Chihiro Shimizu (Co-investigator, Kenkyu Buntansha) contributed an article to the Nikkei Newspaper (September 1, 2015) on "the impact of population aging on house vacancies and residential real estate prices."
A special issue of Keizai Kenkyu (in Japanese) was published on "the Real Estate Market and the Macro Economy". There are five papers on real estate prices and their impact on economic activities in the issue.
Chihiro Shimizu (Co-investigator, Kenkyu Buntansha) organized a session "Commercial Property Price Indices and their Place in Official Statistics" at the 60th World Statistics Congress - ISI2015, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The Economics of Interfirm Networks (Tsutomu Watanabe (Co-investigator, Kenkyu Buntansha), Iichiro Uesugi (Principal investigator), Arito Ono (Co-investigator, Renkei Kenkyusha) editor) was published from Springer.
Mitsukuni Nishida (Research Collaborator) presented "First-Mover Advantage through Distribution: A Decomposition Approach" at INFORMS Marketing Science Conference in Baltimore, USA.
RIETI-MoFiR-Hitotsubashi-JFC International Workshop on Banking and Financial Research was held on June 15 at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry. Program, Presentation and Discussion slides
4th Money and Finance Research Group (MoFiR) Workshop on Banking was held on June 11-12 at Kobe University. Program, Presentation and Discussion slides
Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University