The Economic Review will celebrate its 60th anniversary in January 2010. We made a general index of the articles, surveys, and reviews published after 1980, and investigated trends in research, a ‘prospect and retrospect’ of The Economic Review. On its 30th anniversary, We expressed our earnest hope for serious studies with a policy view point. Since then, in addition to the Institute's research tradition of Japan's Long Term Economic Statistics, institutional and policy studies embracing theory and statistical data have been developed. Large research projects have propelled our joint studies; and empirical studies based on micro data have been developed. It is expected interdisciplinary exchanges across research areas will be the foundation for further development.
