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Tue, Feb 18, 2020 - Tue, Feb 19, 2019

2nd GRIPS-UT Macroeconomics and Policy Workshop

Date

Feb 18-19 (Tue-Wed), 2020

Vanue

National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies

http://www.grips.ac.jp/en/about/access/

Jointly organized by GRIPS and University of Tokyo

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Matthias Doepke, Northwestern University
Dr. Gianluca Violante, Princeton University

Program

Day 1: February 18 (Tues), 2020
9:30-9:45Welcome coffee
9:45-10:30

Satoshi Tanaka (University of Queensland)

Occupational Reallocations within and across Firms: Implications for the Labor Market Polarization

(joint with Toshihiko Mukoyama, Naoki Takayama)

10:30-10:45Coffee break
10:45-11:30

Sagiri Kitao (University of Tokyo)

Welfare Effects of Polarization: Occupational Mobility over a Life-cycle (joint with Shinnosuke Kikuchi)

11:30-13:00Lunch (cafeteria area on 1 FL)
13:00-13:45

Edmund Crawley (Federal Reserve Board)

Consumption Heterogeneity: Micro Drivers and Macro Implications
(joint with Andreas Kuchler)

13:45-14:00Coffee break
14:00-14:45

Heejeong Kim (Concordia University)

Inequality, Portfolio Choice, and the Great Recession

14:45-15:00Coffee break
15:00-15:45

Ismail Baydur (Singapore Management University)

AT Treatment of the Financial Services: Implications for the Real Economy
(joint with Fatih Yilmaz)

15:45-16:00Coffee break
16:00-17:00

Keynote presentation 1

Gianluca Violante (Princeton University)

Household Balance Sheet Channels of Monetary Policy: A Back of the Envelope Calculation for the Euro Area

(joint with Jiri Slacalek, Oreste Tristani)

Day 2: February 19 (Wed), 2020
8:45-9:00Welcome coffee
9:00-9:45

Minchul Yum (University of Mannheim and Goethe University Frankfurt )

Status Externalities and Low Birth Rates in Korea
(joint with Seongeun Kim, Michele Tertilt)

9:45-10:00Coffee break
10:00-11:00

Keynote presentation 2

Matthias Doepke (Northwestern University)

Why Didn’t the College Premium Rise Everywhere? Employment Protection and On-the-Job Investment in Skills

11:00-11:15Coffee break
11:15-12:00

Minchung Hsu (GRIPS)

Marriage, Fertility, and Female Labor Force Participation in an Aging Economy
(joint with Junichi Fujimoto)

12:00Lunch and adjourn

Workshop organizers

GRIPS
Junichi Fujimoto
Minchung Hsu
Ponpoje (Poe) Porapakkarm

The University of Tokyo
Sagiri Kitao

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