CEPR-RIETI Workshop

New Challenges to Global Trade and Finance

  • Program and Handouts

Information

  • Time and Date: 14:00 - 17:50, October 8, 2013
  • Venue: RIETI Conference Room (1121) 11th floor, Annex, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry 1-3-1, Kasumigaseki Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 100-8901 JAPAN
  • Hosts: CEPR and RIETI

Agenda

Facilitator: UENO Toru (Director of International Coordination and Public Relations, RIETI)

14:00 - 14:10 Opening Remarks

NAKAJIMA Atsushi (Chairman, RIETI)

Richard PORTES (President, CEPR / Professor, London Business School)

14:10 - 14:40 Opening Presentation: "Supply Chains and Global Resilience: The Lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake and the Great Flood in Thailand"

Presenter: FUJITA Masahisa (President, CRO, RIETI / Professor, Konan University)

Chair: WAKASUGI Ryuhei (Senior Research Advisor, Program Director, Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Gakushuin University)

14:40 - 15:10 Presentation "The Eurozone Crisis"

Presenter: Richard PORTES (President, CEPR / Professor, London Business School)

15:10 - 15:20

Discussant: IWAISAKO Tokuo (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Hitotsubashi University)

15:20 - 15:35 General Discussion

15:35 - 15:50 Coffee break

15:50 - 16:20 Presentation "The Monetary Policy Implications of Market Reforms and Trade Integration"

Presenter: Fabio GHIRONI (Professor, University of Washington / Research Fellow, CEPR)

16:20 - 16:30

Discussant: KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Keio University)

16:30 - 16:45 General Discussion

16:45 - 17:15 Presentation "FDI Promotion: Why and How?"

Presenter: Beata JAVORCIK (Professor, University of Oxford / Research Affiliate, CEPR)

17:15 - 17:25

Discussant: ITO Keiko (Professor, Senshu University / Project member, RIETI)

17:25 - 17:40 General Discussion

17:40 - 17:50 Closing Remarks

FUJITA Masahisa (President, CRO, RIETI / Professor, Konan University)

Richard PORTES (President, CEPR / Professor, London Business School)