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Banque de France / France-Japan Foundation Lab Spring Workshop

Published on 30th of May 2025

The Banque de France and the France-Japan Foundation are organising a workshop on “The impacts of AI on Macroeconomy and financial stability ”, on 4 June 2025, at the Banque de France in Paris (Conference Room 1).

Program :

9:00-09:15	Opening remarks Denis BEAU (First Deputy Governor of the Banque de France) HEM Makita SHIMOKAWA (Ambassador of Japan to France) Arthur SOGNO PÈES (Deputy Head of the Regional Economic Department, Embassy of France in Japan) Sébastien LECHEVALIER (President, FFJ-EHESS)
9:15-10:15	Keynote speech Philippe AGHION (Collège de France) Q&A session
10:15 - 10:30	Coffee break
10:30 - 13:00	PANEL 1 - THE IMPACT OF AI ON MACROECONOMY MODERATOR: Sebastien LECHEVALIER (President, FFJ-EHESS) SPEAKERS: Paper 1 - How Different Uses of AI Shape Labor Demand: Evidence from France Simon BUNEL (Banque de France) ; co-authors P. AGHION, X. JARAVEL, T. MIKAELSEN, A. ROULET and J. SØGAARD Paper 2 - Miracle or Myth? Assessing the macroeconomic productivity gains from Artificial Intelligence Peter GAL (OECD) ; co-authors F. FILIPPUCCI and M. SCHIEF Paper 3 - How datascience and AI can be useful to track economic and financial evolutions Jean-Charles BRICONGNE (Banque de France) Paper 4 - Digitalization and Japan's Financial Services Nao SUDO (Bank of Japan), Nobuhiro ABE (Bank of Japan) and Tetsuma ARITA (Bank of Japan) Paper 5 - Use and Risk Management of Generative AI by Japanese Financial Institutions Yasuhiro TOKUTAKA (Bank of Japan) DISCUSSANT: Tsutomu WATANABE (CIGS) Q&A session
13:00 - 14:30	Lunch break
14:30- 18:00	PANEL 2 - THE IMPACT OF AI ON FINANCIAL STABILITY
14:30 - 16:30	MODERATOR: Takeo HOSHI (The University of Tokyo) SPEAKERS: Paper 1 - The impact of AI on financial markets: a preliminary assessment Iota NASSR (OECD) Paper 2 - Human-Robot Interactions in Investment Decisions Marie BRIERE (Amundi) ; co-author Milo BIANCHI (Toulouse School of Economics) Paper 3 - Old Economic Ideas for AI Limitations and Big Data Analytics in Finance Ryohei HISANO (CIGS, the University of Tokyo) DISCUSSANT: François Haas (Banque de France) Q&A session
16:30 - 16:45	Coffee break
16:45 - 17:45	POLICY-ORIENTED ROUNDTABLE ON THE IMPACTS OF AI MODERATOR: Junko UENO (Japanese Embassy in France) PANELISTS Laurent CLERC (Banque de France) Takeo HOSHI (The University of Tokyo) Akane ENATSU (Nomura Research Center of Sustainability - [PRP] Alexander VOLLERT (AXA) - [PRP] Q&A session
17:45-18:00	Closing remarks

Laurent CLERC (Banque de France)
Akihiko WATANABE (Bank of Japan)
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Updated on the 24th of September 2026