Toward Building New Production Networks in Asia

10:00 - 10:10 Opening Remarks

NAKAJIMA Atsushi (Chairman, RIETI)

10:10 - 10:20 Opening Remarks

David S. HONG (President, Taiwan Institute of Economic Research (TIER))

10:20 - 10:30 Opening Remarks

Byoung Jun SONG (President, Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade (KIET))

10:30 - 11:00 Keynote Speech:
"Mainstreaming Global Resilience: The lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake and the Great Flood in Thailand"

FUJITA Masahisa (President, RIETI)

11:00 - 12:20 Session 1:"Production Networks and Risks"

Session Chair: Byoung Jun SONG (President, KIET)

11:00 - 11:20 1st Presentation:
"The Impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake on Companies in the Non-affected Areas"

Presenter: SAITO Yukiko (Fellow, RIETI)

11:20 - 11:30

Discussant: Yoon-Jong JANG (Director, KIET)

11:30 - 11:40 Q & A

11:40 - 12:00 2nd Presentation:
"Improving the East Asian Production Networks: Risk sharing and cost down"

Presenter: Darson CHIU (Deputy Director, Macroeconomic Forecasting Center, TIER)

12:00 - 12:10

Discussant: SATO Hitoshi (Fellow, RIETI)

12:10 - 12:20 Q & A

12:20 - 13:40 Lunch

13:40 - 15:00 Session 2: "Challenges in New Production Networks"

Session Chair: NAKAJIMA Atsushi (Chairman, RIETI)

13:40 - 14:00 3rd Presentation:
"Regional Production Networks of Korean Firms : Similarities and differences between electronics and automobile industries"

Presenter: Yoon-Jong JANG (Director, KIET)

14:00 - 14:10

Discussant: SAITO Yukiko (Fellow, RIETI)

14:10 - 14:20 Q & A

14:20 - 14:40 4th Presentation:
"Taiwan's Challenges and Opportunities in the New framework of Production network"

Presenter: Ming-Hsin KUNG (Vice President, TIER)

Eric CHIOU (Associate Research Fellow, International Affairs Department, TIER)

14:40 - 14:50

Discussant: Jinkeun YU (Senior Fellow, KIET)

14:50 - 15:00 Q & A

15:00 - 15:20 Coffee Break

15:20 - 16:40 Session 3: "Production Networks and Trade"

Session Chair: David S. HONG (President, TIER)

15:20 - 15:40 5th Presentation:
"Intra-regional Trade of Parts and Materials between China, Japan, and Korea after the Global Financial Crisis"

Presenter: Jinkeun YU (Senior Fellow, KIET)

15:40 - 15:50

Discussant: Darson CHIU (Deputy Director, Macroeconomic Forecasting Center, TIER)

15:50 - 16:00 Q & A

16:00 - 16:20 6th Presentation:
"Economic Globalization & Fluctuations: How does trade induce output co-movement?"

Presenter: SATO Hitoshi (Fellow, RIETI)

16:20 - 16:30

Discussant : Ming-Hsin KUNG (Vice President, TIER)

16:30 - 16:40 Q & A

16:40 - 16:50 Closing Remarks

Byoung Jun SONG (President, KIET)

16:50 - 17:00 Closing Remarks

David S. HONG (President, TIER)

17:00 - 17:10 Closing Remarks

NAKAJIMA Atsushi (Chairman, RIETI)