RIETI - Featured (FY2025)

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

September 9, 2025 [Non Technical Summaries]

Willem THORBECKE (Senior Fellow, RIETI)

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)

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)

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)

Economic Insight: Rationale for resolutely opposing consumption tax cuts

August 19, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

SATO Motohiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

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)

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

August 18, 2025 [Column]

MATSUMOTO Rie (Consulting Fellow, RIETI)

The Future of AI-related Social Science

August 6, 2025 [Column]

MANAGI Shunsuke (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

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)

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)

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]

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))

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

July 23, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

SATO Motohiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

How to Handle the Tariff Man? Japan’s Strategy

July 16, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

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

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)

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]

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)

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)

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

June 5, 2025 [Column]

SEKIGUCHI Yoichi (Senior fellow, RIETI)

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)

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

June 4, 2025 [Column]

MANAGI Shunsuke (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

No Retreat for the Trump Revolution

June 2, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

TSURU Kotaro (Program Director and Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

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)

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)

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]

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)

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)

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)

What is Necessary for Achieving Growth

May 8, 2025 [Newspapers & Magazines]

KOBAYASHI Keiichiro (Program Director and Faculty Fellow, RIETI)

“Truth Wins” Effect in Organizational Design

May 7, 2025 [Column]

KAMEI Kenju (Former Research Associate, RIETI)

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)