IISS Workshop / RIEB Policy Research Workshop
"Empirical Evaluation of the Effect of Japanese Monetary/Fiscal Policy"
(Jointly hosted by: The Kobe University Interfaculty Initiative in the Social Sciences / Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration, Kobe University,
Jointly supported by: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A): Deflation, Strong Yen, and Financial Crises / Monetary Economics Seminar of Kobe University / RIEB Seminar)

Date&Time Saturday, October 25, 2014, 10:30am-
Place RIEB Meeting Room (Annex, 2nd Floor)
Intended Audience Faculties, Graduate Students, and People with Equivalent Knowledge
Language Japanese
Note Copies of the paper will be available at Office of Promoting Research Collaboration.

If you wish to attend this workshop, please email us at Office of Promoting Research Collaboration your name, affiliation, email address and whether you will attend the reception or not, by Wednesday, October 8th, 2014. Details will be notified later.

10:30am-12:00pm

Speaker Masahiko SHIBAMOTO (Reseach Institute for Economics & Business Administration, Kobe University)
Topic Decomposing the Effect of Monetary Policy in a Low Interest Rate Environment

12:00pm～1:00pm

Lunch Break

1:00pm-2:30pm

Speaker Etsuro SHIOJI (Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University)
Topic Construction of Stock-market based Daily Index of Fiscal News for Japan

2:30pm～2:45pm

Break Time

2:45pm-3:45pm

Speaker Hiromi YAMAOKA (Financial Markets Department, Bank of Japan)
Topic Unconventional Monetary Easing - Its Implementation and Experiences

3:45pm-4:45pm

Speaker Toshio OYA (Policy Planning and Research Division, Ministry of Finance)
Topic What Abenomics Is Pressing Ahead With and What It Has Been Achieving

4:45pm-5:00pm

Break Time

5:00pm-6:00pm

Comment & Free Discussion
Chair Wataru TAKAHASHI (Faculty of Economics, Osaka University of Economics)
Commentator Etsuro SHIOJI (Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University)
Commentator Toshiki JINUSHI (Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University)

6:00pm-

Closing Remarks Takashi KAMIHIGASHI (Reseach Institute for Economics & Business Administration, Kobe University)

6:45pm-

After Session