| First Day, Monday, May 19: |
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| 9:00 a.m. | Registration | |
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| 9:30 a.m. | Growth and Stagnation | Chair: Masahisa Fujita |
| Masahisa Fujita | Welcoming Remarks | |
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| Bart van Ark | Growth and Stagnation in the World Economy | Slides |
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| Kyoji Fukao | The Structural Causes of Japan's Lost Decades | Slides |
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| Andre Hofman and Matilde Mas | Structural Change in Four Latin American Countries (with Claudio Aravena and Juan Fernández) | Slides |
| 11:00 a.m. | Coffee break | |
| 11:30 a.m. | Parallel Sessions | |
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| Session One: | Europe | Chair: Colin Webb |
| Bart van Ark | Growth and Stagnation in Europe (with Mary O'Mahony and Marcel Timmer) | Slides |
| Axel Werwatz | Explaining Rates of Return Differences across Industries in Germany (with Martin Gornig and Bernd Gorzig) | Slides |
| Carlo Milana | Productivity Stagnation and Low Human Capital Investment in a Wealthy Economy: The Case of Italy | Slides |
| Session Two: | Asia | Chair: Fumio Hayashi |
| Joji Tokui | Productivity and Growth for Japanese Prefectures (with Kyoji Fukao, Tsutomu Miyagawa, Kazuyasu Kawasaki and Tatsuji Makino) | Slides |
| Deb Kusum Das | Productivity Growth in India under Different Policy Regimes: 1890-2012 (with Abdul A Erumban, Suresh Aggarwal and Sreerupa Sengupta) | Slides |
| Yih-Ming Lin | Industrial Policy, Structural Change, and Pattern of Industrial Productivity Growth in Taiwan (with Tsu-Tan Fu , Hsing-Chun Lin, and Wen-Hsin Kong) | Slides |
| Harry X. Wu | China’s Strategic Move for a New Stage of Development: A Productivity Perspective | Slides |
| 1:00 p.m. | Lunch | |
| 2.00 p.m. | Parallel Sessions | |
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| Session Three: | Measurement Issues | Chair: Chi-Yuan Liang |
| Bishwanath Goldar | Productivity Growth in Indian Manufacturing Industries: The Role of Imported Materials Input | Slides |
| Taehyoung Cho | Korea’s Transition toward the 2008 SNA and Capital Measurement for National Balance Sheets (with Yungtaek Jung, Daejin Kim and Chaesoo Han) | Slides |
| Hak K. Pyo | Estimation of Land and Inventory Stocks by Industries as Capital Inputs (with Keun Hee Rhee) | Slides |
| Session Four: | Human Capital | Chair: Barbara Fraumeni |
| Haizheng Li | Human Capital Estimates in China, New Panel Data on China by Provinces, 1985-2010 (with Barbara Fraumeni, Qinyi Liu, Bo Li and Xiaobei Zhang) | Slides |
| Haripriya Gundimeda | Human Capital Estimates for Indian States. Gang Liu. Human Capital Measurement: Country Experiences and International Initiatives | Slides |
| Gang Liu | Human Capital Measurement: Country Experiences and International Initiatives | Slides |
| 3:30 p.m. | Afternoon Break | |
| 4.00 p.m. | Parallel Sessions | |
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| Session Five: | Intangibles | Chair: Masahiro Kuroda |
| Cecilia Jona-Lasinio | ICT, R&D and Non-R&D Intangible Capital in Europe (with Carol Corrado, Jonathan Haskel, Massimiliano Iommi) | Slides |
| Tsutomu Miyagawa | Intangible Investment by Industry and Productivity Improvement in Japan (with Shoichi Hisa) | Slides |
| Hak K. Pyo | Intangible Capital Stock and Its Contribution to Economic Growth in Korea, 1980-2013 (with Hyunbae Chun and Keun Hee Rhee) | Slides |
| Session Six: | United States and Japan | Chair: Brian Moyer |
| Mun Ho | Long-Term Estimates of U.S. Productivity and Growth (with Dale Jorgenson and Jon Samuels) | Slides |
| Koji Nomura | Industry Origins of the U.S.-Japan Productivity Gap (with Dale Jorgenson and Jon Sammuels) | Slides |
| Erich Strassner | An Integrated Industry-Level Production Account for the United States (with Steven Rosenthal, Matthew Russell, Jon D. Samuels and Lisa Usher) | Slides |
| 5:30 p.m. | End of day one |
| 5:40 p.m. | Bus leaves JP Tower & Conference for Hotel Grand Ark Hanzomon |
| 6:00 p.m. | Dinner for Conference Participants | |
Paul Schreyer |
Dinner speach: From the OECD Productivity Handbook to World KLEMS |
-->| Second Day: Tuesday, May 20: |
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| 9:00 a.m. | Parallel Sessions | |
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| Session Seven: | Country Studies | Chair: Lawrence J. Lau |
Andre Hofman |
Economic growth and productivity in Latin America, An industry perspective: LA KLEMS database (with Claudio Aravena) |
| | David Kupfer | Productivity and Investment in the Brazilian Economy (with Fabio Freitas, Gabriel Squeff, Claudio Armitrano, Sandro Sacchet de Carvalho, Thiago Miguez, and Thiago Moraes) | Slides |
| Zaffrullah Hussein | Towards a High Income Economy: The Malaysian Case (with Rauzah Zainal Abidin, Ishak Yusof and Rosmiza Rosly) | Slides |
| Ilya Voskoboynikov | Is the Russian Strategy 2020 Workable? | Slides |
| Francisco Guillen | Growth Strategy in Mexico | Slides |
| Session Eight: | Global Value Chains | Chair: Nobuhiro Kiyotaki |
| Gaaitzen de Vries | Incomes and Jobs in Global Production of Manufactures (with Marcel P. Timmer and Bart Los) | Slides |
| Zhi Wang | Quantifying International Production Sharing at the Bilateral and Sector Level (with Shang-Jin Wei and Kunfu Zhu) | Slides |
| Eiichi Nakazawa | Determinants of Trade in Value Added (with Norihiko Yamano and Colin Webb) | Slides |
| 10:30 a.m. | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 a.m. | Plenary Session | |
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| | The World Economy | Chair: Masayuki Morikawa |
| Khuong Vu | Productivity Growth and Export Performance in the G7 Economies | Slides |
| Robert Inklaar | Industry Prices and Productivity Convergence | Slides |
| Marcel Timmer | Slicing Up Global Value Chains (with Abdul Azeez Erumban, Bart Los, Robert Stehrer and Gaaitzen J. de Vries) | Slides |
| Masayuki Morikawa | Concluding Remarks | |
| 12:30 p.m. | Lunch |
| Preliminary Program |
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| 1:30 p.m. | Opening Session | |
| | Opening Remarks | Atsushi Nakajima |
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| 1:35 p.m. | Keynote Speech | |
| | World KLEMS Initiative" | Dale Jorgenson |
| 2:20 p.m. | Keynote Speech | |
| | "Evolving Spatial Economy of Asia-Pacific and Growth Strategy" | Masahisa Fujita |
| 3:05 p.m. | Afternoon Break |
| 3:30 p.m. | Panel Disucussion | |
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| Panel List | Topics | Moderator: Tsutomu Miyagawa |
| Kyoji Fukao | | Nobuhiro Kiyotaki | | Lawrence J. Lau | | Marcel Timmer | | Bart van Ark |
| | Can the world economy keep sustainable productivity improvement? | | Structural change to enhance growth: Reallocation mechanisms, change in trade structure, investments in intangibles, service sector productivity etc. | | Risk factors for sustainable growth: Financial stability in the world economy, sustainability of government debt, instability of emerging economies, increase in energy demand etc. |
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| 5:30 p.m. | Close |
| 5:35 p.m. | Reception (by courtesy of the Japan Productivity Center) |
