Featured (FY2025)

Demographic Change and Korea’s Growth Prospects: The Role of AI and Human Capital (Handouts and Video)

March 10, 2026 [Symposiums]

Disability Employment Making Progress at SMEs: Effects of the levy-incentive system and existing challenges

March 10, 2026 [Column]

MATSUMOTO Kodai (Fellow (Policy Economist), RIETI)

Chi Hung KWAN's Photo

“Trump-Style G2” Will Transform the International Order and U.S.-China Relations - Toward an Era of "Division of Spheres of Influence" Based on Deal Diplomacy

March 10, 2026 [China in Transition]

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

Author's Photo

How sanctions can help stabilise global oil supply

March 5, 2026 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Simon JOHNSON (Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship and Head of the Global Economics and Management Group, Sloan School of Management and Co-Director, co-director, Stone Center on Inequality and the Future of Work at MIT) / Łukasz RACHEL (Assistant Professor of Economics at University College London) / Catherine WOLFRAM (William Barton Rogers Professor of Energy Economics and Professor of Applied Economics, Sloan School of Management at MIT)

Follow FDI: Production Networks and the Geography of Globalization (Handouts and Video)

March 2, 2026 [Symposiums]

TSURU Kotaro's photo

Addressing the Weak Yen Head on

February 27, 2026 [Newspapers & Magazines]

TSURU Kotaro (Program Director and Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

 Willem THORBECKE's Photo

Understanding Bond-Stock Price Comovements

February 25, 2026 [Policy Update]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

Authors' photo

Geopolitical risk and supply chain diversification

February 25, 2026 [VoxEU Column]

DOAN Thi Thanh Ha (Economist at Economic Research Institute For Asean And East Asia (ERIA)) / ITO Asei (Associate professor at the Institute of Social Science, the University of Tokyo) / LUO Changyuan (Professor, Institute of World Economy at Fudan University) / ZHANG Hongyong (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

Shiro ARMSTRONG's Photo

ASEAN’s Quiet Masterclass in Crisis Leadership

February 18, 2026 [East Asian Economic Strategies]

ARMSTRONG, Shiro (Non-Resident Fellow, RIETI)

MORIKAWA Masayuki's photo

Issues That Tend to be Overlooked in Growth Strategies

February 17, 2026 [Newspapers & Magazines]

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

SHIMIZU Hiroshi's photo

Open Door to New Era: Exploit “cutting-edge knowledge” to decide business strategies

February 12, 2026 [Newspapers & Magazines]

SHIMIZU Hiroshi (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

NAKAJIMA Atsushi's photo

Capital Investment Thriving in Adversity

February 5, 2026 [Newspapers & Magazines]

NAKAJIMA Atsushi (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

How Oil Prices Impact Asian Economies: Evidence from the stock market

February 4, 2026 [Column]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior fellow, RIETI)

Author's Photo

How the Fed makes decisions: Disagreement, beliefs, and the power of the Chair

February 3, 2026 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Cooper HOWES (Senior Economist at Federal Reserve Board Of Governors) / Marc Dordal i CARRERAS (Assistant Professor of Economics at Hong Kong University Of Science And Technology) / Olivier COIBION (Malcolm Forsman Centennial Professor of Economics at University Of Texas At Austin) / Yuriy GORODNICHENKO (Quantedge Presidential Professor, Department of Economics at University of California, Berkeley)

OGURO Kazumasa's photo

What Is the Primary Cause of Inflation? – Signs of “Fiscal Inflation” Lurking in the Background

February 2, 2026 [Newspapers & Magazines]

OGURO Kazumasa (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

Italy in Turbulent Times. Connecting Atlantic, Mediterranean and Europe: Politics, economy and foreign policy (Handout and Video)

February 2, 2026 [Symposiums]

Economic Analysis of Supply Chain Vulnerabilities (Handouts and Video)

January 26, 2026 [Symposiums]

KONISHI Yoko's photo

How Has Generative AI Spread among Companies: Synchronized adoption demonstrated by SMEs

January 23, 2026 [Column]

KONISHI Yoko (Senior Fellow (Specially Appointed), RIETI) / KUBO Takashi (Money Forward Institute of Economic Research)

Strengthening Economic, Critical Mineral, and Semiconductor Security: Bridging goals and means between Europe and Japan (Video)

January 19, 2026 [Symposiums]

TODO Yasuyuki's Photo

Promote Intellectual Cooperation through Information Dissemination to Increase Foreign Direct Investment in Japan

January 19, 2026 [Newspapers & Magazines]

TODO Yasuyuki (Program Director and Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

ONO Yoshikuni's photo

Japan Sees Its First Female Prime Minister

January 14, 2026 [Column]

ONO Yoshikuni (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Author's Photo

Brexit’s slow‑burn hit to the UK economy

January 9, 2026 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Nicholas BLOOM (Array, William Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University) / Philip BUNN (Senior Technical Advisor in the Structural Economics Division at Bank Of England) / Paul MIZEN (Professor in Economics and Vice Dean, Research, at King’s Business School at King’s College London) / Pawel SMIETANKA (Research Economist at Bank Of England, Senior Economist at Deutsche Bundesbank) / Gregory THWAITES (Research Director at Resolution Foundation, Associate Professor at University Of Nottingham)

KIYOTA Kozo

Resolve Inhibiting Factors in the Medium and Long Term to Increase Foreign Direct Investment in Japan

January 9, 2026 [Newspapers & Magazines]

KIYOTA Kozo (Research Associate, RIETI)

The labor market in India since the 1990s
Despite higher output per worker and moderate unemployment, wages and job quality have not improved proportionately

January 8, 2026 [From IZA]

Indraneel DASGUPTA (Indian Statistical Institute, India, and IZA, Germany) / Saibal KAR (Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, India, and IZA, Germany)

SATO Motohiro's Photo

Economic Insight: Questions hanging over the Takaichi administration’s “responsible and proactive public finances”

January 6, 2026 [Newspapers & Magazines]

SATO Motohiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Proposal for Japan-Korea Economic Partnership Framework (Handout and Video)

December 26, 2025 [Symposiums]

NAKAJIMA Atsushi's photo

Approaching the AI Life Revolution

December 23, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

NAKAJIMA Atsushi (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

Chi Hung KWAN's Photo

The Wave of Chinese Researchers Returning Home under the Trump Administration
―The realignment of the global science and technology power structure―

December 19, 2025 [China in Transition]

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

Shiro ARMSTRONG's Photo

Chips in Japan: Industrial policy, decline and renewal

December 19, 2025 [Non Technical Summaries]

Joseph NEGRINE (The Australian National University) / Christopher FINDLAY (The Australian National University) / Shiro ARMSTRONG (Non-Resident Fellow, RIETI)

Shift Emphasis to Capital Accumulation to Expand Supply Capacity

December 16, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

MIYAGAWA Tsutomu (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

MIYAJIMA Hideaki's photo

The Evolution of Corporate Governance in Japan

December 12, 2025 [RIETI Books (English)]

Edited by MIYAJIMA Hideaki, ARIKAWA Yasuhiro

SAKAMOTO Masazumi's Photo

“Learning from the Past to Inform the Present” in Economic Security — Reflections Based on an Exchange of Views with Dr. Wahlers on Japan–Germany Cooperation —

December 9, 2025 [Policy Update]

SAKAMOTO Masazumi (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

OKAZAKI Tetsuji's Photo

Prof. Joel Mokyr, et al. Wins the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for Elucidating Economic Growth Driven by New Technologies

December 9, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

OKAZAKI Tetsuji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / MATSUYAMA Kiminori (Professor, Northwestern University)

Authors' photo

US-Japanese knowledge transfer programme in the aftermath of WWII

December 5, 2025 [VoxEU Column]

Michela GIORCELLI (Research Affiliate at CESifo , Research Affiliate at National Bureau Of Economic Research , Associate Professor at University Of California, Los Angeles) / HIGUCHI Yuki (Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Economics at Nagoya City University , Project member at RIETI) / TAKAYASU Yutaro (Project Assistant Professor at University Of Tokyo) / TANAKA Mari (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

OGURO Kazumasa's photo

Viewpoint of Healthcare Expenditure Reform: Introduction of a macroeconomic slide mechanism is necessary

December 4, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

OGURO Kazumasa (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

Author's Photo

European defence governance and financing

December 3, 2025 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Philipp HILDEBRAND (Vice Chairman at BlackRock) / Hélène REY (Vice President at Centre for Economic Policy Research , Lord Bagri Professor of Economics at London Business School) / Moritz SCHULARICK (President at Kiel Institute For The World Economy , Professor of economics at Sciences Po Paris , Director & Professor of Economics at Universität Bonn)

KOBAYASHI Keiichiro's Photo

Post-liberal Liberalism

December 1, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Program Director and Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

KONDO Ayako's photo

RIETI Faculty Fellow Professor Sagiri Kitao’s co-authored paper wins the 2025 JER Best Article Award

November 26, 2025 [Recent Activities]

NAKATA Hiroyuki's Photo

SME Resilience to Disasters

November 26, 2025 [Policy Update]

NAKATA Hiroyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Road to Optimal Subcontracting Transactions: A major challenge is to realize them throughout the entire supply chain

November 26, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

OKAMURO Hiroyuki (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

MORIKAWA Masayuki's photo

Decoupling between Productivity and Real Wages

November 25, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

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

Three-dimensional Aerial Optical Expression and Standards

November 13, 2025 [Column]

TAMURA Suguru (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

Asia’s Response to Great Power Disruption and Global Economic Disorder (Handouts and Video)

November 13, 2025 [Symposiums]

KONDO Ayako's photo

Former RIETI Faculty Fellow KONDO Ayako was awarded the 47th Suntory Prize

November 12, 2025 [Recent Activities]

AI and Employment: Emerging inequalities demand attention

November 12, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

KAWAGUCHI Daiji (Program Director and Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

RIETI Faculty Fellow OWAN Hideo’s Book was Awarded the 68th Nikkei Prize for Excellent Books in Economic Science

November 12, 2025 [Recent Activities]

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Data, power and emissions: How AI’s growth may slow down the green transition

November 10, 2025 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Alessandra BONFIGLIOLI (Professor of Economics (on leave) at Queen Mary University Of London, Professor of Economics at University of Bergamo) / Rosario CRINÒ (Professor of Economics at University of Bergamo) / Mattia FILOMENA (Postdoctoral researcher at University of Bergamo) / Gino GANCIA (Professor of Economics at University Of Milano Bicocca)

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Supply chains and free trade agreements

November 10, 2025 [VoxEU Column]

KATO Atsuyuki (Research Associate, RIETI) / NISHIYAMA Hiroyuki (Professor at the University of Hyogo)

Author's photo

China’s Belt and Road Initiative and the shifting landscape of trade and investment

November 6, 2025 [VoxEU Column]

TODO Yasuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / NISHITATENO Shuhei (Research Associate, RIETI) / Sean BROWN (PhD student at the National Institute of Informatics)

Chi Hung KWAN's Photo

“Involutional Competition” Leading to Oversupply in China
―Policy responses based on causes and impacts―

October 31, 2025 [China in Transition]

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

US-Japan Relations for a New Japanese Government and for a New Era (Handout and Video)

October 30, 2025 [Symposiums]

MUNAKATA Naoko's photo

Fragmented “Turnberry System” Marks a Transitional Era in Trade Order

October 27, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

MUNAKATA Naoko (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

TSURU Kotaro's photo

Reconsidering the Essence of Independence

October 23, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

TSURU Kotaro (Program Director and Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

40 Years after the Plaza Accord: Trade performance has become bright for Germany and dark for Japan under different currency environments

October 22, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

SHIMIZU Junko (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

SATO Motohiro's Photo

Economic Insight: Is the provisional gasoline tax abolition a correct decision?

October 15, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

SATO Motohiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Author's photo

How firms respond to import competition: Labour force reduction, product/industry switching, and off-shoring

October 10, 2025 [VoxEU Column]

ITO Tadashi (Professor, Faculty of International Social Sciences at Gakushuin University) / MATSUURA Toshiyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Author's Photo

How real-time data misled policymakers during the post-COVID recovery

October 6, 2025 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Domenico GIANNONE (Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Economics and Statistics at Johns Hopkins University) / Giorgio PRIMICERI (Professor of Economics at Northwestern University)

Authors' Photo

How Asia Can Reduce Its Dollar Dependence

October 3, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

WATANABE Yasuto (Director of the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO)) / ITO Hiroyuki (Non-Resident Fellow, RIETI)

Author's photo

Infrastructure diplomacy in the shadow of the Belt and Road: Lessons from Japan’s experience

October 3, 2025 [VoxEU Column]

NISHITATENO Shuhei (Research Associate, RIETI) / TODO Yasuyuki (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Intersectionality and labor market outcomes
Putting the lens on the interaction of gender, race, and other social identities since this creates unique experiences of advantage and disadvantage

October 3, 2025 [From IZA]

Olga ALONSO-VILLAR (ECOBAS, Universidade de Vigo, Spain) / Coral del RIO OTERO (ECOBAS, Universidade de Vigo, Spain)

Authors' photo

Impact of the Trump Tariffs and Disparity in Responses as Indicated by a Survey of Japanese Firms

October 2, 2025 [Column]

ITO Banri (Research Associate, RIETI) / JINJI Naoto (Faculty Fellow, RIETI) / NAOI Megumi (Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego)

URATA Shujiro's Photo

Trump Tariffs and Risk of Collapse for the Global Trading System

October 1, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

URATA Shujiro (Distinguished Senior Fellow (specially appointed), RIETI)

80 Years after the End of WWII: Lost efforts to improve productivity

September 30, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

FUKAO Kyoji (Chairman, RIETI)

 SEKIGUCHI Yoichi's Photo

Research Trends on Hot Springs and Health in Japan

September 26, 2025 [Policy Update]

SEKIGUCHI Yoichi (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

Author's photo

Classroom heat widens the achievement gap

September 25, 2025 [VoxEU Column]

AKESAKA Mika (Associate Professor of Economics at the Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration, Kobe University) / SHIGEOKA Hitoshi (Research Associate at National Bureau Of Economic Research (NBER) / Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University / Professor at The University Of Tokyo)

OKAZAKI Tetsuji's Photo

80 Years after WWII Ended: Problems for Japan, a technology-oriented nation, that are left unaddressed

September 18, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

OKAZAKI Tetsuji (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Author's Photo

Industrial policy and retaliatory protection under the WTO: Lessons from China

September 11, 2025 [Perspectives from Around the World]

FENG Yusheng (Econ Ph.D. student at the University of Hong Kong) / LI Haishi "Harry" (Assistant Professor of Economics at University Of Hong Kong) / WANG Siwei (PhD candidate at Wuhan University) / ZHU Min (Research Fellow in the School of Economics at the University of Nottingham / Researcher at the Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy (CITP))

Willem THORBECKE's Photo

How Macroeconomic Shocks Impact the Japanese Economy: Evidence from the stock market

September 9, 2025 [Non Technical Summaries]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

MORIKAWA Masayuki's photo

Economic Effects to be Brought about by the Introduction of Service Robots

September 9, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

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

Life Science Human Resource Development and Career Paths: Key to forming ecosystems

September 4, 2025 [Column]

AOYAMA Tatsufumi (Consulting fellow, RIETI)

Author's photo

China’s electronics export juggernaut and lessons for the US

August 29, 2025 [VoxEU Column]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI) / CHEN Chen (Associate Professor at China’s Fuzhou University of International Studies and Trade) / Nimesh SALIKE (Senior Associate Professor in International Business School Suzhou (IBSS) at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU))

Supply Chain Issues: Recognizing historic turning points

August 29, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

TOMIURA Eiichi (President and Chief Research Officer, RIETI)

KAWASAKI Kenichi's photo

Economic Impact of U.S. Tariff Hikes: Significance of trade diversion effects

August 29, 2025 [Column]

KAWASAKI Kenichi (Consulting Fellow, RIETI / Professor, GRIPS Alliance, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS))

Has Japan‘s Corporate Tax Cut Increased Investment and Employment?

August 26, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

KOBAYASHI Yohei (Consulting Fellow, RIETI) / BAMBA Yasuo (Chief Policy Analyst, Mitsubishi UFJ Research & Consulting Co.) / SATO Motohiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

SATO Motohiro's Photo

Economic Insight: Rationale for resolutely opposing consumption tax cuts

August 19, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

SATO Motohiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Authors' photo

Global shocks, institutional development, and trade restrictions: Learning from crises and recoveries between 1990 and 2022

August 18, 2025 [VoxEU Column]

Joshua AIZENMAN (Research Associate at National Bureau Of Economic Research (NBER), Dockson Chair in Economics and International Relations at University Of Hong Kong) / ITO Hiroyuki (Non-Resident Fellow, RIETI) / Donghyun PARK (Principal Economist at the Economics and Research Department at Asian Development Bank) / Jamel SAADAOUI (Full Professor at Paris 8 University) / Gazi Salah UDDIN (Professor of Financial Economics at Linkoping University)

MATSUMOTO Rie's photo

Assessment of Disruptive Innovation in Science and Technology Policy: Insights from meta-science research trends

August 18, 2025 [Column]

MATSUMOTO Rie (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

MANAGI Shunsuke’s photo

The Future of AI-related Social Science

August 6, 2025 [Column]

MANAGI Shunsuke (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

Author's Photo

Network and language analysis of economic history

August 5, 2025 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Gregori GALOFRÉ VILÀ (Ramón y Cajal Fellow at University Of Valencia) / Víctor M. GÓMEZ BLANCO (Assistant Professor)

Chi Hung KWAN's Photo

The Urgent Need for China to Reform its Legal Frameworks on Private Enterprises
- Enactment of the “Private Economy Promotion Law” marks a major step forward -

August 4, 2025 [China in Transition]

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

Participants' Photo

Roundtable on “Is It Possible to Strengthen the Supply Chains?”

August 4, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

Participant: WATANABE Mariko (Professor, Gakushuin University) / Participant: MORITA Kiyotaka (Director of international affairs at Keidanren (Japan Business Federation)) / Participant: URATA Shujiro (Distinguished Senior Fellow (specially appointed), RIETI) / Moderator: TOYODA Masakazu (Chairman & CEO, Japan Economic Foundation (JEF))

Economic Disparity between Men and Women in Japan and Korea: Exploring commonalities and differences (Handouts and video are available in Korean)

August 1, 2025 [Symposiums]

Author's photo

The ripple beyond borders: Indirect effects of US export controls on Japanese firms

August 1, 2025 [VoxEU Column]

HAYAKAWA Kazunobu (Overseas Research Fellow at Institute of Developing Economies) / ITO Keiko (Professor, Faculty of Commerce at Chuo University, Project Member at Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI))

SATO Motohiro's Photo

Urgently Required Economic Measures: Production capacity expansion and social insurance premium cuts

July 23, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

SATO Motohiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

URATA Shujiro's Photo

How to Handle the Tariff Man? Japan’s Strategy

July 16, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

URATA Shujiro (Distinguished Senior Fellow (specially appointed), RIETI)

Chi Hung KWAN's Photo

Watch Out for the Kindleberger Trap
- International order in turmoil due to a lack of leadership -

July 15, 2025 [China in Transition]

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

The merits of teacher assessment versus external exams to measure student achievement
Are teachers best placed to assess their students or are external exams more effective?

July 9, 2025 [From IZA]

Oliver CASSAGNEAU-FRANCIS (University College London) / Gillian WYNESS (University College London,UK; London School of Economics, UK, and IZA, Germany)

Author's Photo

When supply shocks to essential inputs spur innovation: Lessons from the global rare earths disruption

July 9, 2025 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Laura ALFARO (Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration at Harvard University) / Harald FADINGER (Professor of Economics at University Of Vienna) / Jan SCHYMIK (Acting Professor of Economics at University Of Mannheim) / Gede VIRANANDA (Predoctoral research assistant at New York University Stern School of Business)

RIETI Program Director and Faculty Fellow NAGAOKA Sadao Receives 5th Japan Statistical Society Takahide Nakamura Award

June 23, 2025 [Recent Activities]

The Great Trade Hack: How Trump's trade war fails and global trade moves on (Handout and Video)

June 17, 2025 [Symposiums]

MORIKAWA Masayuki's photo

Uncertainty Reduces Effectiveness of Macroeconomic Policies

June 17, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

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

Eurasian Maritime Geopolitics: The United States and China in an Age of Indo-Pacific Transformation (Handout and Video)

June 13, 2025 [Symposiums]

Greetings from the RIETI Chairman

June 10, 2025 [About RIETI]

FUKAO Kyoji (Chairman)

Greetings from the President of RIETI

June 10, 2025 [ About RIETI]

TOMIURA Eiichi (President and Chief Research Officer)

New eBook: Trump’s Great Trade Hack

June 10, 2025 [VoxEU Column]

Richard BALDWIN (Non-Resident Fellow, RIETI)

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The global impact of AI: Mind the gap

June 9, 2025 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Eugenio CERUTTI (Chief of the Macro-Financial Unit, SPR at International Monetary Fund) / Antonio Garcia PASCUAL (Deputy Division Chief at International Monetary Fund) / KIDO Yosuke (Economist at International Monetary Fund) / LI Longji (Research Officer at International Monetary Fund) / Giovanni MELINA (deputy Division Chief, Structural and Climate Policy division at International Monetary Fund) / Marina M. TAVARES (Senior Economist at International Monetary Fund) / Philippe WINGENDER (Senior Economist at International Monetary Fund)

SEKIGUCHI Yoichi's photo

Possibility of Regional Revitalization through Experience-based Return Gifts for Hometown Tax Donations

June 5, 2025 [Column]

SEKIGUCHI Yoichi (Senior fellow, RIETI)

Willem THORBECKE's Photo

Exchange Rates and Tariffs: Unravelling their impacts on China's ICT exports while accounting for product sophistication

June 4, 2025 [Non Technical Summaries]

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

MANAGI Shunsuke’s photo

Creation of New Corporate Value and Societal Contribution through Numerical Analyses of Well-being

June 4, 2025 [Column]

MANAGI Shunsuke (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

TSURU Kotaro's photo

No Retreat for the Trump Revolution

June 2, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

TSURU Kotaro (Program Director and Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

UESUGI Iichiro's photo

The Economics of SME Finance

May 21, 2025 [RIETI Books (English)]

Written by UESUGI Iichiro

US misuse of tariff reciprocity and what the world should do about it

May 15, 2025 [VoxEU Column]

Richard BALDWIN (Non-Resident Fellow, RIETI) / Giorgio Barba NAVARETTI (Scientific Director at Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano, Professor of Economics at University Of Milan)

ITO Banri's Photo

Who Are The Trump Tariffs For?—How Japan Should Prepare for a “Post-Tariff” World

May 15, 2025 [Policy Update]

ITO Banri (Research Associate, RIETI)

TANABE Yasuo's photo

Conference Report: “Carbon Pricing, Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) and Green Transition”—Taking CBAM as an opportunity, Japan should aim to cooperate with the EU to create a global carbon market

May 14, 2025 [Column]

TANABE Yasuo (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

Nurturing Entrepreneurship: What policymakers can do (Handout and Video)

May 12, 2025 [Symposiums]

Authors' photo

Strategic Response from Japan Could Help Save Global Trade

May 12, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

ARMSTRONG, Shiro (Non-Resident Fellow, RIETI)

We Must Review the Effects of Policy Measures to Counter Shrinkage of the Child Population and to Empower Women

May 12, 2025 [Column]

KONDO Ayako (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

MORIKAWA Masayuki's photo

Trump Tariff Policy and the Role of Economics

May 9, 2025 [Column]

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

Principle of Common But Differentiated Responsibilities and Plastic Pollution

May 9, 2025 [Column]

IWASAKI Fusanori (Consulting Fellow, RIETI) / KAWAMURA Reo (Director, Regional Knowledge Centre For Marine Plastic Debris, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia) / KOJIMA Michikazu (Chief Senior Researcher, Institute of Developing Economies)

Author's Photo

Identifying potential Chinese export redirection in 2024 US trade data

May 8, 2025 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Simon EVENETT (Professor of Geopolitics and Strategy at IMD Business School)

KOBAYASHI Keiichiro's Photo

What is Necessary for Achieving Growth

May 8, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Program Director and Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

KAMEI Kenju's photo

“Truth Wins” Effect in Organizational Design

May 7, 2025 [Column]

KAMEI Kenju (Former Research Associate, RIETI)

 Willem THORBECKE's Photo

China’s Electronics Exports, Tariffs, and Relocating Production to the U.S.

May 7, 2025 [Policy Update]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

Capitalism and Crises: How to Fix Them (Handout and Video)

April 28, 2025 [Symposiums]

Global Supply Chains and Productivity (Handouts and Video)

April 9, 2025 [Symposiums]

How Have Japanese Inflationary Expectations Evolved since January 2020: Evidence from the stock market

April 7, 2025 [Column]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior fellow, RIETI)

Hiring discrimination across vulnerable groups
Discrimination in hiring based on ethnicity or gender is widely debated but appears in fact less severe than discrimination based on disability, appearance, or age

April 4, 2025 [From IZA]

Louis LIPPENS (Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Department of Economics; Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO)) / Stijn BAERT (Ghent University) / Brecht NEYT (Ghent University)

Author's Photo

Trade shocks and labour market outcomes: The interplay between firm exposure and labour market competition

April 4, 2025 [Perspectives from Around the World]

Jeronimo CARBALLO (Associate Professor, Department of Economics at University Of Colorado Boulder) / Richard MANSFIELD (Assistant Professor, Department of Economics at University Of Colorado Boulder)

Chi Hung KWAN's Photo

Private Enterprise Roundtable
- Spotlight on Transformative Trends in the High-Tech Sector

April 3, 2025 [China in Transition]

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

MANAGI Shunsuke’s photo

Is ESG Investment Going to Decline?

April 3, 2025 [Column]

MANAGI Shunsuke (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)