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IERニューズレター Vol. 17 (2018/10/26)

一橋大学経済研究所では、私たちの活動を定期的にお知らせする目的で、関連研究者の皆様にニューズレターを配信しています。これまでも、経済研究所のホームページなどでは、情報発信をしてきたつもりですが、こちらから積極的に発信することで、よりタイムリーに本研究所の活動をお知らせし、皆さんに私たちの活動に参加していただき、活動内容を的確にご理解いただければと思っております。

 

     目次     

 
1. お知らせ
2. コラム:Christopher Spencer
(Senior Lecturer, Loughborough University/Visiting Professor, IER, Hitotsubashi University)
“Exploring Japanese household data: Savings and health in Japan”
3. 教員情報
4. 研究会のお知らせ
5. 新着刊行物
 
 

     1. お知らせ     

 
 
[2018/10/26]
第20回マクロコンファレンスを11月17日(土)、18日(日)に開催します。
 
[2018/10/03]
一橋大学経済研究所では、講師⼜は助教(任期付常勤教員)の公募(統計学・計量経済学)の公募を行います。募集人数は1名です(応募締切:2018年11月30日(金))必着)。
 
[2018/10/18]
神林龍教授が『正規の世界・非正規の世界』(慶應義塾大学出版会)で、第41回(平成30年度)労働関係図書優秀賞を受賞しました。
 
[2018/10/18]
一橋大学経済研究所附属社会科学統計情報研究センター平成30年度研究集会「労働統計に関する研究会」を11月17日(土)に開催します。
 
[2018/10/18]
一橋大学経済研究所附属社会科学統計情報研究センター平成30年度研究集会「匿名データ等利用推進ワークショップ」を11月3日(土)に開催します。
 
[2018/09/10]
堤雅彦准教授は、11月22日(金)に開催される第13回四大学連合文化講演会(於:一橋講堂)にて、一橋大学を代表して講演します。
 
 
 

     2. コラム     

 

(Senior Lecturer, Loughborough University/Visiting Professor, IER, Hitotsubashi University)
 
 
Exploring Japanese household data: Savings and health in Japan
 
My background is as an applied economist with interests in monetary policy, financial economics, and applied econometrics. However, I have recently developed an interest in the increasingly popular area of household finance. As its name suggests, this field in concerned with investigating the determinants of financial decision-making at the household level. To address empirical research questions, researchers commonly exploit information contained in large-scale household surveys or questionnaires. In addition to reporting how individual households allocate their financial assets and wealth, such surveys typically provide detailed information relating to household members’ employment status, health, and income, as well as more basic information relating to personal characteristics such as age, gender, and marital status.
 
The work that I conducted during my visit to the Institute of Economic Research (IER) centred around the relationship between savings behaviour and health at the individual household level in Japan. The research – which is being undertaken with co-researchers at the University of Sheffield, UK, and Curtin University, Australia – has in part been facilitated by the increasing availability of household level survey data in Japan. As the IER’s Takashi Unayama has stressed (Unayama, 2018), recent years have witnessed a growing dependency on household surveys by academic researchers and Japanese policymakers. My joint work adds to the increasing body of academic work that exploits the rich information contained in such surveys. Specifically, we investigate how self-reported mental and physical health affects saving decisions by Japanese households.
 
Although it is not uncommon to find contributions in the academic literature in which poor physical health induces higher levels of safe asset holding such as precautionary savings, no previous work has been undertaken in which the impact of mental health on savings behaviour is systematically explored using Japanese household-level data. Significantly, our research indicates that poor mental health has a large, detrimental impact on the amount of savings held by Japanese households. This finding also holds when one considers the impact of mental health on the size of a household’s total financial portfolio, which includes savings plus other risky financial assets (such as shares). These findings, we suggest, may have ultimately have significant public policy implications: although mental health problems are comparatively lower in Japan than other high-income countries, so too are treatment and employment rates for individuals with mental health problems (Kasai et al. 2017).
 
Of course, it is not possible to discuss the above project without mention of my host institution. The IER at Hitotsubashi University is an excellent place to conduct research, and my own research has benefitted greatly from the comments and suggestions of a number of faculty members. This is not unsurprising. A sizable group of IER researchers have amassed considerable experience and expertise in analysing Japanese household-level and micro-data. For instance, Professor Yukinobu Kitamura has previously conducted important joint research into the characteristics of household saving behaviour in Japan (Kitamura and Takayama, 1994; Kitamura, Takayama, and Arita, 2001). Other IER faculty members have used household level data to explore the wider determinants of portfolio allocation, as well as conducting research into areas related to education and health. The Research Centre for Information and Statistics of Social Science (RCISS), which is attached to the IER, also forms strong foundation from which research using Japanese micro-data can be supported.
Finally, I would like to give my heartfelt thanks to all the faculty and support staff at the IER and the CEI who made me feel so welcome during my stay. Being based at the IER has helped my project to gain considerable momentum, and made a number of new research collaborations with IER staff members possible. I owe a special debt of gratitude to Professor Yukinobu Kitamura for supporting my visit and providing me with a number of opportunities to present my research findings to different audiences. I very much look forward to maintaining a productive and engaging relationship with the IER in the coming years.
 
References
Kasai, K., S. Ando, A. Kanehara, Y. Kumakura, S. Kondo, M. Fukuda, N. Kawakami, and T. Higuchi (2017). Strengthening community mental health services in Japan. The Lancet - Psychiatry 4(4), 268-270.
Kitamura, Y. and N. Takayama (1994). Household saving behavior in Japan. In J. M. Poterba (Ed.), International Comparisons of Household Saving, pp. 125-168. National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
Kitamura, Y., N. Takayama, and F. Arita (2001). Household savings in Japan revisited. Research in Economics 55(2), 135-153.
Unayama, T. (2018). Introduction to Japanese Household Surveys. Springer Briefs in Economics. Springer.

 
 

     3. 教員情報     


[特任教員/客員教員]
渡辺誠(アムステルダム自由大学)2018/12/10-2019/3/19
高橋悠太(一橋大学経済研究所)2018/9/1- 2019/3/31

[外国人客員研究員]
Hitoshi Shigeoka (Simon Fraser University) 2019/1/1-2019/3/31
Harry Wu 2018/10/1-2019/3/31
Kanda Naknoi (University of Connecticut) 2018/9/25-2018/12/24
 

[一橋大学客員研究員]
Nobuaki Yamashita (RMIT University) 2018/11/26-2019/1/24
Chongwoo Choe (Monash University) 2018/11/12-2018/11/16
Sujoy Chakravarty (Jawaharlal Nehru University) 2018/11/5-2018/11/10
Pei Cheng Yu (UNSW School of Economics) 2018/10/30-2018/11/3
Hongyi Li (UNSW School of Economics) 2018/10/29-2018/11/3
Michael Waldman (Cornell University) 2018/10/29-2018/11/4
Naoki Yoshihara (University of Massachusetts Amherst) 2018/10/5-2018/11/30
Jean-Pascal Bassino (Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon) 2018/9/1-2019/8/31
Øivind Schøyen (JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research in Japan) 2018/9/1- 2020/7/31
 
 
 

     4. 研究会のお知らせ(他部局で開催される研究会も含みます)     


2018/10/26(金)17:10~
Economic Statistics Workshop [Presentation in English/Japanese]
1. 本田敏雄 (一橋大学)・蒋佩芸 (一橋大学)
   Toshio Honda (Hitotsubashi Univeristy) and Jiang Peiyun (Hitotsubashi University)
2. 蒋佩芸 (一橋大学)
   Jiang Peiyun (Hitotsubashi University)
 
2018/10/29(月)16:00~
宮島英昭 (早稲田大学)
 
2018/10/30(火)15:30~
Industry and Labor Economics Workshop [Presentation in English]
Michael Waldman (Cornell University)
 
2018/10/30(火)17:10~
Macro Money Workshop/International Seminar [Presentation in English]
James Morley (University of Sydney)
 
2018/10/31(水)17:15~
森 隆浩 (東千葉メディカルセンター総合診療科, 筑波大学医学医療系ヘルスサービスリサーチ分野、ヘルスサービス開発研究センター)
 
2018/11/3(土)13:30~
 
2018/11/6(火)10:45~
Economic Development Workshop/CEI Seminar [Presentation in English]
Nanami Toishi (University of Tokyo)
 
2018/11/6(火)17:10~
Macro Money Workshop [Presentation in English]
Kanda Naknoi (University of Conneticut)
 
2018/11/8(木)17:10~
International Trade and Investment Workshop/Center for Research on Contemporary Economic Systems [Presentation in English]
ByeongHwa Choi (National Taiwan University)
 
2018/11/8(木)17:15~
小川俊明 (日本銀行)
 
2018/11/9(金)10:45~
Economic Development Workshop/CEI Seminar [Presentation in English]
Sujoy Chakravarty (Jawaharlal Nehru University)
 
2018/11/11(日)10:30~
"Social Progress for What (Whom)? Reconstruction of the Welfare State"
 
2018/11/13(火)15:30~
Industry and Labor Economics Workshop [Presentation in English]
Chongwoo Choe (Monash University)
 
2018/11/15(木)17:10~
HIAS Seminar/Economic Theory Workshop
Shmule Nitzan (Bar Ilan University/Adjunct Professor at Hitotsubashi University)
 
2018/11/16(金)10:45~
Economic Development Workshop/CEI Seminar [Presentation in English]
Oeivind Schoeyen (Hitotsubashi University)
 
2018/11/17(土)13:30~
 
2018/11/20(火)17:10~
Macro Money Workshop [Presentation in English]
Pablo Kurlat (Stanford University)
 
2018/11/22(木)17:15~
林康史・歌代哲也(立正大学)
 
2018/11/27(火)17:10~
Macro Money Workshop [Presentation in English]
Tomohiro Hirano (東京大学;  University of Tokyo)
 
2018/11/28(水)10:45~
森口千晶 (一橋大学経済研究所)
 
2018/11/28(水)13:30~
HIAS Health the 34th Regular Seminar [Presentation in English]
Guanghua Wan (Institute of World Economy, Fudan University, the People's Republic of China)
 
2018/11/30(金)10:45~
CEI Seminar/Economic Development Workshop [Presentation in English]
Christopher M. Meissner (University of California, Davis)
 
2018/12/3(月)14:00~
 
 
2018/12/5(水)10:45~
阿部修人 (一橋大学経済研究所)
 
2018/12/6(木)17:15~
Finance Workshop/TCER Seminar/International Seminar [Presentation in English]
James Wilcox (UC Berkeley)
 
2018/12/7(金)10:45~
Joint Usage and Research Center Programs Seminar/Economic Development Workshop/CEI Seminar [Presentation in English]
Yusuke Narita (Yale University)
 
 
2018/12/11(火)17:10~
Macro Money Workshop [Presentation in English]
Makoto Nirei (東京大学;  University of Tokyo)
 
2018/12/18(火)15:30~
Macro Money Workshop [Presentation in English]
Taisuke Nakata (Federal Reserve Board of Governors)
※通常と、開催時間・会場が異なりますのでご注意下さい。
 
2018/12/18(火)17:10~
Macro Money Workshop [Presentation in English]
藤井大輔 (東京大学)
Daisuke Fujii (The University of Tokyo)
 
2018/12/20(木)17:10~
Naoki Watanabe (Keio University)
 
2019/1/10(木)17:10~
Economic Theory Workshop
Jingyi Xue (Singapore Management University)
 
2019/1/10(木)17:15~
高橋豊治 (中央大学)
 
2019/1/11(金)17:10~
Economic Theory Workshop
Kota Murayama (Northwestern University)
 
2019/1/25(金)10:45~
CEI Seminar/Economic Development Workshop [Presentation in English]
Sayaka Ogawa (Ritsumeikan University)
 
2019/2/20(水)17:10~
Macro Money Workshop [Presentation in English]
Offer Setty (Tel Aviv University)
 
2019/4/26(金)10:45~
Economic Development Workshop/CEI Seminar [Presentation in English]
Michele Di Maio (University of Naples Parthenope)
 
2019/5/10(金)10:45~
Economic Development Workshop/CEI Seminar [Presentation in English]
Anthony Wray (University of Southern Denmark)
 
 

     4. 新着刊行物      

 
世代間問題研究機構 発行 [2018/10/15]
堤雅彦
 
経済研究所 発行 [2018/10/12]
Roberto Veneziani, Naoki Yoshihara
 
Giorgos Galanis, Roberto Veneziani, Naoki Yoshihara
 
Yongsheng Xu, Naoki Yoshihara
 
Roberto Veneziani, Naoki Yoshihara
 
Michele Lombardi, Naoki Yoshihara
 
Jonathan F. Cogliano, Roberto Veneziani, Naoki Yoshihara
 
Kazuhiro Kurose, Naoki Yoshihara
 
経済制度研究センター 発行 [2018/10/10]
Xinxin Ma, Jingwen Zhang
 
世代間問題研究機構 発行 [2018/10/4]
Satoshi Yamamoto, Viktoriya Kan
 
世代間問題研究機構 発行 [2018/10/3]
島澤諭, 難波了一, 堤雅彦, 小黒一正
 
島澤諭, 難波了一, 堤雅彦, 小黒一正
 
経済制度研究センター 発行 [2018/10/1]
Ichiro Iwasaki, Satoshi Mizobata
 
ロシア研究センター 発行 [2018/9/28]
岩﨑一郎・雲 和広
 
規範経済学研究センター 発行 [2018/9/27]
栗林 寛幸, 相川 宗徳, 中山 尚子
 
経済研究所 発行 [2018/9/25]
伊藤秀史, 佐藤 淳, 都留 康
 
経済研究所 発行 [2018/9/5]
尾髙煌之助, 牧野達治
 
規範経済学研究センター 発行 [2018/9/3]
Norihito Sakamoto
 
経済制度研究センター 発行 [2018/8/29]
Ichiro Iwasaki, Evžen Kočenda
 
ロシア研究センター 発行 [2018/8/29]
Yasushi NAKAMURA
 
Ichiro Iwasaki, Byung-Yeon Kim
 
Masahiro Tokunaga, Keiko Suganuma, Nami Odagiri
 
経済研究所 発行 [2018/8/28]
Evžen Kočenda, Ichiro Iwasaki
 
経済制度研究センター 発行 [2018/8/10]
Rashesh Shrestha, Ian Coxhead