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.
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)
Professor Takashi Kurosaki became the institute's new director.
IER published the 4th issue of “IER SpotlightS", a public relations magazine.
Kazumitsu Nawata (Professor (Specially Appointed), HIAS, Hitotsubashi University)
Stephanie Zonszein (University of Pennsylvania)
Orhun Sevinc (Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey)
Michael Powell (Northwestern University)
Yoko Okuyama (Assistant Professor at Uppsala University, Visiting Associate Professor at CEI, Hitotsubashi University)
Jessie Handbury (University of Pennsylvania)
Jonathan Colmer (University of Virginia)
Norihito Sakamoto,Yuko Mori
“A Class of Acceptable and Practical Social Welfare Orderings with Variable Population: Stepwise Social Welfare Orderings and Their Applications”
Ichiro Iwasaki
“The Finance-Growth Nexus in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Meta-Analytic Perspective”
Tsunao Okumura, Emiko Usui
“Pension Expectations and Household Portfolio Choice of the Elderly in Japan”
Naoki YOSHIHARA
“On the Labor Theory of Value as the Basis for the Analysis of Economic Inequality in the Capitalist Economy”
Yongsheng XU and Naoki YOSHIHARA
“Bargaining Theory Over Opportunity Assignments and the Egalitarian Solution”
Jonathan F. COGLIANO, Roberto VENEZIANI, and Naoki YOSHIHARA
“The Dynamics of International Exploitation”
Yutaka Arimoto
“Textizing statistical tables using OCR at scale”
