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15 July 2023, Saturday



8:30 am – 9:00 am
   

Registration
(Fukutake Hall)



9:00 am – 9:10 am  


Welcome Remarks
Opening Remarks
(Fukutake Hall)


    Yasuyuki Sawada, Professor, University of Tokyo
    Tetsushi Sonobe, Dean, Asian Development Bank Institute   


9:10 am – 9:55 am

Keynote Speech
(Fukutake Hall)



Aya Suzuki, Professor, University of Tokyo  







9:55 am – 10:15 am


Coffee break











10:15 am – 12:00pm                                    

Sessions 1A-1E
   
   

Parallel Session 1A:
Education
(Fukutake Hall)



1

Peer Effects in Prosociality: Evidence from Natural and Lab-in-the-Field Experiments in Post-Disaster Situation

2

How Does Flood Differently Affect Children?Impact on Child’s Education, Labor, Food Consumption, and Cognitive Development 


3

Does the Skill Premium Influence EducationalDecisions? Evidence from Vietnam


   

Parallel Session 1B:
Environment
(Seminar Room 1, Kojima Hall, 1F)


1



Economic Consequences of Climate Change: Evidence from the Philippines

2

Economic and Environmental Impacts of Dedicated Freight Corridors in India


3

Climate Risk Awareness and Retail Trading



   
   
Parallel Session 1C:

Macroeconomics and Finance
(Seminar Room 2, Kojima Hall, 1F)


1

Institutional Quality and Macrofinancial Resilience in Asia

2

Does a Financial Crisis Impair Corporate Innovation?

3

Effect of Macroprudential Policies on Sovereign Bond Markets: Evidence from the ASEAN-4 Countries



   
   
Parallel Session 1D: International Trade I
(Seminar Room 3, Kojima Hall, 2F)

1

Unraveling the Dynamics of Global Apparel Trade: A Comprehensive Analysis of Trade Networks, Regionalization Shifts, and Drivers of Value Chains
   

2

The Relative Importance of Global Agricultural Subsidies and Tariffs, Revisited




 



Parallel Session 1E:
Asian Development Review I
(Kojima Conference Room, 2F)


1

Structural Transformation in the Era of Trade Protectionism

2

Trade Openness and the Growth-Poverty nexus: Reappraisal with a New Openness Indicator


3

Does Social Assistance Disincentivise Employment, Job Formality, and Mobility? Learning from Past Unconditional Cash Transfer Programmes in Indonesia






12:00 pm – 1:10 pm  

Lunch break

(Fukutake Hall)



1:10 pm – 2:55 pm 


Sessions 2A-2E
   


Parallel Session 2A: Agriculture and Rural Development 
(Fukutake Hall)

1

Assessing Effectiveness of Phone-based Agriculture Extension Approaches: The Case of Maize Farmers in Nepal


2

Fractionalization and Rural Development in Korea

3

Do Agricultural Debt Moratoriums Help or Hurt? The Heterogenous Impacts on Rural Households in Thailand



Parallel Session 2B:
Energy and Environment
(Seminar Room 1, Kojima Hall, 1F)

1

The Effect of Electrification on Socio-economic Wellbeing and Environmental Outcome: Evidence for Laos

2

Direct, Indirect and Induced Economic Impact of Renewable Energy Deployment

3

Investment in Renewable Energy, Environmental Pollution, and COVID-19: A Firm-Level Empirical Evidence from the People's Republic of China



Parallel Session 2C:
Labor
(Seminar Room 2, Kojima Hall, 1F)

1

The Potential Scarring Effect of COVID 19 on Productivity and Labor Market: The Case of Indonesia

2

Are Attractive Government Jobs Distorting the Labor Market? Evidence from Bangladesh











Parallel Session 2D: 
International Trade II
(Seminar Room 3, Kojima Hall, 2F)

1

Geoeconomic Fragmentation and Foreign Direct Investment

2




3

GVCs Participation: A Stimulus for the New Goods Margin



 


Parallel Session 2E:
Asian Development
Review II
(Kojima Conference Room, 2F)

1

Demography, Growth and Robots in Advanced and Emerging Economies

2

Impact of Special Economic Zone on Economic Development: Evidence from Laos Nightlight Analysis


3

Population Aging, Silver Dividend, and Economic Growth





2:55 pm – 3:10 pm

Coffee break












3:10 pm – 4:55 pm

Sessions 3A-3E













Parallel Session 3A:
Gender
(Fukutake Hall)

1

Empowered Young Women: Trade Liberalization and Women’s Family Decisions in China


2

Culture, Gender, and Structural Transformation: The Case of Turkey

3

Credit Access and Women's Bargaining Power within the Household: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial








Parallel Session 3B:
Infrastructure
(Seminar Room 1, Kojima Hall, 1F)

1

Road Maintenance and Local Economic Development: Evidence from Indonesia's Highways


2

Can Infrastructural Upgrading Help Promote Financial Efficiency? –– Evidence from HSR and VC Development in China











Parallel Session 3C:
Macroeconomics I
(Seminar Room 2, Kojima Hall, 1F)

1

Remittances from Overseas Filipinos in the Time of COVID-19: Spillovers and Policy Imperatives


2

Are ASEAN Countries Accumulating Too Much Foreign Reserves?











Parallel Session 3D:
Poverty and Inequality
(Seminar Room 3, Kojima Hall, 2F)

1

Revisiting the Trends in Global Inequality


2

Spatial Disequilibrium, Provincial Inequality and Individual Inequality in Urban China

3

How High Can You Climb? Earnings Inequality and Intragenerational Earnings Mobility in a Developing Country: Evidence from Thai Tax Returns









Parallel Session 3E:
Technology I
(Kojima Conference Room, 2F)

1

Delivering Remote Learning Using a Low-tech Solution: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Bangladesh


2

Does Technology-based Teacher Attendance Monitoring Increase Learning Outcomes? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Pakistan

3

Online Communities of Practice vs Conventional Agricultural Extension Services: Complement or Substitute? Evidence from Indonesian Shrimp Farmers’ Participation in a Facebook Group






6:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Conference Dinner

(Ueno Seiyoken, Room Sakura)





6:10 pm – 6:15 pm

Dinner Remarks



Albert Park, Chief Economist, Asian Development Bank

6:15 pm – 6:45 pm

Keynote Speech



John Gibson, Professor, University of Waikato
















16 July 2023, Sunday



9:00 am – 9:45 am

Keynote Speech
(Fukutake Hall)



Shujiro Urata, Chairman, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)





9:45 am – 10:05 am


Coffee break











10:05 am – 11:50 am

Sessions 4A-4E
   

   

Parallel Session 4A:
Education and Macroeconomics
(Fukutake Hall)


1

Better or worse? The Impact of the Sichuan Earthquake Victim Peers on Human Capital Development

2

The Macroeconomic Effects of Oil Price Uncertainty





   

Parallel Session 4B:
Environment and Health
(Seminar Room 1, Kojima Hall, 1F)



1




Asia's Low Carbon Transition: Opportunities and Challenges for Trade

2

Exposure to Climatic Risks and Social Sustainability in Vietnam


3

The Benefit of Clean Water on Child Health: An Empirical Analysis with Specific Reference to Escherichia Coli Water Contamination



   
   
Parallel Session 4C:

Finance I
(Seminar Room 2, Kojima Hall, 1F)

1

Financial Liberalization and Income Inequality: Evidence from Rural China

2

A Surge in CSR Disclosure under China’s State Capitalism: A Potential Mechanism and Its Implications on Disclosure Quality


3

Acquisition of Microfinance Institutions by Commercial Investors: Examining Its Impacts on Lending Behavior



   
   
Parallel Session 4D: Infrastructure and Governance
(Seminar Room 3, Kojima Hall, 2F)


1

Infrastructure Quality and Trade Liberalization
   

2

Private Returns to Bureaucratic Appointments: Evidence from Financial Disclosures


3

Government-Business Relations and Strategic Patenting: Evidence from China’s Patent Boom
 



Parallel Session 4E:

International Trade III
(Kojima Conference Room, 2F)

1

Trade Disruptions and Reshoring

2

Global and Regional Integration and their Economic Implications: Evidence from a New Integration Index


3

Services in the India-EU Free Trade Agreement






11:50 am – 1:00 pm  

Lunch break

(Fukutake Hall)



12:15 pm – 12:35 pm

Asian Development Review’s 40th Anniversary Celebration

(Fukutake Hall)









12:35 pm – 12:45 pm 

Message from the Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies
(Fukutake Hall)



                                                        

1:00 pm – 2:45pm 


Sessions 5A-5E
  
 


Parallel Session 5A: Education and Labor
(Fukutake Hall)

1

Infrastructure and Structural Transformation: Evidence from Satellite, Administrative, and Multi-Generation Household Data in a Developing Country


2

Chinese Aid and Local Employment in Africa

3

Distributional and Productivity Implications of Regulating Casual Labor: Evidence from Ridesharing in Indonesia



Parallel Session 5B:
Energy
(Seminar Room 1, Kojima Hall, 1F)

1

Designing Nonlinear Electricity Pricing with Misperception: Evidence from Free Electricity Policy

2

Promoting Investments in Renewable Energy: An Empirical Investigation Using Firm-level Data from Southeast Asia


3

The Unintended Consequences of Coal Fired Power Plant Closures: Evidence from China


Parallel Session 5C:
International Trade IV
(Seminar Room 2, Kojima Hall, 1F)


1

Demonetization and Firm Exports

2

Long-term Impacts of Trade Liberalization: Treaty Ports and Export Firms in China


3

Structural Change in Export Activities: An Exploration Using Occupations Data






Parallel Session 5D: 

Technology II
(Seminar Room 3, Kojima Hall, 2F)


1

Cyber Income Inequality

2

Smartphone and Income Improvement: Evidence from Vietnam

3

Big Techs, QR Code Payments and Financial Inclusion



 


Parallel Session 5E:

Welfare
(Kojima Conference Room, 2F)

1

From Hospitality to Hostility: Impact of the Rohingya Refugee Influx on the Sentiments of Host Communities


2

Do Cash Transfers Mitigate Risks and Crowd Out Informal Insurance? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in the Philippines


3

Extending Pension Policy in Emerging Asia: An Overlapping Generations Model Analysis for Indonesia





2:45 pm – 3:00pm

Coffee break












3:00 pm – 4:45 pm

Sessions 6A-6E













Parallel Session 6A:
Health
(Fukutake Hall)

1

Public WASH Programs, Long-Run Child Development, and Intergenerational Mobility: New Evidence from Rural People’sRepublic of China


2

What are the Effects of City Public Hospital Reform in Urban China on Health Expenditures and Utilization?

3

Mental Health and COVID-19 Cash Transfers in the Philippines: The Importance of Existing Social Protection Programs








Parallel Session 6B:
Finance II
(Seminar Room 1, Kojima Hall, 1F)

1

Local Currency Bond Market Development and Currency Stability during Market Turmoil


2

Foreign Investor Types and Local-currency Bond Market in Emerging Market Economies


3

Asymmetric Spillover Network in ASEAN Bond Markets Under Uncertainty








Parallel Session 6D:

Public Finance
(Seminar Room 3, Kojima Hall, 2F)

1

When Regional Policies Fail: An Evaluation of Indonesia’s Integrated Economic Development Zones


2

Recurrent Taxes and Consumer Spending: Evidence from Korean Household Data

3

Increasing Tax Compliance and Payment of Small Businesses with Nudges: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Indonesia








Parallel Session 6E:
International Trade IV
(Kojima Conference Room, 2F)

1

Non-Tariff Trade Barriers in the U.S.-China Trade War

2

Fishing in Troubled Water:
The Impacts of the US-China Trade War on Vietnam

3

Impact of Non-Tariff Measures and Border Crossing Time and Costs on Perishable Goods Trade: The Case of Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Region









End of Conference











 

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