We welcome everyone who is interested in the latest research and discussion on macroeconomics and finance. Please feel free to contact the organizers if you are interested in presenting your work.
Organizers: Munechika Katayama (mkatayama@waseda.jp) / Similan Rujiwattanapong (sruji@waseda.jp) / Kozo Ueda / Masashige Hamano
The Allocation of Talent and Income Differences Across Countries
Internal Talks (Pecuniary Valuation of Workplace Amenity: Evidence from Remote Work in the United States // Does Unemployment Insurance Help? Evidence from Japanese Bank Transaction Data)
Credit, Land Speculation, and Low-Interest-Rate Policy
Job tenure Jigsaw: Why Is Employment Protection Bad for Labor Market Fluidity?
Internal Talks
Dynamic Programming: From Local Optimality to Global Optimality
Tariffs and Retaliation: A Brief Macroeconomic Analysis
Optimal Monetary and Fiscal Policy without Fiscal Backing
Confucian Literati and Long-run Development in Northern Vietnam
Dynamic Wage Setting: The Role of Monopsony Power and Adjustment Costs
Scalable versus Productive Technologies
Living in a Ghost Town: The Geography of Aging and Depopulation
Impacts and Distribution of Premiums from Temporal Social Networks across Generations
A Minskyite Model of Financial Crises
To Cap or Not to Cap? Energy Crises in a Currency Union
TBA
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