THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Department of Economics
Center for Japanese Studies
Committee on Japanese Economic Studies (Columbia University)

Conference in Memory of Gary Saxonhouse

Friday December 7, 2007
Warren Smith Conference Room, 201 Lorch Hall

Session #1 (1:00-2:45)
Japan’s Development and World Economic History
Warren Whatley, University of Michigan, Chair
           
Masao Nakamura, University of British Columbia
(coauthor: Randall Morck, University of Alberta)
“Business Groups and the Big Push: Meiji Japan's Mass Privatization and Subsequent Growth”

Gavin Wright, Stanford University
(coauthor: Gary Saxonhouse, University of Michigan)
“Japan and the Globalization of Cotton Spinning, 1878-1933”

Discussant:  Gus Ranis, Yale University

Break (2:45-3:15)

Session #2 (3:15-5:00)
Japanese Trade and Finance
Koichi Hamada, Yale University, Chair

David E. Weinstein, Columbia University
(coauthor: Christian Broda, Chicago GSB and NBER)
“Exporting Deflation? Chinese Exports and Japanese Prices”
Discussant: John Ries, University of British Columbia

Takeo Hoshi, University of California, San Diego
(coauthors: Yasushi Hamao, University of Southern California and
Tetsuji Okazaki, University of Tokyo)
“Listing Policy and Development of the Tokyo Stock Exchange in the Pre-War Period”
Discussant: Anil Kashyap, University of Chicago