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Index of Real Estate Registries, jointly constructed by HIT-REFINED and JON Inc., is released.

Supply elasticity index in the housing market in Japan (beta-version), which calculates the supply elasticities for 108 UEAs (urban employment areas) in Japan, is released by HIT-REFINED.

Iichiro Uesugi (Principal Investigator) contributed an article to the Kinyu Zaisei Jijo (April 30, 2018) on "A changing relationship between private and public financial institutions in Japan" (in Japanese).

One-day RIETI Research Meeting on Real Estate and the Macro Economy was held on April 6 at Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry (RIETI).  Meeting Summary (in Japanese), Program and Presentations

Working Papers No.76-No.83 uploaded.

Albert Saiz (Director of MIT Center for Real Estate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) presented "Immigrant  Locations  and  Native  Residential  Preferences:  Emerging  ghettos  or  new  communities?" at Hitotsubashi Economics Seminar/Macro Money Workshop/International Seminar.  Presentation Slides

Hitotsubashi International Workshop on Real Estae and Macro Economy was held on March 27 at Hitotsubashi Hall. Meeting Summary (in Japanese), Program and Slides

Iichiro Uesugi (Principal Investigator) contributed an article to the Nikkei Newspaper (March 5, 2018) on "Bank lending without collateral or personal guarantees: Examining its possibilities" (In Japanese).

2nd Household Finance Conference was held on January 20 at Hitotsubashi Hall. Program and Slides

Hirofumi Uchida (Co-investigator, Kenkyu Buntansha) contributed an article to the Nikkei Newspaper (January 12, 2018) on "Role of Fintech in the future of banking businesses" (in Japanese).