19 January, Friday (1:45 pm–3:15 pm)
Session 6A: Climate Change 2 (Auditorium 1)
Moderator: Sabah Abdulla (Senior Economist, ERDI)
Presentations:
1. Confined to Stay: Natural Disasters and Indonesia's Migration Ban
Lennart Reiners (Economist, ERDI)
Discussant: Panharoth Chhay
2. Fossil Fuel Subsidy and GHG Emissions: Firm-level Empirical Evidence from Developing Asia
Dina Azhgaliyeva (Senior Research Fellow, ADBI)
Discussant: Lennart Reiners
3. Gender differentiated impact of clean energy transition: Evidence from rural Viet Nam using panel data
Panharoth Chhay (Research Associate, ADBI)
Discussant: Dina Azhgaliyeva
Session 6B: Big Data Analysis 2 (Auditorium 2)
Moderator: Stefan Schipper (Senior Statistician, ERDI)
Presentations:
1. Global Citizenship Competencies of Filipino Students: Using Machine Learning to Explore the Structure of
Global Competencies in the 2018 OECD Programme for International Student Assessment
Macario Cordel II (Statistics Officer (Data Science), ERDI)
Discussant: Yating Ru
2. Impact of Road Quality on Thailand's Socioeconomic Development: A Machine Learning Perspective
Joseph Albert Nino M. Bulan (Statistics Analyst, ERDI)
Discussant: Macario Cordel II3. Spatial Heterogeneity in Machine Learning-Based Poverty Mapping: Where Do the Models Underperform
Yating Ru (Economist, ERDI)
Discussant: Arturo Jr M. Martinez (pre-recorded discussion)
Session 6C: Trade and Regional Cooperation
2 (Auditorium 3)
Moderator: Kijin Kim (Senior Economist, ERDI)
Presentations:
1. Fostering Export Diversification in Bangladesh: Options and Scope of Further Work
Barun Kumar Dey (Senior Economics Officer, SARD); Rana Hasan (Regional Lead Economist, ERDI)
Discussant: Pramila Crivelli
2. Services Sector Interlinkages with Merchandise Exports of Pacific Economies: A Gravity Analysis
Sanchita Basu Das (Economist, ERDI), Pralok Gupta (Centre for WTO Studies, Indian Institute of
Foreign Trade Delhi)
Discussant: Barun Kumar Dey3. The Determinants of Product-Specific Rules of Origin: An Econometric Analysis in the Regional
Comprehensive Partnership
Pramila Crivelli (Economist, ERDI)
Discussant: Sanchita Basu Das
Session 6D: Gender (Auditorium 4)
Moderator: Hema Swaminathan (Senior Economist, ERDI)
Presentations:
1. Male migration and Women empowerment: The case of Samoa
Vu Thu Trang (Research Associate, ADBI)
Discussant: Joseph E. Zveglich Jr.2. What's behind gender pay differences at ADB?
Joseph E. Zveglich Jr. (Deputy Chief Economist, ERDI)
Discussant: Vu Thu Trang
Session 6E:
Climate Change and Fiscal Policy (LRC 2)
Moderator: Yi Jiang (Principal Economist, ERDI)
Presentations:
1. Evaluating the Relocation of Indonesia’s Capital: A Quantitative Spatial Model Approach
Yi Jiang (Principal Economist, ERDI)
Discussant: Alexander Raabe
2. Toward Financial Sustainability of Urban Service Delivery: Case Study on Revenue Improvement for
Honiara City Council, Solomon Islands
Aimee Hampel-Milagrosa (Urban Development Specialist, SG WUD, ADB and
Parimal Joshi, Infrastructure, Policy, and Governance Lead, Solomon Islands Infrastructure Program (SIIP))
Discussant: Yi Jiang3. Paying for climate change: how climatological disasters drive sovereign spreads
Alexander Raabe (Economist, ERDI)
Discussant: Aimee Hampel-Milagrosa