RIETI - Featured (FY2024)

Challenges in Improving Productivity in the Service Industry

March 31, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

MORIKAWA Masayuki (Distinguished Senior Fellow (specially appointed), RIETI)

Alternative for the Centrist —Exchange of Views with Prof. Dr. Karl-Rudolf Korte on the Results of the German Federal Election—

March 25, 2025 [Policy Update]

SAKAMOTO Masazumi (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

Japan’s Outdated Policies Must be Abandoned to Thrive

March 21, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

KITAO Sagiri (Senior Fellow (Specially Appointed), RIETI)

Happiness, reference dependence, and motivated beliefs in US presidential elections

March 21, 2025 [VoxEU Column]

Miles KIMBALL (Professor of Economics and Survey Research at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) / Collin RAYMOND (Associate Professor, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business at Cornell University) / ZHOU Jiannan (Assistant professor at Shandong University) / ZHOU Junya (Assistant professor at the Naveen Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas) / OHTAKE Fumio (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / TSUTSUI Yoshiro (Professor of Economics at Kobe International University)

U.S.-China High Tech Friction and Japan’s Response: Implications from comparison of innovation processes in Japan, the United States, and China

March 21, 2025 [Policy Update]

MOTOHASHI Kazuyuki (Faculty fellow, RIETI)

New developments in total factor productivity measurement reflecting innovative activities: Evidence from the productivity J-curve in advanced countries

March 12, 2025 [VoxEU Column]

Ahmed BOUNFOUR (Professor of Management at Paris-Saclay University) / EDAMURA Kazuma (Research Fellow at National Institute of Science and Technology Policy) / ISHIKAWA Takayuki (Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics at Rissho University) / MIYAGAWA Tsutomu (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / Alberto NONNIS (Postdoctoral researcher at Université Paris-Saclay (France) - RITM laboratory) / TONOGI Konomi (Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics/Department of Contemporary Business at Kanagawa University)

The case for management managing ownership

March 11, 2025 [VoxEU Column]

Julian FRANKS (Professor of Finance at London Business School) / Colin MAYER (Emeritus Professor of Management Studies, Saïd Business School and Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford at University Of Oxford) / MIYAJIMA Hideaki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / OGAWA Ryo (Lecturer in Corporate Finance and Governance at Chiba University of Commerce)

The bazooka diplomacy of Trump’s tariffs

March 3, 2025 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Michael GASIOREK (Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy at University of Sussex) / Nicolo TAMBERI (Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy at University of Sussex)

Financial intermediation and zombie firms: Theory and evidence

March 3, 2025 [VoxEU Column]

HAMANO Masashige (Professor, School of Political Science at Waseda University) / Philip SCHNATTINGER (Researcher at Bank of England) / SHINTANI Mototsugu (Professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo) / UESUGI Iichiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / Francesco ZANETTI (Professor at the University of Oxford, and David Richards Fellow at Wadham College at University Of Oxford)

Making Australia a partner in the ‘Global ASEAN’ vision

March 3, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

ARMSTRONG, Shiro (Non-Resident Fellow, RIETI) / Peter DRYSDALE (Australian National University)

Perspective on Raising Minimum Wage: Costs should be widely shared

February 26, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

KODAMA Naomi (Research Associate, RIETI)

Strong reactions to a weak yen shake Japan’s economy

February 26, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

The 2% Price Stability Goal Was Too Challenging

February 26, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

TSURU Kotaro (Program Director and Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Economic Insight: Is Japan’s 1.03-million-wall real?

February 25, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

SATO Motohiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Trump 2.0 and Trade: Investment in the U.S. should be based on intellectual cooperation

February 25, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

TODO Yasuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Trump’s trade madness risks global depression if retaliation’s not measured

February 21, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

ARMSTRONG, Shiro (Non-Resident Fellow, RIETI) / Tom WESTLAND (Wageningen University)

Trump 2.0 and Trade: Don’t be swayed by tariff hikes

February 21, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

JINJI Naoto (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Impending Changes in the U.S.-China Relationship and Regional Implications (Video)

February 18, 2025 [Symposiums]

US export controls and the restructuring of global value chains: An analysis of Japanese multinationals’ exits from China

February 17, 2025 [VoxEU Column]

FUKAO Kyoji (Chairman, RIETI) / Ivan DESEATNICOV (Assistant Professor, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University)

Outlook for China Policy in the Trump Administration's Second Term
- Concerns over accelerating U.S.-China decoupling -

February 7, 2025 [China in Transition]

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

Japan and the EU Need to Work Together to Present a Circular Economy Model to the World

February 6, 2025 [Column]

TANABE Yasuo (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

Fiscal Uncertainty Holding Back Income Growth

February 5, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

MORIKAWA Masayuki (Distinguished Senior Fellow (specially appointed), RIETI)

Weaponised Economics and Restoring Economics in the Global Order (Handout and Video)

February 4, 2025 [Symposiums]

Tariffs are coming: How trade dynamics will shape aggregate demand and inflation

February 4, 2025 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Diego COMIN (Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College) / Robert JOHNSON (Brian and Jeannelle Brady Associate Professor at University Of Notre Dame)

The Diminishing Impact of Exchange Rates on China’s Exports

January 31, 2025 [Non Technical Summaries]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI) / CHEN Chen (Fuzhou University of International Studies and Trade) / Nimesh SALIKE (International Business School Suzhou)

Strategic Scenario Analysis for Economic Security: Enhancing corporate resilience through tabletop exercises (TTXs) (Handout and Video)

January 29, 2025 [Symposiums]

How Will Trump's Comeback Affect Global Trade?

January 27, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

MATSUURA Toshiyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Uncertainty and Japan’s Economy: Measurement, impact, and responses

January 23, 2025 [RIETI Books (Japanese)]

Written by MORIKAWA Masayuki

Generative AI and Knowledge Creation: New management issues revealed by the Survey on Standardization Activities (2021)

January 15, 2025 [Column]

TAMURA Suguru (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

The impact of artificial intelligence on macroeconomic productivity

January 14, 2025 [VoxEU Column]

MORIKAWA Masayuki (Distinguished Senior Fellow (specially appointed), RIETI)

The Role of Institutions in China's Economic Development
- Inspired by the discussion in Why Nations Fail? -

January 9, 2025 [China in Transition]

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

Suggestions for Developing Healthcare and Nursing Care Systems in Post-2025 Society

January 8, 2025 [Column]

AOYAMA Tatsufumi (Consulting fellow, RIETI)

Keys to Successful Regional Revitalization 2.0

January 8, 2025 [Column]

OGURO Kazumasa (Consulting fellow, RIETI)

The effects of minimum wages on youth employment, unemployment, and income
Minimum wages reduce entry-level jobs, training, and lifetime income

January 7, 2025 [From IZA]

Charlene Marie KALENKOSKI (James Madison University, USA, and IZA, Germany)

Leveraging AI to navigate ‘deglobalisation’

January 7, 2025 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Thiemo FETZER (Affiliate, Professor of Economics at University Of Bonn, Theme Leader for Globalisation and Global Crises, Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE); Professor of Economics at University Of Warwick) / Peter LAMBERT (PhD candidate in Economics at London School Of Economics And Political Science) / Bennet FELD (MRes/PhD student in the Department of Economics at the London School of Economics) / Prashant GARG (PhD student at Imperial College London)

Economic Security in Japan: Evolution, context and emerging questions

December 24, 2024 [Non Technical Summaries]

Shiro ARMSTRONG (Non-Resident Fellow, RIETI)

Restructuring of Global Values Chains: An analysis of Japanese multinationals’ exits from China

December 23, 2024 [Non Technical Summaries]

Ivan DESEATNICOV (HSE University) / FUKAO Kyoji (Chairman, RIETI)

The Unexpected Consequences of GenAI for Globalization (Handout and Video)

December 20, 2024 [Symposiums]

Challenges in Taxing Financial Income: The need to devise a method while not hindering economic activity

December 19, 2024 [Newspapers & Magazines]

SATO Motohiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

The Diminishing Impact of Exchange Rates on China’s Exports

December 19, 2024 [Policy Update]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

: RIETI Faculty Fellow KONDO Ayako Wins Prestigious Jiro Enjoji Memorial Prize

December 16, 2024 [Recent Activities]

The Future of the Information Industry and Japan’s Strengths

December 16, 2024 [Policy Update]

KANAZASHI Hisashi (Director, IT Industry Division, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, METI) / IKEUCHI Kenta (Senior Fellow (Policy Economist), RIETI) / Moderator: FUKUDA Kazunori (Coordinator for International Affairs, RIETI)

Incomplete Regulatory Reform: Enhancing transparency in dismissal through monetary settlements

December 16, 2024 [Newspapers & Magazines]

KAWAGUCHI Daiji (Program Director and Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

The Role of Standards as Knowledge Information (From the Perspective of Economic Security)

December 16, 2024 [Column]

TAMURA Suguru (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

Economic Insight: Pros and cons of Prime Minister Ishiba's policy to strengthen taxation on financial income

December 13, 2024 [Newspapers & Magazines]

SATO Motohiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Trump-proofing economic security in Asia

December 11, 2024 [Newspapers & Magazines]

ARMSTRONG, Shiro (Non-Resident Fellow, RIETI)

Monetary policy in response to tariff shocks

December 10, 2024 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Paul BERGIN (Professor of Economics at University of California, Davis) / Giancarlo CORSETTI (Pierre Werner Chair and Joint Professor, Department of Economics and Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at European University Institute)

Current Macroeconomics Incorporating Individual Heterogeneity

November 29, 2024 [Newspapers & Magazines]

KITAO Sagiri (Senior Fellow (Specially Appointed), RIETI)

Elementary School Academic Performance Improves through the Enhancement of the Quality of Early Childhood Education

November 26, 2024 [Newspapers & Magazines]

NAKAMURO Makiko (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / FUJISAWA Keiko (Professor, Faculty of Letters, Keio University)

Future Design and Industrial Innovation

November 26, 2024 [Policy Update]

HARA Keishiro (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

Japan and the Second Trump Administration (Handout and Video)

November 26, 2024 [Symposiums]

Foreign Companies' Accelerated Withdrawal from China
- A Catalyst for Global Business Restructuring -

November 18, 2024 [China in Transition]

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

What Is the Role of the Global South in Times of Turmoil?

November 18, 2024 [Newspapers & Magazines]

Participant: Rizal SUKMA (Senior fellow at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)) / Participant: Neha GUPTA (International trade expert, and visiting fellow at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER)) / Participant: KIMURA Fukunari (Consulting Fellow, RIETI) / Moderator: TOYODA Masakazu (President of the Institute of Development Economies, JETRO (IDE-JETRO), and professor emeritus at Keio University in Japan)

Critical Minerals and Trade in South East Asia: Regional Dynamics in a Global Context

November 15, 2024 [Workshops]

What the Shift to Digital Services Means for the World: Changing patterns in global trade

November 15, 2024 [Workshops]

: RIETI Faculty Fellow NIREI Makoto’s Book was Awarded the 67th Nikkei Prize for Excellent Books in Economic Science

November 14, 2024 [Recent Activities]

Prospects and Challenges for the Ishiba Administration: The core issue of achieving sustainable real wage increases

November 8, 2024 [Newspapers & Magazines]

HOSONO Kaoru (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Cognitive Constraints Create a Bubble?

November 8, 2024 [Newspapers & Magazines]

KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Program Director and Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Institutions and prosperity: The 2024 Nobel laureates

November 6, 2024 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Melissa DELL (Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics at Harvard University)

A Week Before the U.S. Election: Who is up, who is down? (Handout and Video)

October 30, 2024 [Symposiums]

Uncertainty Shocks Caused by Unstable Politics

October 29, 2024 [Newspapers & Magazines]

MORIKAWA Masayuki (Distinguished Senior Fellow (specially appointed), RIETI)

EV Market in ASEAN: Policies, current status & a framework of possible outlook (Handout and Video)

October 29, 2024 [Symposiums]

: RIETI Non-Resident Fellow Shiro ARMSTRONG was Awarded the Highest Honor of the 20th Nakasone Yasuhiro Award

October 29, 2024 [Recent Activities]

Characteristics of Companies and Workers that Support Industrial Policy

October 23, 2024 [Column]

MORIKAWA Masayuki (Distinguished Senior Fellow (specially appointed), RIETI)

The Next Phase of Australia and Japan's Economic Security Policies

October 22, 2024 [East Asian Economic Strategies]

ARMSTRONG, Shiro (Non-Resident Fellow, RIETI)

An Asian Agenda for Economic Security and Prosperity (Handouts and Video)

October 17, 2024 [Symposiums]

Towards a Reset in EU-UK Relations?

October 8, 2024 [Workshops]

Estimating the return to schooling using the Mincer equation
The Mincer equation gives comparable estimates of the average monetary Returns of one additional year of education

October 8, 2024 [From IZA]

Harry Anthony PATRINOS (World Bank and University of Arkansas, USA)

To comply or not to comply: Understanding neutral country supply chain responses to Russian sanctions

October 4, 2024 [Perspectives from Around the World]

LI Haishi "Harry" (Assistant Professor of Economics at University Of Hong Kong) / LI Zhi (PhD student at Chinese University Of Hong Kong) / PARK Ziho (Assistant Professor at National Taiwan University) / WANG Yulin (PhD student at University Of Hong Kong) / WU Jing (Associate Professor, Department of Decisions, Operations and Technology at Chinese University Of Hong Kong)

AI to Qualitatively Improve Job Offers and Applications

October 3, 2024 [Newspapers & Magazines]

TSURU Kotaro (Program Director and Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Shifting Global Technology Landscape: Current position of Japan as indicated by the "Critical Technology Tracker"

October 3, 2024 [Column]

MATSUMOTO Rie (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

Rethinking Japanese Economic Policy at the Turn of the 21st Century

October 2, 2024 [RIETI Books (English)]

Edited by TAKEDA Haruhiko, WATANABE Junko

Challenges for Japan’s Trade Policy: Rebuilding a Rules-Based International Order & Resilient Supply Chains with the Global South

September 30, 2024 [Newspapers & Magazines]

KAWASE Tsuyoshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / OBA Mie (Professor, Faculty of Law, Kanagawa University) / INOMATA Satoshi (Doctor, Chief Senior Researcher, Institute of Developing Economies, JETRO) / Moderator: TOYODA Masakazu (Chairman & CEO, Japan Economic Foundation)

Can Labor Market Reform Be Accelerated? Policies to enhance human capital investment

September 30, 2024 [Newspapers & Magazines]

OWAN Hideo (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Economic Insight: SME classification standard under the Corporation Tax Act should be revised

September 26, 2024 [Newspapers & Magazines]

SATO Motohiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

What is an Ideal Election System? System design could be key to resolving intergenerational inequity

September 25, 2024 [Newspapers & Magazines]

OGURO Kazumasa (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

Industrial Policies and International Rules: What industrial policies are permissible and to what extent?

September 20, 2024 [Column]

AMBASHI Masahito (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

The Practice of Evidence-Based Policymaking in the United States Federal Government

September 19, 2024 [Policy Discussion Papers (Japanese)]

KOBAYASHI Yohei (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

American Shuntō —Japanese lessons on the limits of symbolic outreach to labor

September 12, 2024 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Chris GRISWOLD (Policy Director, American Compass)

FY2024 Strategic Energy Plan: Being cost conscious regarding decarbonization investments

September 11, 2024 [Newspapers & Magazines]

OHASHI Hiroshi (Program director / Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Trade Rules & the WTO – Present & Future

September 11, 2024 [Newspapers & Magazines]

NAKATOMI Michitaka (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

Confronting low fertility rates and population decline

September 4, 2024 [Perspectives from Around the World]

David BLOOM (Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography at Harvard University) / Michael KUHN (Program Director of Economic Frontiers, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and Wittgenstein Centre for Global Human Capital at International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis) / Klaus PRETTNER (Professor of Economics at Wu Vienna University Of Economics And Business)

Asia-Pacific Regional Integration in the Age of Economic Security

September 3, 2024 [Perspectives from Around the World]

KATADA Saori N. (University of Southern California)

Economic consequences of US-China technological decoupling: An illustrative quantitative analysis

September 2, 2024 [VoxEU Column]

JINJI Naoto (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / OZAWA Shunya (Project Researcher, Graduate School of Economics, University Of Tokyo)

Japan’s ambitious semiconductor plan

August 30, 2024 [Newspapers & Magazines]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

The Evolution of the European Union's China Strategy: Challenges in an era of economic security

August 30, 2024 [Non Technical Summaries]

TSURUOKA Michito (Keio University)

China's Vision for Promoting "New Quality Productive Forces"
－Integrating cutting-edge technology with industry

August 30, 2024 [China in Transition]

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

Navigating the economic shifts of yen depreciation in Japan

August 29, 2024 [Newspapers & Magazines]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

Key Issues in Economic Analysis in an Increasingly Turbulent Security Environment

August 29, 2024 [Column]

TOMIURA Eiichi (President and CRO, RIETI)

Propagation of Overseas Economic Shocks through Global Supply Chains: Firm-level evidence

August 26, 2024 [Non Technical Summaries]

INOUE Hiroyasu (University of Hyogo / RIKEN Center for Computational Science) / TODO Yasuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Impact of Technological Decoupling between the United States and China on Trade and Welfare

August 22, 2024 [Non Technical Summaries]

JINJI Naoto (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / OZAWA Shunya (Kyoto University)

A New Phase of the U.S.-China Trade War: Japan should support the order through cooperation with emerging countries

August 22, 2024 [Newspapers & Magazines]

KIMURA Fukunari (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

Robots and wage polarisation

August 19, 2024 [VoxEU Column]

ADACHI Daisuke (Fellow (Specially Appointed), RIETI)

Fostering Doctoral Talent Represents Effective Investment in Human Capital

August 14, 2024 [Newspapers & Magazines]

MORIKAWA Masayuki (Distinguished Senior Fellow (specially appointed), RIETI)

Advancing Regional Economic Cooperation: Developments and perceptions in APEC (Handout and Video)

August 8, 2024 [Symposiums]

U.S.-China Trade War Entering a New Phase: Japan should pursue CPTPP expansion and cooperation

August 8, 2024 [Newspapers & Magazines]

KAWASE Tsuyoshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

The Russian sanctions and dollar foreign exchange reserves

August 6, 2024 [VoxEU Column]

Robert N MCCAULEY (Nonresident senior fellow, Global Development Policy Center at Boston University, Associate Member, Faculty of History at University Of Oxford) / Menzie David CHINN (Professor, the University of Wisconsin) / ITO Hiro (Non-Resident Fellow, RIETI)

The global semiconductor talent crunch: How protectionism backfired

August 5, 2024 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Mehmet CANAYAZ (Assistant Professor of Finance, Smeal College of Business at Penn State University) / Isil EREL (David A. Rismiller Chair in Finance at The Ohio State University) / Umit GURUN (Stan Liebowitz Professor of Finance and Accounting at University Of Texas At Dallas)

The Indispensable Partner? India and the geopolitics of global trade

July 25, 2024 [Workshops]

Economic Insights: Will inflation really make Japan’s fiscal position more sound?

July 24, 2024 [Newspapers & Magazines]

SATO Motohiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

How Oil Prices Impact the Japanese and South Korean Economies: Evidence from the stock market and implications for renewable energy
(Previous title) How Oil Prices Impact the Japanese Economy: Evidence from the stock market

July 23, 2024 [Non Technical Summaries]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

The return to overseas visits by political leaders: Evidence from Japanese yen loan procurement auctions

July 23, 2024 [VoxEU Column]

NISHITATENO Shuhei (Research Associate, RIETI) / OHMURA Hanako (Professor, Graduate School of Law and Politics at Kyoto University) / KUSHIMA Kaori (Assistant Professor, School of Policy Studies at Kwansei Gakuin University)

Interview with new Chairman: Aiming for one of the highest levels of research in Asia with a priority on policy contribution

July 18, 2024 [Policy Update]

FUKAO Kyoji (Chairman, RIETI)

Interview with the new President: Prospects for RIETI's Sixth Research Plan: Bridging research and policy

July 18, 2024 [Policy Update]

TOMIURA Eiichi (President and Chief Research Officer, RIETI)

Why Do Working Environment Improvement Measures Contribute Little to Female Labor Participation?

July 17, 2024 [Column]

LIU Yang (Fellow, RIETI)

Toward Revival of the Japanese Economy: Technological innovation, rather than demographics, is the key to the future

July 11, 2024 [Newspapers & Magazines]

YAMAGUCHI Hirohide (Chairman of the Advisory Board, Nikko Research Center) / YOSHIKAWA Hiroshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Economic Security - A German perspective (Handout and Video)

July 11, 2024 [Symposiums]

New Directions in American Economic Statecraft (Video)

July 9, 2024 [Symposiums]

“Coordination Failure” in Economic Policy Management

July 3, 2024 [Newspapers & Magazines]

KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Program Director and Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Unemployment benefits and unemployment
The challenge of unemployment benefits is to protect workers while minimizing undesirable side effects

July 2, 2024 [From IZA]

Robert MOFFITT (Johns Hopkins University, USA, and IZA, Germany) / Wonsik KO (Johns Hopkins University)

How to Support the “Job Market Ice Age Generation”: Expand welfare and dispel concern over old age

July 2, 2024 [Newspapers & Magazines]

KONDO Ayako (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

The power of treating inequality as an externality

July 1, 2024 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Morten Nyborg STØSTAD (Postdoctoral scholar at Norwegian School of Economics (NHH), Lecturer at University of California, Berkeley)

Car Wars (Part 2) – Electric Vehicles, China and the EU

July 1, 2024 [Workshops]

Conditions for a Breakout from Stagnated Personal Consumption: Redistribution placing emphasis on the working generation

June 28, 2024 [Newspapers & Magazines]

UNAYAMA Takashi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Merits and Demerits of Stock Price Targeting

June 27, 2024 [Newspapers & Magazines]

TSURU Kotaro (Program Director and Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Data Uncovers Xi Jinping's Policy Agenda: How has the concentration of power changed policy?

June 26, 2024 [Policy Update]

LIM Jaehwan (Aoyama Gakuin University) / ITO Asei (University of Tokyo) / ZHANG Hongyong (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

Economic Security and Geopolitics: Insights into Japan-Korea cooperation based on "Economic Security Indicators" (Video)

June 26, 2024 [Symposiums]

Car Wars (Part 1) – The US, China and Electric Vehicles

June 19, 2024 [Workshops]

Productivity Stagnation Factors and Countermeasures: Exploring new strategies for well-being

June 18, 2024 [Newspapers & Magazines]

MIYAGAWA Tsutomu (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / KIUCHI Yasuhiro (Senior Principal Researcher, Japan Productivity Center)

Effects of AI Use on Productivity

June 18, 2024 [Newspapers & Magazines]

MORIKAWA Masayuki (Distinguished Senior Fellow (specially appointed), RIETI)

Economic Insight: Japan's economic and fiscal challenges as indicated by the current account balance

June 14, 2024 [Newspapers & Magazines]

SATO Motohiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

The Approaching “World with Interest Rates”: Drastic restructuring required for financially distressed companies

June 13, 2024 [Newspapers & Magazines]

UESUGI Iichiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

CBAM and Carbon Pricing: Forging fair paths to climate stability
How will the EU's CBAM affect global trade, economic inequality, emissions reduction, and international cooperation on carbon pricing? (Video)

June 11, 2024 [Symposiums]

Reexamining the Eventual Extinction of Japan’s Municipalities: What do 40-years of recent data tell us?

June 10, 2024 [Policy Update]

KONDO Keisuke (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

Strengthening National Security Has Become a Top Priority for the Xi Jinping Administration
—Can it be compatible with economic development?

May 31, 2024 [China in Transition]

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

Mexico and Brazil - Trading Up?

May 13, 2024 [Workshops]

Not a ‘side dish’: New industrial policy and competition

May 13, 2024 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Cristina CAFFARRA (Honorary Professor at University College London) / Nathaniel LANE (Associate Professor, Post-doctoral researcher, Department of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Associate Professor at University Of Oxford)

Intelligent Unilateralism is the Right Response to Geopolitical Rivalry

May 9, 2024 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Simon J. EVENETT (Professor of International Trade at University Of St Gallen)

Southeast Asia & Japan – The good, the bad & the ugly (Handout and Video)

April 26, 2024 [Symposiums]

Future of Global Trade Order and Economic Security (Handouts and Video)

April 26, 2024 [Symposiums]

Investigating Japan’s Machinery and Equipment Exports after the Global Financial Crisis

April 25, 2024 [Non Technical Summaries]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

The impact of exchange rates on Japan’s machinery exports since 1990

April 24, 2024 [VoxEU Column]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

Cascades of tax policy through production networks: Evidence from Japan

April 17, 2024 [VoxEU Column]

KOIZUMI Hideto (Fellow (Policy Economist), RIETI)

Multilateral Governance for the Digital Economy and Artificial Intelligence

April 17, 2024 [Non Technical Summaries]

Shiro ARMSTRONG (Non-Resident Fellow, RIETI) / Jacob TAYLOR (The Brookings Institution)

Appropriate Pass-through of Wage Cost Increases to Selling Prices

April 8, 2024 [Newspapers & Magazines]

MORIKAWA Masayuki (Distinguished Senior Fellow (specially appointed), RIETI)

Size of Major Currency Zones and Their Determinants

April 8, 2024 [Column]

ITO Hiroyuki (Former Visiting Fellow / Professor of Economics, Portland State University)

The importance of informal learning at work
On-the-job learning is more important for workers’ human capital development than formal training

April 4, 2024 [From IZA]

Andries De GRIP (Maastricht University, the Netherlands, and IZA, Germany)

A framework for geoeconomics

April 3, 2024 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Christopher CLAYTON (Assistant Professor of Finance at Yale School Of Management) / Matteo MAGGIORI (Moghadam Family Professor of Finance in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University) / Jesse SCHREGER (Class of 1967 Associate Professor at Columbia University)