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GRIPS-UT Macroeconomics and Policy Workshop

Dates: November 1-2, 2018

Location: GRIPS http://www.grips.ac.jp/en/about/access/

Jointly organized and sponsored by

National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)

and

Center for Advanced Research in Finance (CARF)

at the University of Tokyo

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Dr. Gueorgui Kambourov, University of Toronto

Dr. Dirk Krueger, University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Zheng Michael Song, Chinese University of Hong Kong

PROGRAM 

Day 1: November 1, 2018

9:15-9:30            Welcome coffee

9:30-10:15          Espen Henriksen, BI Norwegian Business School

 “Demographics and the European Divide” (joint with Thomas Cooley and Charlie Nusbaum)

10:15-10:35        Coffee break

10:35-11:20        Mi Luo, Emory University

“Assets and Job Choice: Student Debt, Wages and Job Satisfaction” (joint with Simon Mongey)

11:20-11:40       Coffee break

11:40-12:40       Keynote presentation 1 

Gueorgui Kambourov, University of Toronto

“Hours, Occupations, and Gender Differences in Labor Market Outcomes,” (with Andrés Erosa, Luisa Fuster, and Richard Rogerson)

12:40-14:00        Lunch

14:00-14:45        Yili Chien, Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis

 “Optimal Ramsey Capital Income Taxation —A Reappraisal” (joint with Yi Wen)

14:45-15:05       Coffee break

15:05-15:50        Minjoon Lee, Carleton University

“Older Americans Would Work Longer If Jobs Were Flexible” (joint with Ameriks, Briggs, Caplin, Shapiro, and Tonetti)

15:50-16:10       Coffee break

16:10-17:10       Keynote presentation 2

Dirk Krueger, University of Pennsylvania

“Macroeconomics and Household Inequality: Data, Models and an Application”

Day 2: November 2, 2018

9:00-9:10             Welcome coffee

9:10-9:55             Ismail Baydur, Singapore Management University

 “Duration Dependence and Business Cycles” (joint with Jianhuan Xu)

9:55-10:10          Coffee break

10:10-10:55        Keiichiro Kobayashi, Keio University

“A Theory of Nonperforming Loans” (joint with Tomoyuki Nakajima and Shuhei Takahashi)

10.55-11:10         Coffee break

11:10-12:10         Keynote presentation 3 

                           Zheng Michael Song, Chinese University of Hong Kong

                             “Conglomerate Formation in China” 

12:10-                  Lunch and Adjourn

Workshop organizers

GRIPS

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

Minchung Hsu (minchunghsu@gmail.com)

Ponpoje Porapakkarm (porapakkarmponpoje@gmail.com)

University of Tokyo

Kosuke Aoki (kaoki@e.u-tokyo.ac.jp)

Sagiri Kitao (sagiri.kitao@gmail.com)