Japan has to maintain its economic dynamism in the face of its rapid aging population and low fertility rate. This program will carry out multifaceted, integrated research on Japan's social security system, taxation, and public finance. The research subjects include (1) an analysis of comprehensive panel data on the elderly, (2) possible reforms to the social security and taxation systems, (3) a proposal for combining carbon taxes and investment subsidies in energy conservation, (4) optimal fiscal policy measures for reconstruction from the recent earthquake, economic recovery, and fiscal consolidation, and (5) new forms of public services, including the "third sector."
Program Director
Policy Mix for Fiscal Consolidation Without Harming Japan's Economic Recovery
July 6, 2011 - March 31, 2013
Project Leader
FUKAO Mitsuhiro
Toward a Comprehensive Resolution of the Social Security Problem: A new economics of aging
June 8, 2011 - March 31, 2013
Project Leader
ICHIMURA Hidehiko
Evaluation of Corporate Tax
April 1, 2011 - August 31, 2011
Project Leader
NIREI Makoto
