Hitotsubashi-Gakushuin Conference on International Trade & FDI 2024

Information

  • Date: 14-15 December, 2024
  • Venue: International Conference Room, Gakushuin University
  • Host(s): Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) (Transformation of the Global Value Chain and the Construction of a New International Economic Order), Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)

Program (December 14 (Saturday))

Chair : Yoichi Sugita (Keio University)

09:00-09:15 Opening remark

Jota Ishikawa (Gakushuin University, Hitotsubashi University and RIETI)

09:15-10:10 “Service exports, development and GenAI”

Richard Baldwin (IMD Business School and RIETI)

10:30-11:25 “Production Network Formation, Trade, and Welfare”

Yuhei Miyauchi (Boston University) (with Costas Arkolakis and Federico Huneeus)

11:45-12:40 “Optimal Trade Policies and Labor Markets”

Dan Lu (Chinese University of Hong Kong) (with Yan Bay and Hanxi Wang)

12:40-14:00 Lunch


Chair : Taiji Furusawa (University of Tokyo)

14:00-14:55 “Carbon Tax and Border Tax Adjustments with Technology and Location Choices”

Haitao Cheng (Hitotsubashi University) (with Jota Ishikawa)

15:15-16:10 “Spatial Sorting of Workers and Firms”

Ryungha Oh (Northwestern University)

16:30-17:25 “Anatomy of Market Failures in Monopolistic Competition”

Kiminori Matsuyama (Northwestern University) (with Philip Ushchev)

18:00-20:00 Reception

Program (December 15 (Saturday))

Chair : Tomohiko Inui (Gakushuin University)

09:15-10:10 “Exploiting complementarity in applied general-equilibrium models: endogenizing zeros, firm and mode types, capacity constraints”

James R. Markusen (University of Colorado)

10:30-11:25 “How Wide is the Market Border? Perspective from Global Value Chains”

Ayumu Ken Kikkawa (University of British Columbia)

11:45-12:40 “Capital Services in Global Value Chains”

Xiang Ding (Georgetown University)

12:40-14:00 Lunch


Chair : Hiroshi Mukunoki (Gakushuin University)

14:00-14:55 “Cross-border Partial Equity Ownership”

Tomohiro Ara (Fukushima University) (with Arghya Ghosh, Hotaka Morita and Hiroshi Mukunoki)

15:15-16:10 “Pro-Manufacturing Land Policies of Competing Local Governments: A Quantitative Analysis of China”

Yuta Suzuki (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) (with Ming Lu, Xican Xi, Le Xu, and Yuejun Zhong)

16:30-17:25 “Neoclassical Growth in an Interdependent World”

Stephen J. Redding (Princeton University) (with Benny Kleinman, Ernest Liu and Motohiro Yogo)

17:25-17:40 Closing remark

Taiji Furusawa (University of Tokyo)

18:30-20:30 Conference Dinner (Invitation only)

https://sites.google.com/view/hg-conference2024/%E3%83%9B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0/program