News Archive (2015)

March

March 30, 2016
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2016-17 "Welfare Effects of Endogenous Information Acquisition and Disclosure in Duopoly Markets"
Kazunori MIWA
March 29, 2016
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2016-16 "Estimation of Vulnerability to Poverty Using a Multilevel Longitudinal Model: Evidence from the Philippines"
Christian D. MINA / Katsushi S. IMAI
March 29, 2016
Yoshimichi MURAKAMI was appointed as Project Assistant Professor of Global Economy Unit at RIEB

March 28, 2016
An advertising article written about the RIETI Policy Symposium which Prof. Nobuaki HAMAGUCHI joined as a Speaker appeared in the Nikkei
(March 28, 2016, Evening paper p.11)
March 28, 2016
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP243 (Revised) "Understanding Regional Growth Dynamics in Japan: Panel Cointegration Approach Utilizing the PANIC Method"
Masahiko SHIBAMOTO / Yoshiro TSUTSUI / Chisako YAMANE
March 26, 2016
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2016-15 "A Simple No-Bubble Theorem for Deterministic Sequential Economies"
Takashi KAMIHIGASHI
March 26, 2016
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2016-14 "Endogenous Procyclicality of Labor Productivity, Employment, Real Wages and Effort in Conditionally Heteroskedastic Sunspots Unemployment Business Cycles with Negishi-Solow Efficiency Wages"
Jean-Michel GRANDMONT
March 25, 2016
An article written by Prof. Kazuo NISHIMURA appeared in the Sankei Shinbun
(March 25, 2016, p.13)
March 25, 2016
JSPS Research Fellow Naoko UCHIYAMA received the Incentive Award of the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology as a high achiever of the Spanish Proficiency Test Class-1
(March 22, 2016)
March 24, 2016
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2016-13 "Does Physical Exercise Affect Tradeoffs between Fixed Pay and Performance-related Pay for Individuals?"
Weiyi ZHANG / Hiromasa TAKAHASHI / Junyi SHEN
March 24, 2016
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2016-12 "An Empirical Analysis on the Determinants of Overweight and Obesity in China"
Ping GAO / Junyi SHEN
March 23, 2016
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2016-11 "Capital Controls as an Alternative to Credit Policy in a Small Open Economy"
Shigeto KITANO / Kenya TAKAKU
March 17, 2016
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2016-10 "Downsizing, Impairment Recognition Timing, and Non-Executive Employee Ownership: A Japanese Perspective"
Keishi FUJIYAMA
March 9, 2016
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2016-09 "Gender-specific Reference-dependent Preferences in an Experimental Trust Game"
Hiromasa TAKAHASHI / Junyi SHEN / Kazuhito OGAWA
March 8, 2016
Prof. Takahiro SATO's comment appeared in the The Daily NNA India
(March 3, 2016)
March 8, 2016
Prof. Matao MIYAMOTO (Research Fellow) & Associate Prof. Yasuo TAKATSUKI appeared in a TV program "Another Stories" on NHK BS Premium
(February 17, 2016)
March 8, 2016
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI's comment appeared in the Yomiuri Shinbun
(February 17, 2016)
March 8, 2016
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI appeared in a show on CBC Radio
(February 2 & 10, 2016)
March 1, 2016
Jinhui CHEN was appointed as Project Assistant Professor of Integrated Center for Corporate Archives (ICCA) at RIEB

February

February 29, 2016
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2016-08 "Recursive Utility and the Solution to the Bellman Equation"
Masayuki YAO
February 26, 2016
An advertising article written about the Symposium which Prof. Kazuo NISHIMURA joined as a Speaker and Panelist appeared in the following medias
  • Nikkei (February 24, 2016, Evening paper p.10)
  • Yomiuri (February 25, 2016, Evening paper p.6)
February 25, 2016
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2016-07 "A Comparative Empirical Analysis of the Determinants of Initiation of Integrated Reporting Practices in Japanese and UK Listed Companies: The View of Voluntary Disclosure Theory or Legitimacy Theory?"
Kimitaka NISHITANI / Jeffrey UNERMAN / Katsuhiko KOKUBU
February 25, 2016
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2016-06 "Consumption Smoothing, Risk Sharing and Household Vulnerability in Rural Mexico"
Naoko UCHIYAMA
February 25, 2016
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2014-40 (Revised) "Do Conditional Cash Transfers Reduce Household Vulnerability in Rural Mexico?"
Naoko UCHIYAMA
February 25, 2016
An advertising article written about the Symposium which Prof. Kazuo NISHIMURA joined as a Speaker and Panelist appeared in the Nikkei
(February 24, 2016, Evening paper p.10)
February 17, 2016
An article "Viel Freiheit zum Forschen"-Freedom to Research- written by Prof. Ralf BEBENROTH appeared in the 'duz' (Deutsche Universitats Zeitung)
(January 29, 2016, pp40-41)
February 16, 2016
An article written by Prof. Nobuaki HAMAGUCHI appeared in the Nikkei
(February 16, 2016, p.31)
February 12, 2016
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
February 12, 2016
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2016-05 "Infinite-Horizon Deterministic Dynamic Programming in Discrete Time: A Monotone Convergence Principle and a Penalty Method"
Takashi KAMIHIGASHI / Masayuki YAO
February 8, 2016
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2016-04 "Fast Bellman Iteration: An Application of Legendre-Fenchel Duality to Deterministic Dynamic Programming in Discrete Time"
Ronaldo CARPIO / Takashi KAMIHIGASHI
February 8, 2016
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI's comment appeared in the Chunichi Shinbun
(January 30, 2016)
February 8, 2016
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI appeared in a show on CBC Radio (January 15, 2016)

February 8, 2016
An article written by Prof. Nobuaki HAMAGUCHI appeared in CEPR Policy Portal VOXEU web site (February 7, 2016)

February 4, 2016
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2016-03 "A Simple Model of the Chinese Hukou System and Some Ongoing Reforms"
Laixun ZHAO
February 1, 2016
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2016-02 "Robust Comparative Statics for Non-monotone Shocks in Large Aggregative Games"
Carmen CAMACHO / Takashi KAMIHIGASHI / Cagri SAGLAM
February 1, 2016
Miwa MATSUO was appointed as Associate Professor of Corporate Competitiveness Unit at RIEB

January

January 29, 2016
The Japanese Accounting Review Vol.5 is available online

January 13, 2016
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2013-36 (Revised) "External Debt and Taylor Rules in a Small Open Economy"
Shigeto KITANO / Kenya TAKAKU
January 8, 2016
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2016-01 "Violent Conflicts and Economic Performance of the Manufacturing Sector in India"
Atsushi KATO / Takahiro SATO
January 8, 2016
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-30 (Revised) "Revisiting Marshallian versus Walrasian Stability in an Experimental Market"
Junyi SHEN / Ken-Ichi SHIMOMURA / Takehiko YAMATO / Tokinao OHTAKA / Kiyotaka TAKAHASHI
January 8, 2016
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2013-28 (Revised) "Hometown-Specific Bargaining Power in an Experimental Market in China"
Xiangdong QIN / Junyi SHEN / Ken-Ichi SHIMOMURA / Takehiko YAMATO
January 8, 2016
An article "Will We See Changes in the Corporate Governance of Regional Banks?" written by Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI appeared in Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) web site (December 21, 2015)
January 8, 2016
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI appeared in a show on CBC Radio (December 15 & 18, 2015)

December

December 24, 2015
Reports on Research Activities and Evaluation 2014 is available online

December 21, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-43 "International Transmission of Bubble Crashes in a Two-Country Overlapping Generations Model"
Lise CLAIN-CHAMOSSET-YVRARD / Takashi KAMIHIGASHI
December 21, 2015
An article contributed by Prof. Yasuo TAKATSUKI appeared in the following medias
  • Asahi (December 13, 2015)
  • Nikkei (December 21, 2015)
December 19, 2015
The 6th International Conference of THE JAPANESE ACCOUNTING REVIEW was held on December 19, 2015 (In Japanese)

December 07, 2015
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI's comment appeared in the following medias
  • Chunichi (November 5, 2015)
  • Yomiuri (November 28, 2015)
December 07, 2015
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI appeared in a show on CBC Radio (December 10 & 27, 2015)

December 4, 2015
2015 Kobe-Peking Joint Conference on Economics (Organized by: School of Economics, Peking University, Co-Organized by: Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration, Kobe University) was held on December 4, 2015
December 4, 2015
Prof. Kazuo NISHIMURA's comment appeared in the following medias
  • Nikkei (December 2, 2015)
  • YAHOO!JAPAN News (December 3, 2015 18:55)
December 1, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-42 "Regime-Switching Sunspot Equilibria in a One-Sector Growth Model with Aggregate Decreasing Returns and Small Externalities" Takashi KAMIHIGASHI

November

November 27, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-41 "The Tangibility Effect of Paper Money and Coins in an Investment Experiment"
Junyi SHEN / Hiromasa TAKAHASHI
November 25, 2015
An article contributed by Prof. Matao MIYAMOTO appeared in The Mainichi on November 20, 2015

November 24, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-10 (Revised) "Capital Controls, Monetary Policy, and Balance Sheets in a Small Open Economy"
Shigeto KITANO / Kenya TAKAKU
November 20, 2015
The 6th International Conference of THE JAPANESE ACCOUNTING REVIEW will be held in campus on December 19, 2015

November 18, 2015
An article written by Prof. Nobuaki HAMAGUCHI appeared in Nikkei BizGate on November 18, 2015

November 16, 2015
Prof. Takahiro SATO's comment appeared in the Business Economics on November 14, 2015

November 12, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-30 (Revised) "Revisiting Marshallian versus Walrasian Stability in an Experimental Market"
Junyi SHEN / Ken-Ichi SHIMOMURA / Takehiko YAMATO / Tokinao OHTAKA / Kiyotaka TAKAHASHI
November 11, 2015
Tetsuo ABO (Professor Emeritus, The University of Tokyo, JAPAN) assumed his post as Research Fellow at RIEB

November 11, 2015
An article contributed by Prof. Yasuo TAKATSUKI appeared in the following medias
  • Sankei (October 29, 2015)
  • Asahi (November 5 , 2015)
November 09, 2015
An article about Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI's interview appeared in FP Journal (November 2015 Issue, pp.30-31)

November 09, 2015
An article written by Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI appeared in Ryoso (October 2015 Issue, pp.40-41)

November 09, 2015
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI appeared in a show on CBC Radio (October 7, 2015)

November 09, 2015
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI's comment appeared in the following medias
  • Chunichi (October 2 & 29, 2015)
  • Bloomberg Business, Washington Post Business Page (October 20, 2015)
November 09, 2015
An article written by Prof. Ralf BEBENROTH appeared in Toyo Keizai (November 2 & 7, 2015)

November 05, 2015
Prof. Ralf BEBENROTH's comment appeared in the ACCJ Journal (November 2015 Issue)

October

October 19, 2015
An article written by Prof. Takahiro SATO appeared in Economist (with Yuko NIKAIDO, October 19 Issue, pp.18-20)

October 19, 2015
An article contributed by Prof. Matao MIYAMOTO appeared in NIKKEI on October 18, 2015

October 8, 2015
An article about Prof. Takahiro SATO's presentation appeared in THE TIMES OF INDIA on October 7, 2015

October 6, 2015
An article about Prof. Munehiko ITOH's interview appeared in Council for Research Institutes and Centers of Japanese National Universities web site (October 2, 2015)

October 6, 2015
An article written by Prof. Yasuo TAKATSUKI appeared in the Kyoto Shimbun News on October 2, 2015

October 6, 2015
An article written by Prof. Nobuaki HAMAGUCHI appeared in Nikkei BizGate on October 1, 2015

October 6, 2015
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI appeared in a show on CBC Radio (September 11, 2015)

September

September 29, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-40 "Seeking Ergodicity in Dynamic Economies" Takashi KAMIHIGASHI / John STACHURSKI
September 28, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-39 "Critical Capital Stock in a Continuous-Time Growth Model with a Convex-Concave Production Function"
Ken-Ichi AKAO / Takashi KAMIHIGASHI / Kazuo NISHIMURA
September 28, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-38 "A Simple No-Bubble Theorem for Deterministic Sequential Economies" Takashi KAMIHIGASHI
September 28, 2015
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI appeared in a show on CBC Radio (August 4 & 18, 2015)

September 24, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-37 "Indeterminacy in a Model with Production Externality and Inferiority in Consumption"
Kazumichi IWASA / Kazuo NISHIMURA
September 24, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2014-40 (Revised) "Do Conditional Cash Transfers Reduce Household Vulnerability in Rural Mexico?" Naoko UCHIYAMA
September 16, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-36 "Inter-Industrial Factor Allocation in the Short and Long Runs in Chamberlinian Monopolistic Competition"
Hiroshi GOTO

August

August 31, 2015
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI's comment appeared in the following medias
  • Yomiuri (July 7, 2015)
  • Koumei (July 25 , 2015)
  • Financial Journal (August, 2015, pp.8-13)
August 31, 2015
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI appeared in a show on CBC Radio (July 7, 2015)

August 31, 2015
An article written by Prof. Nobuaki HAMAGUCHI appeared in Nikkei BizGate on August 26, 2015

August 28, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-35 "Inefficiency and Self-Determination: Simulation-based Evidence from Meiji Japan"
Eric WEESE / Masayoshi HAYASHI / Masashi NISHIKAWA
August 19, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2014-10 (Revised) "Source of Underestimation of the Monetary Policy Effect: Re-examination of the Policy Effectiveness in Japan's 1990s" Masahiko SHIBAMOTO
August 1, 2015
Matao MIYAMOTO (Professor Emeritus, Osaka University, JAPAN) assumed his post as Research Fellow at RIEB

July

July 27, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-34 "Mate Choice Mechanism for Solving a Quasi-Dilemma" Tatsuyoshi SAIJO / Junyi SHEN
July 27, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-33 "Geography and Demography: New Economic Geography with Endogenous Fertility"
Hiroshi GOTO / Keiya MINAMIMURA
July 26, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-32 "Infnite-Horizon Deterministic Dynamic Programming in Discrete Time: A Monotone Convergence Principle"
Takashi KAMIHIGASHI / Masayuki YAO
July 23, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-31 "Reciprocity and Exclusion in Informal Financial Institutions: An Experimental Study of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations" Shimpei KOIKE / Mayuko NAKAMARU / Tokinao OTAKA / Hajime SHIMAO / Ken-Ichi SHIMOMURA / Takehiko YAMATO
July 23, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-30 "Marshallian versus Walrasian Stability Revisited: An Experimental Study in Kenya" Junyi SHEN / Ken-Ichi SHIMOMURA / Takehiko YAMATO / Michiharu MASUI / Tokinao OHTAKA / Kiyotaka TAKAHASHI
July 23, 2015
Prof. Takahiro SATO appeared on News Real (TV Osaka, July 22, 2015)

July 22, 2015
An article written by Prof. Nobuaki HAMAGUCHI appeared in Nikkei BizGate on July 22, 2015

July 21, 2015
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI's comment appeared in the following medias
  • Chunichi (June 23, 2015)
  • Yomiuri (June 26 & 29, 2015)
July 21, 2015
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI appeared in a show on CBC Radio (June 2, 24 & 30, 2015)

July 21, 2015
An article about Prof. Takahiro SATO's presentation appeared in National Council of Applied Economic Research (June 17, 2015)

July 14, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-29 "Effects on the Cross-Country Difference in the Minimum Wage on International Trade, Growth and Unemployment" Chihiro INABA / Katsufumi FUKUDA
July 3, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-28 "Robust Predictions under Finite Depth of Reasoning" Kota MURAYAMA
July 3, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-27 "Spatial Dependence in Regional Business Cycles: Evidence from Mexican States" Keisuke KONDO

June

June 25, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-26 "Discontinuity of Earnings and Earnings Changes Distribution after J-SOX Implementation: Empirical Evidence from Japan" Masahiro ENOMOTO / Tomoyasu YAMAGUCHI
June 24, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-25 "Robust Comparative Statics of Non-monotone Shocks in Large Aggregative Games"
Carmen CAMACHO / Takashi KAMIHIGASHI / Cagri SAGLAM
June 23, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-24 "A Simple No-Bubble Theorem for Deterministic Dynamic Economies" Takashi KAMIHIGASHI
June 19, 2015
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI appeared in a show on CBC Radio (May 12, 2015)

June 14, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2013-25 (Revised) "The Effects of Globalization on Regional Inequality in a Model of Semi-Endogenous Growth and Foot-loose Capital" Katsufumi FUKUDA
June 14, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-23 "Does Agricultural Growth Reduce Inequality and Poverty in Developing Countries?" Katsushi S. IMAI / Raghav GAIHA
June 3, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-22 "When Organizational Justice Matters for Affective Merger Commitment"
Ralf BEBENROTH / Kai Oliver THIELE
June 1, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-21 "International Transmission of Bubble Crashes: Stationary Sunspot Equilibria in a Two-Country Overlapping Generations Model" Lise CLAINl-CHAMOSSET-YVRARD / Takashi KAMIHIGASHI

May

May 27 - August 8, 2015
Call for Submissions for The 6th International Conference of THE JAPANESE ACCOUNTING REVIEW (December 19, 2015)
* Deadline for Submission: 11:59 pm JST on August 8, 2015
* For further details, please check our conference web site
May 21, 2015
Prof. Kazuo NISHIMURA's comment appeared in the following medias
  • Kumamoto Nichinichi (March 21, 2015)
  • The Shikoku (March 22, 2015)
  • Miyazaki Nichinichi, Shizuoka (March 29, 2015)
  • Gifu (April 10, 2015)
  • The Shinano Mainichi (April 11, 2015)
  • Shimotsuke (April 12, 2015)
May 21, 2015
An article about Prof. Satoshi FUJIMURA's interview appeared in THE SEN-I-NEWS (May 8, 2015)

May 21, 2015
An article written by Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI appeared in Nikkei on April 12, 2015

May 21, 2015
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI appeared in a show on CBC Radio (April 17 & 21, 2015)

May 21, 2015
An article about the discussion meeting that Prof. Takahiro SATO participated appeared in Contemporary India (Vol.5, February 27, 2015, pp.223-250)
May 19, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-20 "Declining Nutrient Intake in a Growing China: Does Household Heterogeneity Matter?"
Jing YOU / Katsushi S. IMAI / Raghav GAIHA
May 15, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2013-25 (Revised) "The Effects of Globalization on Regional Inequality in a Model of Semi-Endogenous Growth and Foot-loose Capital" Katsufumi FUKUDA
May 11, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2012-13 (Revised) "Accrual-Based and Real Earnings Management: An International Comparison for Investor Protection"
Masahiro ENOMOTO / Fumihiko KIMURA / Tomoyasu YAMAGUCHI
May 8, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2013-28 (Revised) "Hometown-specific Bargaining Power in an Experimental Market in China"
Xiangdong QIN / Junyi SHEN / Ken-Ichi SHIMOMURA / Takehiko YAMATO
May 1, 2015
Ryuzo MIYAO (Professor, Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo, JAPAN) assumed his post as Research Fellow at RIEB

April

April 27, 2015
Annals of Economics and Business Vol.64 is available online

April 27, 2015
Kobe Economic & Business Research Series Vol.75 is available online

April 22, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-19 "Resistance to Neoliberal Regulatory Change: The Japanese Publishing Industry, 1990-2001" Takahiro ENDO
April 21, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-18 "Strategic Dual Sourcing as a Driver for Free Revealing of Innovation" Noriaki MATSUSHIMA / Laixun ZHAO
April 20, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-17 "Fertility, Regional Demographics, and Economic Integration" Hiroshi GOTO / Keiya MINAMIMURA
April 17, 2015
"Economic links between China and Japan can overcome nationalist politics" written by Prof. Laixun ZHAO appeared in the South China Morning Post on April 13, 2015
April 17, 2015
Prof. Yasuo TAKATSUKI contributed to the coverage of a news show News Terrace Kansai (March 19, 2015, NHK Osaka)

April 17, 2015
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI's comment appeared in the Chunichi on March 5, 2015

April 17, 2015
Prof. Nobuyoshi YAMORI appeared in a show on CBC Radio (March 3, 17 & 31, 2015)

April 7, 2015
Discussion Paper Series (English)
No.DP2015-16 "Estimation of Vulnerability to Poverty Using a Multilevel Longitudinal Model: Evidence from the Philippines"
Christian D. MINA / Katsushi S. IMAI
April 1, 2015
Hiroyuki HINO (Visiting Professor, University of Cape Town, KENYA) assumed his post as Research Fellow at RIEB

April 1, 2015
Keishi FUJIYAMA was appointed as Associate Professor of Corporate Information Unit at RIEB

April 1, 2015
Kazunori MIWA was appointed as Associate Professor of Corporate Information Unit at RIEB