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  • [Accepting] [International Symposium]The Trilemma of Decarbonization Development in the Asia-Pacific: A Policy Dialogue toward Integrated Solutions for Environment, Economy, and Equity This symposium focuses on the emerging ‘trilemma’ among environmental sustainability, economic growth, and social equity in the process of decarbonization in the Asia-Pacific region. While countries are strengthening climate actions, they simultaneously face challenges related to industrial competitiveness, employment, and equitable energy access. This event aims to analyze these complex trade-offs from policy, institutional, and technological perspectives through collaboration between Japan and Global South countries. ... International Symposium Event Date：2026.08.10
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    [Accepting] Ms Jinjing Chen (University of Melbourne): Who Anticipates? Policy Leakage and Regulatory Arbitrage in Vehicle Markets We study anticipatory behavior by firms and households in vehicle markets. Using administrative data from Sweden on vehicle registrations linked to individual and firm characteristics, we document that the early announcement of Sweden’s 2018 feebate policy caused anticipatory vehicle adoption. To avoid the forthcoming higher road taxes, households and firms systematically brought forward the adoption of more emissions-intensive vehicles, resulting in a dirtier vehicle fleet ahead of implementation. Anticipatory adoption is most pronounced among those for whom acting early is easiest or adaptin... APL Event Date：2026.07.16
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    [Accepting] Kiyoyasu Tanaka (IDE-JETRO): Are Free Trade Agreements Pro-poor or Pro-rich? Evidence from Cambodia This paper quantifies the first order welfare effects of free trade agreements (FTAs) on households in a low income country. Households earn income from wage labor and farm and non farm production, and they consume home produced, domestically produced, and imported goods. FTA induced tariff reductions between 2004 and 2019 are mapped into household level welfare changes for Cambodia. Under the assumptions of complete tariff pass through and uniform wage-tariff elasticities, tariff cuts generate negative income effects across the distribution, with middle income households experiencing the larg... APL Event Date：2026.07.02
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    [Accepting] Ms Yimeng Zhang (Kyoto University): Less is more: media regulation, news coverage quality and corporate governance This paper investigates how a major media regulatory reform in China—the revocation and merger of local reporter stations affiliated with central media outlets—affects news coverage quality and corporate governance. Using a unique dataset of corporate news articles and based on a difference-in-differences approach, we find that the reform significantly promotes news coverage quality, as reflected by reduced optimistic tone bias. The effects are more pronounced for firms located geographically distant, in regions with weaker media competition, for less socially responsive newspapers, as well as... APL Event Date：2026.06.18
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    [Accepting] Ian Coxhead (IDE-JETRO): Local labor market effects of FDI: job growth and skills demand in Vietnam FDI concentrated in low value-added manufacturing creates jobs in labor-abundant developing economies, but does it extend the ladder toward a knowledge economy? We investigate the net contribution of FDI to employment growth and demand for skills in Vietnam, using labor force survey data from the recent era of rapid investment and GDP growth. Our estimates of the local FDI employment multiplier fall between 0.93 and 1.05. Decomposing the multiplier by industry and worker characteristics reveals that while the skill mix of FDI job creation broadly reflects that of the existing labor force, its ... APL Event Date：2026.06.11