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
Digital Money as a Medium of Exchange and Monetary Policy in Open Economies
Why Women Work the Way They Do: Roles of Fiscal Policies
Extracting firms' short-term inflation expectations from survey comments using text analysis
The Lifetime Costs of Bad Health
A Welfare Analysis of Long-Term Care Insurance in Japan
Asset Pricing Models with Preference Shocks: Existence and Uniqueness
A Comparison of Japanese and US New Keynesian Phillips Curves with Bayesian VAR-GMM
The Effects of Trend Inflation on Firm Uncertainty and Price Setting Behavior
Expenditure Consolidation and Sovereign Debt Restructurings: Front- or Back-loaded
TBA / TBA (PhD Student Presentations)
Superpowers, Globalization and the World Order
The Development of Local Currency Bond Markets and Uncovered Interest Rate Parity
Directing Search
Striking While the Iron Is Cold: Fragility after a Surge of Lumpy Investments
The Impact of Auxiliary Benefits on the Labor Supply Behavior of Married Mothers
Incorporating Diagnostic Expectations into the New Keynesian Framework
A Search and Matching Model of Heterogeneous Wage Rigidity and Missing Trickle Down
Long-run economic impacts of climate uncertainty
Rational Exuberance and Bubbles
Money creation in the Lagos-Wright model of one-sided private information
Commitment vs. Flexibility in a New Keynesian Model with Private Information
Adverse Selection, Liquidity Shortage, and Government Liquidity Facilities