Columns & Essays
Mar 11, 2010 New
Newspapers & Magazines
"Post-Crisis Industrial Policies: Facilitation of corporate metabolism should be the target"
YOSHINO Naoyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
RIETI Report
Feb 24, 2009 New
"The Course of the Economy Critically Hinges on Policy Choices in 2010"
GOTO Yasuo (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
Policy Update
Feb 18, 2009 New
"Environmental Policy"
TANI Midori (Senior Analyst for Consumer Policy,Ministry of Economy, METI/Consulting Fellow in Research Institute of Economy, RIETI)
Feb 16, 2009 New
"The New Global Economic Order and East Asia : From the viewpoint of spatial economics (Keynote speech at Plenary Session of the 2010 KEA Annual Meeting)"
FUJITA Masahisa (President and Chief Research Officer, RIETI, Professor Konan University, President, Japanese Economic Association)
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Mar 19, 2010 New
AMU and AMU Deviation Indicators -
Sep 24, 2009
Developing the Research Frontier in Corporate Governance Analysis - Enterprise Law as a Structure for Incentives
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Mar 4, 2010 New
China in Transition
C. H. KWAN, Consulting Fellow, RIETI -
Exploring the Global Financial Information Superhighway
MATSUMOTO Hideyuki, Consulting Fellow, RIETI -
Feb 4, 2010
Gödel's Money : The future of freedom and civilization
KOBAYASHI-sensei's new series
KOBAYASHI Keiichiro, Senior Fellow, RIETI -
Kobayashi-sensei's Economic Research Picks
KOBAYASHI Keiichiro, Senior Fellow, RIETI
Discussion Papers (full text in English)
- Mar 9, 2010
- "Firm Size and Business Startup Reasons of Japanese Workers"
TSUCHIYA Ryuichiro (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University)
- Mar 1, 2010
- "Environmental Product Standards in North-South Trade"
ISHIKAWA Jota (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) and OKUBO Toshihiro (Kobe University)
- Feb 9, 2010
- "Entropy Characterisation of Insurance Demand: Theory and Evidence"
NAKATA Hiroyuki (University of Essex), SAWADA Yasuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) and TANAKA Mari (The University of Tokyo)
Discussion Papers (abstract in English, text in Japanese)
- Mar 16, 2010
- "Volatility of Firm Performance and Atypical Employment: An empirical analysis using firm-level data"
MORIKAWA Masayuki (Vice President, RIETI) - "Working Hours of Part-timers and the Measurement of Firm-level Productivity"
MORIKAWA Masayuki (Vice President, RIETI)
- Mar 9, 2010
- "Working Hours Policy From an Economics Standpoint"
HIGUCHI Yoshio (Keio University) - "Legislative Issues of the Working Hours System for White Collar Workers"
SHIMADA Yoichi (Waseda University)
Policy Discussion Papers (abstract in English, text in Japanese)
- Mar 16, 2010
- "RIETI Productivity Studies: A survey for policy planners"
MORIKAWA Masayuki (Vice President, RIETI)
- Feb 19, 2010
- "How long do Japanese work? - A comparison before and after the shorter work week"
KURODA Sachiko (the University of Tokyo)
- Feb 19, 2010
- "Effect of the White Collar Exemption in the Japanese Labor Market"
KURODA Sachiko (the University of Tokyo) and YAMAMOTO Isamu (Keio University)
- Mar 4, 2010
- China in Transition
"College Graduate Unemployment: Causes and solutions" by Chi Hung KWAN (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
- Mar 3, 2010
- RIETI Policy Symposium - Summary
"Industry Related Government Policy and the Global Economic Crisis"
- Feb 23, 2010
- China in Transition
"Inflationary Pressure Rising with Economic Recovery - Whither the "exit strategy" from the ultra-loose monetary policy? -" by Chi Hung KWAN (Consulting Fellow, RIETI) - "Growing Criticism over Advancing State-owned Sector and Retreating Private Sector - China should be aiming for the reverse -" by Chi Hung KWAN (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
Feb 25, 2010 New
"Four-day Work Week as a Catalyst for Economic and Social Change"
IWAMOTO Masayuki
Consulting Fellow, RIETI
Following the introduction of the five-day work week for national government employees in 1992, it became the norm for Japanese workers - whether in the private or public sector - to take Saturdays and Sundays off.
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