Wednesday, June 27
20:00 - 22:00	Welcome Party hosted by the Faculty of Economics of the University of Groningen (invitation only)
Thursday, June 28 Opening Remarks
9:30 am	Hideo Miyahara (President of Osaka Univ.)  Simon K. Kuipers (President of Univ. of Groningen)
Keynote Lecture 1:
9:50 am	Angus Madisson (University of Groningen) Transformations in China 1300-2030
Session 1:	The Japanese and Dutch Economies Chair: Kanemi Ban (Osaka Univ.), Steven Brakman (Univ. of Groningen)
10:30 am	Fumio Ohtake (Osaka Univ.) Attitudes toward the Income Gap: Japan-U.S. Comparison
10:55 am	Wim Suyker (CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis) The Chinese Economy, Seen from Japan and the Netherlands
11:20 am	Coffee Break
11:40 am	Kazuo Ogawa (Osaka Univ.) Multiple Bank Relationships and the Main Bank System: Evidence from a Matched Sample of Japanese Small Firms and Main Banks
12:05 pm	Marcel Timmer (Univ. of Groningen) The End of Convergence: Market Services Productivity in Europe
12:30 pm	Discussant: Yuichi Fukuta (Osaka Univ.), Gerard Kuper (Univ. of Groningen)
12:50 pm	Lunch
Keynote Lecture 2:
14:20 pm	Tatsuyoshi Saijo (Osaka Univ.) Are Japanese Spiteful? Rethinking Experimental Methods in Economics
Session 2:	The Economics of Sustainability Chairs: Koichi Futagami (Osaka Univ.), Elmer Sterken (Univ. of Groningen)
15:00 pm	J. Paul Elhorst (Univ. of Groningen) Interdependent Behavior of Local Governments: Dutch Evidence Using a Linear Expenditure System
15:25 pm	Tetsuo Ono (Osaka Univ.) Markov Perfect Political Equilibria with Public Policy: The Role of Education Cost
15:50 pm	Coffee Break
16:10 pm	Lammertjan Dam (Univ. of Groningen) Social responsible Investment in an Environmental Overlapping Generations Model
16:35 pm	Michinori Uwasu (Osaka Univ.) The Evolution of Environmental Cooperation: The Effect of Players' Mobility in Local and Global Pollution
17:00 pm	Discussant: Koichi Futagami (Osaka Univ.), Jan Oosterhaven (Univ.  of Groningen)
Reception/Dinner hosted by the President of Osaka University 18:00 -

Friday, June 29
Keynote Lecture 3:
9:00 am	Kenneth Wallis (University of Warwick) Analysing the Bank of England Survey of External Forecasters
Session 3:	Behavioural Economics Chair: Ruud Koning (Univ. of Groningen), Fumio Ohtake (Osaka Univ.)
9:40 am	Yoshiro Tsutsui (Osaka Univ.) Time Discounting: Declining Impatience and Interval Effect
10:05 am	Lambert Schoonbeek (Univ. of Groningen) Entry Facilitation by Environmental Groups
10:30 am	Coffee Break
10:50 am	Marco Haan (Univ. of Groningen) Friendship in a Public Good Experiment
11:15 am	Miki Kohara (Osaka Univ.) Time Spent Providing Nursing Care in the Family and Working Time in the Market: Evidence from Japanese Families
11:40 am	Discussant: Ayako Suzuki (Osaka Univ.), Linda Toolsema (Univ. of Groningen)
12:00 pm	Lunch
Keynote Lecture 4:
13:00 pm	Yoshiyasu Ono (Osaka Univ.) Stagnation Dynamics and Keynes's General Theory
Session 4:	Macroeconomics Chair: Ben Heijdra (Univ. of Groningen), Shinsuke Ikeda (Osaka Univ.)
13:40 pm	Kazuo Mino (Osaka Univ.) Financial Integration and Volatility in a Two-Country World
14:05 pm	Jenny E. Ligthart (Tilburg Univ. and Univ. of Groningen) The Transitional Dynamics of Fiscal Policy in Small Open  Economies
14:30 pm	Yoshiaki Sugimoto (Osaka Univ.) From Duty to Right: The Role of Public Education in the Transition to an Ageing Society
14:55 pm	Ward E. Romp (Univ. of Groningen) Retirement, Pensions, and Ageing
15:20 pm	Discussant: Shinsuke Ikeda (Osaka Univ.), Elmer Sterken (Univ. of Groningen)
14:40 pm	Coffee Break
Session 5:	Microeconomics Chair: Robert Lensink (Univ. of Groningen), Atsushi Tsuneki (Osaka Univ.)
16:00 pm	Shigehiro Serizawa (Osaka Univ.) Vickrey Allocation Rule with Income Effect
16:25 pm	Robert Lensink (Univ. of Groningen) Delegated Monitoring and Moral Hazard in Underdeveloped Credit Markets
16:50 pm	Kazuhiro Yamamoto (Osaka Univ.) Trade Impacts on Skill Formation: Welfare Improvements Accompanied by Rises in Inequality
17:15 pm	Jose Luis Moraga-Gonzalez (Univ. of Groningen) An Analysis of Mergers in Consumer Search Markets
17:40 pm	Discussant: Wataru Kureishi (Osaka Univ.), Bastiaan Overvest (Univ. of Groningen)
Reception hosted by the President of University of Groningen (invitation only) 18:30 -

Saturday, June 30 Special Lectures
	Chair: Yoshiyasu Ono (Osaka Univ.), Henk Sol (Univ. of Groningen)
9:30 am	Lex Hoogduin  (ROBECO) Rebalancing the World Economy
10:10 am	Takenori Inoki (International Research Center for Japanese Studies) What is Needed in the New Socio-economic System?  The Case of Japan
10:50 am	Coffee break
11:10 am	Kyoji Komachi (Ambassador of Japan to the Netherlands) Business Relationship between the Netherlands and Japan
Closing Remarks
12:00 pm	Fumio Ohtake (Director, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University) Elmer Sterken (Dean, Faculty of Economics, Univ. of Groningen)