
Session 3 Chair: Jota Ishikawa (Hitotsubashi University)
16:25-17:15 Daisuke Adachi (Yale University, PhD student) “Offshoring, Value Chains, and Home Labor Markets: Evidence from Japanese Firms Hit by the 2011 Thailand Floods.”
Discussant: Kentaro Nakajima (Hitotsubashi University)
17:25-18:15 Yoko Sakamoto (University of Wisconsin Madison, PhD student) “Product Life-Cycle and Geography of Innovation.”
Discussant: Shota Fujishima (Tokyo University of Science)
Registration: the workshop is open for everyone. If you would like to join the lunch and/or the dinner, please contact yoichi.sugita@r.hit-u.ac.jp by March 4th.