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.
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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.
D.S. Prasada Rao, FASSA (Specially Appointed Professor, HIAS)
Yuta Suzuki (Shanghai Jiao Tong University）
Yasutaka Ogawa (Bank of Japan)
Frank Uekötter (Professor, Ruhr University Bochum)
Joshua Hausmann (Michigan University)
Mandy Ryan (Emeritus Professor, Health Economics Research Unit, University of Aberdeen / Specially Appointed Professor, HIAS)
Kai Christoffel (European Central Bank)
Jouchi Nakajima
Article:
“Estimation of firms' inflation expectations using the Tankan DI”
Jouchi Nakajima, Toshitaka Sekine, Masazumi Hattori, and Takuji Fueki
Article:
“A 25-Year Chronology of Monetary Policy Meetings under the New Bank of Japan Act”
Alex Bryson and Mari Tanaka
“Unions in Developing Countries”
Ryo Arawatari, Yuta Takahashi, and Naoki Takayama
“Accounting for the Boom-Bust Cycle of the Japanese Economy: A Macro-Finance Approach”
Naohito Abe and DS Prasada Rao
“To Log or not to Log? Proportionality in Time-Dummy Hedonic Price Indexes”
