RIETI - Featured (FY2020)

State of Southeast Asia 2021 - Survey on the views and perspectives of opinion-makers, policymakers, and thought-leaders in 10 Southeast Asian countries: Presence of Japan and China in ASEAN

March 18, 2021 [YouTube: rietichannel]

Sharon SEAH LI-LIAN (Coordinator, ASEAN Studies Centre and Coordinator, Climate Change in Southeast Asia) / Malcolm COOK (Visiting Senior Fellow, ASEAN Studies Centre (ISEAS))

The Exposure of French and South Korean Firms to Exchange Rates and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from the Stock Market

March 17, 2021 [Non Technical Summaries]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

: Changing Course: Multilateral Cooperation toward Green Growth and Digital Transformation (CEPR-RIETI Symposium)

March 17, 2021 [YouTube: rietichannel]

Inequality between Long-Term Foreign Residents in Japan and Japanese People: Focusing on the Unemployment Rate

March 16, 2021 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2021 (January 2021)]

LIU Yang (Fellow, RIETI)

Deep-rooted Causes behind the China-U.S. Friction
—Similarities to and Differences from the Japan-U.S. Friction

February 26, 2021 [China in Transition]

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

How Regional Revitalization Should Be Promoted to Overcome the COVID-19 Crisis

February 19, 2021 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2021 (January 2021)]

KONDO Keisuke (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

Highly Uncertain Prospects for the Japanese Economy and Policy Challenges

February 18, 2021 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2021 (January 2021)]

MORIKAWA Masayuki (President, RIETI)

Resolving "Misunderstandings Concerning the Setting of KPIs" as Key to Promoting EBPM

February 17, 2021 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2021 (January 2021)]

KOBAYASHI Yohei (Consulting Fellow, RIETI) / IKEDA Takaaki (Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting Co., Ltd.)

The International Economic Policy Challenges for the Biden Administration

February 17, 2021 [YouTube: rietichannel]

Adam S. POSEN (President, Peterson Institute for International Economics)

The Geo-Political Tensions between the US-China: ASEAN caught in the middle, the future of the Japan and ASEAN cooperation and the prospects of semiconductor supply chains

February 17, 2021 [YouTube: rietichannel]

Ambassador, KAUSIKAN Bilahari (Chairman, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore)

The Japanese Economy in 2021: Invest in People

February 16, 2021 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2021 (January 2021)]

SATO Motohiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

A New Working Style in a Post-COVID-19 Era—Will Working from Home Spread in Japan?

February 12, 2021 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2021 (January 2021)]

KURODA Sachiko (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / OWAN Hideo (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Overcome the Coronavirus Crisis and Seize the Opportunity for Business Succession

February 12, 2021 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2021 (January 2021)]

YAMORI Nobuyoshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Behavioral Change and Design and Symbol Standards

February 5, 2021 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2021 (January 2021)]

TAMURA Suguru (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

Revitalizing Japan by Promoting Tub Bathing and Hot Spring Bathing as Means of Stress Relief and Preventive Medicine

February 1, 2021 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2021 (January 2021)]

SEKIGUCHI Yoichi (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

Going Digital: Implications of the COVID-19 crisis on digital transformation

February 1, 2021 [YouTube: rietichannel]

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

Human capital in OECD countries: A new measure and its policy drivers

February 1, 2021 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Jarmila BOTEV (Economist, OECD) / Balázs ÉGERT (Senior Economist, OECD) / Zuzana SMIDOVA (Economist, OECD) / David TURNER (Head, Macroeconomic Analysis Division, OECD)

Overview of the new EBPM program in RIETI’s Fifth Medium-Term Plan Policy Evaluation Program: Evidence-Based Policy Making

January 26, 2021 [Policy Update]

KAWAGUCHI Daiji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Characteristics of Firms Transmitting Data across Borders: Evidence from Japanese firm-level data

January 26, 2021 [Non Technical Summaries]

TOMIURA Eiichi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / ITO Banri (Research Associate, RIETI) / KANG Byeongwoo (Hitotsubashi University)

Resolving ESG Challenges Unique to Japan
—Proposal for a "Trinity" Model of Management

January 25, 2021 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2021 (January 2021)]

NAKAGAMI Yasunori (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

Ｈow Will Covid-19 Reshape Cities in Japan?

January 22, 2021 [Newspapers & Magazines]

KONDO Keisuke (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

Getting America back in the Game: A Multilateral Perspective

January 20, 2021 [Policy Update]

WATANABE Tetsuya (Vice President, RIETI)

Don't Forget Lessons of the ‘Great Inflation’ Decade

January 18, 2021 [Newspapers & Magazines]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

Help Americans to quit jobs in zombie companies

January 18, 2021 [Newspapers & Magazines]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

Is Japan the least attractive country?

January 18, 2021 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2021 (January 2021)]

KIYOTA Kozo (Research Associate, RIETI)

The political cost of reforms

January 15, 2021 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Chris PAPAGEORGIOU (Chief of the Development Macroeconomics Division in the Research Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF))

Will the Arrival of a Biden Administration Lead to a Better U.S.-China Relationship?
—Toward Cooperative Rivalry

January 13, 2021 [China in Transition]

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

"Dual Circulation" as China's New Development Strategy
—Toward a Virtuous Cycle between Domestic and International Circulations

January 13, 2021 [China in Transition]

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

How the Coronavirus Crisis is Affecting the Korean Economy: Evidence from the Stock Market

January 12, 2021 [Non Technical Summaries]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

: RIETI and the Graduate School of Medicine at Kyoto University Initiated International Collaborative Research on COVID-19
—The World's First Large-scale Epidemiological Study Combining Medical and Social Sciences

January 6, 2021 [Recent Activities]

Changing Relationship between a Company and an Individual due to the Crisis

January 4, 2021 [Newspapers & Magazines]

OWAN Hideo (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Japanese Companies Remaining in Long-term Stagnation Conditions for Post-COVID-19 Recovery

December 21, 2020 [Newspapers & Magazines]

HOSONO Kaoru (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Globalisation and pandemics

December 14, 2020 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Pol ANTRÀS (Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University) / Stephen REDDING (Harold T. Shapiro Professor in Economics, Economics Department and School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University; CEPR Research Fellow; NBER ITI Program Director) / Esteban ROSSI-HANSBERG (Theodore A. Wells '29 Professor of Economics, Princeton University)

: RIETI Visiting Fellow Professor Kazuo YAMAGUCHI was selected as the Person of Cultural Merit

December 10, 2020 [Recent Activities]

Establish Numerical Targets in Tackling COVID-19

December 8, 2020 [Newspapers & Magazines]

KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Keen Eyes for Economic Trends: Why the Special Account for Post-COVID-19 Crisis Reconstruction should be Made

December 1, 2020 [Newspapers & Magazines]

SATO Motohiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Expansion of PCR Testing Is the Key to an Exit Strategy, But Which Is More Important – Sensitivity or Frequency of Tests?

November 26, 2020 [Newspapers & Magazines]

OGURO Kazumasa (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

Product Complexity, Exports, and Exchange Rates: Evidence from the Japanese Chemical Industry

November 20, 2020 [Non Technical Summaries]

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

The Geo-Political Tensions between the US-China: ASEAN caught in the middle, the future of the Japan and ASEAN cooperation and the prospects of semiconductor supply chains

November 16, 2020 [Symposiums]

Transforming the three C's into Urban Advantages: Population concentration and infection risks

November 11, 2020 [Newspapers & Magazines]

FUJITA Masahisa (Adjunct Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University) / HAMAGUCHI Nobuaki (Program director / Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Large-Scale Disaster Risk and Regional Companies' Business Continuity Plans—Enhancement of SMEs' Resilience and Support by Regional Financial Institutions

November 9, 2020 [RIETI Books (Japanese)]

Written and edited by YAMORI Nobuyoshi, HAMAGUCHI Nobuaki, NODA Kentaro

Economics of the COVID-19 crisis - Proposals and analyses

November 9, 2020 [RIETI Books (Japanese)]

Written and edited by KOBAYASHI Keiichiro, MORIKAWA Masayuki

People are reborn - Living post COVID-19 with the mindset of the Jomon people

November 9, 2020 [RIETI Books (Japanese)]

Written by FUJI Kazuhiko

Sports at the vanguard of labor market policy
Lessons from sports can allow managers to develop better policies at "normal" workplaces

October 30, 2020 [From IZA]

Kerry L. PAPPS (University of Bath, UK, and IZA)

The US excess mortality rate from COVID-19 is substantially worse than Europe's

October 29, 2020 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Janine ARON (Senior Research Fellow, Institute for New Economic Thinking; Associate Member, Nuffield College; Member of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford) / John MUELLBAUER (Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield College; Professor of Economics, Oxford University; Senior Fellow, Institute for New Economic Thinking)

U.S.-China Confrontation Intensifying on All Fronts amid COVID-19
—Would Tensions Ease after U.S. Presidential Election?

October 27, 2020 [China in Transition]

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

We Must Identify Key Skills in the Era of AI

October 21, 2020 [Newspapers & Magazines]

TSURU Kotaro (Program Director and Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Export trade fairs and Coronavirus

October 13, 2020 [Policy Update]

MAKIOKA Ryo (Fellow (Policy Economist), RIETI)

The Relationship between Product Complexity and Exchange Rate Elasticities: Evidence from the People's Republic of China's Manufacturing Industries

October 1, 2020 [Non Technical Summaries]

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

Designing Regulatory and Institutional Systems through Public-Private Cooperation—Industrial Policy for the 21st Century

September 28, 2020 [Newspapers & Magazines]

OHASHI Hiroshi (Program director / Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

The potential for teleworking in Europe and the risk of a new digital divide

September 11, 2020 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Santo MILASI (Economist, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission) / Martina BISELLO (Research Officer, Eurofound) / John HURLEY (Senior Research Manager, Eurofound) / Matteo SOSTERO (Researcher, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission) / Enrique FERNÁNDEZ-MACÍAS (Researcher, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission)

Digital Transformation of SMEs in Japan

September 2, 2020 [Policy Update]

IWAMOTO Koichi (Research Associate, RIETI)

The Pressing Need for Introduction of a Monetary Solution for Employee Dismissal: Argument for Japanese Employment Reform

August 21, 2020 [Newspapers & Magazines]

KAWAGUCHI Daiji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the U.S. Economy: Evidence from the Stock Market

August 19, 2020 [Non Technical Summaries]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

Unmasked! The effect of face masks on the spread of COVID-19

August 6, 2020 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Timo MITZE (Associate Professor, University of Southern Denmark) / Reinhold KOSFELD (Associate Professor and Head of Statistics, University of Kassel) / Johannes RODE (Postdoc, TU Darmstadt) / Klaus WÄLDE (Professor of Economics, Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz)

Structural changes in industries and the reduction of inequality: The world after coronavirus

August 4, 2020 [Newspapers & Magazines]

KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Twenty-First Century Industrial Policy Emphasizing Framework Design and Encouraging Competition

August 3, 2020 [Newspapers & Magazines]

OKAZAKI Tetsuji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Introduction of teleworking and corporate value during the coronavirus crisis

July 29, 2020 [Policy Update]

IKEUCHI Kenta (Fellow (Policy Economist), RIETI)

Fiscal Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis in Japan: The First Six Months

July 21, 2020 [Policy Discussion Papers (English)]

ANDO Michihito (Rikkyo University) / FURUKAWA Chishio (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) / NAKATA Daigo (Senior Fellow, RIETI) / SUMIYA Kazuhiko (Fellow (Policy Economist), RIETI)

Fact-checking reduces the propagation of false news in social networks

July 10, 2020 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Emeric HENRY (Associate Professor of Economics, Sciences Po) / Ekaterina ZHURAVSKAYA (Professor of Economics, Paris School of Economics (EHESS); CEPR Research Fellow) / Sergei GURIEV (Professor of Economics, Sciences Po Paris; CEPR Research Fellow)

Essential workers' voices and their loyalty in the Covid-19 pandemic: Expectations for a transformation of the Japanese Employment System

July 7, 2020 [Policy Update]

HASHIMOTO Yuki (Fellow , RIETI)

Digital transformation of the small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises after the novel coronavirus COVID-19

July 6, 2020 [Policy Update]

IWAMOTO Koichi (Research Associate, RIETI)

COVID-induced economic uncertainty and its consequences

June 25, 2020 [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) / Stephen TERRY (Assistant Professor of Economics, Boston University)

How the Coronavirus Crisis Affected Japanese Industries: Evidence from the Stock Market

June 24, 2020 [Non Technical Summaries]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

The WTO's Appellate Body Crisis and Roles to Be Played by Japan

June 23, 2020 [Policy Update]

KAWASE Tsuyoshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Drug Repurposing for COVID-19: Exploiting Opportunities

June 17, 2020 [Policy Update]

NAGAOKA Sadao (Program Director / Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Pandemics and the labor market—Then and now

June 15, 2020 [From IZA]

Karen CLAY (Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy)

COVID-19: Governments must avoid creating additional uncertainty

June 12, 2020 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Henrik MÜLLER (Professor of Economic Policy Journalism, TU Dortmund University)

Blockchain and Crypto Currency

June 3, 2020 [RIETI Books (English)]

Edited by YANO Makoto, Chris DAI, Masuda Kenichi, KISHIMOTO Yoshio

Progress of Digital Trade & the Current Status of Rule-Making

May 26, 2020 [Newspapers & Magazines]

ISHIKAWA Jota (Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University)

What changes will COVID-19 bring to the Korean economy?

May 25, 2020 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Ji-Sang CHANG (President, Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade)

New Public Services Created by Diversity & Connections: Possibilities for Applications of New Technologies

May 25, 2020 [Newspapers & Magazines]

OGURO Kazumasa (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

Migration of System Operation to a Public Organization: Issues in the separation of electric power generation and supply

May 22, 2020 [Newspapers & Magazines]

ITO Koichiro (Visiting Fellow, RIETI)

Impact of Covid-19 on Taiwan’s Economy and Industry

May 22, 2020 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Chien-Yi CHANG (President, Taiwan Institute of Economic Research)

Coping with COVID-19
—A new challenge for the Chinese economy

May 15, 2020 [China in Transition]

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

China Aiming to Issue a Central Bank Digital Currency
—Expected Macro-Level Effects

May 13, 2020 [China in Transition]

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

A Fourth-tier Supplier May Be a Critical Part of the Supply Chain

May 8, 2020 [Newspapers & Magazines]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

Political risk and exchange rates: The lessons of Brexit

May 8, 2020 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Paolo MANASSE (Professor of Macroeconomics and International Economic Policy, University of Bologna) / Graziano MORAMARCO (PhD in Economics, University of Bologna) / Giulio TRIGILIA (Assistant Professor, Simon Business School, University of Rochester)

Government as Investor to Individuals : Lessons from Australian "Income-Contingent Loans"

April 27, 2020 [Policy Update]

ARMSTRONG, Shiro (Visiting Scholar, RIETI)

Collective Action in a Fragmented World

April 23, 2020 [BBL Seminars]

Jean PISANI-FERRY (Visiting Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics / Sciences Po, Paris / EUI, Florence / Bruegel, Brussels / Hertie School of Governance, Berlin)

Phase One of the US-China Economic and Trade Agreement Realized Through Chinese Concessions
—Expanding Imports into China from the US Alone Will Not End the Trade War

April 20, 2020 [China in Transition]

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

Justice and transparency are prerequisites for rational decision-making in governance, but these prerequisites are fading and must be restored

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

YAMAGUCHI Kazuo (Visiting Fellow, RIETI)