What's New (FY2025)

June 5, 2025 [Symposiums]

White Paper on Manufacturing Industries 2025

June 5, 2025 [Column]

Possibility of Regional Revitalization through Experience-based Return Gifts for Hometown Tax Donations

SEKIGUCHI Yoichi (Senior fellow, RIETI)

June 4, 2025 [Non Technical Summaries]

Exchange Rates and Tariffs: Unravelling their impacts on China's ICT exports while accounting for product sophistication

CHEN Chen (Fuzhou University of International Studies and Trade) / Nimesh SALIKE (International Business School Suzhou) / Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

June 4, 2025 [Column]

Creation of New Corporate Value and Societal Contribution through Numerical Analyses of Well-being

MANAGI Shunsuke (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

June 4, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]

Capital Market Conditions and the Value of Corporate Diversification for Japanese Firms

USHIJIMA Tatsuo (Keio University) / SASAKI Takafumi (Chuo University)

June 3, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]

The Impact of Firms' GVC Participation on Wages

URATA Shujiro (Distinguished Senior Fellow (specially appointed), RIETI) / BAEK Youngmin (Tokyo Metropolitan University)

June 3, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]

A House for My Family: The impacts of down payment rate on marriage and fertility

BAI Yuting (Hunan University) / KIM Jun Hyung (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)) / LI Anqi (Jinan University) / MARUYAMA Shiko (University of Osaka) / YANG Zhe (Liaoning University)

June 3, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]

Quantifying Congestion Externalities in Road Networks: A structural estimation approach using stochastic evolutionary model

FUJISHIMA Shota (Hitotsubashi University) / SAKAI Takara (Institute of Science Tokyo) / TAKAYAMA Yuki (Institute of Science Tokyo)

June 3, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]

Exchange Rates and Tariffs: Unravelling their impacts on China's ICT exports while accounting for product sophistication

CHEN Chen (Fuzhou University of International Studies and Trade) / Nimesh SALIKE (International Business School Suzhou) / Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

June 3, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]

Trade and Multi-product Firms

Rikard FORSLID (Stockholm University) / OKUBO Toshihiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

June 3, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]

Ethnicity and Judicial Discrimination: Exploring punitive and sympathetic sentencing mechanisms through a survey experiment in Japan

IGARASHI Akira (University of Osaka) / MORITA Hatsuru (Tohoku University) / ONO Yoshikuni (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

June 2, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

No Retreat for the Trump Revolution

TSURU Kotaro (Program Director and Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

May 30, 2025 [Symposiums]

Japan's Strategy: How to Respond to Tariff Policies under the Trump Administration

May 30, 2025 [Symposiums]

Energy White Paper 2025

May 30, 2025 [RIETI Report]

Trump Tariff Policy and the Role of Economics

MORIKAWA Masayuki (Distinguished Senior Fellow (specially appointed), RIETI)

May 29, 2025 [Symposiums]

The Great Trade Hack: How Trump's trade war fails and global trade moves on

May 29, 2025 [Discussion Papers (Japanese)]

International Comparison of Entrepreneurial Intention: Comparative survey of Japan, the UK and South Korea

YOSHIDA Yukiko (Kyoto University) / HONJO Yuji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

May 28, 2025 [Symposiums]

Indo-Pacific and Europe: Growing partnerships in support of rules-based trade order
—How should the EU and the Indo-Pacific region cooperate for a resilient trade order?

May 28, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]

Bank–firm Relationships and Innovation Outcomes: Evidence from Categories and Quality

NISHIMURA Yoichiro (Chuo University) / SUZUKI Katsushi (Gakushuin University)

May 28, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]

The Diffusion of Robo-advisors and Changes in User Characteristics

KANEKO Mana (Gakushuin University) / SUZUKI Katsushi (Gakushuin University)

May 27, 2025 ［BBL Seminars]

Capitalism and Crises: How to Fix Them (Summary)

Colin MAYER (Emeritus Professor, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford) / TAKEI Kazuhiro (Partner, Nishimura & Asahi (GKJ)) / MIYAJIMA Hideaki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Commerce, Waseda University / Executive Vice President, Waseda University / Adviser, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study)

May 26, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]

The Impact of Media Type on Belief Variance: Evidence from a Panel Study

IWASAWA Masamune (Doshisha University) / NAKANISHI Hayato (Kanagawa University) / ONOZUKA Yuki (Otaru University of Commerce)

May 23, 2025 ［BBL Seminars]

Nurturing Entrepreneurship: What policymakers can do (Summary)

Richard KATZ (Former Carnegie Council Senior Fellow / Toyo Keizai Online / Blog: Japan Economy Watc) / TERAZAWA Tatsuya (Chairman and CEO, The Institute of Energy Economics, Japan) / SABURI Masataka (Director, PR Strategy, RIETI / Special Advisor to the Minister, METI)

May 22, 2025 [Symposiums]

Eurasian Maritime Geopolitics: The United States and China in an Age of Indo-Pacific Transformation

May 21, 2025 [RIETI Books (Japanese)]

The Data holds the Answer: Timeless visual analysis methods for researchers

Written by KONISHI Yoko

May 21, 2025 [RIETI Books (English)]

The Economics of SME Finance

Written by UESUGI Iichiro

May 21, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]

The Economics of Spatial Mobility: Theory and Evidence Using Smartphone Data

MIYAUCHI Yuhei (Boston University) / NAKAJIMA Kentaro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / Stephen J. REDDING (Princeton University / NBER / CEPR)

May 19, 2025 [Discussion Papers (Japanese)]

Understanding the Rapid Growth of the ESG Bonds Issued by Japanese Companies: Commitment vs. greenwashing

UJITA Tatsuya (Waseda University / Nomura Asset Management Co., Ltd.) / MIYAJIMA Hideaki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

May 19, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]

Voting for Gender Balancing? The effect of a multiple-vote system on women’s representation

ONO Yoshikuni (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / MIWA Hirofumi (Gakushuin University) / KASUYA Yuko (Keio University)

May 16, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]

The Structure of Supply Chains and the Impacts of Trump 1.0 Tariffs: Evidence from Japanese firms’ sales to North America

ANDO Mitsuyo (Keio University) / HAYAKAWA Kazunobu (Institute of Developing Economies) / KIMURA Fukunari (Consulting Fellow, RIETI) / YAMANOUCHI Kenta (Kagawa University)

May 16, 2025 [RIETI Report]

Are Pro-productivity Policies Fit for Purpose?

May 15, 2025 [VoxEU Column]

US misuse of tariff reciprocity and what the world should do about it

Richard BALDWIN (Non-Resident Fellow, RIETI) / Giorgio Barba NAVARETTI (Scientific Director at Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano, Professor of Economics at University Of Milan)

May 15, 2025 [VoxEU Column]

Why America is acting this way on trade: A globotics shock, a failed social policy, and middle-class fury

Richard BALDWIN (Non-Resident Fellow, RIETI)

May 15, 2025 [Policy Update]

Who Are The Trump Tariffs For?—How Japan Should Prepare for a “Post-Tariff” World

ITO Banri (Research Associate, RIETI)

May 15, 2025 [Symposiums]

Global Supply Chains and Productivity (Summary)

May 14, 2025 [Discussion Papers (Japanese)]

Capital Investment and Corporate Tax: Empirical investigation of recent tax reforms

TAKAOKA Ryo (Kobe University) / MIYAZAKI Tomomi (Kobe University)

May 14, 2025 [Column]

Conference Report: “Carbon Pricing, Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) and Green Transition”—Taking CBAM as an opportunity, Japan should aim to cooperate with the EU to create a global carbon market

TANABE Yasuo (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

May 14, 2025 [Column]

Report on the 26th EU-Japan Business Round Table Annual Meeting—The Evolving Japan-EU Partnership: Aiming for the "Brussels-Tokyo Effect"

TANABE Yasuo (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

May 12, 2025 [Symposiums]

Nurturing Entrepreneurship: What policymakers can do (Handout and Video)

May 12, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]

Hydrogen Infrastructure, Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles, and Indirect Network Effects: Evidence from Japan

NISHITATENO Shuhei (Research Associate, RIETI)

May 12, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]

University Intermediation and Regional Agglomeration in Academic Entrepreneurship: Evidence from panel data in Japan

FUKUGAWA Nobuya (Tohoku University)

May 12, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

Strategic Response from Japan Could Help Save Global Trade

ARMSTRONG, Shiro (Non-Resident Fellow, RIETI)

May 12, 2025 [Column]

We Must Review the Effects of Policy Measures to Counter Shrinkage of the Child Population and to Empower Women

KONDO Ayako (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

May 9, 2025 [Column]

Trump Tariff Policy and the Role of Economics

MORIKAWA Masayuki (Distinguished Senior Fellow (specially appointed), RIETI)

May 9, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]

Green Consumption and Corporate Environmental Responsibility in North-South Trade

CHENG Haitao (Hitotsubashi University) / ISHIKAWA Jota (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / TARUI Nori (University of Hawaii)

May 9, 2025 [Column]

Principle of Common But Differentiated Responsibilities and Plastic Pollution

IWASAKI Fusanori (Consulting Fellow, RIETI) / KAWAMURA Reo (Director, Regional Knowledge Centre For Marine Plastic Debris, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia) / KOJIMA Michikazu (Chief Senior Researcher, Institute of Developing Economies)

May 8, 2025 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Identifying potential Chinese export redirection in 2024 US trade data

Simon EVENETT (Professor of Geopolitics and Strategy at IMD Business School)

May 8, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

What is Necessary for Achieving Growth

KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Program Director and Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

May 7, 2025 [Column]

“Truth Wins” Effect in Organizational Design

KAMEI Kenju (Former Research Associate, RIETI)

May 7, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]

Higher Minimum Wage, Stagnant Income? The case of women's work hours in Japan

MORI Yuko (Hitotsubashi University) / OKUDAIRA Hiroko (Doshisha University)

May 7, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]

Agglomeration Economies, Mechanization, and Changes in Product Quality: An inquiry into the post-war development of the Sake brewery clusters in Japan, 1980-2020

AIKAWA Yuya (Doshisha University) / HAMAGUCHI Nobuaki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / HASHINO Tomoko (Kobe University) / OTSUKA Keijiro (Asian Development Bank Institute / Kobe University)

May 7, 2025 [Policy Update]

China’s Electronics Exports, Tariffs, and Relocating Production to the U.S.

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

April 28, 2025 [Symposiums]

World Economic Outlook “A Critical Juncture amid Policy Shifts”

April 28, 2025 [Symposiums]

Reexamining Official Statistics Utilization: An insider perspective

April 28, 2025 [Symposiums]

Capitalism and Crises: How to Fix Them (Handout and Video)

April 25, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]

Intra-firm Networks during the COVID-19 Pandemic

ANDO Mitsuyo (Keio University) / HAYAKAWA Kazunobu (Institute of Developing Economies) / URATA Shujiro (Distinguished Senior Fellow (specially appointed), RIETI) / YAMANOUCHI Kenta (Kagawa University)

April 25, 2025 [Symposiums]

2025 White Paper on Small and Medium Enterprises in Japan / 2025 White Paper on Small Enterprises in Japan

April 25, 2025 [RIETI Report]

How Have Japanese Inflationary Expectations Evolved since January 2020: Evidence from the stock market

Willem THORBECKE (Senior fellow, RIETI)

April 24, 2025 [Symposiums]

Unlock the Genius that will Move the World: Japan as the global startup hub

April 23, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]

Impact of the Closure of Large Establishments on Regional Productivity

ADACHI Yusuke (Ritsumeikan University) / OGAWA Hikaru (University of Tokyo) / TSUBUKU Masafumi (Senshu University)

April 23, 2025 [Discussion Papers (Japanese)]

Summary of Results from a Survey of Japanese Firms on New Aspects of Economic Relationships with China: Outsourcing, service trade, data transfer, and uncertainty

TOMIURA Eiichi (President and CRO, RIETI) / ITO Banri (Research Associate, RIETI) / KUWAHATA Hiroyuki (Nagasaki University)

April 22, 2025 [Symposiums]

Changing Financing Practices and Testing On-site Implementation: Towards the Establishment of Financing Practices that do not Rely on Management Guarantees

April 21, 2025 [Policy Discussion Papers (Japanese)]

The Impact of AI and Robots on Employment and Wages

FUKAO Kyoji (Chairman, RIETI) / IKEUCHI Kenta (Senior Fellow (Policy Economist), RIETI) / NAGAYA Yoshiaki (Nomura Research Institute) / Cristiano PERUGINI (University of Perugia) / Fabrizio POMPEI (University of Perugia)

April 21, 2025 [Symposiums]

Economic Security in a World of Disruptive Power

April 16, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]

The Direct and Indirect Effects of the Belt and Road Initiative on Exports to China

LI Haonan (Waseda University) / TODO Yasuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

April 16, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]

Wage and Employment of Japanese Multinational Enterprises in Vietnam

Jonas HJORT (University College London / University of Oslo) / SAITO Yukiko (Senior Fellow (Specially Appointed), RIETI) / TATEISHI Yasuka (University College London) / Linda WU (University College London)

April 11, 2025 [RIETI Report]

U.S.-China High Tech Friction and Japan’s Response: Implications from comparison of innovation processes in Japan, the United States, and China

MOTOHASHI Kazuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

April 10, 2025 [Symposiums]

AI Development for the Benefit of Mankind – The Challenge for Microsoft Research Asia Tokyo

April 10, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]

Vertical Integration with Two-sided Heterogeneity and Firm-to-firm Network Structure of Production

Inga HEILAND (Norwegian University of Science and Technology / University of Oslo / CEPR / CESifo) / SAITO Yukiko (Senior Fellow (Specially Appointed), RIETI)

April 9, 2025 [Symposiums]

Global Supply Chains and Productivity (Handouts and Video)

April 8, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]

Measuring Political Leader’s Geopolitical Risk Perceptions

ITO Asei (University of Tokyo) / LIM Jaehwan (Aoyama Gakuin University) / ZHANG Hongyong (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

April 7, 2025 [Symposiums]

Nurturing Entrepreneurship: What policymakers can do

April 7, 2025 [Column]

How Have Japanese Inflationary Expectations Evolved since January 2020: Evidence from the stock market

Willem THORBECKE (Senior fellow, RIETI)

April 7, 2025 [Discussion Papers (Japanese)]

Subjective Well-being and Relationship Population: A network analysis approach

KONDO Keisuke (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

April 4, 2025 [From IZA]

Hiring discrimination across vulnerable groups
Discrimination in hiring based on ethnicity or gender is widely debated but appears in fact less severe than discrimination based on disability, appearance, or age

Louis LIPPENS (Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Department of Economics; Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO)) / Stijn BAERT (Ghent University) / Brecht NEYT (Ghent University)

April 4, 2025 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Trade shocks and labour market outcomes: The interplay between firm exposure and labour market competition

Jeronimo CARBALLO (Associate Professor, Department of Economics at University Of Colorado Boulder) / Richard MANSFIELD (Assistant Professor, Department of Economics at University Of Colorado Boulder)

April 4, 2025 [Other Publications (Japanese)]

Analysis of Key Issues in Japan's National Security: Considering the strengthening of the defense foundation and the sustainability of defense capabilities

Edited by AKIYAMA Masahiro and OGURO Kazumasa

April 3, 2025 [China in Transition]

Private Enterprise Roundtable
－ Spotlight on Transformative Trends in the High-Tech Sector

Chi Hung KWAN (Consulting Fellow, RIETI
Senior Fellow, Nomura Institute of Capital Markets Research)

April 3, 2025 [Column]

Is ESG Investment Going to Decline?

MANAGI Shunsuke (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

April 2, 2025 [Policy Discussion Papers (Japanese)]

Utilization of Plurilateral Agreements and Its Limitation: Contribution to trade rules

NAKATOMI Michitaka (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

April 1, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]

Economic and Political Impacts of the Belt and Road Initiative on Western Nations in Infrastructure Investment Competitions

NISHITATENO Shuhei (Research Associate, RIETI) / TODO Yasuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

April 1, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]

Balancing family and career: The effect of public childcare on fertility in Japan

FUKAI Taiyo (Gakushuin University) / TORIYABE Takahiro (Hitotsubashi University)

April 1, 2025 [Discussion Papers (English)]

Reallocating Taxing Rights and Online Trade: Pillar One as a partial formula apportionment

MUKUNOKI Hiroshi (Gakushuin University) / OKOSHI Hirofumi (Okayama University) / Dirk SCHINDLER (Erasmus University Rotterdam)