Announcement
RIETI invited Professor Elhanan Helpman (Harvard University), Professor Richard E. Baldwin (the Graduate Institute, Geneva), and other researchers from Asia to speak at an international seminar with the theme of international trade, firms, and the labor market. Please see below.
Information
- Time and Date: 9:30-17:15, Friday, February 4, 2011
- Venue: RIETI's seminar room (Rm. 1121,11th Floor, METI Annex)
1-3-1 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo - Language: English
- Host: Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)
- Contact: RIETI, (Ms.) Tomoko HARADA
Tel: 03-3501-8398 / Fax: 03-3501-8416
Agenda
Program Organizer
WAKASUGI Ryuhei (Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University / Research Counselor, RIETI)
9:30 - 9:40 Opening Remarks
FUJITA Masahisa (President and Chief Research Officer, RIETI / Professor, Konan University / Adjunct Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University)
Lecture Series
Chair: WAKASUGI Ryuhei (Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University / Research Counselor, RIETI)
9:40 - 10:40 Distinguished Lecture: "Trade and Labor Market Outcomes" (lecture delivered via Skype)
Elhanan HELPMAN (Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade, Harvard University)
10:40 - 10:50 Q&A
10:50 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:40 Distinguished Lecture: "Relocating the Value Chain: Offshoring and agglomeration in the global economy"
Richard E. BALDWIN (Professor of International Economics, The Graduate Institute, Geneva)
Q&A 11:40 - 11:50
Presentation and Discussion
Chair: WAKASUGI Ryuhei (Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University / Research Counselor, RIETI)
11:50 - 12:10 Presentation 1: "Multinational Corporations, FDI and the East Asian Economic Integration"
YANG Tzu-Han (Professor, National Taipei University)
12:10 - 12:20 Discussant
ITO Banri (Fellow, RIETI / Lecturer, Department of International Economics, School of Economics, Senshu University)
12:20 - 12:30 Q&A
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 13:50 Presentation 2: "Openness and the Share of Nonstandard Workers"
AHN Joyup (Senior Research Fellow, Korea Labor Institute)
13:50 - 14:00 Discussant
TSURU Kotaro (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
14:00 - 14:10 Q&A
14:10 - 14:30 Presentation 3: "Temporary Workers, Permanent Workers, and International Trade: Evidence from the Japanese firm-level data"
SATO Hitoshi (Fellow, RIETI)
14:30 - 14:40 Discussant
ONO Yukako (Keio Economic Observatory, Keio University)
14:40 - 14:50 Q&A
14:50 - 15:05 Break
15:05 - 15:25 Presentation 4: "A Model of Multi-dimensional Human Capital Investments: Specific vs. general investments under uncertainty"
ICHIDA Toshihiro (Associate Professor of International Trade, School of Commerce, Waseda University)
15:25 - 15:35 Discussant
JINJI Naoto (Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, Kyoto University)
15:35 - 15:45 Q&A
15:45 - 16:05 Presentation 5: "Offshoring of Tasks and Flexible Employment: Relations at the firm level"
TOMIURA Eiichi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Economics, Yokohama National University)
16:05 - 16:15 Discussant
ENDOH Masahiro (Professor, Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University)
16:15 - 16:25 Q&A
16:25 - 16:45 Presentation 6: "China' s Educational Inequality: Evidence from college entrance exams and admissions"
LI Hongbin (Professor, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University)
16:45 - 16:55 Discussant
TODO Yasuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Department of International Studies, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, the University of Tokyo)
16:55 - 17:05 Q&A
17:05 - 17:15 Closing Remarks
OIKAWA Kozo (Chairman, RIETI)
