18 January, Thursday (1:45 pm–3:15 pm)
Session 3A: ERDI Database 1 (Innovation Hub) (Participants shall bring own laptops)
Moderator/Presenter: Elaine Tan (Advisor, ERDI and Head, SDIU)
Presentations:
1. Asia Regional Integration Center (ARIC) databases
Mara Tayag (Senior Economics Officer, ERDI)
2. Key Indicators Database
Stefan Schipper (Senior Statistician, ERDI)
3. Asia Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Monitor (ASM) database
Shigehiro Shinozaki (Senior Economist, ERDI)
Session 3B: Climate
Change 1 (Auditorium 1)
Moderator: David Raitzer (Economist, ERDI)
Presentations:
1. Climate-Smart Agriculture Practices and its impacts on farm income and yield: Evidence from Eastern India
Raja Timilsina (Consultant, ADBI)
Discussant: Manfred Kiefer
2. Examining the Nexus of Urbanization, Green Trade, and Ecological Footprint: A Panel Threshold Approach
Dorothea M. Ramizo (Associate Economics Officer, EARD)
Discussant: Raja Timilsina
3. Measuring the Economic Impacts of a Wind Power Project in Viet Nam
Manfred Kiefer (Principal Economist, PSOD), Nguyen Tuan (Consultant)
Discussant: Dorothea M. Ramizo
Session 3C: Digitalization 2 (Auditorium 2)
Moderator: Pramila Crivelli (Economist, ERDI)
Presentations:
1. Effect of Digital Regulations on E-Commerce Trade
Daniel Boller (Statistician, ERDI)
Discussant: Peter Morgan
2. Financial literacy and fintech use in family business: evidence from developing Asia
Wataru Kodama (ADBI), Peter Morgan, Dina Azhgaliyeva, and Long Trinh
Discussant: Daniel Boller3. Factors Affecting Fintech Payment Use in Bangladesh and Indonesia
Peter Morgan (Senior Consulting Economist and Advisor to the Dean, ADBI);
Panharoth Chhay (Research Associate, ADBI)
Discussant: Dina Azhgaliyeva
Session 3D: Big Data Analysis 1 (Auditorium 3)
Moderator: Yesim Elhan-Kayalar (Advisor, ERDI)
Presentations:
1. Development of a Computer Vision-Based Road Physical Feature Extraction towards Assessing Walkability,
Bikeability and Driveability of Urban Roads
Macario Cordel II (Statistics Officer – Data Science, ERDI)
Discussant: Renzo Tan2. Impact of Mobility Restriction on Port Activities Using High-frequency Indicators Based on the Automatic
Identification System Data
Kijin Kim (Senior Economist, ERDI)
Discussant: Macario Cordel I
3. Twitter-Derived Measures of Economy and Uncertainty for the Philippines
Madhavi Pundit (Senior Economist, ERDI), Priscille Villanueva (Senior Economics Officer, ERDI),
Renzo Tan (Consultant, ERDI)
Discussant: Kijin Kim
Session 3E:
Macroeconomy and Finance 2 (Auditorium 4)
Moderator: John Beirne (Principal Economist, ERDI)
Presentations:
1. Remittances and Economic Growth: The Role of Financial Development in Nepal
Pradeep Panthi (Research Associate, ADBI)
Discussant: Lilia Aleksanyan
2. Estimating the Elasticity of Substitution Between Capital and Labor in India
Elisabetta Gentile (Senior Economist, SARD)
Discussant: Pradeep Panth
3. Debt stock and flow dynamics in the CCA region
Lilia Aleksanyan (Economist, CWRD)
Discussant: Elisabetta Gentile