RIETI-KEO Workshop

Productivity of Japanese Firms: Current status and challenges

  • Program and Handouts

Information

  • Time and Date: 9:30 - 17:40, Friday, October 3, 2014
  • Venue: RIETI's seminar room (METI Annex 11th floor, 1121, 1-3-1 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo)
  • Language: Japanese
  • Hosts: Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI), Keio Economic Observatory (KEO)

Program

9:30 - 9:40 Introductory session

Chair:

KIYOTA Kozo (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Keio University)

9:30 - 9:35 Opening remarks

NAKAJIMA Takanobu (Director, Keio Economic Observatory (KEO))

9:35 - 9:40 Introduction of participants

9:40 - 11:50 First session

Chair:

YAMASHITA Naoki (RMIT University)

9:40 - 10:40 Presentation 1 "Does Export Enhance Price, Product Quality, and Markup?: Evidence from Japanese plant-product-level data"

MATSUURA Toshiyuki (Keio University)

10:40 - 10:50 Break

10:50 - 11:50 Presentation 2 "Export-Platform Foreign Direct Investment: The impact of the Japan-Mexico economic partnership agreement"

KONDO Keisuke (Fellow, RIETI)

11:50 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 15:10 Second session

Chair:

OYAMA Atsushi (Hokkaido University)

13:00 - 14:00 Presentation 3 "The Impact of Foreign Firms on Industrial Productivity: A Bayesian model averaging approach"

TANAKA Kiyoyasu (Institute of Developing Economies, JETRO)

14:00 - 14:10 Break

14:10 - 15:10 Presentation 4 "Misallocation and Establishment Dynamics"

HOSONO Kaoru (Gakushuin University)

TAKIZAWA Miho (Toyo University)

15:10 - 15:20 Break

15:20 - 17:40 Third Session

Chair:

HONDA Keiichiro (Prefectural University of Kumamoto)

15:20 - 16:20 Presentation 5 "Access to Export Markets and Firm Performance: Do transaction partners matter?"

HOSONO Kaoru (Gakushuin University)

MIYAKAWA Daisuke (Nihon University)

TAKIZAWA Miho (Toyo University)

16:20 - 16:30 Break

16:30 - 17:30 Presentation 6 "Export Duration: How to foster always exporters"

INUI Tomohiko (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Gakushuin University)

ITO Keiko (Senshu University)

MIYAKAWA Daisuke (Nihon University)

17:30 - 17:40 Closing remarks

KIYOTA Kozo (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Keio University)

*Agenda is subject to change