RIETI - Featured (FY2021)

Indonesia’s G20 needs to secure open trade for recovery from crisis and conflict

March 31, 2022 [East Asian Economic Strategies]

ARMSTRONG, Shiro (Visiting Fellow) / Yose Rizal DAMURI (Center for Strategic and International Studies, Jakarta)

: Senior Research Advisor TAKEDA Haruhito was awarded the Japan Academy Prize

March 30, 2022 [Recent Activities]

Exploring the New Capitalism (Handouts and Video)

March 29, 2022 [Symposiums]

EBPM Also for Climate Change Countermeasures

March 28, 2022 [Policy Update]

ARIMURA Toshi H. (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

APEC: Driving Asia-Pacific's inclusive and sustainable growth (Handouts and Video)

March 22, 2022 [Symposiums]

Establishing EBPM in Japan – The benefits of using nudges

March 18, 2022 [Policy Update]

OHTAKE Fumio (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

The Implication of Ukraine Crisis on Energy and Climate (Video)

March 16, 2022 [Policy Update]

Sir Dieter HELM (Professor of Economic Policy, University of Oxford) / ARIMA Jun (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Graduate School of Public Policies, University of Tokyo) / WATANABE Tetsuya (Vice President, RIETI)

Indonesia and Vietnam in Global Supply Chains and the Age of COVID: A Tale of Two Countries

March 16, 2022 [Non Technical Summaries]

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

Immigration and the care of America’s older population

March 11, 2022 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Kristin BUTCHER (Director, Center on Children and Families, Brookings; Professor of Economics, Wellesley College) / Kelsey MORAN (Economics PhD Candidate, MIT) / Tara WATSON (Professor of Economics at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts)

China's Economy to Slow Down in 2022
—The Prospects of the Housing Market and COVID Control in the Spotlight

March 10, 2022 [China in Transition]

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

China Aims for "Common Prosperity"
—Increasing rural incomes and secondary distribution reform as the key

March 8, 2022 [China in Transition]

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

Artificial Intelligence and Society: Philosophy of Fallibility
Part 4: Virtue Cannot Exist Independently from Justice

February 28, 2022 [Artificial Intelligence and Society: Philosophy of Fallibility]

KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

CPTPP and Beyond: Multilateralism in an era of great power strategic competition (Handouts and Video)

February 22, 2022 [Symposiums]

Comparing online to in-person meetings

February 10, 2022 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Shivani TANEJA (Research Fellow, School of Economics, University of Nottingham) / Paul MIZEN (Professor of Monetary Economics and Director of the Centre for Finance, Credit and Macroeconomics) / Nicholas BLOOM (Professor of Economics at Stanford University)

Preserving open economic security policies in Asia with great power competition

February 7, 2022 [East Asian Economic Strategies]

ARMSTRONG, Shiro (Visiting Fellow)

Meet Our Fellows #3 Makoto Yano

February 1, 2022 [YouTube: rietichannel]

YANO Makoto (Chairman, RIETI)

Alone and lonely: The economic cost of solitude

January 28, 2022 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Chiara BURLINA (Assistant Professor of Applied Economics, University of Padova) / Andrés RODRÍGUEZ-POSE (Princesa de Asturias Chair and Professor of Economic Geography, London School of Economics; Research Fellow, CEPR)

Investigating How Exchange Rates Affected the Japanese Economy after the Advent of Abenomics

January 27, 2022 [Non Technical Summaries]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

Japanese LLCs Have Finally Become Ubiquitous

January 21, 2022 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2022 (January 2022)]

HONJO Yuji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Artificial Intelligence and Society: Philosophy of Fallibility
Part 3: Challenges Faced by Liberal Political Philosophy—Rawlsian Political Philosophy

January 20, 2022 [Artificial Intelligence and Society: Philosophy of Fallibility]

KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Economic Sanctions as a Tool of Economic Statecraft: Importance of Collaboration across the Boundaries of Competent Authorities and Industries

January 18, 2022 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2022 (January 2022)]

TAKEUCHI Maiko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

Narrative Economics, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Spiritual Teaching

January 18, 2022 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2022 (January 2022)]

SEKIZAWA Yoichi (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

Biden's First Year: the International and Domestic Implications for 2022 (Handout and Video)

January 17, 2022 [Symposiums]

Tightening Regulation of Private Enterprises in China
—Focusing on the Cases of Ant Group and Didi

January 17, 2022 [China in Transition]

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

Looking to the Next Two Decades of APEC

January 14, 2022 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2022 (January 2022)]

HATTORI Takashi (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

Addressing the Year2040 and Year 2054 Problems

January 13, 2022 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2022 (January 2022)]

OGURO Kazumasa (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

Meet Our Fellows #2 Sagiri Kitao

January 12, 2022 [YouTube: rietichannel]

KITAO Sagiri (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

: RIETI Vice President WATANABE Tetsuya will speak at the "RCEP: Looking Beyond Ratification" Webinar hosted by Asia House

January 12, 2022 [Recent Activities]

RIETI Approach to COVID-19

January 6, 2022 [Priorities for the Japanese Economy in 2022 (January 2022)]

MORIKAWA Masayuki (President, RIETI)

Discussions at "Japan's Climate and Energy Security Strategy" Virtual Workshop

December 28, 2021 [Policy Update]

TANABE Yasuo (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

Gender differences in competitiveness
To what extent can different attitudes toward competition for men and women explain the gender gap in labor markets?

December 24, 2021 [From IZA]

Mario LACKNER (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)

Developing economy debt after the pandemic

December 22, 2021 [Perspectives from Around the World]

M. Ayhan KOSE (Chief Economist of EFI and Director of Prospects Group, World Bank) / Franziska OHNSORGE (Manager of the Prospects Group in the Equitable Growth, Finance, and Institutions Vice Presidency of the World Bank) / Carmen REINHART (Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System, Harvard Kennedy School) / Kenneth ROGOFF (Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Harvard)

The Quad's Geo-Economic and Geostrategic Implications

December 20, 2021 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Brahma CHELLANEY (Center for Policy Research)

: RIETI Chairman YANO Makoto Elected as a New Member of the Japan Academy

December 15, 2021 [Recent Activities]

Productivity of Working from Home during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Panel Data Analysis

December 15, 2021 [Non Technical Summaries]

MORIKAWA Masayuki (President, RIETI)

Are Applying for and Receiving Subsidies Worth it for Small Enterprises? Evidence from the Government Support Program in Japan

December 13, 2021 [Non Technical Summaries]

HASHIMOTO Yuki (Fellow (Policy Economist), RIETI) / Takahashi Kohei (Waseda University)

Artificial Intelligence and Society: Philosophy of Fallibility
Part 2: Dystopian Outlook on AI

December 10, 2021 [Artificial Intelligence and Society: Philosophy of Fallibility]

KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Impact of Cash Transfers on Consumption during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Japanese Special Cash Payments

December 8, 2021 [Non Technical Summaries]

HATTORI Takahiro (University of Tokyo) / KOMURA Norihiro (Kyoto University) / UNAYAMA Takashi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Meet Our Fellows #1 Willem Thorbecke

December 7, 2021 [YouTube: rietichannel]

THORBECKE, Willem (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

The Impact of COVID-19 on Japanese Firms: Mobility and Resilience via Remote Work

December 7, 2021 [Non Technical Summaries]

KAWAGUCHI Daiji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / KITAO Sagiri (Senior Fellow, RIETI) / NOSE Manabu (International Monetary Fund / University of Tokyo)

East Asian and European Firms: Comrades or Competitors

December 6, 2021 [Non Technical Summaries]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

Socio-Life Science and the COVID-19 Outbreak

December 3, 2021 [RIETI Books (English)]

Edited by YANO Makoto, MATSUDA Fumihiko, Anavaj SAKUNTABHAI, HIROTA Shigeru

: RIETI Faculty Fellow UNAYAMA Takashi received 2021 NTJ Richard Musgrave Prize

December 2, 2021 [Recent Activities]

Expectations data indicate the US is entering recession about now

November 22, 2021 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Alex BRYSON (Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Social Research Institute, UCL) / David BLANCHFLOWER (Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College)

: RIETI Vice President WATANABE Tetsuya will speak at the 1st Asia-Europe Economic and Business Forum (AEEBF1)

November 17, 2021 [Recent Activities]

Artificial Intelligence and Society: Philosophy of Fallibility
Part 1: A "new cognitive structure" as a rational expectations equilibrium

November 9, 2021 [Artificial Intelligence and Society: Philosophy of Fallibility]

KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Is the Future Regional?

November 4, 2021 [Workshop]

Martin Sandbu (European Economics Commentator, Financial Times) / James Crabtree (Executive Director, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), Asia) / Wendy Cutler (Vice President, Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)) / Rem Korteweg (Senior Research Fellow, Clingendael Institute)

: RIETI Program Director OHASHI Hiroshi's book was awarded the 64th Nikkei Prize for Excellent Books in Economic Science

November 4, 2021 [Recent Activities]

Spatial Economics for Building Back Better

November 2, 2021 [RIETI Books (English)]

Written by FUJITA Masahisa, HAMAGUCHI Nobuaki, KAMEYAMA Yoshihiro

Is Trade Working for All?

November 2, 2021 [Workshop]

Cecilia Malmström (Nonresident Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics; Former European Commissioner for Trade (2014 to 2019)) / Marion Jansen (Director of the Trade and Agriculture Directorate, OECD) / Marie Kasperek (Executive Director, Institute of International Economic Law, Georgetown Law)

US - China Relations: When Decoupling Meets Dual Circulation

November 2, 2021 [Workshop]

Alicia García Herrero (Senior Fellow, Bruegel) / Stephanie Segal (Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic & International Studies) / Rem Korteweg (Senior Research Fellow, Clingendael Institute)

Service Sector Productivity and the Japanese Economy: Empirical Analysis Based on the JIP Database and Its Policy Implications

October 29, 2021 [RIETI Books (Japanese)]

Edited by FUKAO Kyoji

: RIETI Vice President WATANABE Tetsuya will speak at the ‘Global trade’ conference 2021 hosted by the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House)

October 25, 2021 [Recent Activities]

Business Reinvention of Japan and DX: Challenges and opportunities (Handouts and Video)

October 22, 2021 [Symposiums]

Trade Integration and the Americas

October 20, 2021 [Workshop]

Shannon K. O'Neil (Vice President, Deputy Director of Studies, and Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations) / Alvaro Santos (Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Center for the Advancement of the Rule of Law in the Americas, Georgetown Law) / Steve Liston (Senior Director, Council of the Americas) / Rem Korteweg (Senior Research Fellow, Clingendael Institute)

(Successful) democracies breed their own support

October 18, 2021 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Daron ACEMOĞLU (Professor of Applied Economics, MIT) / Nicolas AJZENMAN (Assistant Professor of Economics, Sao Paulo School of Economics-FGV and Research Affiliate, IZA.) / Cevat Giray AKSOY (Principal Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development & Assistant Prof. of Economics at King's College London & Research Associate at IZA) / Martin FISZBEIN (Assistant Professor of Economics, Boston University) / Carlos MOLINA (PhD candidate in Economics, MIT)

China Aims for Carbon Neutrality
—Decarbonization of Energy and Industrial Structures is the Key

October 6, 2021 [China in Transition]

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

Early-life medical care and human capital accumulation
Medical care and public health interventions in early childhood may improve human capital accumulation as well as child health

October 1, 2021 [From IZA]

N. Meltem DAYSAL (University of Copenhagen and CEBI, Denmark, and IZA) / Jonas Cuzulan HIRANI (The Danish Center for Social Science Research (VIVE), Denmark)

Foreign Exchange Risk Management of Japanese Firms: Rationality, Strategy, and Currency Choice Puzzles

October 1, 2021 [RIETI Books (Japanese)]

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

Global weather disruptions, food commodity prices, and economic activity: A global warning for advanced countries

September 27, 2021 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Jasmien De WINNE (Head of Cooperation, Embassy of Belgium in Tanzania Affiliate Researcher, Department of Economics, Ghent University) / Gert PEERSMAN (Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, Ghent University)

The Semiconductor Industry in the Age of Trade Wars, Covid-19, and Strategic Rivalries

September 22, 2021 [Non Technical Summaries]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

Scale of Imports of COVID-19 Vaccines from Spain

September 16, 2021 [Policy Update]

TANAKA Ayumu (Research Associate, RIETI)

How to Encourage Risk-taking—An Approach Focusing on the Debt Side, Particularly Corporate Pensions

September 15, 2021 [Policy Update]

NOMA Mikiharu (Professor, School of Business Administration, Hitotsubashi University) / NAKAGAMI Yasunori (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

Economic Security Policy as Growth Strategy and Recent Developments in Trade Rules (Handouts and Video)

September 15, 2021 [Symposiums]

Development of International Rules for Digital Economy: Japan and Australia Should Take the Initiative and Encourage Involvement of the U.S. and China

September 10, 2021 [Newspapers & Magazines]

WATANABE Tetsuya (Vice President, RIETI) / ARMSTRONG, Shiro (Visiting Fellow, RIETI)

Benefit-Risk Analysis of COVID-19 Vaccination at the Individual Level

September 2, 2021 [Policy Update]

YOSHIDA Yasuhiko (Vice Chairman, RIETI)

Digital Transformation: Standards, Taxation, and Global Governance

September 1, 2021 [Workshop]

Chris Southworth (Secretary General, International Chamber of Commerce, UK) / Kelly Ann Shaw (Partner, Hogan Lovells) / Erik van der Marel (Senior Economist, European Centre for International Political Economy) / Rem Korteweg (Senior Research Fellow, Clingendael Institute)

Gaining Ground: Markets Helping Government

August 27, 2021 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Clifford WINSTON (Brookings Institution)

The tortoise and the hare: The race between vaccine rollout and new COVID variants

August 17, 2021 [Perspectives from Around the World]

David TURNER (Head, Macroeconomic Analysis Division, OECD) / Balázs ÉGERT (Senior Economist, OECD) / Yvan GUILLEMETTE (Deputy Head, Macroeconomic Analysis Division, OECD Economics Department) / Jarmila BOTEV (Economist, OECD)

Climate and Trade: on the road to COP26

August 17, 2021 [Workshop]

Christian Bluth (Senior Expert, Bertelsmann Stiftung) / Emily Lydgate (Senior Lecturer in Environmental Law, University of Sussex) / Rem Korteweg (Senior Research Fellow, Clingendael Institute)

Is AI Regulation Premature? "AI Ethics as Seen through the Draft EU Regulation"

August 3, 2021 [Policy Update]

KAWASHIMA Yusaku (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

: The Purpose of the Corporation and How to Realize its Purpose (RIETI-ECGI-WBF Webinar Series)

August 2, 2021 [YouTube: rietichannel]

Challenges for the Chinese Economy as Viewed through the 2020 Population Census
—Focusing on a Declining Labor Force and Inter-Regional Migration

July 20, 2021 [China in Transition]

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

After the pandemic: trade, health and protectionism

July 16, 2021 [Workshop]

Mary E. Lovely (Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics) / John W.H. Denton AO (Secretary General of the International Chamber of Commerce) / Rem Korteweg (Senior Research Fellow, Clingendael Institute)

Toward Creating More Innovation from Japan—Trinity Model of Management at GAFAM

July 15, 2021 [Policy Update]

NAKAGAMI Yasunori (Consulting Fellow, RIETI) / ABE Naohiko (Managing Partner, Pay Governance Japan)

Understanding the Transmission of COVID-19 News to French Financial Markets

July 2, 2021 [Non Technical Summaries]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

Trade and the Indo-Pacific: CPTPP, BRI & RCEP

June 28, 2021 [Symposiums]

Vasuki Shastry (Associate Fellow, Asia Pacific Programme, Chatham House) / Deborah Elms (Founder and Executive Director of the Asian Trade Centre) / Tetsuya Watanabe (Vice President, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI)) / Rem Korteweg (Senior Research Fellow, Clingendael Institute)

Do Japanese Expatriates Matter for Foreign Subsidiary Performance? A Role-Based Analysis of Three-Wave Panel Data

June 25, 2021 [Non Technical Summaries]

Jesper EDMAN (Waseda University) / Riki TAKEUCHI (Naveen Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas)

Income inequality and social origins
Promoting intergenerational mobility makes societies more egalitarian

June 18, 2021 [From IZA]

Lorenzo CAPPELLARI (Università Cattolica Milano, Italy, and IZA)

How Tariffs Affect China's Exports

June 14, 2021 [Policy Update]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

The Price Surge in the Japanese Wholesale Electricity Market in January and the Lessons for Market Design

June 8, 2021 [Policy Update]

ITO Koichiro (Visiting Fellow, RIETI)

Why rich parents have rich children

June 4, 2021 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Sreevidya AYYAR (Research Assistant, University College London) / Uta BOLT (PhD candidate, University College London) / Eric FRENCH (Professor of Economics, University College London; Co-Director, the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP) at IFS; Fellow, CEPR) / Jamie Hentall MAcCUISH (PhD researcher, University College London) / Cormac O'DEA (Assistant Professor in Economics, Yale University)

: Ownership of the New Corporation: the Role of Activist Funds (RIETI-ECGI-WBF Webinar Series)

May 27, 2021 [YouTube: rietichannel]

Where next for the World Trade Organization and Global Trade Rules?

May 26, 2021 [Symposiums]

Ignacio Garcia Bercero (Director, Directorate General for Trade of the European Commission) / Jennifer Hillman (Professor from Practice, Georgetown Law, Institute of International Economic Law; Former Member, WTO Appellate Body) / Tetsuya Watanabe (Vice President, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI))