NBER's Japan Project Meets in Tokyo

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A number of U.S. and Japanese economists gathered in Tokyo on December 18, 1997 for a meeting of the NBER's Japan Project. The program, organized by NBER Research Associates Fumio Hayashi, also of University of Tokyo, Takatoshi Ito, also of Hitotsubashi University, and Anil K Kashyap, also of University of Chicago, was:

Michael R. Darby and Lynne Zucker, NBER and University of California, Los Angeles, "Capturing Technological Opportunity via Japan's Star Scientists: Evidence from Japanese Firms' Biotech Patents and Products" (NBER Working Paper No. 6360)

Discussant: Akiko Tamura, Hosei University

Lee G. Branstetter, NBER and University of California, Davis, "Are Knowledge Spillovers International or Intranational in Scope? Microeconometric Evidence from the U.S. and Japan" (NBER Working Paper No. 5800)

Discussant: Akira Goto, Hitotsubashi University

Michael D. Bordo, NBER and Rutgers University; Takatoshi Ito; and Tokuo Iwaisako, University of Tsukuba, "Banking …