News Archive (2014)

March

March 30, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-15 "Deterministic Dynamic Programming in Discrete Time: A Monotone Convergence Principle"
Takashi KAMIHIGASHI / Masayuki YAO
March 28, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-14 "Identifying High Growth Firms in India: An Alternative Approach" Aradhna AGGARWAL / Takahiro SATO
March 24, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-13 "The Growing Indian Middle Class: Attracting Indian Tourists to Japan" Srabani Roy CHOUDHURY
March 21, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2014-27 (Revised) "Workfare as "Collateral": The case of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India" Subhasish DEY / Katsushi S. IMAI
March 19, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-12 "A Reexamination of Changes in Accounting Policy: Evidence from Japan" Masahiro ENOMOTO
March 18, 2015
Prof. Takahiro SATO's comment appeared in The Daily NNA India (March 4, 2015)

March 18, 2015
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI appeared in a show on CBC Radio (February 24 & 26, 2015)

March 18, 2015
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI's presentation was featured in the Hoken Mainichi Shimbun (February 13, 2015)

March 17, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-11 "Fast Bellman Iteration: An Application of Legendre-Fenchel Duality to In nite-Horizon Dynamic Programming in Discrete Time" Ronaldo CARPIO / Takashi KAMIHIGASHI
March 16, 2015
An article written by Prof. Takahiro SATO appeared in Economist (Enlarged Special Issue, March 24, 2015, pp.48-49)

March 12, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-10 "Capital Controls, Monetary Policy, and Balance Sheets in a Small Open Economy"
Shigeto KITANO / Kenya TAKAKU
March 12, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2011-25 (Revised) "Predetermined Exchange Rate, Monetary Targeting, and Inflation Targeting Regimes"
Shigeto KITANO
March 9, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2013-07 (Revised) "Crises, Economic Integration and Growth Collapses in African Countries"
Abdilahi ALI / Katsushi S. IMAI
March 3, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-09 "Property Rights Protection in 18th century Japan Revisited; the Case of Rice Backed Security Exchange Market" Yasuo TAKATSUKI

February

February 27, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2014-14 (Revised) "Buffer Stock Savings by Portfolio Adjustment: Evidence from Rural India"
Katsushi S. IMAI / Bilal MALAEB
February 26, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-08 "Cross-Country Evidence on Determinants of Fiscal Policy Effectiveness –The Role of Capital Flows and a Country's International Trade and Financial Position" Agata WIERZBOWSKA / Masahiko SHIBAMOTO
February 13, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-07 "Rural and Urban Poverty Estimates for Developing Countries: Methodologies" Katsushi S. IMAI / Bilal MALEB
February 13, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-06 "Do Agricultural Extension Programmes Reduce Poverty and Vulnerability? Farm Size, Agricultural Productivity and Poverty in Uganda" Katsushi S. IMAI / Md. Faruq HASAN / Eleonora PORRECA
February 13, 2015
Prof. Kazuo NISHIMURA appeared in a TV show on Asahi Broadcasting Corporation (February 7, 2015)

February 13, 2015
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI appeared in a show on CBC Radio (January 7, 28 & 29, 2015)

February 13, 2015
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI's comment and interview appeared in the following medias
  • Comment: CHUNICHI (January 15, 2015)
  • Interview: Hoken Mainichi (January 23, 2015)
February 3, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-05 "Board of Directors and Cost Efficiency: Do Stock and Cooperative Organizations Differ?"
Kozo HARIMAYA / Kei TOMIMURA / Nobuyoshi YAMORI
February 1, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-04 "Efficiencies of Small Financial Cooperatives in Japan: Comparison of Estimation Methods"
Kozo HARIMAYA / Kei TOMIMURA / Nobuyoshi YAMORI

January

January 27, 2015
Visiting Professor, Tomohiko SATO (Statistic Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications)'s interview appeared in the Weekly Diamond (2015 January 31 Issue, p.7)
January 21, 2015
The Japanese Accounting Review Vol.4 is available online

January 19, 2015
Prof. Takahiro SATO's comment appeared in The Daily NNA India (January 16, 2015)

January 19, 2015
Prof. Kazuo NISHIMURA's interview appeared in the following medias
  • President Family (2014 Winter Issue)
  • Sankei (January 19, 2015)
January 15, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-03 "A Simple No-Bubble Theorem" Takashi KAMIHIGASHI
January 13, 2015
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI appeared in a show on CBC Radio (December 9, 2014)

January 13, 2015
An article regarding Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI's presentation appeared in FP Journal (December, 2014)

January 12, 2015
Prof. Takahiro SATO's presentation at the Japan Foundation (India) was featured in an article in NNA.ASIA

January 7, 2015
An article regarding Prof. Satoshi FUJIMURA's presentation appeared in THE SEN-I-NEWS (December 17, 2014)

January 6, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-02 "Say It with a Pet Bottle: Discredited Diesel Vehicles in Japan"
Takahiro ENDO / Yoritoshi HARA / Yuki TSUBOYAMA
January 5, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-01 "Does Non-Farm Sector Employment Reduce Rural Poverty and Vulnerability? Evidence from Vietnam and India" Katsushi S. IMAI / Raghav GAIHA / Ganesh THAPA

December

December 29, 2014
Prof. Takahiro SATO's visit to the NTPC Simhadri Super Thermal Power Station with a team from JICA was featured in THE HINDU
December 25, 2014
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2014-40 "Do Conditional Cash Transfers Reduce Household Vulnerability in Rural Mexico?" Naoko UCHIYAMA
December 21, 2014
The 5th International Conference of THE JAPANESE ACCOUNTING REVIEW was held on December 21, 2014 (In Japanese)

December 12, 2014
We concluded an agreement on academic and cultural exchange with the Economics School of Jilin University, China (November 21, 2014)
December 9, 2014
Prof. Nobuaki HAMAGUCHI presented at the APEC Informal Senior Officials' Meeting (ISOM) held in Manila, The Philippines (December 8, 2014).
December 8, 2014
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI's comment appeared in the Chunichi on November 15, 2014

December 8, 2014
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI appeared in a show on CBC Radio (November 5 & 18, 2014)

December 2, 2014
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2014-28 (Revised) "Decoding the Growth-Nutrition Nexus in China: Inequality, Uncertainty and Food Insecurity"
Jing YOU / Katsushi S. IMAI / Raghav GAIHA
December 1, 2014
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2014-39 "Monetary Policy, Incomplete Asset Markets, and Welfare in a Small Open Economy"
Shigeto KITANO / Kenya TAKAKU

November

November 26, 2014
"Cool heads and warm hearts needed for regional peace and prosperity" written by Prof. Laixun ZHAO appeared in the South China Morning Post on November 20, 2014
November 21, 2014
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2014-38 "Seeking Ergodicity in Dynamic Economies" Takashi KAMIHIGASHI / John STACHURSKI
November 21, 2014
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2014-37 "Perfect Simulation for Models of Industry Dynamics" Takashi KAMIHIGASHI / John STACHURSKI
November 18, 2014
The 5th International Conference of THE JAPANESE ACCOUNTING REVIEW will be held in campus on December 21, 2014

November 11, 2014
Reports on Research Activities and Evaluation 2013 is available online

November 10, 2014
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2014-36 "An Axiomatic Approach to Measuring Degree of Stochastic Dominance"
Takashi KAMIHIGASHI / John STACHURSKI
November 6, 2014
Articles featuring Prof. Takahiro SATO's research appeared in The Daily NNA (India) (October 20 & 21, 2014)

November 4, 2014
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI appeared in a show on CBC Radio (October 9 & 28, 2014)

October

October 17, 2014
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2014-35 "Stability Analysis for Random Dynamical Systems in Economics" Takashi KAMIHIGASHI / John STACHURSKI
October 14, 2014
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2014-34 "The Role of Corporate Environmental Disclosures: An Empirical Analysis of the Influence of a Firm's Environmental Initiatives on Its Economic Performance" Kimitaka NISHITANI / Katsuhiko KOKUBU
October 14, 2014
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2014-14 (Revised) "Buffer Stock Savings by Portfolio Adjustment: Evidence from Rural India"
Katsushi S. IMAI / Bilal MALAEB
October 2, 2014
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI appeared in a show on CBC Radio (September 10, 2014)

October 1, 2014
Yoshinori YAMAKURA (Program Manager, ImPACT, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan / Senior Manager, Info- Future Research Center, NTT DATA INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT CONSULTING,Inc, JAPAN) assumed his post as Research Fellow at RIEB
October 1, 2014
Yiannis VAILAKIS (Professor, Adam Smith Business School University of Glasgow, UK) assumed his post as Research Fellow at RIEB
October 1, 2014
Hisanaga AMIKURA (Professor, Faculty of Economics, Sophia University, JAPAN) assumed his post as Research Fellow at RIEB

September

September 30, 2014
Prof. Kazuo NISHIMURA's comment appeared in Kyoto Shimbun on September 26, 2014

September 16, 2014
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2011-18 (Revised) "Stable Shareholdings, the Decision Horizon Problem, and Earnings Smoothing"
Akinobu SHUTO / Takuya IWASAKI
September 2, 2014
An article written by Prof. Kazuo NISHIMURA appeared in Sankei on September 2, 2014

September 2, 2014
An article about Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI's interview appeared in the Journal of Financial Planning (August 2014, pp.6-7)

September 2, 2014
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI appeared in a show on CBC Radio (August 7 & 19, 2014)

August

August 25, 2014
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2014-33 "Dynamic and Long-term Linkages among Growth, Inequality and Poverty in Developing Countries"
Katsushi S. IMAI / Raghav GAIHA
August 4, 2014
An article about RIEB appeared on the JSPS San Francisco Newsletter (No.34, July, 2014)

August 1, 2014
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2014-32 "Agricultural Employment, Wages and Poverty in Developing Countries"
Katsushi S. IMAI / Raghav GAIHA / Constanza Di NUCCI

July

July 31, 2014
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2013-34 (Revised) "A Cross-country Study on the Relationship between Financial Development and Earnings Management" Masahiro ENOMOTO / Fumihiko KIMURA / Tomoyasu YAMAGUCHI
July 31, 2014
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2014-31 "Multiple Interior Steady States in the Ramsey Model with Elastic Labor Supply" Takashi KAMIHIGASHI
July 31, 2014
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2014-30 "Product Innovation in Response to Environmental Standards and Competitive Advantage: A Hedonic Analysis of Refrigerators in the Japanese Retail Market" Kimitaka NISHITANI / Munehiko ITOH
July 30, 2014
An article about Prof. Takashi KAMIHIGASHI, Prof. Yasuo TAKATSUKI, and Prof. Masahiko SHIBAMOTO's research appeared in the Nikkei (July 30, 2014)
July 28, 2014
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI appeared in Close-up Gendai (NHK, July 28, 2014)

July 27, 2014
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2014-29 "The Announcement Effects of Regional Tourism Industrial Policy: The Case of the Hainan International Tourism Island Policy in China" Jianjun SUN / Su ZHANG / Nobuyoshi YAMORI
July 10, 2014
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2013-32 (Revised) "The Effect of Institutional Factors on Discontinuities in Earnings Distribution: Public Versus Private Firms in Japan" Akinobu SHUTO / Takuya IWASAKI
July 9, 2014
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI appeared in a show on CBC Radio (June 11&19, 2014)

July 8, 2014
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2014-24 (Revised) "An Application of Kleene's Fixed Point Theorem to Dynamic Programming: A Note"
Takashi KAMIHIGASHI / Kevin REFFETT / Masayuki YAO
July 1, 2014
Prof. Takahiro SATO's interview was mentioned in the NIKKEI ASIAN REVIEW "India's emerging sense of national greatness" (May 21, 2014)

June

June 30, 2014
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2014-28 "Decoding the Growth-Nutrition Nexus in China: Inequality, Uncertainty and Food Insecurity"
Jing YOU / Katsushi S. IMAI / Raghav GAIHA
June 27, 2014
Prof. Takashi KAMIHIGASHI made a keynote speech at The Seventh Vietnam Economist Annual Meeting (June 24, 2014)

June 23, 2014
An article written by Prof. Takahiro SATO appeared in Economist (with Atsuko KAMIIKE, Enlarged Special Issue, June 24, 2014, pp.78-79)
June 17, 2014
Prof. Hiroyuki HINO presided at the Japan-Africa Business Forum 2014 held in Tokyo (June 10-11, 2014)
* Further details are avaiable on Nikkei BP
June 14, 2014
Call for Submissions for The 5th International Conference of THE JAPANESE ACCOUNTING REVIEW (December 21, 2014)
* Deadline for Submission: 11:59 pm JST on August 9, 2014
* For further details, please check our conference web site
June 9, 2014
An article written by Prof. Nobuaki HAMAGUCHI appeared in the Nikkei (June 8, 2014, p.21)

June 8, 2014
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2014-27 "Workfare as "Collateral": The case of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India"
Subhasish DEY / Katsushi S. IMAI
June 5, 2014
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI appeared in a show on CBC Radio (May 20, 2014)

June 1, 2014
Takahiro ENDO was appointed as Associate Professor of Corporate Competitiveness Unit at the Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration

May

May 28, 2014
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2012-10 (Revised) "Nutrition, Activity Intensity and Wage Linkages: Evidence from India"
Katsushi S. IMAI / Samuel Kobina ANNIM / Veena S. KULKARNI / Raghav GAIHA
May 28, 2014
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2014-26 "Japanese SMEs and the Credit Guarantee System after the Global Financial Crisis"
Nobuyoshi YAMORI
May 26, 2014
An article written by Prof. Takahiro SATO appeared in Economist (Enlarged Special Issue, June 3, 2014, pp.84-85)

May 23, 2014
An article about Prof. Kazuo NISHIMURA's interview appeared in the Kyoto Shimbun News (May 17, 2014)

May 20, 2014
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2014-25 "A Comparison between Optimal Capital Controls under Fixed Exchange Rates and Optimal Monetary Policy under Flexible Rates" Shigeto KITANO / Kenya TAKAKU
May 20, 2014
Prof. Takahiro SATO's comment appeared in the Nikkei on May 17, 2014

May 19, 2014
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2014-24 "An Application of Kleene's Fixed Point Theorem to Dynamic Programming: A Note"
Takashi KAMIHIGASHI / Kevin REFFETT / Masayuki YAO
May 19, 2014
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2014-23 "Partial Stochastic Dominance" Takashi KAMIHIGASHI / John STACHURSKI
May 19, 2014
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2014-22 "Seeking Ergodicity in Dynamic Economies" Takashi KAMIHIGASHI / John STACHURSKI
May 19, 2014
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2011-18 (Revised) "Stable Shareholdings, the Decision Horizon Problem, and Patterns of Earnings Management" Akinobu SHUTO / Takuya IWASAKI
May 13, 2014
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2014-21 "Welfare Benefits of Capital Controls:The Case of Spain"
Shigeto KITANO / Yoichi MATSUBAYASHI
May 13, 2014
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2014-20 "An Experimental Examination of Compensation Schemes and Level of Effort in Differentiated Tasks"
Hiromasa TAKAHASHI/ Junyi SHEN / Kazuhito OGAWA
May 13, 2014
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI appeared in a show on CBC Radio (April 8, 2014)

April

April 23, 2014
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2014-19 "Women's Empowerment and Prevalence of Stunted and Underweight Children in Rural India"
Katsushi S. IMAI / Samuel Kobina ANNIM / Veena S. KULKARNI / Raghav GAIHA
April 15, 2014
Prof. Satoshi FUJIMURA contributed to the production of a show Oiesan (May 9, 2014, Yomiuri TV)

April 15, 2014
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI appeared in a show on CBC Radio (April 1, 2014)

April 15, 2014
Prof. Kazuo NISHIMURA appeared in a show on ABC Radio (March 16, 2014)

April 11, 2014
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2014-18 "Cultural Openness, Interpersonal Justice, and Job Satisfaction among Millennials and Seniors: Evidence from Japanese Target Employees following M&A"
Ralf BEBENROTH / Maimunah ISMAIL
April 1, 2014
Osamu UDA (Associate Professor, College of Commerce, Nihon University, JAPAN) assumed his post as Research Fellow at RIEB
April 1, 2014
Akihiko YAMADA (Chief Survey Officer, Center of the History of Japanese Industrial Technology, JAPAN) assumed his post as Research Fellow at RIEB
April 1, 2014
Hiroshi GOTO was appointed as Assistant Professor of Global Economy Unit at RIEB

April 1, 2014
Nobuyoshi YAMORI was appointed as Professor of Global Finance Unit at RIEB