In 2014, Sasakawa USA partnered with the Peterson Institute for International Economics and Sasakawa Peace Foundation Japan to launch a multiyear project, the High-Level Working Group on Japan-U.S. Common Economic Challenges, that hosts seminars to address pressing policy issues such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), fiscal sustainability, and slow growth.
Members of the working group include distinguished economists and former government officials from both countries. The initiative provides a forum for frank and substantive exchange on key issues with the hope and expectation of generating significant policy advice and new applied research ideas, as well as an important channel for communication between the two countries. The group meets biannually. Download the transcript from the first meeting here.
Working Group Members, 2014-15
U.S. Members | Japanese Members |
Richard Clarida , Columbia UniversityPeter Fisher, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College Kristin Forbes, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Robert Lawrence, Harvard University Marcus Noland, Peterson Institute for International Economics Peter Orszag, Citibank Adam Posen, Peterson Institute for International Economics (co-chair) David Weinstein, Columbia University Charles Collyns, Institute for International Finance Glenn Hubbard, Columbia University Anil Kashyap, University of Chicago | Jiro Hanyu , Sasakawa Peace FoundationKiyoto Ido, Institute for International Economic Studies Takatoshi Ito, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies and Columbia Motoshige Itoh, University of Tokyo Masahiro Kawai, University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Public Policy Hideichi Okada, NTT Data Institute of Management and Consulting Koji Tanami, Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi Hiroshi Yoshikawa, University of Tokyo |
Publications and Presentations
• Lessons from Decades Lost: Economic Challenges and Opportunities facing the U.S. and Japan, December 2, 2014
• Monetary Policy during Japan’s Great Recession: From Self-Induced Paralysis to Rooseveltian Resolve, Ken Kuttner, May 30, 2014
• Sustainability of Public Debt in the United States and Japan, William R. Cline, June 2, 2014
• Japan’s Fiscal Problems in the Mirror of the United States, Tokuo Iwaisako, May 29, 2014
• The Structural Causes of Japan’s Lost Decades, Kyoji Fukao et al., June 2014
• The Structural Causes of Japan’s Lost Decades, Kyoji Fukao et al., May 19, 2013
• Lessons from Japan’s Secular Stagnation, Kyoji Fukao, May 20, 2014
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