一橋大学経済研究所研究者コミュニティ · 2 Annamaria Inzelt IKU Innovation Research Centre 3 Bruno Dallago University of Trento 4 Carlo Milana University of London

一橋大学経済研究所研究者コミュニティ

サポートレターをいただいた研究者外国人―27 名

Name Affiliation

1 Albert Tsui National University of Singapore

2 Annamaria Inzelt IKU Innovation Research Centre

3 Bruno Dallago University of Trento

4 Carlo Milana University of London

5 Charles M. Becker Duke University

6 Christopher Spencer Loughborough University (UK)

7 Dale W. Jorgenson Harvard University

8 Eric J. Iversen Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and

Education (NIFU)

9 Hun-Chang Lee Korea University

10 Jean-Pascal Bassino ENS de Lyon

11 Jennifer Prah Ruger University of Pennsylvania

12 Jonathan Morduch NYU

13 Leig Shaw-Taylor University of Cambridge

14 Liang Wang University of Hawaii at Manoa

15 Marcus Asplund Copenhagen Business School

16 Markus Heckel Goethe University

17 Ngee-Choon Chia National University of Singapore

18 René Belderbos University of Leuven

19 Robert Gal Corvinus University

20 Roberto Veneziani Queen Mary University of London

21 Stephen Broadberry LSE

22 Steven Rosefielde The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

23 Tor Eriksson Aarhus University, Denmark

24 Tuan-Hwee Sng National University of Singapore

25 V K Ramachandran INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE

26 Zsuzsa Szeman Hungarian Academy of sciences

27 袁堂軍復旦大学

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Professor Yukinobu Kitamura, Director

Institute of Economic Research

Hitotsubashi University

Naka 2-1, Kunitachi

Tokyo, Japan 186-8603

Dear Professor Kitamura,

I am writing to strongly support the designation of Institute of Economic Research (IER) as an

Inter-University Research Institute by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and

Technology.

In the past 10 years, I have been a frequent visiting scholar to IER to conduct research on

pension and household-related issues. IER is able to provide excellent logistics, including

accommodation, office floor, computer facilities and library support. Such good-quality

support is at par with those provided by the world’s first-class universities I visited before.

They are: University of Chicago, University of California at Berkeley, Australian National

University, Melbourne University, Monash University, Peking University, University of Hong

Kong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Tilburg University.

Indeed, IER has housed well-established colleagues in different areas of research. Definitely it

serves as a strong magnet to attract many scholars all over the world to visit this place for

collaborative work and academic linkages. More importantly, I understand that the Institute

has established and systematically maintained precious and unique historical data archive for

research in both quality and quantity issues relating to Japan. No doubt that IER has served

and still serving the unique role of well-established institute in Japan for academic interaction

among scholars, economists, historians, government officials through workshops and

conferences in both empirical work and frontier econometric theory. Many participants

remarked that such workshops have been of very high quality presentation and discussion,

particularly useful for PhD students to keep up with the frontier state of the art and

thought-provoking for young scholars who just began their research career.

Regarding my own experiences with IER as visiting scholar in the past 10 years, I am highly

impressed by the excellent work conducted by Professor Takayama and Professor Kitamura.

They have published many pioneering and influential papers on the empirical work of

household survey studies using the Japanese National Survey of Family Income and

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Expenditure (NSFIE). One of my key reasons to visit IER is because of such work done on

NSFIE at IER. During the period of my visit, I was able to settle down quickly at the

International Guest House and started working within 1-2 days and have fruitful and useful

discussions with researchers at IER. I am surely that many visiting scholars will share similar

views. Eventually I have established strong research links with colleagues at IER and started

to work on and publish joint papers.

Conceivably IER at Hitotsubashi University has established world-renowned academic

relationship with researchers from well-established universities in the past decades. Definitely

it will take a long time for any research institute to do it and without guarantee that it will

succeed. But the Institute did it in terms of acting as a hub of not only national but

international scholarly exchange and collaboration. The next question is how to keep its

current status and how to raise the Institute to even a new height. One and feasible way is to

designate the Institute of Economic Research (IER) as an Inter-University Research Institute by

Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. With such official

recognition, I am sure that IER will continue to play its important role in the academic

community and help to raise the standard of research institutes in Japan to a new level.

Date: 14 May 2015

Name: Albert Tsui

Affiliation: Department of Economics, National University of Singapore

Singapore.

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IKI]El PdnzUgykutat6 Zrt. / Financial Research Corp.

Innovdci6s Kutat6 Kiizpont / Innovation Research CentreI 023 Budaoest. Felhdvizi utca 24.

Tclelon/Phone: (36-l) 346-0253 Fax. (36-l) 335-0828E-mail : iku(@penzugykutato.hu


Institute of Economic Researcl'r

Hitotsubashi Universitv

Naka 2-1, Kunitachi

Tokyo, Japan I 86-8603


My organization has been collaborating with the Institute of Economic Research in various research projects.

My colleague and I have attended various events and we host in Budapest one of the fellows from the Institute.

We intend to build on and deepen ourcollaboration between the Institute of Economic Research (Hitotsubashi

University) and the IKU Inriovation Research Centre (Financial Research Corp., Flurrgary),

Therefore I am writing this letter to support the designation of Institute of Economic Research as an

Inter-University Research Institute by Ministry of Educatiorr, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

According to my experiences the institute has provided invaluable service to the advancement of economic

and other social sciences for the past half century by functioning as a'Joint-use and collaboration" facility. Its

historical data archive is unique in both quality and quantity. It has provided a place for interaction among

economists and ltistorians through various workshops and conferences, covering fiontier topics. The institute

is effectively nurturing new generation of doctoral students and young scholars.

The institute already functions as a hub of not only national but international scholarly exchange and

collaboration. I dearly hope that the academic community will be able to safely rely on the institute in the

future to fulfill its pivotal role for'Joint-use and collaboration" by official recognition as an Inter University

lnstitution.

Budapest, l3 May 2015.

luat f .4*LF*aqDr. Annam6ria Inzelt

Founding Director

IKU Innovation Research Centre

Financial Research Corp.

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Naka 2-1, Kunitachi



I am writing this letter to support the designation of Institute of Economic Research as an


Technology. I do so with great enthusiasm. The institute has provided invaluable service to the

advancement of economic and other social sciences for the past half century by functioning as a

“joint-use and collaboration” facility. Its historical data archive is unique in both quality and

quantity. It has provided a place for interaction among economists and historians through

various workshops and conferences, covering both empirical work and frontier econometric

theory. The workshops have been particularly effective in nurturing new generation of doctoral

students and young scholars.

I visited the institute twice for four months on each occasion, in 1999 and 2003. During that

period I found a very supportive context and many excellent colleagues who supported me in

my research activity. These periods were also fundamental in strengthening institutional and

personal relationships, that continue to this day and led, among others, to organizing

conferences and various publications (see B. Dallago and I. Iwasaki, eds. Corporate

Restructuring and Governance in Transition Economies, Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave

Macmillan, 2007; Bruno Dallago, ‘Asset Specificity and Change’, The Institute of

Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Discussion Paper Series A No. 378,

1999; Bruno Dallago, ‘Small and Medium Size Enterprises and Local Productive

Systems: The Italian Experience and Hungary’, The Institute of Economic Research,

Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Discussion Paper Series A No. 384, 1999; Bruno

Dallago, ‘Comparative Economic Systems and the New Comparative Economics: Foes,

Competitors, or Complementary?’, CEI Working Paper Series, No. 2003-4, Center for

Economic Institutions, Hitotsubashi University; Bruno Dallago, ‘Experiments and

Reality - A Comment on Andrei Yakovlev’s Paper’, in Corporate Governance in

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Transition Economies. Part I: The Case of Russia, edited by Shuichi Ikemoto & Ichiro

Iwasaki, IER Discussion Paper Series (B), The Institute of Economic Research,

Hitotsubashi University, January 2004, pp. 97-106). This would not have been possible

without the support of the institute.

The institute already functions as a hub of not only national but international scholarly exchange

and collaboration. I dearly hope that the academic community will be able to safely rely on the

institute in the future to fulfill its pivotal role for “joint-use and collaboration” by official

recognition as an Inter University Institution.

18 May 2015

Bruno Dallago

University of Trento

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Naka 2-1, Kunitachi





Technology. I do so with great enthusiasm. The institute has provided invaluable service to

the advancement of economic and other social sciences for the past half century by functioning

as a “joint-use and collaboration” facility. Its historical data archive is unique in both quality

and quantity. It has provided a place for interaction among economists and historians through




I am particularly familiar with Professor Harry X. Wy at the institute. I note that my research

with him on China’s economic growth could not be possible without your invaluable financial

support. The obtained results have been recently published and widely cited being also

presented in several conferences around the world. They are continuing to be used in our

ensuing research projects.





Date: 8th May 2015

Carlo Milana

Birkbeck College, University of London

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Address for express mail deliveries: Room 213 Social Sciences, Duke University, Box 90097, Durham, NC 27708

Duke University Economics Department CHARLES M. BECKER 213 Social Science Building Research Professor and Associate Chair Durham, NC 27708-0097 email: [email protected] (919) 660-1885 FAX: (919) 660-1879

May 13, 2015 Professor Yukinobu Kitamura, Director Institute of Economic Research Hitotsubashi University Naka 2-1, Kunitachi Tokyo, Japan 186-8603 Dear Professor Kitamura, I am writing this letter to support the designation of Hitostubashi University’s Institute of Economic Research as an Inter-University Research Institute by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. I do so with great enthusiasm. The institute has provided invaluable service to the advancement of economic and other social sciences for the past half century by functioning as a “joint-use and collaboration” facility. It has provided a place for interaction among economists and historians through various workshops and conferences, covering both empirical work and frontier econometric theory. The workshops have been particularly effective in nurturing new generation of doctoral students and young scholars. I am particularly familiar with Professor Ichiro Iwasaki at the institute. Professor Iwasaki is universally recognized as one of the top scholars on transition economies and in particular on the reform of enterprises. He has published prolifically, both in terms of books and journal articles, and has addressed one fascinating and important topic after another. In addition, I had the opportunity to visit the institute for a conference in 2005. At the time, I was impressed both by a number of researchers in addition to Prof. Iwasaki, and also in the extent to which IER was playing a key role in providing an outlet for transition economy researchers, and collaborators that enabled them to develop their research skills. In looking over IER’s website, it is apparent that the Institute has continued to fulfill this role. I emphasize this point because of Japan’s pivotal role in promoting the development in formerly socialist countries of market based economies with some adherence to globally accepted business and social practices. This is a role that cannot be played by the USA, UK, or Germany, in large part because of historical “baggage” and geopolitical competition (for a parallel, consider Japan’s relationship with China). In contrast, Japanese researchers and advisors are seen as non-partisan agents who are interested in development of the region, rather than being driven by a hidden agenda. Consequently, transition economy officials and scholars look up to their Japanese counterparts – especially in Central Asia, where my own research is centered. And, when one thinks of the Japanese institute that has the biggest impact, IER stands out as being preeminent.

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mailto:[email protected]

Address for express mail deliveries: Room 213 Social Sciences, Duke University, Box 90097, Durham, NC 27708

In summary, Hitostubashi University’s Institute of Economic Research is a nationally-important institution with an outstanding international research reputation; it also contributes in important ways to Japan’s global influence. I am pleased to strongly support its designation as an Inter-University Research Institute. Please do not hesitate to contact me should you wish elaboration on these points. Sincerely,

Charles M. Becker Associate Chair and Research Professor of Economics

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I benefited greatly from my time spent at the Institute of Economic Research (IER), and feel

privileged to have been given the opportunity to spend time at Hitotsubashi University as

Visiting Associate Professor for six months in 2013. The institute is characterized by a vibrant

research culture, which enabled me to produce at least two high quality research papers: one

which is forthcoming in the Economic History Review – one of the most highly respected

economic history journals; and a further paper which is currently a revise-and-resubmit at the

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, which is a well-respected economics journal. I am

in no doubt that producing work of this caliber would not have been possible without the

support of the IER.

During my time spent at the IER, I was able to present some of my research at the 7th

International Workshop on the Evolution of Standards and Technology, and further, the Center

for Economic Institutions’ Economic Development Workshop seminar series. The work

presented at these workshops - which benefitted greatly from the comments of IER academics

such as Professors Reiko Aoki and Chiaki Moriguchi, is forthcoming in the Economic History

Review. Another strand of work which is ongoing – with Professor Kazumi Asako – examines

the determinants of voting behavior on the Bank of Japan’s Policy Board. Some of this

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collaborative work has already appeared in the IER’s own journal, The Economic Review, and a

sister paper is currently being prepared for submission to the Journal of Money, Credit, and

Banking.


and collaboration. My personal experience as a Visiting Associate Professor pays testament to

this fact. I therefore very much hope that the academic community will be able to safely rely on

the institute in the future to fulfill its pivotal role for “joint-use and collaboration” by official


Date: 11th May 2015

Your Name: Dr Christopher Spencer

Your affiliation: Loughborough University (UK)

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HARVARD UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

Dale W. Jorgenson PHONE: (617) 495-4661 Samuel W. Morris University Professor FAX: (617) 495-4660 122 Littauer Center EMAIL: [email protected]

Cambridge, MA 02138-3001 WEB: http://scholar.harvard.edu/jorgenson/ May 11, 2015 Professor Yukinobu Kitamura, Director Institute of Economic Research Hitotsubashi University Naka 2-1, Kunitachi Tokyo, Japan 186-8603 Dear Professor Kitamura, I am writing this letter to support the designation of Institute of Economic Research as an Inter-University Research Institute by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. I do so with great enthusiasm. The institute has provided invaluable service to the advancement of economic and other social sciences for the past half century by functioning as a “joint-use and collaboration” facility. Its historical data archive is unique in both quality and quantity. It has provided a place for interaction among economists and historians through various workshops and conferences, covering both empirical work and frontier econometric theory. The workshops have been particularly effective in nurturing new generation of doctoral students and young scholars. I have worked closely with your predecessor, Professor Kyoji Fukao, on the World KLEMS Initiative: http://www.worldklems.net/ We collaborated on the organization of the Third World KLEMS Conference with the Research Institute for Economy, Trade and Industry in Tokyo. Here is a link to the program: http://www.rieti.go.jp/en/events/14051901/info.html Professor Fukao presented his paper on “Japan’s Lost Decades”. This includes an analysis of the Japan Industrial Productivity (JIP) database that he and his colleagues have constructed at Hitotsubashi. We are now editing a book based on papers presented at the conference for the Cambridge University Press. I have had a lengthy affiliation with the Institute of Economic Research at Hitotsubashi, going back to the Institute’s famous fourteen-volume work on Japanese historical statistics under the direction of Professor Kazushi Ohkawa. As you know, Professor Fukao and his co-authors have recently published a volume that updates this earlier work through 2008 in their book, Regional Inequality and Industrial Structure in Japan: 1974-2008, published this year by Maruzen in Japan.

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The institute already functions as a hub of not only national but international scholarly exchange and collaboration. I dearly hope that the academic community will be able to safely rely on the institute in the future to fulfill its pivotal role for “joint-use and collaboration” by official recognition as an Inter University Institution. Yours sincerely,

Dale W. Jorgenson

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as a “joint-use and collaboration” facility. Its historical data archive is unique in both quality and





I was particularly familiar with Professor Reiko Aoki at the institute and, through a colleague

here in Scandinavia (Professor Lööf), with Professor Kitamura. I visited the institute for 3

months in 2010. During that period I was able to pursue research in the very rich environment

centered around the IER. This environment also included extensive interaction with other parts

of the university, especially the Institute of Innovation Research and then particularly with

Professors Sadao Nagaoka and Manabu Eto. In addition, it extended to a fruitful interaction

with top-flight researchers who were also visiting researchers at the time. I commend the range

and reach of the workshops and seminars held at the university.

I am thankful for the opportunity to have been a part on this fertile environment. It extended the

reach of my work at the time; among other things, it gave the unique chance to interview a

number of Japanese companies. More lastingly, it provided the bases to extend the reach of

research network ever since. This positive experience would not have been possible without the

support of the institute. The administration of all aspects of the visit by the IER was also very

professional and made it possible to get the most out of my visit. I have since then come into

contact with a suprisingly large number of researchers (in Europe and Australia) who share this

impression of the IER as a unique hub of research activity. It helps to emphasize the place of

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Hitotsubashi University and Japan more generally on the research map in a constantly more

crowded world.





Date: 12 Mai 2015

Eric J. Iversen

Senior Researcher

Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and

Education (NIFU)

Oslo, Norway.

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Naka 2-1, Kunitachi



I am writing this letter to support the designation of Institute of Economic Research as

an Inter-University Research Institute by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and

Technology. I do so with great enthusiasm. The institute has provided valuable service to the

advancement of economics in Korea by functioning as a “joint-use and collaboration” facility.

Many Korean economic historians, including me, have been very impressed that the

Institute has compiled and made available to the historical long term data of Asia, which

includes the 14 volume Estimate of Long-Term Economic Statistics of Japan since 1868. Its

historical data archive is unique in both quality and quantity. So Korean economic historians

has compiled the historical long term data of Korea, and published a book in 2006, Economic

Growth in Korea, 1910-1945, which was translated in Japanese and published by University of

Tokyo Press in 2008.

I participated in the conference which formed a part of the “Asian Historical Statistics

Project.” It aimed to compile and made available to the historical long term data of Korea. It

has provided a constructive place for interaction between Japanese scholars and Korean

scholars.

I visited the institute for five months from October 2006 to February 2007. During

that period I participated in various workshops and conferences which provided a place for

interaction among economists and historians of not only Japanese but also foreigners. I see

that the institute functions as a hub of not only national but international scholarly exchange and

collaboration.

I wrote two working papers during my visiting period, “When and how did Japan

catch up with Korea?–A comparative study of the pre-industrial economies of Korea and

Japan,” and “The Political Economy of Pre-industrial Trade in Northeast Asia.” This was

possible with the support of the Institute such as very convenient access to the library,

participation in various workshops and conferences, and conversation and discussion with the

faculty members of Institute.

After I returned to Korea, I have kept contact with Professors of the Institute including

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Konoscke Odaka, Osamu Saito, and Kyoji. Fukao. Since 2008 Korea University’s Institute for

Economic Research has been awarded for the Focussed Research Grant from the National Research

Foundation, regarding ‘Studies on the population dynamics, socio-economic changes, and the

construction of a socio-economic system in aging society.’ I, as a director of Korea University’s

Institute for Economic Research, organized achieved a joint conference with Hitotsubashi

University’s Institute of Economic Research. The main theme was “COMPARATIVE STUDY

ON AGING BETWEEN KOREA AND JAPAN: TREND, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL

IMPACTS, AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS.” It was held at Korea University on August

29-30, 2013. Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, Korea National Pension Research

Institute and LG Economic Research Institute also joined in the conference. Our faculty

members think that this joint conference was a big success. And Korea University’s Institute

for Economic Research wants to have joint conference with Institute of Economic Research of

Hitotsubashi University.

Therefore I dearly hope that the academic community will be able to safely rely on the



Date:

Your Name:

Your affiliation:

May 13, 2015.

Hun-Chang Lee

Professor of Korean Eoconomic History

Department of Economics, Korea University

Sungbuk-Ku, Anam-Dong 1,Seoul, Korea

E-mail: [email protected]

Office tel: +82 2 3290 2214

HP: 011-9709-3171

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Jean-‐Pascal BASSINO Professor of economics, ENS de Lyon Director of IAO (UMR 5062) Tel. 33 (0)4 3737 6039 Fax 33 (0)4 3737 6476 jean-‐pascal.bassino@ens-‐lyon.fr

RE: Letter in support of the designation of the Institute of Economic Research as an Inter-‐University Research Institute by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Professor Yukinobu Kitamura, Director Institute of Economic Research Hitotsubashi University Naka 2-‐1, Kunitachi Tokyo, Japan 186-‐8603 Dear Professor Kitamura,

I am writing this letter to support the designation of the Institute of Economic Research as an Inter-‐University Research Institute by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. I do so with great enthusiasm. The institute has provided invaluable service to the advancement of economic and other social sciences for the past half century by functioning as a “joint-‐use and collaboration” facility. Its historical data archive is unique in both quality and quantity. It has provided a place for interaction among economists and historians through various workshops and conferences, covering both empirical work and frontier econometric theory. The workshops have been particularly effective in nurturing new generation of doctoral students and young scholars, from Japan and many other countries.

The Institute is an outstanding academic institution, by both Japanese and international standards, playing a unique role as an organization serving as a center for data collection and management for empirical research in economics on Japan and the World, and an incubator of innovative research project. In particular, the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, is offering an exceptional and ideal research environment for visiting researchers from other Japanese academic institutions and from abroad working on the Japanese economy, or on data-‐intensive comparative empirical economic research.

My statement is based on my experience as visiting researcher at the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, on several occasions. My first stay was in the Summer 1997 during 3 months as Japan Foundation fellow; I also visited the institute in 2002-‐2005 during 3 years as research associate under a Maison-‐Franco-‐Japanese Scholarship of Tokyo (Nichifutsu Kaikan), that was my main affiliation, and more recently in the Summer 2010 during 3-‐month as research associate invited by the Center for Economic Institutions. During the last 5 years, I have also visited the institute during relatively short stays (about two weeks or less each), two or three times per year since 2010, in some occasions as research associate invited to contribute in Japanese research program (in particular Global COE programs), and in other cases as part of research projects supported by French CNRS or other academic funding, or by the US National Science Foundation.

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Over the years, I have been involved in joint projects with scholars affiliated with the IER, in particular in 2000 with Professor Konosuke Odaka as co-‐editor of a collected volume of papers presented in a conference on the economic history of Vietnam, in 2005 as co-‐author of a paper in Economic Research Keizai Kenkyu with Professor Osamu Saito and another colleague, Professor Ma Debin (currently at the LSE), and this year in a volume published by Maruzen presenting the results of a research on Economic inequality and industrial structure in Japan, 1874-‐2010 of a team under the leadership of Professor Kyoji Fukao (first results also published in Economic Research Keizai Kenkyu in 2009).

During all my stays at the IER, I have been particularly impressed by the dedication of the support staff and the generosity of the academic staff that has been always willing to share their in-‐depth knowledge of the institutional context that I was investigating in my research projects and to exchange with me on my tentative interpretation of the results obtained. It would have not been possible for me to conduct research on the economic history of Japan without the opportunity provided by the Institute to collect data and consult publications in Japanese that are not easily available, and in some cases are entirely inaccessible, in Europe.

I would like to stress that the role of the Institute has been particularly critical during the last 5 years, not only for me but for the Japanese and international academic community. I participated in the 2012 Asian Historical Economics conference in Kunitachi hosted by Professor Kyoji Fukao attracting around one hundred scholars for different Asian countries, as well as from Australia, Europe, and North America. The conference has since been recognized as a major success that decisively contributed to the development of new research programs, particularly in Southeast Asia, but more broadly in cooperation with junior and senior scholars from different regions of the world.

The institute already functions as a hub of not only national but international scholarly exchange and collaboration. I dearly hope that the academic community will be able to safely rely on the institute in the future to fulfill its pivotal role for “joint-‐use and collaboration” by official recognition as an Inter University Institution.

May 13, 2015

Yours sincerely,

Jean-‐Pascal Bassino ENS de Lyon

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Jonathan Morduch

Professor of Public Policy

and Economics

New York University The Puck Building

295 Lafayette Street, 2nd Floor, New York, New York 10012-9604 [email protected] 212.998.7515 ph 212.995.4162 fax




Naka 2-1, Kunitachi



I am writing this letter to support the designation of Institute of Economic Research as an Inter-

University Research Institute by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

I do so with great enthusiasm. The institute has provided invaluable service to the advancement

of economic and other social sciences for the past half century by functioning as a “joint-use and

collaboration” facility. Its historical data archive is unique in both quality and quantity. It has

provided a place for interaction among economists and historians through various workshops and

conferences, covering both empirical work and frontier econometric theory. The workshops have

been particularly effective in nurturing new generation of doctoral students and young scholars.

I visited the institute for the academic year 2011-2012 as a Visiting Professor. During that period

I was able to complete new research on microfinance and international development, and I

completed substantial work on a new economics textbook. The paper that I wrote while at IER

has just been published in the Journal of Development Economics, a leading journal in the field.

This would not have been possible without the support of the institute. I was particularly

impressed by the high-functioning of the staff of the Center for Economic Institutions, and the

scholarship and breadth of Professor Kurosaki, a truly world-class scholar.

I am particularly familiar with Professors Takashi Kurosaki, Chiaki Moriguchi, and Yutaka

Arimoto at the institute, as well as others who attended the weekly CEI seminar/Economic

Development Workshop. The workshop was always a highly-anticipated part of the week.

During the year that I visited IER, I had the opportunity to meet other visiting scholars, and I was

impressed by the quality and international stature of the visitors attracted to IER.





May 7, 2015

Jonathan Morduch

New York University

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From: Leigh Shaw-Taylor <[email protected]>

To: "Director, IER, Hitotsubashi Univ." <[email protected]>

Subject: Re: Urgent Request for Your Support to Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi

University

Date: 07 May 2015 15:23:34 +0100

Sender: "L.M.W. Shaw-Taylor" <[email protected]>

X-Mailer: Prayer v1.3.5


I will be delighted to write in enthusiastic support of the IER.

Best wishes, Leig Shaw-Taylor

-- Dr Leigh Shaw-Taylor Senior Lecturer in History, Faculty of History,

Director of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social

Structure, University of Cambridge.

For a map showing the location of the History Building see:

http://map.cam.ac.uk/#52.201946,0.108365,19,/annotate/adapters/v4.json?mp=sidg;tl=Sidgwick

%20Site

Postal address: Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social

Structure, Faculty of History, West Road, Cambridge UK CB3 9EF

Telephone 01223 333190

http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/directory/[email protected]

The website for The Occupational Structure of Britain 1379-1911 is at

http://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/occupations/

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May 12, 2015




Technology. I do so with great enthusiasm. The institute has provided invaluable service to the



quantity. It has provided a place for interaction among economists and historians through various

workshops and conferences, covering both empirical work and frontier econometric theory. The

workshops have been particularly effective in nurturing new generation of doctoral students and

young scholars.

I am particularly familiar with Professor Naohito Abe at the institute. I note that he has done

excellent research regarding the price change dynamics in Japan with many publications in top

international economic journals. I visited the Institute during summer in 2013 and 2014. During

that period I was able to collaborate with Professor Naohito Abe and had many inspiring

discussions on research related to the behavior of prices. This would not have been possible

without the support of the institute. I was particularly impressed by the outstanding academic

atmosphere and the collegiality of the faculty at the Institute.

The Institute already functions as a hub of not only national but international scholarly exchange


Institute in the future to fulfill its pivotal role for “joint-use and collaboration” by official


Best regards,

Liang Wang

Department of Economics

University of Hawaii

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Naka 2-1, Kunitachi





Technology.

It is my sincere pleasure to write this. I have known Professor Kitamura since he was a visiting

professor at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Sweden in 2010. After the visit he

invited me to Hitotsubashi University and the Institute of Economic Research for a month long

stay in the spring of 2011. During this time I had the opportunity both to give a seminar and

give a short lecture series for the advanced Ph.D. students. From the contacts of Professor

Kitamura I also received invitations to give seminars at University of Tokyo and MITI in Tokyo.

The stay was productive and generating new contacts with the researchers at the Institute, and

the faculty proved most hospitable. It is my impression that the Institute is proving to be an

important piece in the international network of research departments and has a very high quality

of output. In particular I think that the Institute’s role in international exchange cannot be

overemphasized.

I hope that in the near future we can extend the cooperation between Copenhagen Business

School and the Institute to some exchange program on a permanent basis. I have discussed this

with our current Head of Department, Professor Pascalis Raimondos, who also speaks warmly

of the Institute, and we will contact you directly regarding future cooperation initiatives.

Best regards

Marcus Asplund

Professor


Copenhagen Business School

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I am writing to strongly support the designation of Institute of Economic Research (IER) as an


Technology.

Indeed, IER is commendable for its vision and mission. To do quality and evidenced-based

research, it is necessary to have good data set, particularly micro data set. In this regard, IER

particularly the Research Centre for Information and Statistics of Social Science (RCISSS), plays

an important indispensable role in supporting economics research. RCISS was established to

gather and manage and social sciences-related information and statistics, and to make the data

available to researchers.

For example, many members of the IER, for example Professors Takayama and Kitamura have

utilized the Japanese National Survey of Family Income and Expenditure (NSFIE) to examine

household saving behavior in Japan. One of their research findings, which is published in the

1994 NBER volume on “International Comparisons of Household Savings”, is particularly

impactful as the paper provides insights on household savings based on micro data. In the absence

of micro data, it will be challenging to conduct such a study on household savings and wealth.

Additionally, with such detailed micro-data, researchers are able to look at the pattern of income,

consumption and wealth for different households, for example elderly singles vs elderly couples

and nuclear vs extended family.

In this aspect, Japan is unique in that such a microdata with large sample size has been around for

a long period of time. I am honored to partner with IER researchers and have been granted access

to this rich set of micro-data. We are doing a collaborative research employing the data to study

economic inequality in Japan during the economic boom, bust and lost decades. The study on the

impacts of Japanese economic and demographic circumstances on welfare will be useful to many

developed Asian countries who are beginning to experience economic slowdown and a rapid

population ageing. The research in IER, University of Hitotsubashi is therefore pioneering and

provides the academic leadership in the study of economics of ageing. My research interests are

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in economics of ageing and pension economics and have benefited with the interactions of

scholars at IER working on these issues.

The move to grant foreigners access to the data and to do collaborative works with Japanese

researchers form a very healthy and productive synergy to write joint papers. What IER is doing

is similar to the Retirement Health Survey in the United States. By opening up data access, it

opens plenty of research opportunities and collaborations with other economic institutions. This

will attract more researchers to IER and raise the profile of IER.

Besides data support, IER research faculty has very impressive research on up-to-date economic

policy issues. This is evidenced from the research publications by the Centre for Economic

Institutions, the Center for Intergenerational Studies and the Research Center for Economic and

Social Risks by the many well-established researchers at IER. Some of these research are

conducted jointly with other researchers. These Centers have been very active in organizing high

profile conferences for academics, policy makers and the government. I am impressed to see

keen graduate students attending workshops and seminars organized in the IER. Besides research,

IER also contributes to the education of graduate students.

The solid infrastructure set up for economic policy research extended beyond the hardware

available in IER. Hitotsubashi University is one of the most beautiful campus that I have visited.

The charming and tranquil environment is very conducive for research. The affordable and

comfortable housing facilities help foreign researchers feel at home. The IER support staff are

extremely helpful and their attention to details help foreign researchers to settle down quickly and

to start work – whether in housing, office space, computer support and library facility. I have to

testify that they have never failed to make me feel at home in my many visits to IER in the past

ten years. I am sure this is also the experiences of the many visitors who, like me, have become

regular visitors to IER. No doubt, IER has very established international academic linkages which

explains why IER is able to draw visitors internationally. Such academic linkages and exchanges

will help raise the status of IER internationally.

Moving forward and building on what IER has done so far, designating the Institute of Economic

Research (IER) as an Inter-University Research Institute by Ministry of Education, Culture,

Sports, Science and Technology will officially recognizing the institute. This helps to empower

IER to scale higher and to help enhance the status of Hitotsubashi University both locally and

internationally.

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Date: 15 May 2015

Name: Ngee-Choon CHIA

Affiliation: Department of Economics, National University of Singapore, Singapore

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I am particularly familiar with Naoki Yoshihara at the institute, whose research I consider to be

of world class quality.

I have visited the institute three times since 2007 for a total of about a month. During my

visits, I have been able to interact with researchers at the Institute and make significant progress

on my research projects, leading to excellent publications. This would not have been possible

without the support of the institute.

I participated in the 2008 workshop on exploitation and in the 2012 Global COE conference on

Equality and Welfare organisedby Naoki Yoshihara. Both conferences have been incredibly

successful and have since been recognized as showcasing some of the world-leading research in

normative economcis.

I have known Naoki Yoshihara since 2005. We have collaborated in more than 12 different

research projects, which will not have been possible without the institute’s support.


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Date: 10th of May 2015

Roberto Veneziani

Queen Mary University of London

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Department of Economic History Houghton Street London, WC2A 2AE

Professor Stephen Broadberry [email protected]

T: +44 (0)20 7107 5350 F: +44 (0)20 7955 7730

8 May 2015 Professor Yukinobu Kitamura, Director Institute of Economic Research Hitotsubashi University Naka 2-1, Kunitachi Tokyo, Japan 186-8603 Dear Professor Kitamura, I am writing this letter to support the designation of Institute of Economic Research as an Inter-University Research Institute by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. I do so with great enthusiasm. The institute has provided invaluable service to the advancement of economic and other social sciences for the past half century by functioning as a “joint-use and collaboration” facility. Its historical data archive is unique in both quality and quantity. It has provided a place for interaction among economists and historians through various workshops and conferences, covering both empirical work and frontier econometric theory. The workshops have been particularly effective in nurturing new generation of doctoral students and young scholars. I visited the Institute for 3 months in 2014. During that period I was able to make progress on two projects comparing economic performance in Britain and Japan, covering the periods 725-1874 and from 1874 to the present. This would not have been possible without the support of the Institute, which provided a stimulating environment in which to conduct the research. Also, the international collaborative projects arose out of previous shorter visits that I had made to the Institute to present the results of my earlier research. I was particularly impressed by the library, which has a wonderful collection of economic statistics covering the whole world during the modern era. The institute already functions as a hub of not only national but international scholarly exchange and collaboration. I dearly hope that the academic community will be able to safely rely on the institute in the future to fulfil its pivotal role for “joint-use and collaboration” by official recognition as an Inter University Institution.

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The London School of Economics and Political Science is a School of the University of London. It is a charity and is incorporated in England as a company limited by guarantee under the Companies Acts (Reg. No 70527)

Best wishes Stephen Broadberry

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May 8, 2015 Yukinobu Kitamura (Director) Institute of Economic Research Hitotsubashi University 2-1 Naka, Kunitachi, Tokyo 186-8603 Japan Dear Professor Kitamura, I would like to share my view with you about the accomplishments of the

Hitotsubashi Institute of Economic Research (HIER). I believe that it has made

important contributions in the field of economics, and is a worthy core partner in

international cooperation in research. This judgment reflects my experience as a

visiting scholar at HIER at various times over the past two decades, and pertains to

the full range of HIER activities. My HIER contacts are primarily in my special fields

of macroeconomics and international economics, but I also have had the opportunity

to meet HIER specialists in other fields and participate in all types of seminars.

HIER is fortunate to have a large number of internationally recognized and

highly regarded economists on its staff, in a number of fields including

macroeconomics and international economics. From my own experience I can certify

that the arrangements for a visiting scholar are of the highest quality, with office

support, more general support for visitors and above all a lively and open intellectual

atmosphere.

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Furthermore, I am pleased to report that HIER has enhanced its role as an

international hub of the advanced economic theory and has been involved in many

joint research activities with various researches from both domestic and foreign

institutions, including the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The core activity

of the Joint Research Center is the organization of research projects on the public

basis and international conferences that welcome young and prominent researches

from both Japan and abroad.

HIER and UNC moreover are currently working on an important new project

that will culminate in a conference Spring 2016 at Hitotsubashi, Kyoto,and Aoyama

Gakuin universities. The title is EU Economic Stagnation and Political Insecurity:

Lessons for Asia. World Scientific Publishers has issued a contract for the conference

volume under my editorship.

I believe HIER will continue to be a cornerstone for the development of

global joint research, and will continue to be an effective and congenial partner for

international cooperation in the field of economics.

Yours sincerely,

Steven Rosefielde

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I am particularly familiar with Associate Professor Ryo Kambayashi at the institute. I met him at

conferences and he visited my university and we were (and still are) part of a large international

project in which he is one of the key figures.

I visited the institute for three months in 2013. During that period I was able to learn to know

many of the faculty members and their research in more detail. The support of the institute for

making the visit most enjoyable was instrumental. I was particularly impressed by quality of

the seminars and the strong interaction between faculty members and the keen interest they

showed in each other’s – and visitors’ – work. Other researchers who were visiting the IER at

the same time also expressed their admiration for the quality of the research and the pleasant

atmosphere at the institute.




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Date: 18. 5 2015

Tor Eriksson


Aarhus University, Denmark

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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Department of Economics

1 Arts Link, AS2 #06-02, Singapore 117570 Tel: (65) 65 16 3941 Fax: (65) 6775 2646

Professor Yukinobu Kitamura, Director Institute of Economic Research Hitotsubashi University Naka 2-1, Kunitachi Tokyo, Japan 186-8603 May 11, 2015 Dear Professor Kitamura, I would like to support with great enthusiasm the designation of Institute of Economic Research as an Inter-University Research Institute by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The institute has provided invaluable service to the advancement of economic and other social sciences for the past half century by functioning as a “joint-use and collaboration” facility. Its historical data archive is unique in both quality and quantity. It has provided a place for interaction among economists and historians through various workshops and conferences, covering both empirical work and frontier econometric theory. The workshops have been particularly effective in nurturing new generation of doctoral students and young scholars. I have always been impressed by the quality of research of your institute. I visited the institute for 3 months in 2014. During that period I met and discussed research at length with several of your faculty members. Their expertise has benefited me greatly. The institute already functions as a hub of not only national but international scholarly exchange and collaboration. I sincerely hope that the academic community will be able to safely rely on the institute in the future to fulfill its pivotal role for “joint-use and collaboration” by official recognition as an Inter-University Institution. Yours sincerely,

Tuan-Hwee Sng Assistant Professor Email: [email protected]

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INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE Bangalore Centre

8th Mile, Mysore Road Bangalore 560059

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS UNIT

May 9, 2015

V. K. Ramachandran Professor and Head of Unit National Fellow, Indian Council of Social Sciences Research Editor, Review of Agrarian Studies

Mobile telephone: +919483546540 Home telephone: (080) 235320647 e-mail <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>


I write this letter to support the designation of the Institute of Economic Research as an Inter-

University Research Institute by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and

Technology. I do so with responsibility and enthusiasm. The Institute has provided invaluable

service to the advancement of economic and other social sciences for the past half-century by

functioning as a “joint-use and collaboration” facility. Its historical data archive is unique in both

quality and quantity. It has provided a place for interaction among economists and historians

through various workshops and conferences, covering both empirical work and frontier

econometric theory. The workshops have been particularly effective in nurturing a new

generation of doctoral students and young scholars.

I have had the privilege of knowing different members of the faculty at the Institute of

Economic Research.

My first visit to the Institute was to give a seminar there when a Visiting Professor at the faculty

of economics at the National University of Yokohama in 2007. My second was when I was a

Visiting Professor at the Institute for three months in 2011. I was also a participant in the

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“International Workshop in Advancing Knowledge in Developing Economies and Development

Economics: Towards the Understanding of Institutions in Development,” organised by the

Poverty Reduction, Institutions, Markets, and Policies in Developing Countries (PRIMCED)

group in the Institute in September 2011.

We at the Economic Analysis Unit, Indian Statistical Institute – the Insitute is designated as an

Institute of National Importance in India -- have benefited from collaboration with the IER in

different ways. As you will remember, you came to the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, as a

Visiting Scientist, and gave a seminar there. Your young colleague Dr Yuko Mori has been a

Visiting Scientist at the Economic Analysis Unit of the Institute in Bangalore.

The member of your Institute whose work most touches the work of the agrarian studies group

at the Indian Statistical Institute is Professor Takashi Kurosaki. He worked closely with me when

I was at your Institute, and has published twice – both landmark articles – in the peer-reviewed

journal that I edit, Review of Agrarian Studies. The first was written collaboration with Professor

Humayun Khan of the Institute of Development Studies, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Agricultural

University, Pakistan, and is titled “Floods, Relief Aid, and Household Resilience in Rural

Pakistan: Findings from a Pilot Survey in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa”

<http://ras.org.in/floods_relief_aid_and_household_resilience_in_rural_pakistan>. The second

was written in collaboration with Dr Kazuya Wada of the University of Nagasaki and is titled

“Spatial Characteristics of Long-term Changes in Indian Agricultural Production: District-Level

Analysis, 1965-2007”

<http://ras.org.in/spatial_characteristics_of_long_term_changes_in_indian_agricultural

_production>.

Professor Kurosaki participated in an international conference on agrarian studies organised in

Kerala, India, last year – a conference of which I was the Convenor and at which Professor

Kurosaki played a prominent role.

During my period as a Visiting Professor at the Institute, I worked on the manuscript of a book

titled Dalit Households in Village Economies, on market and non-market forms of social

discrimination in rural India. The book has subsequently been published as Ramachandran, V. K.,

and Swaminathan, Madhura (eds.), Dalit Households in Village Economies, Agrarian Studies 3, Tulika

Books, New Delhi. The Visiting Professorship at the Institute provided me an excellent

opportunity to pay concentrated attention to my personal contributions to the book and to the

various articles in it, and to be among a group of scholars with whom I could have useful and

educative discussions. I have acknowledged my time at the Institute in my Introduction to the

book.

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Professor Kitamura, as you are aware, my students and colleagues in the Indian Statistical

Institute, Bangalore Centre, work closely with a network of scholars on agrarian questions in

India and elsewhere. The digital archive that our network maintains on village households in

India is a unique collection of household statistical data. We look forward to collaboration

between our scholars at the Economic Analysis Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute and

scholars from the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, on issues of

common interest.

The Institute already functions as a hub of national and international scholarly exchange and

collaboration. I am confident that, under your leadership, the academic community will be able

to rely on the Institute in the future to fulfil its pivotal role for “joint-use and collaboration.” I

end by reiterating my sincere support to the designation of the Institute of Economic Research

as an Inter-University Research Institute by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science

and Technology.

With regards and best wishes,

Yours sincerely,

V. K. Ramachandran

Professor Yukinobu Kitamura, Director Institute of Economic Research Hitotsubashi University Naka 2-1, Kunitachi Tokyo, Japan 186-8603

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Technology. I do so without hesitation. The institute has provided invaluable service to the





theory. The workshops have been particularly effective in nurturing a new generation of

doctoral students and young scholars.

I participated in the Project on Intergenerational Equity (PIE) and visited the institute for many

years and participated in the conferences hosted by Institute of Economic Research

Hitotsubashi University. The top priority PIE research project had great influence on the

Hungarian science and among others the book “Assessing Intergenerational Equity” edited by

Ichiro Iwasaki, Róbert Iván Gál and Zsuzsa Szemén was published by the Hungarian Academy

of Sciences in 2008.

Beside the PIE project there has been a intensive scientific collaboration between the Institute of

Sociology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Institute of Economic Research.

I dearly hope that the academic community will be able to safely rely on the institute in the

future to fulfill its pivotal role for “joint-use and collaboration” by official recognition as an

Inter University Institution.

Date: 18 05 2015

Prof. Zsuzsa Szeman, senior research

Institute for Sociology of the Hungarian Academy of sciences

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