RIETI - What's New (FY2025)

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 (Tsuda 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]

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)