Featured (FY2019)

Mathias DEWATRIPONT's Photo

Rapidly identifying workers who are immune to COVID-19 and virus-free is a priority for restarting the economy

March 30, 2020 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Mathias DEWATRIPONT (Professor of Economics, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ECARES and Solvay Brussels School) and Co-Director, I3h) / Michel GOLDMAN (Professor of Medical Immunology and Co-Director, I3h Institute, Université libre de Bruxelles) / Eric MURAILLE (FNRS Senior Research Associate, Laboratory of Parasitology, Université libre de Bruxelles) / Jean-Philippe PLATTEAU (Active Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Namur)

Nicholas BLOOM's Photo

Brexit uncertainty has fallen since the UK general election

March 27, 2020 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Nicholas BLOOM (Professor of Economics at Stanford University) / Philip BUNN (Senior Technical Advisor in the Structural Economics Division, Bank of England) / Scarlet CHEN (PhD Candidate in Economics, Stanford University) / Paul MIZEN (Professor of Monetary Economics and Director of the Centre for Finance, Credit and Macroeconomics) / Pawel SMIETANKA (Research Economist, Bank of England)

MIYAJIMA Hideaki's Photo

Activist Shareholders and Companies: Improving the Effectiveness of Management Reform

March 25, 2020 [Newspapers & Magazines]

MIYAJIMA Hideaki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / SUZUKI Kazunori (Professor, Waseda University)

Willem THORBECKE's Photo

Weathering Safe Haven Capital Flows: Evidence from the Japanese Transportation Equipment Industry

March 24, 2020 [Non Technical Summaries]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

The Forth Industrial Revolutioin and the Japanese Economy : Sustained Growth under a Transforming Economy and Society

The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Japanese Economy : Sustained Growth under a Transforming Economy and Society

March 24, 2020 [RIETI Books (Japanese)]

Edited by YANO Makoto

KONDO Keisuke's Photo

Policy-Making for a Better Society

March 19, 2020 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2020 (January 2020)]

KONDO Keisuke (Fellow, RIETI)

Inga HEILAND's Photo

Trade from space: Shipping networks and the global implications of local shocks

March 17, 2020 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Inga HEILAND (Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Oslo) / Andreas MOXNES (Professor of Economics, University of Oslo & Princeton University) / Karen Helene ULLTVEIT-MOE (Professor of International Economics, University of Oslo; and CEPR Research Fellow) / Yuan ZI (Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, University of Oslo)

ISHIZAKI Takashi's Photo

Will the 2020 Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets Be Met?

March 17, 2020 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2020 (January 2020)]

ISHIZAKI Takashi (Senior fellow, RIETI)

FUJI Kazuhiko's Photo

The Ideal Industrial Promotion in a (Super-aged) High-Death-Rate Society

March 16, 2020 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2020 (January 2020)]

FUJI Kazuhiko (Senior fellow, RIETI)

FUJI Kazuhiko's Photo

Sudden Rise in Crude Oil Price Could Become Japanese Economy’s Achilles Heel

March 16, 2020 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2020 (January 2020)]

FUJI Kazuhiko (Senior fellow, RIETI)

Daniel S. HAMERMESH's Photo

Coronavirus and the labor market

March 13, 2020 [From IZA]

Daniel S. HAMERMESH (Barnard College and IZA)

Chi Hung KWAN's Photo

Can China Reform State-Owned Enterprises without Privatization?
—Creation of a Fair and Competitive Market Environment as the Second-Best Option

March 13, 2020 [China in Transition]

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

Chi Hung KWAN's Photo

Development of Private Enterprises in China Entering a Difficult Phase
—Urgent Need to Create a Fair and Competitive Environment

March 13, 2020 [China in Transition]

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

YAMORI Nobuyoshi's Photo

Business Feasibility Evaluation and Risk of Natural Disaster: Establishment of the Small and Medium Enterprise Strengthening Act and Expectations for Regional Financial Institutions

March 11, 2020 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2020 (January 2020)]

YAMORI Nobuyoshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Economics in the time of COVID-19

Economics in the time of COVID-19

March 9, 2020 [Other Publications (English)]

Written by Richard BALDWIN, Beatrice WEDER di MAURO

OGURO Kazumasa's Photo

Making 2020 a Turning Point for Reform - Toward Integrated Social Security and Tax Reform Version 2.0 -

March 9, 2020 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2020 (January 2020)]

OGURO Kazumasa (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

SEKIGUCHI Yoichi's Photo

Greater Accumulation and Dissemination of Evidence towards Health Tourism Promotion Involving Hot Springs Is Necessary

March 6, 2020 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2020 (January 2020)]

SEKIGUCHI Yoichi (Senior fellow, RIETI)

Enghin ATALAY's Photo

The changing nature of work in the US

March 6, 2020 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Enghin ATALAY (Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia) / Phai PHONGTHIENGTHAM (Senior Data Scientist, IBM) / Sebastian SOTELO (Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Michigan) / Daniel TANNENBAUM (Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Nebraska)

Aksel ERBAHAR's Photo

Cascading trade protection: Evidence from the US

March 2, 2020 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Aksel ERBAHAR (Assistant Professor, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam) / Yuan ZI (Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, University of Oslo)

Willem THORBECKE's Photo

China's Exports in a Protectionist World

February 27, 2020 [Non Technical Summaries]

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

Can Big Data Change Official Statistics: Learning from advanced overseas cases

February 21, 2020 [BBL Seminars]

KONISHI Yoko (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

Alan AUERBACH's Photo

Macroeconomic frameworks

February 18, 2020 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Alan AUERBACH (Robert D. Burch Professor of Economics and Law, University of California, Berkeley) / Yuriy GORODNICHENKO (Quantedge Presidential Professor, Department of Economics, University of California – Berkeley) / Daniel MURPHY (Assistant Professor, University of Virginia Darden School Of Business)

Pontus RENDAHL's Photo

Banks do not create money out of thin air

February 6, 2020 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Pontus RENDAHL (Reader, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge) / Lukas B. FREUND (PhD Candidate in Economics, University of Cambridge)

Chi Hung KWAN's Photo

Promoting Opening-Up Policy against Headwinds
— Can a Reversal of Globalization be Avoided?

January 31, 2020 [China in Transition]

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

Yotam MARGALIT's Photo

Economic causes of populism: Important, marginally important, or important on the margin

January 30, 2020 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Yotam MARGALIT (Professor, Department of Political Science, Tel Aviv University)

KOBAYASHI Keiichiro's Photo

What Should Japan’s Economic and Fiscal Policy Be?

January 28, 2020 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2020 (January 2020)]

KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Program Director / Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

KOBAYASHI Keiichiro's Photo

Crisis Management Plans as Tools for Safeguarding Confidence in Public Finance

January 27, 2020 [Newspapers & Magazines]

KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Willem THORBECKE's Photo

Market forces Helped Japan Trump America

January 23, 2020 [Newspapers & Magazines]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

Yong Suk LEE's Photo

AI regulation and firm behaviour

January 16, 2020 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Yong Suk LEE (SK Center Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University) / Benjamin Cedric LARSEN (PhD Fellow, Copenhagen Business School and The Chinese Academy of Sciences) / Michael WEBB (PhD candidate in Economics, Stanford University) / Mariano-Florentino CUÉLLAR (Justice of the Supreme Court of California)

ISHIKAWA Jota's Photo

Overview of the Japan-U.S. Trade Negotiations (Part 2) Digital Pact Setting the Tone for Trade Negotiations

December 27, 2019 [Newspapers & Magazines]

ISHIKAWA Jota (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Emmanuelle AURIOL's Photo

Women in European economics

December 26, 2019 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Emmanuelle AURIOL (Professor of Economics, Toulouse School of Economics and CEPR Research Fellow) / Guido FRIEBEL (Chair for Human Resources at Goethe University, Frankfurt) / Sascha WILHELM (Senior Data Scientist Pricing, METRO Germany)

MORIKAWA Masayuki's Photo

Evidence-based Regulatory Reform

December 26, 2019 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2020 (January 2020)]

MORIKAWA Masayuki (Vice President, RIETI)

Carl Benedikt FREY's Photo

Automation and its enemies

December 20, 2019 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Carl Benedikt FREY (Co-Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Technology and Employment, Oxford Martin School; Economics Associate, Nuffield College) / Ebrahim RAHBARI (Director in the Global Economics Team, Citigroup Research)

HATTA Tatsuo's Photo

Free Preschool Education: Tackling the Problem of Waitlisted Children Should Be Top Priority

December 16, 2019 [Newspapers & Magazines]

HATTA Tatsuo (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Stefania GARETTO's Photo

Multinational enterprises in time and space: The effect of trade policy shocks

December 13, 2019 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Stefania GARETTO (Associate Professor of Economics, Boston University) / Lindsay OLDENSKI (Associate Professor, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University; Non-resident Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics) / Natalia RAMONDO (Associate Professor of Economics, University of California at San Diego)

Cristina BLANCO-PEREZ's Photo

Transparency in empirical economic research
Open science can enhance research credibility, but only with the correct incentives

December 11, 2019 [From IZA]

Cristina BLANCO-PEREZ (University of Ottawa) / Abel BRODEUR (University of Ottawa)

KAWASE Tsuyoshi's Photo

Uphill Battle for WTO Reform Toward MC12

December 9, 2019 [Newspapers & Magazines]

KAWASE Tsuyoshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Jennifer HUNT's Photo

The link between declining middle-wage jobs, rising wage inequality, and worker welfar

November 25, 2019 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Jennifer HUNT (Professor of Economics, Rutgers University and CEPR Research Fellow) / Ryan NUNN (Fellow in Economics Studies, Brookings Institution; Policy Director; The Hamilton Project)

Dani RODRIK's Photo

Many forms of populism

November 18, 2019 [Perspectives from Around the World]

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

Oriana BANDIERA's Photo

Alleviating poverty with experimental research: The 2019 Nobel laureates

November 6, 2019 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Oriana BANDIERA (Professor of Economics and Director of STICERD, LSE)

Keith MASKUS

Role of IPRs in trade policy and global economy

November 1, 2019 [Policy Update]

Keith MASKUS (University of Colorado)

Toward Restructuring the Employment System: How Can We Change Japan's Work Style?

Toward Restructuring the Employment System: How Can We Change Japan's Work Style?

October 30, 2019 [RIETI Books (Japanese)]

Written and edited by TSURU Kotaro

Next Blockchain:Creation of a new ecosystem for future industries

Next Blockchain:
Creation of a new ecosystem for future industries

October 29, 2019 [RIETI Books (Japanese)]

Written and edited by YANO Makoto, Chris DAI, MASUDA Kenichi, KISHIMOTO Yoshio

"End-of-life Satisfaction" in a Super-aged Society with Compassionate Capitalism from Japan

October 29, 2019 [RIETI Books (Japanese)]

Written by FUJI Kazuhiko

Petra PERSSON's Photo

When dad can stay home: Fathers’ workplace flexibility and maternal health

October 25, 2019 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Petra PERSSON (Assistant Professor of Economics, Stanford University; CEPR Research Affiliate) / Maya ROSSIN-SLATER (Assistant Professor of Health Research & Policy, Stanford University)

TSURU Kotaro's Photo

Approaches to Arguments for Raising the Minimum Wage with Caution

October 25, 2019 [Newspapers & Magazines]

TSURU Kotaro (Program Director and Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

TODO Yasuyuki's Photo

Assessment of the Impact of Tightening of Export Control against South Korea—Propagation of Negative Effects through Supply Chains Must Be Prevented

October 21, 2019 [Newspapers & Magazines]

TODO Yasuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Andrew OSWALD's Photo

Why are economists letting down the world on climate change?

October 18, 2019 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Andrew OSWALD (Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science, Warwick University) / Nicholas STERN (IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, LSE)

Chi Hung KWAN's Photo

China Labeled as a Currency Manipulator
—Whither the Chinese Yuan?

October 10, 2019 [China in Transition]

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

Siddharth BHAMBHWANI's Photo

The fundamental drivers of cryptocurrency prices

October 9, 2019 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Siddharth BHAMBHWANI (Assistant Professor of Accounting, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) / Stefanos DELIKOURAS (Assistant Professor of Finance, Miami Business School) / George KORNIOTIS (Professor of Finance, Miami Business School)

Book cover

Gender Inequalities in the Japanese Workplace and Employment: Theories and Empirical Evidence

October 4, 2019 [RIETI Books (English)]

Written by YAMAGUCHI Kazuo

Willem THORBECKE's Photo

Liberalising Trade Will Power Asian Economies

October 3, 2019 [Newspapers & Magazines]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

MANAGI Shunsuke's Photo

Pitfalls in Automated Driving: Intended and Unintended Consequence of New Technology?

October 3, 2019 [Newspapers & Magazines]

MANAGI Shunsuke (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

TSURU Kotaro's Photo

Work Style Reform and Improved Productivity: Employees' Understanding Directly Affects Performance

September 30, 2019 [Newspapers & Magazines]

TSURU Kotaro (Program Director and Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Rafael Di TELLA's Photo

The protectionist instinct: How labour market shocks shape the demand for trade protection

September 30, 2019 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Rafael Di TELLA (William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School) / Dani RODRIK (Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard University, and CEPR Research Fellow)

YAMASHITA Kazuhito's Photo

What's behind the food self-sufficiency 'crisis'?

September 24, 2019 [Newspapers & Magazines]

YAMASHITA Kazuhito (Senior fellow, RIETI)

Scott BAKER's Photo

The extraordinary rise in trade policy uncertainty

September 20, 2019 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Scott BAKER (Associate Professor of Finance Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University) / Nicholas BLOOM (Professor of Economics at Stanford University) / Steven DAVIS (William H. Abbott Distinguished Service Professor of International Business and Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business; Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution)

Chi Hung KWAN's Photo

Expansion and Prolonging of U.S.-China Trade Friction
—Conspicuous Trend of Decoupling

September 19, 2019 [China in Transition]

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

Alan V. DEARDORFF's Photo

Trump's Trade Wars: Where do we stand?

September 17, 2019 [BBL Seminars]

Alan V. DEARDORFF (John W. Sweetland Professor of International Economics and Professor Public Policy, University of Michigan)

Vincent LABHARD's Photo

Challenges in the digital age

September 17, 2019 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Vincent LABHARD (Senior Economist, ECB) / Peter MCADAM (Principal Economist, Monetary Policy Research division, ECB) / Filippos PETROULAKIS (Economist, ECB) / Lara VIVIAN (Economist, ECB)

YAMASHITA Kazuhito's Photo

Why the farm vote still matters in Japan

September 11, 2019 [Newspapers & Magazines]

YAMASHITA Kazuhito (Senior fellow, RIETI)

Willem THORBECKE

Oil Prices and the U.S. Economy: Evidence from the Stock Market

September 6, 2019 [Policy Update]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

KWON Hyeog Ug's Photo

Determinants of Structural Adjustment and Employment Use in Japan: Firm Characteristics, Offshoring and Industrial Robotics

September 5, 2019 [Non Technical Summaries]

Timothy DESTEFANO (OECD) / HANEDA Sho (Nihon University) / KWON Hyeog Ug (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Michele CANTARELLA's Photo

The effect of fake news on populist voting: Evidence from a natural experiment in Italy

September 5, 2019 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Michele CANTARELLA (PhD candidate in Economics, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) / Nicolò FRACCAROLI (PhD candidate in Economics, University of Rome Tor Vergata; PhD Researcher, Bank of England) / Roberto VOLPE (Policy Analyst, Italian Ministry of Economic Development)

NAKAJIMA Atsushi's Photo

Make the Consumption Tax Hike an Opportunity to Steadily Raise the Wage Level

August 28, 2019 [Policy Update]

NAKAJIMA Atsushi (Chairman, RIETI)

Willem THORBECKE's Photo

Signs that Investors Are Focused on Deflation

August 27, 2019 [Newspapers & Magazines]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

YAMASHITA Kazuhito's Photo

U.S.-China spat won’t spark global recession

August 27, 2019 [Newspapers & Magazines]

YAMASHITA Kazuhito (Senior fellow, RIETI)

KONDO Keisuke's Photo

Will A Minimum Wage Hike Bring Productivity Growth?

August 27, 2019 [Policy Update]

KONDO Keisuke (Fellow, RIETI)

KAWAGUCHI Daiji's Photo

The labor market in Japan, 2000–2018
Despite a plummeting working-age population, Japan has sustained its labor force size because of surging employment among women

August 23, 2019 [From IZA]

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

KOBAYASHI Keiichiro's Photo

Do Government Policies Give Raise to Deflationary Equilibrium?

August 20, 2019 [Newspapers & Magazines]

KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Willem THORBECKE's Photo

Ditching ‘omotenashi’ will not deliver inflation target

August 8, 2019 [Newspapers & Magazines]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

YAMASHITA Kazuhito's Photo

Japan out-positions the U.S. in trade talks

August 1, 2019 [Newspapers & Magazines]

YAMASHITA Kazuhito (Senior fellow, RIETI)

Bernard HOEKMAN's Photo

Urgent and Important: Improving WTO performance by revisiting working practices

August 1, 2019 [BBL Seminars]

Bernard HOEKMAN (Professor and Director, Global Economics, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute)

Alberto BAILIN RIVARES's Photo

Like it or not? Online platforms and productivity

July 29, 2019 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Alberto BAILIN RIVARES (Graduate student in International Economic Policy, Sciences Po) / Peter GAL (Senior Economist and Project Manager of the Global Forum on Productivity, OECD) / Valentine MILLOT (Economist, OECD) / Stéphane SORBE (Senior Economist, OECD)

NARITA Yusuke's Photo

"Silver Democracy" as Seen from the Distant Future

July 29, 2019 [Newspapers & Magazines]

NARITA Yusuke (Visiting Fellow, RIETI)

TSURU Kotaro's Photo

Increase the Advantages and Flexibility of Job Relocation!

July 26, 2019 [Newspapers & Magazines]

TSURU Kotaro (Program Director and Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

OSHIO Takashi's Photo

Japan's Social Security & Older Worker Employment – Work Styles of Older Employees from the Perspective of Health & Pension Issues

July 24, 2019 [Newspapers & Magazines]

OSHIO Takashi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Willem THORBECKE's Photo

East Asian Value Chains, Exchange Rates, and Regional Exchange Rate Arrangements

July 23, 2019 [Non Technical Summaries]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

Martin WATZINGER's Photo

Standing on the shoulders of science

July 22, 2019 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Martin WATZINGER (Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, LMU Munich) / Monika SCHNITZER (Chair in Comparative Economics at the University of Munich; CEPR Research Fellow)

Sergi BASCO's Photo

The new globalisation and income inequality

June 27, 2019 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Sergi BASCO (Assistant Professor, Universitat Autònoma Barcelona) / Martí MESTIERI (Assistant Professor, Dpt. of Economics, Northwestern University)

Katerina STROPONIATI's Photo

Blockchain Foundations and Theory to Real Use Cases Explained by Silicon Valley Based Venture Capital Firm

June 13, 2019 [BBL Seminars]

Katerina STROPONIATI (Monday Capital) / Yiannis VARELAS (Monday Capital)

Ramy El-DARDIRY's Photo

Three guiding principles for R&D policies in the digital era

June 13, 2019 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Ramy El-DARDIRY (Researcher, CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis) / Bastiaan OVERVEST (Programme Leader for Innovation and Science, Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis) / Michiel BIJLSMA (Head of department Payment Services at the Dutch Central Bank (DNB))

YOSHIKAWA Hiroshi's Photo

Locating the Source of Growth: New Goods and Services Lead the Way

June 11, 2019 [Newspapers & Magazines]

YOSHIKAWA Hiroshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Jorge L. CONTRERAS's Photo

Why We Need A Global FRAND Rate-setting Tribunal

June 6, 2019 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Jorge L. CONTRERAS (Professor, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law)

KAWASE Tsuyoshi's Photo

Can the WTO Survive? Its Dispute Settlement Function Must Be Restored Urgently

June 6, 2019 [Newspapers & Magazines]

KAWASE Tsuyoshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

KOBAYASHI Keiichiro's Photo

Era of AI and Homo Deus: Strength of the weak

June 5, 2019 [Newspapers & Magazines]

KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Book cover

Changing Japan's Civil Society

May 31, 2019 [RIETI Books (Japanese)]

Edited by USHIRO Fusao, SAKAMOTO Haruya

Robert S. PINDYCK's Photo

Catastrophic Risk and Its Economic Implications

May 30, 2019 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Robert S. PINDYCK (Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Willem THORBECKE

Guest Contribution: "How East Asia Could Confront the Trade Wars"

May 30, 2019 [Policy Update]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

HASHIMOTO Yuki's Photo

Condition for the Use of Foreign Human Resources: Make Skill Assessment Consistent with Japanese Workers

May 24, 2019 [Newspapers & Magazines]

HASHIMOTO Yuki (Fellow, RIETI)

MAKIOKA Ryo's Photo

Are Export Promotion Measures Effective? A survey

May 23, 2019 [Policy Update]

MAKIOKA Ryo (Fellow, RIETI)

TODO Yasuyuki's Photo

Global Value Chains—Greater Diversity of Business Partners Strengthens Network Resilience

May 22, 2019 [Newspapers & Magazines]

TODO Yasuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Hites AHIR's Photo

The global economy hit by higher uncertainty

May 17, 2019 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Hites AHIR (Senior Research Officer, IMF) / Nicholas BLOOM (Professor of Economics at Stanford University) / Davide FURCERI (Deputy Division Chief in the Research Department, IMF)

Willem THORBECKE's Photo

Why Japan Lost Its Comparative Advantage in Producing Electronic Parts and Components

May 16, 2019 [Non Technical Summaries]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

MORIKAWA Masayuki's Photo

Japan's Low Labor Productivity: The gap with the U.S. and complex causes

May 13, 2019 [Newspapers & Magazines]

MORIKAWA Masayuki (Vice President, RIETI)

KOBAYASHI Keiichiro's Photo

Future Design Research: the Issues

May 13, 2019 [Newspapers & Magazines]

KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Willem THORBECKE's Photo

Asian currencies should appreciate together

May 13, 2019 [Newspapers & Magazines]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

Dan ANDREWS's Photo

Zombie firms, weak banks, and depressed restructuring in Europe

May 7, 2019 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Dan ANDREWS (Deputy Head, Structural Policy Analysis Division, OECD Economics Department) / Filippos PETROULAKIS (Economist, ECB)

Garnett PICOT's Photo

Why do STEM immigrants do better in one country than another?
Where STEM immigrants were educated strongly influences their economic success and possibly their impact on innovation

April 22, 2019 [From IZA]

Garnett PICOT (IRPP, and IIRCC) / Feng HOU (Statistics Canada)

ITO Hiroyuki's Photo

Signs of Alarm for the Chinese Economy: Quick-fix response could store up trouble for the future

April 17, 2019 [Newspapers & Magazines]

ITO Hiroyuki (Visiting Fellow, RIETI)

Pablo FAJGELBAUM's Photo

The return to protectionism

April 17, 2019 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Pablo FAJGELBAUM (Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, UCLA) / Pinelopi GOLDBERG (Chief Economist, World Bank Group, and Elihu Professor of Economics, Yale University (on public service leave) ) / Patrick KENNEDY (PhD Candidate in Economics, University of California, Berkeley NSF Graduate Research Fellow) / Amit KHANDELWAL (Professor, Columbia Business School)

Uri DADUSH's Photo

The World Trading System at the Crossroads

April 15, 2019 [BBL Seminars]

Uri DADUSH (Senior Fellow, Policy Center for the New South and Non-Resident Scholar, Bruegel)

Think20 Delivered Policy Proposals for International Trade and Investment

April 10, 2019 [Recent Activities]

MIYAJIMA Hideaki's Photo

Corporate Governance: What Is Lacking—Crucial keys for Improving Performance in the new appointment of "Outside Directors"

April 4, 2019 [Newspapers & Magazines]

MIYAJIMA Hideaki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / SAITO Takuji (Associate Professor, Keio University)

Chi Hung KWAN's Photo

U.S.-China Trade Friction Casting a Shadow over the Chinese Economy—Impact on the supply side becoming a matter of concern

April 2, 2019 [China in Transition]

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