Seminar

in Macroeconomics


The IER of Hitotsubashi University and the KIER of Kyoto University are collaborating to organize a virtual/hybrid seminar series focused on macroeconomics.

We invite researchers from around the globe whose studies address critical macroeconomic challenges in Japan, including growth, aging, inflation, debt, and more.

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

Organizers: Yuta Takahashi and Naoki Takayama (Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)


Registration

You have the option to engage as a regular attendee or to take an active role as a panelist who has the privilege of asking questions during the seminars.

To sign up as an attendee, please proceed to registration via this link.

If you wish to contribute as a panelist, kindly register using this link.

Schedule for Spring-Summer Seminar

You can follow our Google Calendar and our X. 

Past Presenters

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

Generously, IER at Hitotsubashi University has a fund for international collaboration that can cover travel expenses.

Please let us know if you are interested in visiting us in person!

2024 Kakuho Furukawa (Bank of Japan), 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)

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), Nao Sudo (BOJ), Roberto Billi (Sveriges Riksbank), Daisuke Adachi (Aarhus U), Nobuhiro Abe (BOJ), Simone Lenzu (NYU Stern), Hiroki Saruya (Yale) 

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 Turky).

Potential Speakers

If you want to present your work at our seminar series, please email us!

Contact Information

Email : seminar_in_macro@ier.hit-u.ac.jp