8:30-9:00 a.m.:                                  Breakfast

9:00 – 9:10 a.m.:                              Opening Remarks – Louis DeSipio, Director

9:10 – 10:00 a.m.:                            Yoshihiko FUKUSHIM, Waseda University: Corruption and Labor Market (tentative) 

10:00 – 10:50 a.m.:                          Tomomi MIYAZAKI, Kobe University: Public Investment and Stock Prices: Evidence

                                                             from Japan

10:50 – 11:10 a.m.:                          Coffee Break 

 11:10 – 12:00 p.m.                         Ruta Ray KATO, International University of Japan                                                             

12:00 – 13:20 p.m.:                          Lunch

13:20 – 14:10 p.m.:                         Takero DOI, Keio, University

14:10 – 15:00 p.m.:                         Akira OKAMOTO, Okayama University:  Countermeasures to the Falling Birthrate in a

                                                            Depopulating Japan:  Effects of Delaying Reform and Prior Announcement

 

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