Thirteenth Annual Conference

Program

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Because of the current conference is jointly organized by the Asia-Pacific Economic Association (AEA) and the Korean Economic Association (KEA), and because participants are coming from both associations, the program is posted at the kEA's web site, with the following sessions and papers listed here added later:

Session 1: International Finance, (to be held in the morning of July 15^th)

Chair: Etsuro Shioji, Hitotsubashi University, JP

Eiji Ogawa and Makoto Muto, Hitotsubashi University, JP, “Declining Japanese Yen and Inertia of the US Dollar”

Shin-ichi Fukuda, University of Tokyo, JP and Mariko Tanaka, Musashino University, JP, “The Impacts of Asian Financial Markets on Global Economies”

Mariko Tanaka, Musashino University, JP and Shin-ichi Fukuda, University of Tokyo, JP and, “Monetary Policy and Covered Interest Parity in the Post GFC Period: Evidence from the Australian Dollar and the NZ Dollar”

Yukie Sakuragawa, Atomi University, JP and Masaya Sakuragawa, Keio University, JP, “Absence of safe assets, large sovereign debt, and low bond yields”

Section 2: Topics on Monetary policy and Japanese Economy (to be held in the afternoon of July 14)

Chair: Eiji Ogawa, Hitotsubashi University, JP

Kimie Harada, Chuo University, JP, “The BOJ's ETF Purchasing Program and the Impact on the Market”

Yoshihiro Tamai, Kanagawa University, JP and Kiyohiko G. Nishimura, University of Tokyo, JP, “Long-Run Welfare Implication of Helicopter Money in Aging Economies”

Etsuro Shioji, Hitotsubashi University, JP, “Extracting fiscal policy expectations from a cross section of daily stock returns”

Yuri Sasaki, Meiji Gakuin University, JP and Yushi Yoshida, Shiga University, JP, “Factor Decomposition of Japan’s Trade Balance”

Session 3: Aging and Health Issues in Asia

Organizer: Asian Development Bank Institute

Chair: Naoyuki Yoshino, Asian Development Bank Institute, JP

Naoyuki Yoshino, Asian Development Bank Institute, JP, Hiroaki Miyamoto, University of Tokyo, JP, Naoko Aoyama, Waseda University, JP, “Declined Effectiveness of Fiscal and Monetary Policies Faced with Aging Population and Pension Asset Management”

Peter J. Morgan, Asian Development Bank Institute, JP and Long Q. Trinh, “Costs and Potential Funding of Expanded Public Pension Coverage in Asia”

Matthias Helble, Soewarta Kosen, and Kris Francisco, Asian Development Bank Institute, JP, “Measuring the Costs of Overweight and Obesity in Asia and the Pacific”