Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) "Service Sector Productivity in Japan: Determinants and Policies (SSPJ)" (FY 2016-2020, Principal Investigator: Professor Kyoji Fukao) received the (A) rating in the term-of-end evaluation from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The rating (A) means that the results were in line with initial expectations.
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.
Emeritus Professor Satoshi Yasuda has received the third JSS Nakamura Takafusa Award from the Japan Statistical Society.
Link: https://www.jss.gr.jp/society/prize/prize_biog2023/ (in Japanese)
An application for FY2024 Project Research Program of Joint Usage/Research Center Programs has been started. The application deadline is 9:00 a.m. on December 11, 2023, Japan Standard Time. For further details, please refer to the application guidelines.
Professor Iichiro Uesugi was awarded the 2022 Awards for Studies on Small Business from Shoko Research Institute for his book titled "Economics of SME Financing: Role of Financial Institutions and Role of the Government".
Professor Iichiro Uesugi's book, "Economics of SME Financing: Role of Financial Institutions and Role of the Government", was selected as the second-best economic book of the year in Diamond Weekly.
Aloysius Siow (University of Toronto)
Kanato Nakakuni (University of Tokyo)
Dung Le (Keio University)
Daniel Barczyk (McGill University)
Ramya K Murthy (Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore)
Eunmi Mun(the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign）
Ichiro Iwasaki and Shigeki Ono
“Economic Development and the Finance-Growth Nexus: A Meta-Analytic Approach”
“First issue of Web Journal "THE ECONOMIC REVIEW"
Volume 74 No. 1&2, October 2023”
Kenji Saito，Yutaka Soejima，Toshihiko Sugiura，Yukinobu Kitamura，Mitsuru Iwamura
“Is Ethereum Proof of Stake Sustainable?
-- Considering from the Perspective of Competition Among Smart Contract Platforms --”
Toru Kitagawa and Masayuki Sawada
“LINEAR REGRESSIONS, SHORTS TO LONG”
Ryo Kambayashi, Kohei Kawaguchi and Suguru Otani
“Estimating Recruitment Elasticity in the Multi-stage
and Bilateral Job Matching Process”
