Research & Review and Brainstorming column will no longer appear in the METI Journal due to changes made in the redesign of the publication.
RIETI fellows take specialized viewpoints on contemporary policy issues in this monthly journal published by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI).
2008

June 2008
Research & Review
Is Industry-Academia-Government Collaboration a Panacea?
TAMADA Schumpeter

April 2008
Research & Review
Is Japan's Service Sector Really Low in Productivity? - Analysis based on firm-level data
MORIKAWA Masayuki

March 2008
Research & Review
Offshore Outsourcing by Japanese Firms
TOMIURA Eiichi

February 2008
Research & Review
Forming a Long-term Investment Index in a Market-type System
KAINOU Kazunari
2007

November 2007
Research & Review
Theory of Open Manufacturing and its Application
FUJIMOTO Takahiro

September 2007
Research & Review
Understanding How and Why M&As are Proliferating in Japan: Developing the Research Frontier in Corporate Governance
MIYAJIMA Hideaki

July 2007
Research & Review
Regional Financial Cooperation in East Asia and the AMU
OGAWA Eiji

June 2007
Research & Review
Multinationalization of R&D and Innovation Systems
ITO Banri

February 2007
Research & Review
Is Japanese Economy Losing its Competitiveness? - Examination through Analysis of Productivity and Innovation
MOTOHASHI Kazuyuki
2006

December 2006
Brainstorming
Markets and Economic Development for Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries
SAWADA Yasuyuki

November 2006
Research & Review
Empirical Analysis of the Trade Structure Changes in East Asia under Modularization of Product Architecture
KUWAHARA Satoshi

September 2006
Research & Review
The Increasing Complexity of Artifacts and the Role of Product Architecture
TAKIZAWA Hirokazu

August 2006
Research & Review
The Complexity and Difficulty in Mutual Recognition
NAIKI Yoshiko

June 2006
Research & Review
Factors behind Increased M&A Activity
ARIKAWA Yasuhiro
MIYAJIMA Hideaki

May 2006
Brainstorming
The Growth Potential of the Japanese Economy - the age of endogenous innovation
MIYAGAWA Tsutomu

March 2006
Research & Review
Principles and Challenges of the Public Pension System Toward Reform in 2009
NAKATA Daigo

February 2006
Research & Review
Test of the Efficiency Structure Hypothesis with an Application to Major Japanese Banks
TSUTSUI Yoshiro
SATAKE Mitsuhiko
UCHIDA Hirofumi

January 2006
Research & Review
SME Financing in Japan: What We Have Found
UESUGI Iichiro
2005

November 2005
Research & Review
Business Cycle Accounting Analysis of the Japanese Economy
KOBAYASHI Keiichiro

August 2005
Special Report
China as an Engine of Development in Asia and Japan's Future
MIYAGAWA Tsutomu

April 2005
Research & Review
In What Areas of Technology is Knowledge Transfer by Means of Patent Effective?
TAMADA Schumpeter

February 2005
Research & Review
Why Do Government Policies Fail to Promote Female Participation?
TACHIBANAKI Toshiaki

January 2005
Research & Review
Source of Patented Technologies
TAMADA Schumpeter
Special Report
The Patent System: Status and Issues
GOTO Akira
2004

December 2004
Research & Review
Measuring Science Linkage in Four Priority Technology Categories
TAMADA Schumpeter

November 2004
Research & Review
The State and Change in the "Lifetime Employment" in Japan: From the End of War Through 1995
YAMAGUCHI Kazuo

September 2004
Research & Review
Empirical Analysis of Small Business Financing
UESUGI Iichiro

July 2004
Research & Review
Fiscal Issues and Public Awareness
NAKABAYASHI Mieko

June 2004
Research & Review
Safeguards under the WTO Regime - Realities and Problems
KAWASE Tsuyoshi

April 2004
Research & Review
Corporate Restructuring and its Impact on Value-added, Productivity, Employment and Wages
HIGUCHI Yoshio
MATSUURA Toshiyuki

January 2004
Research & Review
Reforming Agricultural Policy for Survival in the WTO and FTA Era
YAMASHITA Kazuhito
2003

December 2003
Research & Review
Japan's Technology Aquisition Management Policy and Corporate Performance
OKAZAKI Tetsuji
KIYOTA Kozo

November 2003
Research & Review
Institutional Reforms for Enterprise-based Welfare Provisions
TACHIBANAKI Toshiaki
Special Report
Kyoto Protocol as a Diplomatic Issue
SOEYA Yoshihide

April 2003
Research & Review
The Implications of Modular Architecture
TAKIZAWA Hirokazu

February 2003
Research & Review
WTO in Transition - The Current Status of the WTO Framework and its Future
KOTERA Akira

January 2003
Research & Review
Wireless Internet and the Open Spectrum
IKEDA Nobuo
2002

December 2002
Research & Review
Further Support for Business Startups: What is a Business Assistance Library?
SUGAYA Akiko

November 2002
Research & Review
Let's Re-examine "Japanese Companies" Academically
ITOH Hideshi

August 2002
Research & Review
Paradox of Calls for Inflation
KOBAYASHI Keiichiro

July 2002
Research & Review
Public Sector Accounting System and Public Governance
SAKURAUCHI Fumiki

June 2002
Research & Review
Thinking of the Chinese Manufacturing Sector in Architecture Context
FUJIMOTO Takahiro




