Professor Takashi Kurosaki became the institute's new director.
IER published the 4th issue of “IER SpotlightS", a public relations magazine.
Professor Toshiaki Watanabe was elected a chairperson-elect of the Economics, Finance, and Business (EFaB) section of International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA), and he will be a chairperson from January 2022 for one year.
Professor Ryo Kambayashi was awarded the Japan Academy Prize.
Volker Nocke (University of Mannheim)
DONGYA KOH, University of Arkansas
Junichi Fujimoto (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS))
Haitao Cheng (HIAS Postdoctoral Fellow)
Hikaru Saijo (University of California Santa Cruz)
Chiaki Moriguchi
“Higher School Admission Procedure Reforms in Prewar Japan”
Kazuhiro KUMO and Elena SHADRINA
“On the Evolution of Hierarchical Urban Systems in Soviet Russia, 1897-1989”
Yuko Ueno (Cabinet Office) , Emiko Usui (Hitotsubashi University)
“The Effects of Providing Childcare on Grandmothers' Employment and Mental Health in Japan”
Norihito Sakamoto
“Can Acceptable Social Welfare Orderings Show Compassion for Both Relative Inequality and Poverty? A Reexamination of Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-being and Scale Invariance”
Ichiro Iwasaki, Evžen Kočenda, and Yoshisada Shida
“Distressed Acquisitions Evidence from European Emerging Markets”
