RIETI Policy Symposium

Determinants of Total Factor Productivity and Japan's Potential Growth: An International Perspective (Handouts)

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  • Time and Date:
    13:00-17:50 Tuesday, July 25, 2006
  • Venue:
    Conference Hall, Shinsei Bank, Shinsei Financial Center
    1st Floor, Head Office, 2-1-8 Uchisaiwaicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
  • Language:
    Japanese / English (with simultaneous interpretation)

    • Handouts

    Symposium Chair:
    KIMURA Takako
    13:00-13:10 Opening Remarks:
    YOSHITOMI Masaru (President and CRO, RIETI)
    13:10-15:30 Presentation:
    Chair:
    INUI Tomohiko (Professor, Nihon University College of Economics)
    13:10-13:50 Presentation: "Determinants of TFP Growth and Potential Growth in Japan"
    MIYAGAWA Tsutomu (Former Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Economics, Gakushuin University)
    FUKAO Kyoji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University)
    Presentation (Japanese) [PDF: 376KB]
    13:50-14:10 Presentation: "Can the EU Catch Up with the US in Terms of the Level of Total Factor Productivity?"
    Marcel P. TIMMER (Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Groningen)
    Presentation [PDF: 62KB]
    14:30-14:50 Presentation: "Japan's Potential Growth in a World Perspective"
    Dale W. JORGENSON (Samuel W. Morris University Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University)
    Presentation [PDF: 181KB]
    14:50-15:10 Presentation: "Japan's Potential Growth from an East Asian Perspective"
    MOTOHASHI Kazuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI/ Professor, Department of Technology Management for Innovation, The University of Tokyo)
    Presentation [PDF: 130KB]
    15:45-17:45 Panel Discussion
    Chair:
    NAGAOKA Sadao (Research Counselor, RIETI / Director and Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University)
    Presentation [PDF: 49KB]
    15:45-17:15 Panelists:
    YOSHIKAWA Hiroshi (Research Counselor, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo)
    Presentation [PDF: 112KB]
    Dale W. JORGENSON (Samuel W. Morris University Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University)
    MORIKAWA Masayuki (Director, Industrial Structure Policy Division, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau, METI)
    Presentation (Japanese) [PDF: 221KB]
    FUWA Hisayoshi (Corporate Vice President, General Manager for Corporate Strategic Planning Division, and General Manager for i cube Project Office of Innovation Division, Toshiba Corporation)
    Presentation (Japanese) [PDF: 202KB]
    17:45-17:50 Closing Remarks:
    OIKAWA Kozo (Chairman, RIETI)