WEAI is a non-profit, educational organization dedicated to encouraging and communicating economic research and analysis. The Association's principal activities include publishing two refereed quarterly journals -- Economic Inquiry and Contemporary Economic Policy -- and staging scholarly...

The Japan Risk Management Society will hold sessions in conjunction with the conference where related topics include disaster preparedness and response, liability limits, and nuclear power. More broadly, topics will cover the world economy, economic theory and measurement, the role of law in the...

The conference’s main purpose is to foster an exchange of ideas among economists on opposite sides of the Pacific as well as around the world.