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.
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.
IER published the 5th issue of "IER SpotlightS", a public relations magazine.
An application for FY2022 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 13, 2021, Japan Standard Time
[Government Statistics Anonymized Data Usage Promotion Program] September 30, 2022
[Joint Research Program] January 31, 2023
Emeritus Professor Noriyuki Takayama has received the first JSS Nakamura Takafusa Award from the Japan Statistical Society.
Link: https://www.jss.gr.jp/society/prize/prize_biog2021/ (in Japanese)
Dr. Josselin Thuiliez (Research Director, Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne)
Michael Peters (Yale University)
Shengxing Zhang (LSE)
Stefanie Fischer (Monash University)
Alex Preda (Professor of Professions, Markets and Technology, King's College London)
Ishan Nath (Princeton University)
Josef C. Brada and Ichiro Iwasaki
“The Effect of Target-Country Institutions on
Cross-Border Merger and Acquisition Activity
- A Quantitative Literature Survey -”
Noriyuki Takayama
“Financial Sustainability and Adequacy Issues on Social Security Pensions”
Nobuhiro Hobara
“The occurrence of potential complementarity and the Behavior of Bank-Coordinator and See Off Behavior”
Yuta Takahashi and Naoki Takayama
“On the Relationship Between Interest Rate Policy & Debt Sustainability”
Iichiro Uesugi, Kazuki Hiraga, Masashi Manabe and Naoyuki Yoshino
“Interregional Flow of Funds in Japan via Loans
and Deposits of Financial Institutions, and its Determinants”
Iichiro Uesugi, Kazuki Hiraga, Masashi Manabe and Naoyuki Yoshino
“Measuring Concentration in the Japanese Loan and Deposit Markets”
