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Possible
Session and Paper Topics
for the Western Economic Association International
Pacific Rim Conference, March 2009 in Kyoto
WEAI President, Michael Intriligator, invites sessions and papers to be
submitted on the following topics, however all economics topics are
welcome:
- Environmental
economics, global warming, climate change and the new Kyoto Protocol
- Energy
independence and security in the Asia-Pacific Region
- Global
Security and the Global Financial System
- The
Future of China, Japan, and the U.S. in the Global Economy
- Asian
Economic and Monetary Integration
- Comparing
Central Banks
- Rethinking
Overseas Development Assistance (ODA)
- Costs
of Unemployment
- Economic
Lessons from Japan for other G-8 nations
- Accelerating
Japan's Economic Growth: The Role of Innovation in Japanese Industry
- The
Role of Multinational Firms in International Trade: The Case of Japan
- The
Comparative Efficiency of U.S. and Japanese Automakers
- Adaptive
Learning and Monetary Policy in an Open Economy: Lessons from Japan
- Reconstructing
Macroeconomics
- Lessons
of Japan's Asset Price Bubble for Financial and Macroeconomic Stability
- Have
the Japanese, U.S. and E.U. Economies Become More Volatile?
- Qualitative
Economics (Economic history and new areas)
- Health
Policy and other topics in health economics
- Peace
Economics
- Sports
Economics
- Asia's
Role in the Global Economic Architecture--G7/G8, IMF, WTO, climate change,
etc.
- Future of the International Monetary
System
- Aging the Social Security
- Globalization and Income Distribution
- Economics of Climate Change in Asia
- Asian economic and monetary integration
- Global Shocks and Asia
- Market organization, Market Economics, Economics of Market Competition