RIETI - Featured (FY2017)

Can Corporate Behavior Be Changed? Companies remain cautious amid strong concerns over the future

March 30, 2018 [Newspapers & Magazines]

SENGA Tatsuro (Fellow, RIETI)

Going Digital -- Insights and policy implications from OECD work on digital transformation

March 27, 2018 [BBL Seminars]

Dirk PILAT (Deputy Director, Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation, OECD)

Keen Eyes for Economic Trends: Government’s fiscal and economic estimates must be objective

March 22, 2018 [Newspapers & Magazines]

SATO Motohiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

America Responds to Change: Implications for globalization and the future of work

March 19, 2018 [BBL Seminars]

Bruce STOKES (Director, Global Economic Attitudes, Pew Research Center)

Role of Local Financial Institutions for Regional Revitalization

March 19, 2018 [RIETI Books (Japanese)]

Written and edited by YAMORI Nobuyoshi

Spatial Economics in the Age of Declining Population

March 14, 2018 [RIETI Books (Japanese)]

Written by FUJITA Masahisa, HAMAGUCHI Nobuaki, KAMEYAMA Yoshihiro

How Firms Choose their Partners in the Japanese Supplier-Customer Network? An application of the exponential random graph model

March 14, 2018 [Non Technical Summaries]

Hazem KRICHENE (University of Hyogo) / ARATA Yoshiyuki (Fellow, RIETI) / Abhijit CHAKRABORTY (University of Hyogo) / FUJIWARA Yoshi (University of Hyogo) / INOUE Hiroyasu (University of Hyogo)

Cryptocurrencies don't make sense

March 6, 2018 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Jon DANIELSSON (Director of the ESRC funded Systemic Risk Centre, London School of Economics)

Developing Character Skills in an Era of the 100-Year Life

February 27, 2018 [Newspapers & Magazines]

TSURU Kotaro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

The Exposure of U.S. Manufacturing Industries to Exchange Rates

February 23, 2018 [Non Technical Summaries]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

Outlook on Negotiations over the Fight against Global Warming and Challenges

February 21, 2018 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2018 (January 2018)]

ARIMA Jun (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

How to Lie Pseudo-scientifically in Policy Evaluation

February 20, 2018 [Policy Update]

KAINOU Kazunari (Fellow, RIETI)

Japanese Economy Likely to Remain Calm and Uneventful on the Surface

February 15, 2018 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2018 (January 2018)]

GOTO Yasuo (Research Associate, RIETI)

Household Income and the OECD's Four Types of Social Capital

February 13, 2018 [Non Technical Summaries]

YODO Masato (Kyoto University) / YANO Makoto (Chief Research Officer, RIETI)

Long-term care across the Atlantic: How policy shapes care arrangements

February 8, 2018 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Daniel BARCZYK (Associate Professor of Economics, McGill University) / Matthias KREDLER (Associate Professor of Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

Challenges of Servitization and an Information-intensive Society in the Latter Half of the 2010s

February 2, 2018 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2018 (January 2018)]

TAMURA Suguru (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

The economics of the Bitcoin payment system

February 1, 2018 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Gur HUBERMAN (Robert G. Kirby Professor of Behavioral Finance, Columbia Business School; CEPR Research Fellow) / Jacob LESHNO (Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University) / Ciamac C. MOALLEMI (Associate Professor of Business, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University)

Job Substitution≠Job Disappearance: Employment and education policies in the era of AI and robotics

January 26, 2018 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2018 (January 2018)]

KONDO Keisuke (Fellow, RIETI)

Outlook for the Chinese Economy in 2018

January 24, 2018 [China in Transition]

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

Lost Einsteins: How exposure to innovation influences who becomes an inventor

January 23, 2018 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Alex BELL (PhD candidate, Harvard University) / Raj CHETTY (Professor of Economics, Harvard University) / Xavier JARAVEL (Assistant Professor of Economics, LSE) / Neviana PETKOVA (Research Economist, US Department of the Treasury) / John Van REENEN (Professor of Applied Economics, MIT)

New Ceiling on International Balance of Payments for Japan: Process innovation and cultivation of growth frontiers are necessary

January 19, 2018 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2018 (January 2018)]

NAKAJIMA Atsushi (Chairman, RIETI)

Labor Shortage Beginning to Erode the Quality of Services: Hidden inflation

January 18, 2018 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2018 (January 2018)]

MORIKAWA Masayuki (Vice President, RIETI)

My Experience of Using the K Computer

January 17, 2018 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2018 (January 2018)]

ARATA Yoshiyuki (Fellow, RIETI)

The influence of occupational licensing and regulation
Occupational licensing may raise wages and benefits for those licensed but also reduce access to work without clear benefits to consumers

January 16, 2018 [From IZA]

Morris M. KLEINER (University of Minnesota)

Let’s Conduct More Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) in Japan

January 15, 2018 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2018 (January 2018)]

SEKIZAWA Yoichi (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

What Differentiates the Companies that are Quick to Incorporate AI?

January 12, 2018 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2018 (January 2018)]

MATSUDA Naoko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

The Current State of Japanese Public Finance and Its Relationship with the Bank of Japan

January 11, 2018 [Newspapers & Magazines]

OGURO Kazumasa (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

Economics gets out more often: Using extramural citations to assess economic scholarship

January 9, 2018 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Josh ANGRIST (Ford Professor of Economics and co-director of the School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative, MIT) / Pierre AZOULAY (International Programs Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management) / Glenn ELLISON (Gregory K. Palm Professor of Economics, MIT) / Ryan HILL (PhD candidate, Economics Department, MIT) / Susan Feng LU (Assistant Professor of Management, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University)

Beyond the Era of Non-testable Science: Field experiments making inroad into the world of economics

January 5, 2018 [Newspapers & Magazines]

ITO Koichiro (Fellow, RIETI)

Issues Concerning Japan’s Economic Policy

December 27, 2017 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2018 (January 2018)]

KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Japan Should Lead Trade Talks in the Asia Pacific Region

December 27, 2017 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2018 (January 2018)]

YAMASHITA Kazuhito (Senior Fellow (Specially Appointed), RIETI)

What is the Optimum Policy Design for Fuel Economy Compliance? Consideration based on economic theories and data analysis

December 26, 2017 [Policy Update]

ITO Koichiro (Fellow (Specially Appointed), RIETI)

The Dynamics of Inter-firm Networks and Firm Growth

December 22, 2017 [Research Digest]

SAITO Yukiko (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

Policy Uncertainty in Japan

December 21, 2017 [Research Digest]

ITO Arata (Fellow, RIETI)

Democratising finance: The digital wealth management revolution

December 20, 2017 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Juergen BRAUNSTEIN (Research Fellow, Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School) / Marion LABOURE (Associate, Department of Economics, Harvard University)

World's Great Excess of Supply

December 19, 2017 [BBL Seminars]

NAKAJIMA Atsushi (Chairman, RIETI)

Proposals for Supply-side Structural Reform

December 14, 2017 [China in Transition]

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

Advancement in Mixed-ownership Reform of State-owned Enterprises:
Focusing on the case of China Unicom

December 12, 2017 [China in Transition]

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

Keen Eye for Economic Trends: Now is the time to rethink and forge consensus on fiscal consolidation

December 12, 2017 [Newspapers & Magazines]

SATO Motohiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Keen Eye for Economic Trends: The future of new "hidden treasures"

December 11, 2017 [Newspapers & Magazines]

SATO Motohiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Abenomics—the next phase
Japan must boost productivity to revive the economy

December 8, 2017 [Newspapers & Magazines]

Dale W. Jorgenson (External Advisory Committee Member, RIETI / Professor of Economics at Harvard University)

Overcoming Silos and Kakines

December 6, 2017 [Policy Update]

YANO Makoto (President and Chief Research Officer, RIETI)

Future of Monetary Policy: Fiscal consolidation is essential for exit from unconventional monetary easing

December 4, 2017 [Newspapers & Magazines]

OGURO Kazumasa (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

Evidence-based Policymaking: Independence and human resource development are the key

November 30, 2017 [Newspapers & Magazines]

ICHIMURA Hidehiko (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / KAWAGUCHI Daiji (Professor, University of Tokyo)

Outcome of TPP11: Persuading the United States of the disadvantages of withdrawal

November 28, 2017 [Newspapers & Magazines]

URATA Shujiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / Peter A. PETRI (Professor, Brandeis University)

What to Do with Shrinking Rural Economies: Criteria for distributing local allocation tax grants requires an overhaul

November 27, 2017 [Newspapers & Magazines]

SATO Motohiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

What to Do with Shrinking Rural Economies: Act now to secure and utilize various professional human resources

November 24, 2017 [Newspapers & Magazines]

HIGUCHI Yoshio (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

The real costs of free university: Lessons from the UK

November 21, 2017 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Gill WYNESS (Senior Lecturer in Economics, UCL) / Richard MURPHY (Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin) / Judith SCOTT-CLAYTON (Associate Professor of Economics and Education, Columbia University)

International Trade and Income Inequality in Japan

November 15, 2017 [Newspapers & Magazines]

TANAKA Ayumu (Research Associate, RIETI)

Is it Possible to Predict a Bubble Burst?

November 14, 2017 [Newspapers & Magazines]

KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

: RIETI Fellow ITO Koichiro's book was awarded the 39th Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities

November 13, 2017 [Recent Activities]

Productivity Revolution: Drastic implementation will trigger conflicting interests and push inefficient businesses out of market

November 10, 2017 [Newspapers & Magazines]

MORIKAWA Masayuki (Vice President, RIETI)

Germany after the General Elections—Political and Economic Directions

November 7, 2017 [BBL Seminars]

Wolfgang TIEFENSEE (Thuringian Minister of Economy, Science and the Digital Society) / Hans Carl VON WERTHERN (Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Japan)

: RIETI Visiting Fellow YAMAGUCHI Kazuo's book was awarded the 60th Nikkei Prize for Excellent Books in Economic Science

November 7, 2017 [Recent Activities]

: RIETI Program Director/Faculty Fellow TSURU Kotaro's book was awarded the 60th Nikkei Prize for Excellent Books in Economic Science

November 7, 2017 [Recent Activities]

: RIETI Fellow ITO Koichiro's book was awarded the 60th Nikkei Prize for Excellent Books in Economic Science

November 7, 2017 [Recent Activities]

The rise of robots in the German labour market

November 6, 2017 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Wolfgang DAUTH (Assistant Professor of Empirical International and Regional Economics, University of Wuerzburg) / Sebastian FINDEISEN (Assistant Professor in Economics, University of Mannheim; Research Affiliate, CEPR) / Jens SÜDEKUM (Professor of International Economics at the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf; Research Fellow, CEPR) / Nicole WOESSNER (Doctoral researcher, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), University of Düsseldorf)

Competitiveness, labor market institutions, and monetary policy
Monetary policy should respond to the exchange rate in countries where labor market institutions hinder wage adjustment

November 1, 2017 [From IZA]

Ester FAIA (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University)

SMEs’ Attempts to Go IoT

October 27, 2017 [RIETI Books (Japanese)]

Written and edited by IWAMTO Koichi, INOUE Yusuke

Future of the Automotive Industry: Preparing for structural changes in the supply chain networks

October 25, 2017 [Newspapers & Magazines]

HAMAGUCHI Nobuaki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

The economic consequences of Mr Kim’s threats

October 23, 2017 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Nadav Ben ZEEV (Assistant Professor, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) / Evi PAPPA (Full Professor, European University Institute)

Corporate Governance and Strategic Shareholders: Tax incentives for unwinding cross shareholdings

October 16, 2017 [Newspapers & Magazines]

UEDA Ryoko (Senior Research Fellow, J-IRIS Research) / KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Program Director and Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Risk intolerance and the global economy: A new macroeconomic framework

October 11, 2017 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Ricardo CABALLERO (Professor of Economics, MIT) / Alp SIMSEK (Rudi Dornbusch Career Development Associate Professor of Economics, MIT)

The labor market in Japan, 2000-2016
Despite a plummeting working-age population, Japan has sustained its labor force size, thanks mostly to surging employment among women

October 5, 2017 [From IZA]

KAWAGUCHI Daiji (University of Tokyo and IZA) / MORI Hiroaki (Hitotsubashi University)

The Rapid Advancement of Chinese Private Enterprises as Revealed by the Fortune Global 500

October 4, 2017 [China in Transition]

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

"Real Culprit" behind the Fall of Labor’s Share

October 4, 2017 [Newspapers & Magazines]

TSURU Kotaro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Revitalization of the Hokuriku Region, Internationalization, and Innovation

September 28, 2017 [RIETI Books (Japanese)]

Written and edited by MARUYA Toyojiro, HAMAGUCHI Nobuaki, KUMAGAI Satoru, SHIRAMATA Shuji

Populism and trust in Europe

September 28, 2017 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Christian DUSTMANN (Professor of Economics, University College London and Director of the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration) / Barry EICHENGREEN (Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley; and formerly Senior Policy Advisor at the International Monetary Fund. CEPR Research Fellow) / Sebastian OTTEN (Senior Research Officer, Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration, UCL) / André SAPIR (Professor, Universite Libre de Bruxelles; Senior Fellow, Bruegel; Research Fellow, CEPR) / Guido TABELLINI (Professor of Economics at Bocconi University and CEPR Research Fellow) / Gylfi ZOEGA (Professor of Economics, University of Iceland)

Challenges Facing the Managers of Japanese Regional Banks: Human resources capable of helping customers solve problems are the key to success

September 28, 2017 [Newspapers & Magazines]

YAMORI Nobuyoshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Macro-Econophysics: New Studies on Economic Networks and Synchronization

September 22, 2017 [Authors' Words]

Written by AOYAMA Hideaki, FUJIWARA Yoshi, IKEDA Yuichi, IYETOMI Hiroshi, SOUMA Wataru, YOSHIKAWA Hiroshi

What it Takes to Improve Productivity: Labor input quality as a factor behind regional inequality

September 22, 2017 [Newspapers & Magazines]

TOKUI Joji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

What it Takes to Improve Productivity: Smoothing service demand is the key

September 20, 2017 [Newspapers & Magazines]

MORIKAWA Masayuki (Vice President, RIETI)

Brexit: Recent Developments—The EEA Option

September 14, 2017 [BBL Seminars]

Carl BAUDENBACHER (President, Court of Justice of the European Free Trade Association States (EFTA Court))

What it Takes to Improve Productivity: Promoting HR and IT investment in tandem

September 12, 2017 [Newspapers & Magazines]

MIYAGAWA Tsutomu (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Macro-Econophysics: New Studies on Economic Networks and Synchronization

September 12, 2017 [RIETI Books (English)]

Written by AOYAMA Hideaki, FUJIWARA Yoshi, IKEDA Yuichi, IYETOMI Hiroshi, SOUMA Wataru, YOSHIKAWA Hiroshi

What is in Question Now at Governance on Overseas M&A: Optimizing the decentralization and centralization of management as the key

September 5, 2017 [Newspapers & Magazines]

MIYAJIMA Hideaki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Economics of the populist backlash

August 31, 2017 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Dani RODRIK (Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard University, and CEPR Research Fellow)

The Effect of the Fed's Large-scale Asset Purchases on Inflation Expectations

August 24, 2017 [Non Technical Summaries]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

Impaired Loss Accounting Does Not Affect Firms’ Investment

August 23, 2017 [Newspapers & Magazines]

UESUGI Iichiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Digitization Bringing Change to Tax Administration

August 3, 2017 [Newspapers & Magazines]

SATO Motohiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

A TPP without the United States now set in motion: Japan should lead trade talks in Asia

July 31, 2017 [Newspapers & Magazines]

YAMASHITA Kazuhito (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

Globalisation and executive compensation

July 27, 2017 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Wolfgang KELLER (Director of the McGuire Center for International Economics and Professor at the University of Colorado-Boulder) / Will OLNEY (Associate Professor of Economics, Williams College)

Presence of Growth Strategy Becoming Less Visible: Priority should be on Labor Market Mobility

July 25, 2017 [Newspapers & Magazines]

INUI Tomohiko (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Which Should be the Leader in Inducing Inflation, the Government or the BOJ?

July 24, 2017 [Newspapers & Magazines]

KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Fixing the Misunderstanding about the Proposed Reform of the Credit Guarantee Program

July 19, 2017 [Newspapers & Magazines]

YAMORI Nobuyoshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Gender differences in corporate hierarchies
How and why do the careers of men and women differ? What policies could reduce the differences?

July 12, 2017 [From IZA]

Antti KAUHANEN (The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy)

Can Childcare Waiting Lists be Eliminated? Raising childcare fees seems to be a realistic option

July 11, 2017 [Newspapers & Magazines]

UNAYAMA Takashi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Great Divergences: The growing dispersion of wages and productivity in OECD countries

June 29, 2017 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Giuseppe BERLINGIERI (Assistant Professor in Economics at ESSEC Business School; Economist in the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation, OECD) / Patrick BLANCHENAY (Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Management, University of Toronto Mississauga) / Chiara CRISCUOLO (Senior Economist in the Structural Policy division of the Science Technology and Industry Directorate at the OECD)

Scientific Management of Human Resources with Applications to Japanese Companies: Utilizing data based on causal inference

June 27, 2017 [RIETI Books (Japanese)]

Written by OWAN Hideo

Unresolved Challenges Facing Working Style Reform: Per-hour productivity should be improved

June 23, 2017 [Newspapers & Magazines]

YAMAMOTO Isamu (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Education Budgeting: Public return on education should be the point of reference

June 21, 2017 [Newspapers & Magazines]

OGURO Kazumasa (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

Gender Inequality in the Workplace: Theory and empirical analysis

June 13, 2017 [RIETI Books (Japanese)]

Written by YAMAGUCHI Kazuo

Exchange Rates and the Swiss Economy

June 12, 2017 [Non Technical Summaries]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI) / KATO Atsuyuki (Research Associate, RIETI)

Pros and Cons of the "Hometown Tax" Donation Program: Return gifts should be excluded from deductibles

June 6, 2017 [Newspapers & Magazines]

SATO Motohiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

What are the Conditions for Successful Telework?

May 31, 2017 [Newspapers & Magazines]

TSURU Kotaro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Energy Markets: What to do when forecasting is useless

May 29, 2017 [BBL Seminars]

Robert S. PINDYCK (Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Professor of Economics and Finance, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

New Economic Index "Inclusive Wealth": Placing importance on the value of education, health, and nature

May 19, 2017 [Newspapers & Magazines]

MANAGI Shunsuke (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Austerity in the aftermath of the Great Recession

May 18, 2017 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Christopher HOUSE (Associate Professor of Economics, University of Michigan) / Christian PROEBSTING (Scientific collaborator, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) / Linda TESAR (Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan)