Attendance restriction !

Please note that GRIPS prohibits participation if you have been to China (incl. HK/Macau) on or after Feb 4.

PROGRAM

Day 1: February 18 (Tues), 2020

9:30-9:45 Welcome coffee

9:45-10:30 Satoshi Tanaka (University of Queensland)

Occupational Reallocations within and across Firms: Implications for the Labor Market Polarization

(joint with Toshihiko Mukoyama, Naoki Takayama)

10:30-10:45 Coffee break

10:45-11:30 Sagiri Kitao (University of Tokyo)

Welfare Effects of Polarization: Occupational Mobility over a Life-cycle (joint with Shinnosuke Kikuchi)

11:30-13:00 Lunch (cafeteria area on 1 FL)

13:00-13:45 Edmund Crawley (Federal Reserve Board)

Consumption Heterogeneity: Micro Drivers and Macro Implications (joint with Andreas Kuchler)

13:45-14:00 Coffee break

14:00-14:45 Heejeong Kim (Concordia University)

Inequality, Portfolio Choice, and the Great Recession

14:45-15:00 Coffee break

15:00-15:45 Ismail Baydur (Singapore Management University)

VAT Treatment of the Financial Services: Implications for the Real Economy (joint with Fatih Yilmaz)

15:45-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-17:00 Keynote presentation 1

Gianluca Violante (Princeton University)

Household Balance Sheet Channels of Monetary Policy: A Back of the Envelope Calculation for the Euro Area

(joint with Jiri Slacalek, Oreste Tristani)

Day 2: February 19 (Wed), 2020

8:45-9:00 Welcome coffee

9:00-9:45 Minchul Yum (University of Mannheim and Goethe University Frankfurt )

Status Externalities and Low Birth Rates in Korea (joint with Seongeun Kim, Michele Tertilt)

9:45-10:00 Coffee break

10:00-11:00 Keynote presentation 2

Matthias Doepke (Northwestern University)

Why Didn't the College Premium Rise Everywhere? Employment Protection and On-the-Job Investment in Skills

11:00-11:15 Coffee break

11:15-12:00 Minchung Hsu (GRIPS)

Marriage, Fertility, and Female Labor Force Participation in an Aging Economy (joint with Junichi Fujimoto)

12:00- Lunch and adjourn

Workshop organizers

GRIPS

Junichi Fujimoto (j-fujimoto@grips.ac.jp)

Minchung Hsu (minchunghsu@gmail.com)

Ponpoje (Poe) Porapakkarm (porapakkarmponpoje@gmail.com)

University of Tokyo

Sagiri Kitao (sagiri.kitao@gmail.com)