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.
We published the Economic Research Series, volume 48.
Yukinobu KITAMURA "Quest for Good Money: Past, Present and Future"
Professor Iichiro Uesugi was awarded the 65th Nikkei Prize for Excellent Books in Economic Science for his book titled "Economics of SME Financing: Role of Financial Institutions and Role of the Government".
An application for FY2023 Joint Usage and Research Center Programs has been started.
For further details, please refer to the application guidelines.
Application deadlines:
[Project Research Program] 9:00 a.m. on December 12, 2022, Japan Standard Time
[Government Statistics Anonymized Data Usage Promotion Program] September 29, 2023
[Joint Research Program] January 31, 2024
IER Information Bulletin 2022 was published.
Prof. Iwaisako took part in the IMF Asia-Pacific Regional Seminar "Japan - Economic Outlook and Policy Priorities" as a discussant on June 9. Video recordings of the seminar along with presentation slides have been posted on the IMF Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific website.
Pascal Michaillat (Brown University)
Minji Bang (City University of Hong Kong)
Yuriko Takahashi (Waseda)
Fabian Eckert (UCSD)
Tony Braun (FRB of Atlanta)
Tomohito Honda,Kaoru Hosono,Daisuke Miyakawa, Arito Ono,Iichiro Uesugi
“Determinants and Effects of the Use of COVID-19 Business Support Programs in Japan”
Yuzuru Kumon and Kazuho Sakai
“Women's Wages and Empowerment: Pre-industrial Japan, 1600-1890”
Jonathan F. Cogliano，Roberto Veneziani，Naoki Yoshihara
“The Dynamics of International Exploitation”
Naoki Yoshihara and Roberto Veneziani
“The general equilibrium effects of localised technological progress: A Classical approach”
Naoki Yoshihara and Se Ho Kwak
“Sraffian indeterminacy of steady-state equilibria in the Walrasian general equilibrium framework”
