Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) "Service Sector Productivity in Japan: Determinants and Policies (SSPJ)" (FY 2016-2020, Principal Investigator: Professor Kyoji Fukao) received the (A) rating in the term-of-end evaluation from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The rating (A) means that the results were in line with initial expectations.
The Joint Usage and Research Center Programs at the Institute of Economic Research received the highest (S) rating in the term-of-end evaluation from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology following the mid-term evaluation in 2008. In addition, the Institute was newly accredited for the period from April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2028.
The 20th Applied Econometrics Conference will be held on November 8th, 2025.
The call for papers is open to graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and other researchers on fixed-term contracts. Deadline: September 1st, 2025
We have published Volume 49 of the Economic Research Series.
Tokuo Iwaisako, ed. "Japan's Financial System: New Perspectives and Potential Risks in the Post-Global Financial Crisis Era"
IER has published the latest issue of its PR magazine, IER SpotlightS, Vol. 8.
The 8th World KLEMS Conference, an international conference to measure and compare global industrial structure and industry-specific total factor productivity growth, will be held at the International House of Japan on March 27-28, 2025. The deadline for registration is February 28, 2025.
Professor Naohito Abe was awarded the 67th Nikkei Prize for Excellent Books in Economic Science for the book titled "Introduction to the Theory of Price Index Numbers and Their Applications".
Dmitri Koustas and Yukiko Asai (Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago)
Wei Qiao (Jinan University in Guangzhou, China)
Takeaki Sunada (University of Rochester)
Shogo Kubota (World Health Organization, Western Pacific Regional Office, Maternal and Child Health Care Quality and Safety)
Alex Bryson, Ryo Kambayashi, Susumu Kuwahara, Akie Nakamura, and Jacques Wels
“What is Happening to Unionization in Japan?”
Yongsheng Xu, Naoki Yoshihara
“Does dynamic market competition with technological innovation leave no one behind?: An axiomatic study in OLG frameworks”
Pablo A. Guerrón Quintana, Ryo Jinnai, Yohei Yamamoto
“Bubbles and Economic Fluctuations”
Ikuto Aiba, Atsushi Yamagishi
“Urbanization without Industrialization: Evidence from US Bases in Okinawa”
Naoki Yoshihara
“Generic Indeterminacy of Steady-State Competitive Equilibria in Walras-von Neumann Production Economies”
