Announcement
Firms operate in complex inter-firm networks which spread globally across country borders. In recent years, researchers have been actively engaging in research using large-scale microdata on inter-firm networks to understand firm activities.
This workshop will focus on network building cost due to geographical factors. The leading domestic and foreign researchers in the fields of international trade and spatial economics will report their latest research results in terms of firm-level networks and the relationships with international trade, firm performance labor market, spillover effects through networks, and impacts to the innovation activities.
Information
- Time & Date: 10:00-17:20, Monday, March 7, 2016 / 10:00-11:50, Tuesday, March 8, 2016
- Venue: RIETI's seminar room #1119,1121 (METI Annex 11th Floor)
- Host: Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)
Program (March 7, 2016)
10:00-10:10 Opening Remarks
FUJITA Masahisa (RIETI)
Session I:
Chair:
WAKASUGI Ryuhei (RIETI / University of Niigata Prefecture / Kyoto University)
10:10-11:10 "Firm-to-Firm Trade: Imports, exports, and the labor market"
Presenter:
Samuel KORTUM (Yale University)
Discussant:
MURATA Yasusada (Nihon University)
Q&A
11:10-11:50 "Offshoring, Relationship-Specificity, and Domestic Production Networks"
Presenter:
FURUSAWA Taiji (Hitotsubashi University)
Discussant:
TODO Yasuyuki (RIETI / Waseda University)
Q&A
11:50-12:30 "Production Networks, Geography, and Firm Performance"
Presenter:
SAITO Yukiko Umeno (RIETI)
Discussant:
KWON Hyeog Ug (RIETI / Nihon University)
Q&A
12:30-13:40 Lunch
Session II:
Chair:
HAMAGUCHI Nobuaki (RIETI / Kobe University)
13:40-14:40 "Two-sided Heterogeneity and Trade"
Presenter:
Andrew B. BERNARD (Dartmouth College)
Discussant:
OKUBO Toshihiro (Keio University)
Q&A
14:40-15:20 "Indirect Exports and Wholesalers: Evidence from interfirm transaction network data"
Presenter:
ONO Yukako (Keio University)
Discussant:
INUI Tomohiko (RIETI / Gakushuin University)
Q&A
15:20-15:40 Coffee Break
Session III:
Chair:
MORIKAWA Masayuki (RIETI)
15:40-16:20 "Network-motivated Lending Decisions"
Presenter:
OGURA Yoshiaki (Waseda University)
Discussant:
FUJII Daisuke (RIETI / University of Southern California)
Q&A
16:20-17:20 "The Regional Spillover Effects of the Tohoku Earthquake"
Presenter:
Robert DEKLE (University of Southern California)
Discussant:
NIREI Makoto (Hitotsubashi University)
Q&A
17:45- Reception
Program (March 8, 2016)
Session IV:
Chair:
INUI Tomohiko (RIETI / Gakushuin University)
10:00-11:00 "Trade and Labor Market Dynamics"
Presenter:
Lorenzo CALIENDO (Yale University)
Discussant:
ISHIKAWA Jota (RIETI / Hitotsubashi University)
Q&A
11:10-11:40 "Fresh Brain Power and Quality of Innovation in Cities: Evidence from the Japanese patent database"
Presenter:
KONDO Keisuke (RIETI)
Discussant:
NAKAJIMA Ryo (Keio University)
Q&A
11:40-11:50 Closing Remarks
NAKAJIMA Atsushi (RIETI)
