At the 121st GRIPS Forum on April 11, 2016, Dr. Kenichi Kawasaki, Professor of GRIPS, Senior Fellow of GRIPS ALLIANCE, Co-chair of the Global EPAs Research Consortium gave a lecture titled Economic Impacts of TPP/EPAs”.

You can see the summary of his address here.

Abstract

The TPP agreement has been signed following the conclusion of negotiations. The impacts of structural reforms measures including TPP/EPAs will be achieved over medium-term and contributing to sustainable growth. This lecture discusses the relative significance of EPAs quantitatively estimating the economic impacts of EPAs by economic model simulations. 

Speakers’ Profile:

Dr. Kawasaki is currently a professor of National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), a senior fellow of GRIPS ALLIANCE and a co-chair of the Global EPAs Research Consortium. Meanwhile, he has been a consulting fellow of the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) and an adjunct fellow of the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA). Dr. Kawasaki spent more than two decades in the Japanese government (Cabinet Office) including the secondment to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). He holds a PhD in Economics from Osaka University and a BS in Mathematics from the University of Tokyo