Date and Time: Friday, February 24, 2017, 9:00 to 17:15
Location: GRIPS http://www.grips.ac.jp/en/about/access/
Jointly organized by GRIPS and Keio University
Organizers
Junichi Fujimoto, Minchung Hsu, Ponpoje Porapakkarm, GRIPS
Sagiri Kitao, Keio University
PROGRAM
09:00-09:15 Welcome coffee
09:15-10:15 William Peterman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
“Optimal Public Debt with Life Cycle Motives" [Download] (joint with E. Sager)
10:15-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-11:30 Fudong Zhang, Tsinghua University
“Inequality and House Prices” [Download]
11:30-11:45 Coffee break
11:45-12:45 Keynote lecture 1: Fatih Guvenen, University of Minnesota
“Income Inequality and Income Risk: Old Myths Versus New Facts”
12:45-13:45 Lunch
13:45-14:45 Serdar Ozkan, University of Toronto
“Sources of Inequality in Earnings Growth Over the Life Cycle”
(joint with F. Karahan and J. Song)
14:45-15:00 Coffee break
15:00-16:00 Satoshi Tanaka, Queensland University
“Sex Ratios and Long-term Marriage Trends” [Download]
(joint with J.V. Rios-Rull and S. Seitz)
16:00-16:15 Coffee break
16:15-17:15 Keynote lecture 2: Ayse Imrohoroglu, University of Southern California
“The Chinese Saving Rate: Long-Term Care Risks, Family Insurance, and Demographics”
[Download] (joint with K. Zhao)
18:00- Conference dinner (invitation only)