Seminar

in Macroeconomics

The Institute of Economic Research (IER) at Hitotsubashi University, the Kyoto Institute of Economic Research (KIER) at Kyoto University, and the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Osaka are jointly organizing a virtual/hybrid seminar series focused on macroeconomics.

We invite researchers worldwide whose work addresses key macroeconomic challenges facing Japan, including growth, aging, inflation, debt, and more.

The seminar series is open to anyone, and we warmly welcome your participation.

Main Organizers: Yuta Takahashi (ISER) and Naoki Takayama (IER)

Registration

You may join as a general attendee or participate as a panelist, with the added opportunity to ask questions during the seminars.

To register as a general attendee, please complete this Google Form.

To register as a panelist, please complete this Google Form.

Schedule for Spring-Summer Seminar

You can follow our Google Calendar and our X.

Past Presenters

We are truly grateful to all the past presenters listed below and hope to have the opportunity to meet them in person in the future!

The IER at Hitotsubashi University operates a user-friendly fund for international collaborative research that can cover travel expenses.

If you are interested in visiting us in person, please let us know!

2025 Xuan Wang (VU Amsterdam, Tinbergen Institute), Minki Kim (U of Mannheim), Leonardo Melosi (U of Warwick), Lukas Hack (ETH Zürich), Satoshi Tanaka (U of Queensland), Zhang Qianxue (U of Tokyo), Yuki Yao (U of Kent), Dajana Xhani (Tilburg U), Marco Brianti (U of Bologna), Akira Sasahara (Keio U), Arnaud Dyèvre (MIT), Carlo Galli (U Carlos III de Madrid), Zhixiu Yu (Louisiana State U), Masashige Hamano (Waseda U), Zoe Leiyu Xie (World Bank), Yuta Suzuki (Shanghai Jiao Tong U), Wei Qiao (Jinan U)

2024 Nao Sudo (BOJ), Roberto Billi (Sveriges Riksbank), Daisuke Adachi (Aarhus U), Nobuhiro Abe (BOJ), Simone Lenzu (NYU Stern), Hiroki Saruya (Yale), Kakuho Furukawa (BOJ), Benjamin Bridgman (BEA), Mitsuru Katagiri (Hosei U), Shigenori Shiratsuka (Keio U), Naiyue Cui (Kobe U), Minchung Hsu (GRIPS), Yunfang Hu (Kobe U), John Cochrane (Stanford), Akos Valentinyi (U of Manchester), Efi Adamopoulou (ZEW), Shinnosuke Kikuchi (MIT), Wen Yao (Tsinghua U), Tsuyoshi Goto (Chiba U), Yasutaka Koike-Mori (UCLA), Saroj Bhattarai (U of Texas at Austin), iLi Chien (St. Louis Fed), Kazu Matsuda (Keio), Oliver Pfäuti (U of Texas at Austin), Ambrogio Cesa-Bianchi (BOE), Danial Lashkari (Princeton, NY Fed), Katsuhiro Komatsu (Kyoto U), Charles Yuji Horioka (Kobe U), Keiichiro Kobayashi (Keio U)

2023 Tommaso Porzio (Columbia Business School), Danial Lashkari (Boston Collage), Martin Rotemberg (NYU), Alp Harun (FRB), Corina Boar (NYU), Matteo Paradisi (EIEF), Ryo Horii (Osaka University), Stéphane Dupraz (Bank de France), Cynthia Bollach (LSE), Mototsugu Shintani (University of Tokyo), Pau Roldan-Blanco (Bank de Spain), Takahiro Toriyabe (Hitotsubashi University), Luca Mazzone (IMF), and Hibiki Ichiue (Keio University), Ichirou Fukunaga (BOJ), Chris Tonetti (Stanford), Miguel León-Ledesma (U of Kent), James Graham (Sydney), Selahattin Imrohoroglu (U of Southern California), Shuhei Kitamura (Osaka U), Yueyuan Ma (UC Santa Barbara), Michèle Tertilt (Mannheim), Dmitriy Sergeyev (Bocconi), Alex Trew (Glasgow), Hiroshi Inokuma (BOJ), Daniel Barczyk (McGill), Sagiri Kitao (U of Tokyo)

2022 Sebastian Merkel (Essex), Shigeru Fujita (Phil Fed), Joseph Kopecky (Trinity College Dublin), Davide Debortoli (BSE), Johannes Wieland (UC Davis), Sumiko Takaoka (Seikei), Masao Fukui (Boston), Kohei Iwasaki (Osaka U), Bruno Strulovici (Northwestern), Rish Singhania (Essex), Ludwig Straub (Harvard), Michael Peters (Yale), Shengxing Zhang (LES), Antonin Bergeaud (HEC Paris) David Weil (Brown), Huiyu Li (SF Fed), Larry Warren (Census), Ernest Liu (Princeton), Christopher Cotton (Boston Fed), Francesco Bianchi (Duke), Daisuke Ikeda (BOJ), Pascal Michaillat (Brown), and Fabian Eckert (UC Davis).

2021 Narayana Kocherlakota (Rochester), Wei Cui (UCL), Christopher G. Gibbs (Sydney), Ryota Mugiyama (Gakushuin), Junko Koeda (Waseda), Sangmin Aum (Kyung Hee), Francois Gourio (Chicago Fed), Michael Song (CUHK), Timo Boppart (Stockholm), Gadi Barlevy (Chicago Fed), Naoi Michio (Keio), Marciano Siniscalchi (Northwestern), Elisa Keller (Essex), and Orhun Sevinc (Central Bank of Turkey).

Potential Speakers

If you would like to present your work in our seminar series, please email us!

Contact Information

Email: seminar-in-macro-admin-group at r.hit-u.ac.jp