IEFS Japan 4th Meeting 1999

Meeting Room at Shinkan
Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration
Kobe University

December 22, 1999

12:30-13:20 Chair: Kenzo Abe (Osaka University)
        Hiro Lee (Kobe University)
        “Japanese Structural Reform and Its Implications on Output and Trade Patterns”
        with David Roland-Holst (Mills College)

13:20-13:30 Break

13:30-14:20 Chair: Makoto Tawada (Nagoya University)
        Koji Shimomura (Kobe University)
        “Transfer Paradox and Indeterminacy in a Dynamic General Equilibrium Model
        of International Trade”

14:20-15:10 Chair: Hiroshi Ohta (Kobe University)
        Koji Aoki (Konan University)
        “Hyperbola of External Debt: A Lesson from Asian Crisis”
        with Byung-Seong Min (Monash University)

15:10-15:30 Break

15:30-16:20 Chair: Kazuo Mino (Kobe University)
        Shinsuke Ikeda (Osaka University)
        “Time Preference and the Harberger-Laursen-Metzler Effect”

16:20-17:10 Chair: Hisayuki Okamoto (Kobe University of Commerce)
        Shu-ichi Akiyama (Osaka University)
        “Voluntary Export Restraints and Yano Effect: The Case of Japanese Steel
        Industry”

December 23, 1999

9:00-9:50 Chair: Shigemi Yabuuchi (Nagoya City University)
        Ichiro Tokutsu (Kobe University)
        “Quadrilateral Market Dependence: Japan, United States, European Union,
        and Asian Countries”

9:50-10:40 Chair: Toru Kikuchi (Kobe University)
        Makoto Yano (Keio University)
        “Dumping and New Products” with Fumio Dei (Kobe University)

10:40-11:00 Break

11:00-11:50 Chair: Hajime Kubota (Shiga University)
        Masahiro Endoh (Keio University)
        “The Transition of Postwar Asia-Pacific Trade Relations”

11:50-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:20 Chair: Kazuhiro Igawa (Kobe University)
        Ryuhei Wakasugi (Yokohama National University)
         “How FDI and Technology Import Affected the Growth in the East
        Asian Countries” with Atsuko Matsuoka (Yokohama National University)

14:20-15:10 Chair: Koichi Futagami (Osaka University)
        Youichi Gokan (Kobe University)
        “Alternative Government Financing and Stochastic Endogenous Growth ”

15:10-15:30 Break

15:30-16:20 Chair: Mototsugu Fukushige (Kobe University)
        Kiyoshi Fujikawa (Konan University)
        “Multilateral Comparison of Cost structures in the Input Output Tables of
        Japan, the US and Germany”

16:20-17:10 Chair: Noritsugu Nakanishi (Kobe University)
        Fukunari Kimura (Keio University)
        “Fragmentation, Internalization, and Inter-firm Linkages”