Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data(CAED) 2009 Conference
October 2-4, 2009
The 2009 Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data (CAED) conference was held Oct. 2-4, 2009 at Hitotsubashi Memorial Hall in Tokyo. The conference was hosted by the Hitotsubashi University Global COE program Research Unit for Statistical and Empirical Analysis in Social Sciences (Hi-Stat) and the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI). The Keio /Kyoto University Joint Global COE program participated as a co-sponsor.
CAED has been held every one or two years since 2003 as a global conference for research exchange on the empirical analysis of enterprise data. This was the fifth CAED conference, and the first one held in Asia. The event was a great success with about 350 participants (including about 150 from overseas), presentations of the latest global research findings and vibrant debate.
The Joint Global COE program is a major repository for enterprise data from Japan and elsewhere in Asia, and made a strong appeal at CAED for Japan as an important research base in this field. The International and Economic Development Department was actively involved from the conference planning stages, with Fukunari Kimura, Toshiyuki Matsuura, Kozo Kiyota and Kazunobu Hayakawa listed in the program as authors or co-authors of the following five papers: (1) Kiyota, Kozo and Okazaki, Tetsuji, “Industrial Policy Cuts Two Ways: Evidence from Cotton Spinning Firms in Japan, 1956-1964;” (2) Kimura, Fukunari, “The Nature and Characteristics of Production Networks in East Asia: Evidence from Micro/Panel Data Analysis;” (3) Kneller, Richard; Inui, Tomohiko; Matsuura, Toshiyuki; and McGowan, Danny, “The Role of Multinationals in Japanese Productivity Decline;” (4) Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Kimura, Fukunari; and Matsuura, Toshiyuki, “Gains from Fragmentation at the Firm Level: Evidence from Japanese Multinationals in East Asia;” and (5) Matsuura, Toshiyuki; Motohashi, Kazuyuki; and Hayakawa, Kazunobu, “How Does FDI Affect Performance at Home? An Activity-level Analysis for Japanese Electrical Machinery and Electronics Firms.” Fukunari Kimura, Toshiyuki Matsuura and Kozo Kiyota also led discussions in their roles as session chairs.
Additionally, the International and Economic Development Section arranged for the presentation of papers by Chin Hee Hahn (South Korea), Dionisius Narjoko (Indonesia) and Archanun Kohpaiboon (Thailand) through liaison with the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA), an international organization based in Jakarta where Fukunari Kimura serves as Chief Economist, contributing to the further internationalization of CAED, which has seen little participation from developing Asia.