Announcement
This conference aims to honour Masa Fujita's contributions to urban and spatial economics over the past half century, particularly in the field of economics of agglomeration, the basis of today's quantitative urban and regional economic models, where he has made significant contributions to the development of basic theory. At the same time, his research spirit, always with an eye to direct contributions to the real world, such as his ongoing involvement in the reconstruction of the Tohoku region after the Great East Japan Earthquake, has been a role model for many researchers who have followed in his footsteps. This conference brings together researchers from different generations who have been inspired by Masa's work to review the origins of contemporary urban and spatial economics and to look to the future.
Information
- Time and Date: 9:00-19:00, Friday, October 25, 2024
- Venue: RIETI's Seminar room (METI Annex 11th floor, 1121)
11th floor, Annex, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)1-3-1, Kasumigaseki Chiyoda-ku - Hosts: Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI), Japanese Economic Association (JEA), Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO)
Program
9:00 Opening Remarks
FUKAO Kyoji (Chairman, RIETI / University Professor, IER, Hitotsubashi University)
9:03 Introduction
Gilles DURANTON (Dean's Chair in Real Estate Professor, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)
9:10 Presentation "Knowledge creation through multimodal communication"
Marcus BERLIANT (Professor of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis) ※Online
10:00 Break
10:10 Presentation "How Masa Fujita shaped the current spatial economics and how he will inspire the future spatial economics"
MORI Tomoya (Faculty Fellow RIETI / Professor, Kyoto Institute of Economic Research (KIER), Kyoto University / Visiting Professor, Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo)
11:00 Presentation "Multi-dimensional informality and the dynamism of microenterprises in urban Africa（Co-author: Nobuaki Hamaguchi, Hiroyuki Hino, Charles Piot, Jiahan Yin）"
HAMAGUCHI Nobuaki (Program Director and Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration (RIEB), Kobe University)
11:50 Lunch
12:50 Presentation "The role of face-to-face contact in innovation: The evidence from the Spanish flu pandemic in Japan"
NAKAJIMA Kentaro (Faculty Fellow RIETI / Professor, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University,Graduate School of Business Administration,Department of Business Administration / Professor, Faculty of Commerce and Management / Professor, Graduate School of Business Administration, Department of Business Administration,Institute of Innovation Research)
13:40 Presentation "Network dynamics and propagation in aging society"
SAITO Yukiko (Senior Fellow (Specially Appointed) RIETIProfessor, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University)
14:30 Break
14:40 Presentation "Ex ante evaluation of migration subsidy: Evidence from Japan"
KONDO Keisuke (Senior Fellow RIETI / Associate Professor, Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration (RIEB), Kobe University)
15:30 Presentation "Local efficiency and global (in)efficiency in the presence of local and global externalities"
KONISHI Hideo (Professor of Economics, Boston College)
16:20 Presentation "Social integration of immigrants in cities: Theory and evidence from the European Social Survey"
SATO Yasuhiro (Professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo)
17:10 Break
17:20 Presentation "The determinants of coagglomeration: Evidence from functional employment patterns"
Kristian BEHRENS (Professor of Economics, University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM))
18:10 Closing Remarks
Jacques THISSE (UCLouvain / Senior Research Fellow, IDE-JETRO)
18:20 Greeting
Paul KRUGMAN (Professor of Economics and International Affairs Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University) ※Online
18:30 Greeting
Anthony VENABLES (Visiting Professor, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics) ※Online
18:40-19:00 Wrap up
FUJITA Masahisa (Project Professor, Kyoto Institute of Economic Research (KIER), Kyoto University)
