| 9:10-9:30 | Registration |
| 9:30-9:35 | Opening Remarks: Koichi Hamada (ESRI) |
| 9:35-10:30 | Session 1 |
| Chair: Keimei Kaizuka (Chuo Univ.) | |
| "The present tax system in Japan" | |
| Presentation by: Eiji Tajika (Hitotsubashi Univ.) (PDF-format,69KB) | |
| Discussant: Kyoji Hashimoto (Kansai Univ.) | |
| Nobuo Akai (Kobe Univ. of Commerce) | |
| 10:30-10:45 | Coffee Break |
| 10:45-12:15 | Session 2 |
| Chair: Laurence J.Kotlikoff (Boston Univ.) | |
| "The empirical analysis on tax system in Japan " | |
| Presentation by: Akira Okamoto (Okayama Univ.) (PDF-format,180KB) | |
| Discussant: Toshiyuki Uemura (Toyo Univ.) (PDF-format,14KB) | |
| "Consumer Response to Temporary Tax Policy Change: Evidence from Japanese Panel Data" | |
| Presentation by: Masahiro Hori, Satoshi Shimizutani (ESRI) (PDF-format,175KB) | |
| Discussant: Charles Yuji Horioka (Osaka Univ.) | |
| 12:15-13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00-14:30 | Session 3 |
| Chair: Anil Kashyap (Univ. of Chicago) | |
| "The American tax reform experience" | |
| Presentation by: Alan Auerbach (Univ. of California, Berkeley) (PDF-format,48KB) | |
| Discussant: Yasushi Iwamoto (Hitotsubashi Univ.) (PDF-format.32KB) | |
| Takero Doi (Ministry of Finance & Keio Univ.) (PDF-format,32KB) | |
| 14:30-14:45 | Coffee Break |
| 14:45-17:00 | Round Table Discussion |
| Chair: Toshihiro Ihori (ESRI) | |
| "The direction of tax reform in Japan" | |
| Keynote Speakers: Glenn Hubbard (CEA) (PDF-format,15KB) | |
| Naosumi Atoda (Keio Univ.) | |
| Takatoshi Ito (Tokyo Univ.) (PDF-format,17KB) | |
| 17:30-17:50 | Press Briefing |