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Last Updated April 23, 2012
What's New
Tokyo Market View by Masataka Maeda New!

Inflation Expectations Rise Amid BOJ Easing (14/May/12)

Medium-term Forecast New!

Our 38th Forecast is posted on Nihon keizai shimbun
(17/Apr/12)

Japan Financial Report New!

Financial Markets Grope for Stability and Growth:Nagging Impaired Loan Assets, Currency Worries
(12/Apr/12)

Short-term Forecast

No.149 Quarterly Forecast of Japanese Economy [2012/1-3---2014/1-3] (9/Mar/12)

JCER Staff Reports by Kengo Tahara

Will the negative wealth effect, from falling home values, lead to less consumption growth? Yes, and with a slow recovery in income growth, the result is a drawn out overall recovery (27/Feb/12)

Discussion Paper

Central Bank Balance Sheets Expansion: Japan's Experience
Kazumasa Iwata and Shinji Takenaka (31/Jan/12)

Strategy switching in the Japanese stock market
Ryuichi Yamamoto and Hideaki Hirata (01/Feb/12)

Belief changes and expectation heterogeneity in buy- and sell-side professionals in the Japanese stock market
Ryuichi Yamamoto and Hideaki Hirata (01/Feb/12)


Redesigning of the Japanese Economy
 : Beyond the Earthquake Disaster

 -Looking at the Issue of Abandoning Nuclear Energy

"Energy Saving and Renewable Energy Development Less Costly than Sticking with Nuclear Energy--Nuclear Generation Could Cost Twice Government Estimates" (30/Jan/12)

Asian Economic Policy Review

Vol.6 Issue 2, "Developments in Asian Finance" (26/Dec/11)

World Business Climate Index New!

World climate improved slightly in February with "rain"
(18/Apr/12)

 -Tax and Pension Reform

"Pension Reform: Take 'Energizing' Approach
 --Stimulate Private Investment and Consumption
 --Scrap Premiums: Finance via Consumption Tax"
(2/Sep/11)

 -Thinking Costs of Generating Electricity

"FY2020 Nuclear Generating Cost Treble Pre-Accident Level--Huge Price Tag on Fukushima Accident Cleanup" (29/Aug/11)

JCER Staff Reports by Yuki Masujima

Food Prices Booming, So Why Are Farm Values Sinking? (22/Jul/11)

Policy Proposals for the response of the Great East Japan Earthquake

"Urgent Need for 5 Trillion Yen Disaster Recovery Package" (13/Apr/11)

China Research Report 2010

The Impact of the Rise of China on the World Order (MAR/11)

Asia Research Report 2010

Asia's Huge Dragon and Elephant(FEB/11)

Potential Competitiveness Ranking 2010
Japan Unchanged 14th Place
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AEPR Special Seminar : "New Order of World Economy After the Global Financial Crisis"


JCER held the special seminar entitled "New Order of World Economy After the Global Financial Crisis" on 9th Apr, 2010 at Nikkei Kayabacho Hall.


Panel Discussion:
  • Prof. Miles KAHLER,University of California,SanDiego,UCSD

  • Prof. Takatoshi ITO,University of Tokyo

  • Akira KOJIMA, Senior Research Fellow,JCER (also serving as moderator)
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