Japan project meeting.

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The NBER in collaboration with the Center for Advanced Research in Finance, the Center on Japanese Economy and Business, and the Australia-Japan Research Centre held a meeting on the Japanese economy in Tokyo, Japan on July 30-31. Shiro Armstrong, Australian National University; Charles Horioka, Osaka University and NBER; Takeo Hoshi, Stanford University and NBER; Tsutomu Watanabe, University of Tokyo; and David Weinstein, Columbia University and NBER, organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Sebastian Heise, Yale University; Justin R. Pierce, Federal Reserve Board; Georg Schaur, University of Tennessee; and Peter K. Schott, Yale University and NBER, " 'American' vs 'Japanese' Procurement: Theory and Evidence from Transaction-Level Trade Data"

* Yukiko Asai, University of Tokyo; Ryo Kambayashi, Hitotsubashi University; and Takao Kato, Colgate University, "Careers of Married Women and the Nature of Husbands' Work: Evidence from Japan"

* Nobuko Nagase, Ochanomizu University, "The Effect of Family-Friendly Regulation on Fertility: Evidence from Japan Using Natural Experiments"

* Christina Atanasova, Simon Fraser University, and Jess Diamond, Hitotsubashi University, "Japan's Diversification Discount"

* William N. Goetzmann, Yale University and NBER; Yasushi Hainao, University of Southern California; and Hidenori...