Featured (FY2018)

The role of regulations and immigration in firms' offshoring decisions

March 25, 2019 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Simone MORICONI (Associate Professor, IESEG School of Management; LEM member; research affiliate CESifo Munich) / Giovanni PERI (Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics, University of California, Davis) / Dario POZZOLI (Associate Professor of Economics, Copenhagen Business School)

The Steep Path for Global Warming Countermeasures: Do not disregard the cost of renewable energy

March 18, 2019 [Newspapers & Magazines]

OHASHI Hiroshi (Program director / Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Voting with their money: Brexit and outward investment by UK firms

March 15, 2019 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Holger BREINLICH (Professor of Economics, University of Surrey and CEPR Research Fellow) / Elsa LEROMAIN (Research Economist, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE) / Dennis NOVY (Associate Professor of Economics, University of Warwick; CEPR Research Fellow) / Thomas SAMPSON (Associate Professor, London School of Economics; Research Affiliate, CEPR)

What drives innovation? Resource allocation inadequacies and diminishing effects

March 14, 2019 [Newspapers & Magazines]

OKAZAKI Tetsuji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Keen Eyes for Economic Trends: Vehicle Tax Focus Shifting from Ownership to Use

March 6, 2019 [Newspapers & Magazines]

SATO Motohiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

The Obstacles to Shifting Mandatory Retirement to Employment until 70: Sweeping Reforms to Wages and Mid-career Hiring, etc.

March 6, 2019 [Newspapers & Magazines]

TSURU Kotaro (Program Director and Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Female Candidates in the 2018 U.S. Midterm Election

March 1, 2019 [BBL Seminars]

Barry BURDEN (Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Japan and U.S. Starting Trade Negotiations: Japan in a difficult position regarding cars and foreign exchange

February 27, 2019 [Newspapers & Magazines]

ISHIKAWA Jota (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Gentrification and businesses

February 25, 2019 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Kristian BEHRENS (Professor of Economics, Université du Québec à Montréal (ESG-UQAM) ) / Brahim BOUALAM (Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Université du Québec à Montréal) / Julien MARTIN (Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, Université du Québec à Montréal) / Florian MAYNERIS (Associate Professor, Université du Québec à Montréal (ESG-UQAM))

The Japan-China Relationship: The triumph of economics over politics

February 19, 2019 [BBL Seminars]

Shiro ARMSTRONG (Visiting Scholar, RIETI / Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University / Director, Australia-Japan Research Center / Director, East Asian Bureau of Economic Research)

Challenges for New Governments in Latin America: The relationship with the Congress in Brazil will be a key

February 19, 2019 [Newspapers & Magazines]

HAMAGUCHI Nobuaki (Program director / Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

The Weak Rupiah: Catching the tailwinds and avoiding the shoals

February 18, 2019 [Non Technical Summaries]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

Future Design: A new policymaking system for future generations

February 14, 2019 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2019 (January 2019)]

KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Program Director / Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

What are the Risks for the Global Economy?

February 13, 2019 [Policy Update]

ITO Hiroyuki (Visiting Fellow, RIETI)

Foreign Workers: Can They Be the Saviors of Japan?

February 12, 2019 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2019 (January 2019)]

KONDO Keisuke (Fellow, RIETI)

Make-or-buy decisions of multinational firms depend on the technological importance of the product

February 8, 2019 [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) / Frank PISCH (Assistant Professor of International Trade, University of St. Gallen) / Claudia STEINWENDER (Assistant Professor at MIT Management, Sloan School)

Policy Objectives Set at the Beginning of the Heisei Era and Reality

February 6, 2019 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2019 (January 2019)]

MORIKAWA Masayuki (Vice President, RIETI)

Latent Risks in the Strong Economy—Poor Resistance in Response to Crises from Overseas

February 6, 2019 [Newspapers & Magazines]

MIYAGAWA Tsutomu (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Ordinary people have been hurt by globalism

February 5, 2019 [Newspapers & Magazines]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

Reform of the Credit Guarantee System—Will the reform lead to the enhancement of support for SMEs?

January 31, 2019 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2019 (January 2019)]

YAMORI Nobuyoshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

GVC Journeys When National and Territorial Comparative Advantage Differ

January 29, 2019 [BBL Seminars]

Richard BALDWIN (Professor of International Economics, Graduate Institute, Geneva)

The macroeconomic benefits of gender diversity

January 25, 2019 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Christine LAGARDE (Managing Director, International Monetary Fund) / Jonathan D. OSTRY (Deputy Director, Research Department, IMF)

Keen Eyes for Economic Trends: The Start of Public Sector Work Style Reform

January 22, 2019 [Newspapers & Magazines]

SATO Motohiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Oil Prices and the U.S. Economy: Evidence from the stock market

January 15, 2019 [Non Technical Summaries]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

How Would a Slowdown in the People's Republic of China Affect its Trading Partners?

January 15, 2019 [Non Technical Summaries]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

Japan's age wave: Challenges and solutions

January 11, 2019 [Perspectives from Around the World]

David BLOOM (Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) / Paige KIRBY (Health Policy Associate, Data for Decisions, LLC) / JP SEVILLA (Senior Economist, Data for Decisions, LLC) / Andrew STAWASZ (Law Student, Harvard Law School)

A View from Europe: Monetary policy, structural reforms and the rise of populist politics

January 8, 2019 [BBL Seminars]

Paola SUBACCHI (Senior Research Fellow, Global Economy and Finance, Chatham House)

The impact of the US-China trade war on East Asia

January 7, 2019 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Massimiliano CALÌ (Senior Economist, World Bank)

What's Next for Healthcare IT?

December 26, 2018 [BBL Seminars]

John D HALAMKA (International Healthcare Innovation Professor at Harvard Medical School, Chief Information Officer of the Beth Israel Deaconess Health System and a Practicing Emergency Physician)

The Big Con: Reassessing the ‘Great’ Recession and its ‘fix’

December 26, 2018 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Laurence KOTLIKOFF (William Fairfield Warren Professor and Professor of Economics, Boston University)

Nonfarm Employment, Inflationary Expectations, and Monetary Policy after the Global Financial Crisis

December 20, 2018 [Non Technical Summaries]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

Repercussions of Business & Human Rights on Trade and Investment Decisions

December 17, 2018 [BBL Seminars]

Markus LOENING (Chairperson of LI Human Rights Committee, Free Democratic Party, Germany)

A Balanced Approach to Addressing the US-China Trade Dispute

December 12, 2018 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Shang-Jin WEI (N.T. Wang Chair and Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia University, and Former Chief Economist of Asian Development Bank)

RIETI has joined Think 20 (T20)

December 12, 2018 [Recent Activities]

Artificial Intelligence and Employment in Japan

December 11, 2018 [RIETI Books (Japanese)]

Written and edited by IWAMOTO Koichi

The Economic Model "Crisis" Has Changed

December 10, 2018 [Newspapers & Magazines]

KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Current State and Issues of Elderly Employment: Supporting workers in their late sixties

December 4, 2018 [Newspapers & Magazines]

OSHIO Takashi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Why Has the U.S. Waged A Trade War Against China?
—Protracted Confrontation Inevitable

December 4, 2018 [China in Transition]

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

Measuring employment and unemployment
Should statistical criteria for measuring employment and unemployment be re-examined?

November 30, 2018 [From IZA]

Andrea BRANDOLINI (Bank of Italy) / Eliana VIVIANO (Bank of Italy)

"Mission" of New Organizations: The key to central government reform—Multitask lowers incentives

November 26, 2018 [Newspapers & Magazines]

TSURU Kotaro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Productivity: Misconceptions and realities

November 20, 2018 [RIETI Books (Japanese)]

Written by MORIKAWA Masayuki

The Economics of Artificial Intelligence: How Our Lives, Our Work and Our Society Will Change

November 20, 2018 [RIETI Books (Japanese)]

Written and Edited by MANAGI Shunsuke

Data superpowers in the age of AI: A research agenda

November 19, 2018 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Claudia BIANCOTTI (Senior Economist, Banca d'Italia and Visting Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics) / Paolo CIOCCA (Commissioner, Consob)

One Year until the Consumption Tax Rate Hike: No need to take countermeasures against a rebound decline in consumption

November 5, 2018 [Newspapers & Magazines]

UNAYAMA Takashi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Trump’s Abuse of Trudeau Shocked Many Americans

November 2, 2018 [Newspapers & Magazines]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

A rational backlash against globalisation

November 1, 2018 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Lubos PASTOR (Charles P. McQuaid Professor of Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business ) / Pietro VERONESI (Roman Family Professor of Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business)

One Year until the Consumption Tax Hike - Aiming for a tax system centered on consumption tax

October 31, 2018 [Newspapers & Magazines]

SATO Motohiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Three Countries Can Appreciate Together

October 26, 2018 [Newspapers & Magazines]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

Trade Relations Between the US and China Are Politically Unsustainable

October 19, 2018 [Newspapers & Magazines]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

The effect of house prices on household borrowing: A new approach

October 19, 2018 [Perspectives from Around the World]

James CLOYNE (Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, Davis and CEPR Research Affiliate) / Kilian HUBER (Saieh Family Fellow in Macroeconomics, Becker Friedman Institute, University of Chicago) / Ethan ILZETZKI (Assistant Professor, London School of Economics) / Henrik KLEVEN (Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University)

Chinese Economy Slowing Down amid Intensifying U.S.-China Trade Dispute: Reform and opening-up should come before economic stimulus

October 19, 2018 [China in Transition]

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

Maternity leave versus early childcare—What are the long-term consequences for children?
Despite increasingly generous parental leave schemes their advantages over subsidized childcare remain unclear

October 12, 2018 [From IZA]

Nabanita Datta GUPTA (Aarhus University and IZA)

Fiscal Discipline Is Now Required from the US

October 12, 2018 [Newspapers & Magazines]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

Regional Productivity Differences in Japan Industry-Level Studies Based on the R-JIP Database

October 11, 2018 [RIETI Books (Japanese)]

Edited by TOKUI Joji

Keen Eyes for Economic Trends: Considerations upon the increase in the consumption tax rate

October 5, 2018 [Newspapers & Magazines]

SATO Motohiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Transmission Mechanism with Too Many Weak Links

October 5, 2018 [Newspapers & Magazines]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

The making of the Federal Open Market Committee: Ideology and politics

October 2, 2018 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Michael BORDO (Professor of Economics, Rutgers University) / Klodiana ISTREFI (Research Economist, Banque de France)

Export Sophistication and Trade Elasticities

October 1, 2018 [Non Technical Summaries]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI) / Nimesh SALIKE (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University)

Managing Currency Risk: How Japanese Firms Choose Invoicing Currency

September 28, 2018 [RIETI Books (English)]

Written by ITO Takatoshi, KOIBUCHI Satoshi, SATO Kiyotaka, SHIMIZU Junko

The Rise and (Potential) Fall of U.S. Cartel Enforcement

September 26, 2018 [BBL Seminars]

Vivek GHOSAL (Department Head of Economics, Virginia and Lloyd W. Rittenhouse Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

Effects of regulating international trade on firms and workers
The benefits of trade regulation increase when workers are mobile

September 21, 2018 [From IZA]

Raymond ROBERTSON (Texas A&M University and IZA)

Future of Capitalism: Resolution of inequality is imperative

September 14, 2018 [Newspapers & Magazines]

YOSHIKAWA Hiroshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Exploring the wide dispersion in productivity among European firms

September 10, 2018 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Yuriy GORODNICHENKO (Professor in the Department of Economics, University of California-Berkeley) / Debora REVOLTELLA (Director, Economics Department, European Investment Bank) / Jan SVEJNAR (James T. Shotwell Professor of Global Political Economy and Director of the Center on Global Economic Governance, Columbia University; Research Fellow, CEPR) / Christoph WEISS (Economist, Economics Department, European Investment Bank)

Reform of the Listing System for High-tech Companies: Opening the way for red-chip companies to issue China Depositary Receipts (CDRs)

September 6, 2018 [China in Transition]

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

Prices and Companies' Behavior: The key is making it easier for companies to pass on cost increase to prices

September 3, 2018 [Newspapers & Magazines]

WATANABE Tsutomu (Research Associate, RIETI)

Leaving money on the table: Declining responsiveness and the productivity slowdown

September 3, 2018 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Ryan DECKER (Economist, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) / John HALTIWANGER (Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Economics, University of Maryland) / Ron JARMIN (Acting Director, U.S. Census Bureau) / Javier MIRANDA (Principal Economist, Center for Administrative Records Research and Applications)

Keen Eyes for Economic Trends: The fantasy that "we'll manage somehow"

August 31, 2018 [Newspapers & Magazines]

SATO Motohiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

A Euro Zone Basket as Stabiliser for the Euro Area?

August 29, 2018 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Dietrich MATTHES (Quantic Risk Solutions) / Jörg ROCHOLL (ESMT Berlin)

Working Style Reform and Productivity Improvement: Compatibility of addressing the issue of long working hours and achieving efficiency

August 24, 2018 [Newspapers & Magazines]

TSURU Kotaro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

The Impact of Oil Prices on East and Southeast Asian Economies: Evidence from financial markets

August 23, 2018 [Non Technical Summaries]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

Demographics and long-run growth

August 13, 2018 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Thomas COOLEY (Professor of Economics, Stern School of Business and Faculty of Arts and Science, New York University) / Espen HENRIKSEN (Associate Professor of Financial Economics, BI Norwegian Business School)

How to Solve Intergenerational Problems: The increasing importance of policies that nurture altruism

August 7, 2018 [Newspapers & Magazines]

KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

There are more foreign firms than we think!

July 30, 2018 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Sara MCGAUGHEY (Professor of International Business, Griffith University) / Pascalis RAIMONDOS (Head of School, Professor of Economics, Queensland University of Technology)

From the Perspective of Ensuring Fiscal Soundness: Recovery through structural reforms

July 26, 2018 [Newspapers & Magazines]

KITAO Sagiri (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

The Challenges Ahead for “Future Design” Studies

July 19, 2018 [Newspapers & Magazines]

KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Japan: Promoting Inclusive Growth for an Ageing Society

July 17, 2018 [BBL Seminars]

Randall S. JONES (Head of the Japan / Korea Desk, Economics Department, OECD)

RIETI Visiting Fellow YAMAGUCHI Kazuo's Book Awarded the 10th Showa Women's University Prize for Women's Cultural Research

July 3, 2018 [Recent Activities]

A genie in a bottle: Inflation, globalisation, and competition

June 29, 2018 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Dan ANDREWS (Deputy Head, Structural Policy Analysis Division, OECD Economics Department) / Peter GAL (Economist, OECD) / William WITHERIDGE (Junior Economist, OECD Economics Department)

A New Stage in the U.S.-China Economic Dispute: Focus shifting from trade imbalance to technology transfer

June 25, 2018 [China in Transition]

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

Points of Discussion Concerning the Strategic Energy Plan: Toward policy measures to take advantage of the market mechanism

June 13, 2018 [Newspapers & Magazines]

ITO Koichiro (Fellow, RIETI)

The World Economy Against the Backdrop of Increased Trade Tensions

June 11, 2018 [BBL Seminars]

Richard BALDWIN (Professor, Graduate Institute, Geneva / President, CEPR)

Preconditions for Innovation: Use of highly-skilled workers is the key

June 11, 2018 [Newspapers & Magazines]

INUI Tomohiko (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Keen Eyes for Economic Trends: What happens when the public loses trust in the Ministry of Finance?

June 7, 2018 [Newspapers & Magazines]

SATO Motohiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Signs that Japan’s Deflationary Mindset May Finally be Lifting?

June 6, 2018 [Policy Update]

NAKAJIMA Atsushi (Chairman, RIETI)

The Power of AI from an Economics Perspective

May 29, 2018 [Newspapers & Magazines]

TSURU Kotaro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Residential sorting by education level enhances the return on investments in transport infrastructure

May 25, 2018 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Coen TEULINGS (Distinguished Professor of Economics, Utrecht University; CEPR Research Fellow) / Ioulia OSSOKINA (Assistant Professor, Department of the Built Environment, Eindhoven University of Technology)

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

May 23, 2018 [Policy Update]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

The Harmful Effects of U.S. Trade Restrictions: A chain of retaliation and global chaos

May 22, 2018 [Newspapers & Magazines]

ISHIKAWA Jota (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Keen Eyes for Economic Trends: The falsification uproar and evidence-based policymaking

May 21, 2018 [Newspapers & Magazines]

SATO Motohiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Harmful Effects of Import Restrictions and Non-Market Measures

May 18, 2018 [Policy Update]

WAKASUGI Ryuhei (Senior Advisor, RIETI)

Introducing "Career Advancement Type" Scholarship

May 17, 2018 [Newspapers & Magazines]

OGURO Kazumasa (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

Parental monitoring and children's internet use: The role of information, control, and cues

May 11, 2018 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Francisco GALLEGO (Associate Professor, Economics Department, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) / Ofer MALAMUD (Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, Northwestern University) / Cristian POP-ELECHES (Associate Professor at SIPA, Columbia University)

Asia’s Growth and Japan: Turning the world’s factory into a center for technological innovation

May 10, 2018 [Newspapers & Magazines]

TODO Yasuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Growing Poverty among the Elderly: Public pension system is the framework that should respond

April 26, 2018 [Newspapers & Magazines]

OSHIO Takashi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Foreign Direct Investment and Regional Inequality

April 23, 2018 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Theresa M. GREANEY (Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Faculty Member, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Hawai‘i) / Baybars KARACAOVALI (Assistant Professor, Grinnell College)

Competitiveness of SMEs: Exploring possibilities of unsecured financing

April 20, 2018 [Newspapers & Magazines]

UESUGI Iichiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

How to Represent the Interests of Future Generations Now?

April 11, 2018 [Newspapers & Magazines]

KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

One-company towns: Scale and consequences
One-company towns concentrate employment but their ability to adapt to adverse events is often very limited

April 10, 2018 [From IZA]

Simon COMMANDER (Altura Partners, UK, IE Business School, Spain, and IZA)

The Economic Impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution on Japan: Japanese Industry at a Crossroads

April 6, 2018 [Newspapers & Magazines]

IWAMOTO Koichi (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

How Far Have We Come in the Fight against Deflation? Credit squeeze risk has all but vanished

April 5, 2018 [Newspapers & Magazines]

HOSONO Kaoru (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Keen Eyes for Economic Trends: Revision of the medical fee schedule should be based on evidence

April 3, 2018 [Newspapers & Magazines]

SATO Motohiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Trade cold wars and the value of agreements during crises

April 2, 2018 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Jerónimo CARBALLO (Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Colorado-Boulder) / Kyle HANDLEY (Assistant Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan) / Nuno LIMÃO (Professor in the Economics Department, University of Maryland; Research Fellow at NBER and Kiel Institute for the World Economy )