Japan-Taiwan Joint Public Economics Workshop 2025
Date: February 10 (Monday), 2025
Venue: Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica
Each session features three papers, with each paper allotted up to 30 minutes for presentation and discussion. Presenters will be identified by an asterisk (*).
To view the abstracts of each presentation, please click HERE.
08:50 am - 9:00 am Opening remarks
Delivered by Juin-Jen Chang, Director of the Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica
09:00 am - 10:30 am Session 1
Chair: Yunfang Hu, Kobe University
Been-Lon Chen, Academia Sinica, and Fei-Chi Liang*, National Chengchi University
Estate Taxation with Private Information on Income and Inter Vivos
Tsuyoshi Goto*, Chiba University
Wage Spillovers across Sectors: Evidence from a Localized Public-Sector Wage Cut
Yunmin Chen*, National Central University, and C.C. Yang, Academia Sinica
Redistributive Taxation in the Roy Model: Robot Tax and Foreign Capital
10:30 am - 11:00 am Coffee break
11:00 am - 12:30 pm Session 2
Chair: Toshihiro Ihori, GRIPS
Kazuo Mino*, Kyoto University
Population Aging and Debt-Growth Nexus
Jhih-Chian Wu*, National Chung Cheng University
The Role of Costly Entry and Hiring Costs in the Search and Match Model
Jun-ichi Itaya*, Hokusei Gakuen University, Kazuo Mino, Kyoto University, and Atsue Mizushima, Osaka University of Economics
Family Structure, Population Change, and Long-run Growth
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch break
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Session 3
Chair: CC Yang, Academia Sinica
Meng-Ting Chen*, National Taiwan Normal University, Juin-Jen Chang, Academia Sinica, Jhy-Hwa Chen, Tamkang University, Jhy-Yuan Shieh, Soochow University, and Jiakai Zhang, New Mexico Tech
Shifting Employment and Investment Structure Towards Environmental Sustainability
Yunfang Hu*, Kobe University, Naiyue Cui, Kobe University, and Mingchun Hsu, GRIPS
Fiscal Reform, Government Debt and Female Labor Supply in Japan
Been-Lon Chen, Academia Sinica, Minchung Hsu, GRIPS, and Samuel Leyton*, Academia Sinica
Development, Growth and Population Aging: A Political Economy Analysis
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Coffee break
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Session 4
Chair: Been-Lon Chen, Academia Sinica
Takafumi Suzuki*, Aichi Shukutoku University
Claiming Tax Incentives: Heterogeneous Impacts on Investment and Productivity
Tsung-Hsien Li*, Academia Sinica, Jan Sun, Oxford Economics
The Role of Marital Status for the Evaluation of Bankruptcy Regimes
Toshihiro Ihori, GRIPS, and Shintaro Nakagawa*, Konan University
Optimal Deficit Ceiling and International Externality of Crisis Risk
5:30 pm - 5:35 pm Closing Remarks
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Dinner: Bei-Yun Restaurant, Academia Sinica (by invitation only)