CEPR-RIETI Symposium

Changing Course: Multilateral Cooperation toward Green Growth and Digital Transformation (Handouts and Video)

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  • Time and Date: 17:00-19:10 (Japan Standard Time), Tuesday, March 2, 2021
  • Language: English
  • Hosts: Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) / Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Video (YouTube)

Handouts

Opening Remarks

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YANO Makoto (Chairman, RIETI / Project Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University / Professor by Special Appointment, Sophia University)

Bio

Yano received a BA from the University of Tokyo and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Rochester. He taught at number of universities, including Cornell University, Yokohama National University, Keio University and Kyoto University before joining RIETI as President and CRO in 2016, and became Chairman in 2020. He was also Chair of Institute of Economic Research in Kyoto University from 2010 to 2012, and President of the Japanese Economic Association from 2008 to 2009.

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Session 1: Green Growth

Presentation

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Christoph M. SCHMIDT (President, RWI Essen / Research Fellow, CEPR)

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Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Christoph M. Schmidt, born in 1962, has been President of RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research in Essen since 2002 and also holds the Chair for Economic Policy and Applied Econometrics at the Faculty of Management and Economics at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. He studied economics at the University of Mannheim, received his PhD from Princeton University, and completed his habilitation at the University of Munich. Schmidt was a member of the German Council of Economic Experts from 2009 to 2020 and its chairman from 2013 to 2020. Since 2019 he has been a member, and since 2020 co-chairman, of the Franco-German Council of Economic Experts. He has been a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) since 2011, a member of the presidium since 2014, and vice president since 2020. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (since 2020), the Mainz Academy of Sciences and Literature (since 2015) and the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts (since 2018).

From 2011 to 2013, Schmidt was a member of the Enquete Commission "Growth, Prosperity, Quality of Life" of the German Bundestag. He has been Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance in Munich since 2013, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation since 2014 (Deputy Chairman since 2020), a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation since 2016, Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board since 2018, and Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Energy Economics Institute at the University of Cologne (EWI) since 2020, as well as a member of the Corona Council of Experts of the NRW Minister President since 2020. His work focuses on applied econometrics, including energy, health, and labor economics, as well as on the interface between research and science-based policy advice. He was editor of the Journal of Population Economics (1996 to 2002) and the German Economic Review (2009 to 2013). In 2016, he received the Gustav Stolper Award of the Verein für Socialpolitik, and in 2019, he received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Economics at Leibniz Universität Hannover. In 2019, he was also awarded the title "Bürger des Ruhrgebiets" (citizen of the Ruhr area) by the association pro Ruhrgebiet.

https://www.rwi-essen.de/schmidt

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Panel Discussion

Panelists (Alphabetical order)

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ARIMURA Toshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Economics and Director, Research Institute for Environmental Economics and Management, Waseda University)

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Dr. Toshi H. Arimura is a Professor of Political Science and Economics and Director of the Research Institute for Environment Economics and Management at Waseda University in Tokyo. Prior to joining Waseda, he was a Professor at Sophia University in Tokyo and a visiting scholar at George Mason University and Resources for the Future as a recipient of the Abe Fellowship. His research interests include climate change, energy policies, air pollution regulations and voluntary environmental actions. He has published his research in academic journals such as Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and Energy Policy. He is a coauthor of An Evaluation of Japanese Environmental Regulation: A Quantitative Approach from Environmental Economics (Springer 2015). Dr. Arimura holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Minnesota, an MSc in environmental sciences from the University of Tsukuba and a BA in history of science from the University of Tokyo. He has served on a number of Japanese government committees on environmental issues and on the editorial boards of academic journals, such as Review of Environmental Economics and Policy and Environmental Economics and Policy Studies. In 2018, he was awarded the SEEPS Outstanding Publication Award from the Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies (Japanese Association of Environmental Economics and Policy).

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Jean-Luc di PAOLA-GALLONI (Group Vice-President, Sustainable Development and External Affairs, Valeo)

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Jean-Luc di Paola-Galloni joined Valeo in 2007 as CEO's delegate and member of the Executive Committee, before becoming Group Corporate VP in charge of Sustainable Development & External Affairs in 2010. Serving as Vice-Chairman since 2009 for the European Road Transport Research Advisory Council (ERTRAC), the main automotive technology platform on collaborative research of the EU Commission, Jean-Luc is also a member of the Board of its cPPP European Green Vehicle Initiative (EGVI).

In 2018, he was elected President of Artemis-IA, the European association for the embedded systems industry & research actors in the ECSEL JU (the Joint Technology Initiative on Electronic Components & Systems of the EU) for which he is Chairman of the Private Members Board. Jean-Luc is a Board member of CLEPA (European Association of Automotive Suppliers), and a member of the Corporate Partnership Board of the International Transport Forum (ITF).

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David POPP (Caroline Rapking Faculty Scholar in Public Administration and Policy at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University)

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David Popp is the Caroline Rapking Faculty Scholar in Public Administration and Policy in the Department of Public Administration and International Affairs at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, where he is a Senior Research Associate in the Center for Policy Research. He is an economist with research interests in environmental policy and the economics of technological change. Much of his research focuses on the links between environmental policy and innovation, with a particular interest in how environmental and energy policies shape the development of new technologies that may be relevant for combating climate change. Among this work are papers examining the relationship between energy prices and innovation, and papers looking at the role of R&D subsidies for climate policy.

His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Energy, and has been published in a variety of economics and policy journals, including American Economic Review, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Nature Energy, and the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. His 2002 publication in the American Economic Review, "Induced Innovation and Energy Prices," was one of two articles selected for the 2017 Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Publication of Enduring Quality Award. David is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Network Member in the Energy & Climate Economics Research Group of CESifo. David has served as a co-editor for two journals: the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and Environmental and Resource Economics, as well as on the U.S. General Accounting Office Expert Panel on Climate Change Economics, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis, and the Advisory Committee of the Green Growth Knowledge Platform. He has consulted for the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development and the World Bank. David received a B.A. in Political Economy from Williams College in 1992, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 1997.

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Christoph M. SCHMIDT (President, RWI Essen / Research Fellow, CEPR)

Moderator

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WATANABE Tetsuya (Vice President, RIETI)

Session 2: Digital Transformation

Presentation

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Richard BALDWIN (Professor of International Economics, Graduate Institute, Geneva)

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Richard Baldwin is a Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute in Geneva since 1991 and Editor-in-Chief of VoxEU.org since he founded it in 2007. Previously, he was President of CEPR in (2104-2018), a part-time Visiting Research Professor at the University of Oxford (2012-2015), Visiting Professor at the MIT Economics Department (Fall 2002-2003), and Associate Professor at Columbia Business School (1989-1991). He has served as a Managing Editor of Economic Policy (2000-2005). Before moving to Switzerland in 1991, he was a Senior Staff Economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisors in the Bush White House (1990-1991) following trade matters such as the Uruguay Round and NAFTA negotiations as well as numerous US-Japan trade conflicts. He has been an adviser and consultant to many international organizations and governments. He did his Ph.D. in Economics at MIT with Paul Krugman and has published a half dozen articles with him. Before that he earned an M.Sc. at LSE (1980-81), and a B.A. at UW-Madison (1976-1980). His most recent book is The Globotics Upheaval: Globalization, Robotics and the Future of Work, has been translated into Japanese.

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Susan AARONSON (Research Professor and Director of the Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub, GWU Cross-Disciplinary Fellow, Affiliate, Institute for International Economic Policy; Sigur Center, and Institute for Science and Technology Policy, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University)

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Susan Ariel Aaronson is Research Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Digital Trade and Data Governance Hub. Aaronson conceived of and directs the Hub, which aims to educate policymakers, the press and the public about domestic and international data governance issues from digital trade to public data governance. She is also a Senior Fellow at the think tank Center for International Governance Innovation (GIGI) in Canada where she publishes much of her research.

Aaronson is currently directing projects on mapping data governance; and writing on comparative advantage in data; trade as a tool to counter disinformation; data and national security, and America's approach to stimulating AI. Her research has been funded by the Hewlett, MacArthur, Koch, Ford, and Rockefeller Foundations; governments such as the Netherlands, U.S., and Canada; the UN, ILO, and World Bank, and companies such as Ford and Levi-Strauss. Aaronson writes frequently for Barron's on economic policy. She is the author of 6 books and numerous articles.

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Richard BALDWIN (Professor of International Economics, Graduate Institute, Geneva)

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Georgios PETROPOULOS (Research Fellow, Bruegel)

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Georgios Petropoulos is a Marie Curie Skłodowska Research Fellow at MIT and Bruegel and post-doctoral fellow at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. He is also a Digital Fellow at the Digital Economy Lab of Stanford University. Georgios' research focuses on the implications of digital technologies on innovation, competition policy and labour markets. He is currently studying how we should regulate digital platforms, what the relationship between big data and market competition is as well as how the adoption of robots and information technologies affect labour markets and firms' market returns. He holds a bachelors degree in Physics, master's degrees in mathematical economics and econometrics and a PhD degree in Economics. He has also studied Astrophysics at a Master's level.

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TANAKA Kazuya (Research Fellow, GRIPS Alliance / School of Engineering, University of Tokyo / CTO&CSO, scheme verge Inc.)

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Kazuya Tanaka is a reacher in AI & Data Science in the University of Tokyo, in interdisciplinary research among cutting-edge technology like AI and policy making in GRIPS Alliance, National Graduate Institute For Policy Studies. At the same time, establish a smart city startup, scheme verge Inc as CTO&CSO. with the civil engineer researcher, from Japanese national research project about autonomous driving, SIP-adus. Currently I am also selected as a member of Young Academy of Japan (Youngest member), and contributed tech-driven engagement such as other university, OIST, and NPO activities, TEDx.

Before the current position, he studied at Graduate School (Ph.D. and Master) of Engineering, the University of Tokyo, and he worked at Corporate and Investment Banking, Citibank (Tokyo and London etc.) after his graduation from Tokyo University of Science.

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TODO Yasuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University)

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Yasuyuki Todo has been a Professor at the Graduate School of Economics, Waseda University since 2014, after serving as a Department Head at the Department of International Studies, the University of Tokyo. He is also a Faculty Fellow at Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry. He received a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University in 2000. He has been conducting research in the fields of international economics, development economics, and applied micro-econometrics. He recently focuses on the role of social and economic networks in economic growth and resilience, using firm- and household-level data from various countries. Using these data, he has published more than 50 academic papers in refereed journals. In addition, he has served a number of policy-advising committees in the national and local governments of Japan and was recently the lead author of a policy brief of T20 Japan 2019 submitted to G20.

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Moderator

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WATANABE Tetsuya (Vice President, RIETI)

Closing remarks

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Richard BALDWIN (Professor of International Economics, Graduate Institute, Geneva)