RIETI - RIETI Highlight English Edition 2024

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This bi-weekly newsletter will keep you updated with the recent columns, event information and research results by RIETI fellows and other leading economists in Japan and around the world.

In this edition, we are delighted to announce the release of our latest public relations magazine, RIETI Highlight English Edition 2024. This issue provides a detailed overview of RIETI’s sixth medium-term plan, guided by the new leadership of Chairman Kyoji Fukao and President Eiichi Tomiura. As we prepare to welcome the New Year 2025, we remain committed to making great strides under this renewed leadership.

We hope you will enjoy it and wish you a prosperous and fulfilling year ahead.
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Editors of RIETI Report (Facebook: @en.RIETI / X: @RIETIenglish / URL: https://www.rieti.go.jp/en/)

Featured article

Contents of RIETI Highlight English Edition 2024

RIETI’s Sixth Medium-Term Plan Begins!
- Messages from Chairman Kyoji Fukao and President Eiichi Tomiura
- Achievements of the Fifth Medium-term Plan Period (FY2020-2023)
- RIETI’s Sixth Medium-term Plan Introduction of the Nine Research Programs
- Activities of the RIETI EBPM Center
- And more

RIETI’s Activities on Economic Security
- RIETI Special Roundtable with Principal Director Kazumi Nishikawa (Trade and Economic Security Bureau, METI), Chairman Fukao and President Tomiura "Economic Security and the Role of Think Tanks"
- Column by President Tomiura "Key Issues in Economic Analysis in an Increasingly Turbulent Security Environment"
- And more

To download full text:
https://www.rieti.go.jp/jp/about/highlight/Highlight_en_2024.pdf [7.0MB]

To read past RIETI Highlights:
https://www.rieti.go.jp/en/about/pr/archive.html

Our latest discussion papers

"U.S. Export Controls and the Restructuring of Global Values Chains: An analysis of Japanese multinationals’ exits from China"
Ivan DESEATNICOV (HSE University) / FUKAO Kyoji (Chairman, RIETI)
https://www.rieti.go.jp/en/publications/summary/24120013.html

"Labor Market Outcomes for Doctoral Graduates in Japan: Evidence from a large statistical survey"
MORIKAWA Masayuki (Distinguished Senior Fellow (specially appointed), RIETI)
https://www.rieti.go.jp/en/publications/summary/24120010.html

"Content-based Metric on Monetary Policy Uncertainty by Using Large Language Models"
ITO Arata (Senior Fellow, RIETI) / SATO Masahiro (Tohoku University) / OTA Rui (Meiji University)
https://www.rieti.go.jp/en/publications/summary/24120004.html

"The Productivity J-curve from an International Perspective: Is the U.S. a unique case?"
Ahmed BOUNFOUR (Université Paris-Saclay) / EDAMURA Kazuma (Kanagawa University) / ISHIKAWA Takayuki (Rissho University) / MIYAGAWA Tsutomu (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / Alberto NONNIS (Université Paris-Saclay) / TONOGI Konomi (Rissho University)
https://www.rieti.go.jp/en/publications/summary/24120002.html

Our latest policy discussion papers

"Economic Statecraft in Securing Australia’s Future"
Shiro ARMSTRONG (Non-Resident Fellow, RIETI)
https://www.rieti.go.jp/en/publications/summary/24120012.html

"Security Exceptions and WTO Reform"
NAKATOMI Michitaka (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)
https://www.rieti.go.jp/en/publications/summary/24030009.html

[List of discussion papers]
https://www.rieti.go.jp/en/publications/act_dp.html
[List of upcoming and past symposiums]
https://www.rieti.go.jp/en/events/symposium.html
[List of upcoming and past BBL seminars]
https://www.rieti.go.jp/en/events/bbl/

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