The 8th World KLEMS Conference will be held on March 27-28, 2025 in Tokyo. The World KLEMS project was started in 2010 by the late Dale Jorgenson, Professor of Harvard University, to construct a global industry-level productivity database. By 2024, seven World KLEMS conferences were held and researchers on productivity databases have discussed several issues such as productivity slowdown in advanced countries, the role of intangibles on productivity improvement, and productivity growth in emerging countries such as China and the Global South.
This is the second World KLEMS Conference in Tokyo, with the first one held in 2014. This conference is organized by Gakushuin University, Hitotsubashi University, and Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI). Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (No. 22KK0021 and 23K01381), and the Japan Productivity Center are providing financial support for the conference.
The conference will consist of a keynote speech by Professor van Ark of Manchester University, a panel discussion on Global Supply Chain and Productivity, a few plenary sessions and general presentations. Professor Kyoji Fukao(RIETI, Hitotsubashi University), Professor Richard Baldwin (IMD Business School), Professor Shujiro Urata (Waseda University) and Professor David Weinstein (Columbia University) will participate in the panel discussions. The moderator for the event will be Professor Tomohiko Inui (Gakushuin University).
Topics for Call for Papers
•Development and Applications of Industry Data: Growth and Productivity Measurement
•Updated KLEMS Data in Each Area (Africa, Asia, CIS, Europe, Latin America, Middle East and North America)
•Intangibles, Human Capital and Natural Resources
•Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence
•Regional Economy Using KLEMS Data
•International Supply Chains and Global Value Added
•Productivity Studies Using Micro-data
•Productivity Movements after the COVID 19 Pandemic Shock
Extended abstracts of less than 1,500 words are to be submitted to by September 30th, 2024. Submit extended abstracts here. The accepted presentations will be advised by November.
• Suresh Aggarwal (University of Delhi)
• Barbara Fraumeni (University of Maine)
• Kyoji Fukao (RIETI, Hitotsubashi University and Institute of Developing Economies, JETRO)
• Reitze Gouma (University of Groningen)
• Mun Ho (Harvard University)
• Tomohiko Inui (Gakushuin University)
• YounGak Kim (Senshu University)
• Cecilia Jona-Lasinio (LUISS)
• Matilde Mas (University of Valencia)
• Tsutomu Miyagawa (Gakushuin University)
• Hak Kil Pyo (Seoul National University)
• Jon Samuels (Bureau of Economic Analysis, US Department of Commerce)
• Miho Takizawa (Gakushuin University)
• Vu Minh Khuong (National University of Singapore)
• Harry Wu (Peking University)