Date and time:

<Day 1:  Friday, August 30, 2024>

      09:00-09:10    Jota Ishikawa, Gakushuin University

                              Opening Remarks

      Chair             Kozo Kiyota, Keio University

      09:10-10:00   Alejandro Rojas Bernal, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

                              International Misallocation and Comovement under Production Networks

      10:00-10:15   Break

      10:15-11:05    Liang Wang , University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

                               Hegemony or Harmony? A Unified Framework for the International Monetary System 

      11:05-11:20   Break

      11:20-12:10   Masashige Hamano, Waseda University

                               Beliefs for Sudden Stops and Current Account Reversals: An Analysis with a Regime Switching Small Open Economy Model (with Yuki Murakami)

<Day 2: Saturday, August 31, 2024>

      Chair  Theresa Greaney, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

      13:15-14:05   Joonwoo Lee, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

                               Firm's Innovation Response to Adverse Trade Shocks

      14:05-14:20     Break

      14:20-15:10    Tomohiro Ara, Fukushima University

                                Partial Equity Ownership in International Trade (with Arghya Ghosh, Hodaka Morita, and Hiroshi Mukunoki)

      15:10-15:25   Break

      15:25-16:15   Banri Ito, Aoyama Gakuin University

                             Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions Premiums and the Role of Advisors (with Kei Kawakami and Junhyung Ko)

       16:15-16:30   Break 

       16:30-17:20  Hiroshi Mukunoki, Gakushuin University

                               Keep Your Friends Close and Your Enemies Closer: Network Externality and Tax Competition (with Hirofumi Okoshi)

       17:20-17:30   Nori Tarui, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

                              Closing Remarks

       18:30-20-30    Dinner

Organizers: Nori Tarui,  University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

                         Jota Ishikawa, Gakushuin University and Hitotsubashi University

                         Kozo Kiyota, Keio University