15th RIETI－HIT‐REFINED Joint Workshop

Date	8-29-2014
Venue	6th floor, Daidoseimei kasumigasekiBL, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)
Speaker	Yoshiaki Ogura (WASEDA University）
Title	“Network-Motivated Lending Decision”
Speaker	Hiromichi Iwaki (Hitotsubashi University Graduate School of Commerce and Management)
Title	"The Effect of Debt Market Imperfection on Capital Structure and Investment: Evidence from the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 in Japan"

 

14th RIETI－HIT‐REFINED Joint Workshop

Date	8-14-2014
Venue	11th floor, Annex, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)
Speaker	Michio Naoi (Keio University）
Title	“Reference-Dependent Preferences and Homeowners’ Consumption Responses to Wealth Shocks”
Speaker	Masahiro HORI (Economic and Social Research Institute, Cabinet Office)
Title	“Measuring Housing Asset Holdings and Wealth Effects among Households in Japan:Evidence from Family Income and Expenditure Survey”

 

15th Hitotsubashi Macro-Finance Workshop

Date	7-29-2014
Venue	3rd floor, Institute of Economic Research
Speaker	Jessie Handbury (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)
Title	“Are Poor Cities Cheap for Everyone? Non-Homotheticity and the Cost of Living Across U.S. Cities.”

 

14th Hitotsubashi Macro-Finance Workshop

Date	7-15-2014
Venue	3rd floor, Institute of Economic Research
Speaker	Nao Sudou (BANK OF JAPAN), Tomoaki Yamada (Meiji University)
Title	“Response of Inequality to a Growth Rate Slowdown in Japanese Economy during the Lost Decades“

 

13th RIETI－HIT‐REFINED Joint Workshop

Date	7-4-2014
Venue	11th floor, Annex, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)
Speaker	Jiro Yoshida (The Pennsylvania State University）
Title	“The Repeat Rent Index”

 

13th Hitotsubashi Macro-Finance Workshop

Date	7-1-2014
Venue	3rd floor, Institute of Economic Research
Speaker	Yuichiro Waki (The University of Queensland)
Title	“The Optimal Degree of Discretion in Monetary Policy in a New Keynesian Model with Private Information“

 

12th Hitotsubashi Macro-Finance Workshop

Date	6-17-2014
Venue	3rd floor, Institute of Economic Research
Speaker	Kengo Nutahara (Senshu University)
Title	“Asset price targeting government spending and equilibrium indeterminacy in a sticky-price economy“

 

11th Hitotsubashi Macro-Finance Workshop

Date	5-22-2014
Venue	3rd floor, Institute of Economic Research
Speaker	Nobuhiro Kiyotaki (Princeton University)
Title	“Dynamics of Firms and Trade in General Equilibrium” (Co-authored by Robert Dekle、Hyeok Jeong)

 

10th Hitotsubashi Macro-Finance Workshop

Date	4-15-2014
Venue	3rd floor, Institute of Economic Research
Speaker	Mototsugu Shintani (University of Tokyo)
Title	“Quasi-Bayesian Model Selection ”(Co-authored by Atsushi Inoue)

 

12th RIETI－HIT‐REFINED Joint Workshop

Date	4-1-2014
Venue	11th floor, Annex, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI)
Speaker	Xu Peng (Hosei University）
Title	“The cost of bank recapitalization: Do banks issue new equity to shore up regulatory capital ratio?”
Speaker	Uchida Hirofumi (Kobe University)
Title	“Natural Disaster and Natural Selection”
Speaker	Ono Arito (Mizuho Research Institute)
Title	“Transaction partners and firm location choice: Evidence from the Great East-Japan Earthquake”