一橋大学経済研究所研究者コミュニティ · 2015-06-10 · 一橋大学経済研究所研究者コミュニティ特設ウェブサイトから賛同をいただいた研究者

一橋大学経済研究所研究者コミュニティ

特設ウェブサイトから賛同をいただいた研究者外国人―67 名

Name Affiliation

1 Alessandro Cigno University of Florence

2 Andrei Yakovlev HSE Institute for Industrial and Market Studies

3 Bishnupriya Gupta University of Warwick

4 Bronwyn H Hall University of California at Berkeley

5 Bruno Dallago University of Trento

6 Byoung Heon Jun Korea University

7 Byung-Yeon Kim Seoul National University

8 Cheng Hsiao University of Southern California

9 Christopher Mark Davis University of Oxford, Department of Economics

10 David Weinstein Columbia University

11 Dongwoo Yoo West Virginia University

12 Emanuela Ceva University of Pavia (Italy)

13 Eric J. Iversen

14 Evgeni Peev Vienna University of Economics and Business

15 Geir B. Asheim University of Oslo

16 Gyoergy Szell University of Osnabrueck

17 Harald Hagemann University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

18 Hee-Dong Yang Ewha Womans University

19 Heinz D. Kurz Graz Schumpeter Centre, University of Graz, Austria

20 Hun-Chang Lee Department of Economics, Korea University

21 Iikka Korhonen Bank of Finland

22 Imre Ferto Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional

Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

23 J. Mark Ramseyer Harvard University

24 Jean-Pascal Bassino ENS de Lyon

25 Jennifer Prah Ruger University of Pennsylvania

26 Jing-Yuan Chiou National Taipei University, Department of Economics

27 Jin-Li Hu College of Management, National Chiao Tung University

28 John A. Weymark Vanderbilt University

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29 Laura Hein Department of History Northwestern University, Evanston

IL USA

30 Lee Branstetter Carnegie Mellon University

31 Lin Pei-Hsin（林佩欣）一橋大学経済研究所

32 Lloyd Steier University of Alberta, School of Business

33 LU Ming Fudan University and Shanghai Jiaotong University

34 Luis Cabral New York University

35 Madhura Swaminathan Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore

36 Marco Dardi University of Florence, Italy

37 Marcus Asplund Copenhagen Business School

38 Maria Cristina Marcuzzo Sapienza, University of Rome

39 Maria Laura Di

Tommaso

Department of Economics and Statistics, University of

Torino, Italy

40 Markus Heckel Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

41 Martin Daunton University of Cambridge

42 Maurice Salles University of Caen

43 Mukul G Asher Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University

of Singapore

44 Nadezhda Mikheeva The Federal Governmental and Academic Institute of the

Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian

Federation and Russian Academy of Sciences "Council for

the Study of Productive Resources" Moscow, Russia The

Federal Governmental and Academic Institute of the

Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian

Federation and Russian Academy of Sciences "Council for

the Study of Productive Resources" Moscow, Russia

45 Nahm Jae Korea University

46 Partha Sen Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of

Economics

47 Pascalis Raimondos Copenhagen Business School

48 Peter Havlik The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies

(wiiw)/International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

(IIASA)

49 Peter S Heller Williams College, Williamstown Massachusetts, USA

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50 Prasanta Kumar

Pattanaik

University of California, Riverside, USA

51 Ralph Paprzycki Independent scholar

52 Ritu Vij University of Aberdeen

53 Roger Backhouse University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

54 Rudi Bekkers Eindhoven University of Technology

55 Sarker M. Mizanur

Rahman

Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University

56 Saumik Paul University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus

57 Shane Greenstein Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

58 Sophie Mitra Fordham University

59 Tatiana G. Dolgopyatova National Research University 'Higher School of Economics'

(Moscow, Russian Federation)

60 Thomas G. Rawski University of Pittsburgh

61 Timothy Kam Research School of Economics, Australian National

University

62 Tina Kao The Australian National University

63 Tiziano Raffaelli University of Pisa - Italy

64 Tue Gorgens The Australian National University

65 Vamsi Vakulabharanam University of Massachusetts

66 Walter Bossert University of Montreal

67 Yongsheng Xu Georgia State University

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Alessandro Cigno

University of Florence

Having visited the Institute of Economic Growth for nearly three months in the

recent past, I can testify to the excellence of its research and organization, and

strongly support its designation as an inter-university institution.

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Andrei Yakovlev

HSE Institute for Industrial and Market Studies

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 am very glad to do it based on the

experience of cooperation between IER and my university - Higher School of

Economics.

I would stress that the number of HSE scholars (including Prof. Engeny

Gavrilenkov, Prof. Alexei Ponomarenko and many others) worked at IER as

visiting researchers and this experience was very beneficial for development

of HSE as new advanced university in the field of economics and social

sciences and leading think tank providing policy advice for Russian

government.

In 2005-2009 together with Prof. Ichiro Iwasaki and other colleagues from IER

we realized very successful project on corporate governance in Russian firms

based on survey of 822 joint-stock companies. This jointly collected unique

dataset gave us the opportunity to write a number of research articles and

finally publish in 2009 in Palgrave MacMillan the book 'Organization and

Development of Russian Business. A Firm-Level Analysis' Following this joint

activity just now together with Prof. Iwasaki we are thinking on organization

of symposium 'Russian firms in comparative perspective' in Moscow in 2016.

I would stress that Institute of Economic Research 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. IER

historical data archive is unique in both quality and quantity. It has provided a

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place for interaction among economists and historians through various

workshops and conferences, covering both empirical work and frontier

econometric theory. This activity of IER have been particularly effective in

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 really 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 17th, 2015

Andrei Yakovlev

Director of HSE Institute for Industrial and Market Studies

(http://iims.hse.ru/en/)

Vice-president of ARETT (http://www.arett.ru/)

Member of Executive Committee of EACES (http://www.eaces.eu/)

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Bishnupriya Gupta

University of Warwick

I have been associated with the Institute of Economic Research at Hitotsubashi

University for several years. The institute's statistical data base and research is

impressive and provides valuable resources to the international academic

community. I strongly support the continuation of their status as inter

university institution.

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Bronwyn H Hall

University of California at Berkeley

I wish to indicate my support for the Institute of Economics Research at

Hitotsubashi University. I have been acquainted with this research institute for

several years and have been impressed by the research undertaken there and

the attention paid to the collection and use of micro data for economic and legal

analysis (especially in the intellectual property area, my area of interest). I have

visited the Institute for 3 months in 2008 and also have participated in several

conferences there. I have found it a very congenial place to work and to interact

with Japanese colleagues.

Clearly the institute already functions as a hub of not only national but

international scholarly exchange and collaboration. It will clearly be a great

benefit to the academic community and others who benefit from its

collaborative research that the Institute continue to be officially recognized as

an Inter University Institution.

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Bruno Dallago

University of Trento



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.

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Byoung Heon Jun

Korea University

I have visited IER of Hitotsubashi University several times since 2004, through

long term or short term arrangements. The academic environment and the

facility is one of the best, and I would like it to be preserved as it is. I am sure

that it will be one of the economic research centers that will enhance the

frontier of the worldwide economic research significantly.

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Byung-Yeon Kim

Seoul National University




Naka 2-1, Kunitachi



I am writing to support the Institute of Economic Research at Hitotsubashi

University as an Inter-University Research Institute designated by Ministry of

Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. I had been a visiting

scholar at IER three time, from June 2012 to August 2012, January 2013, and

January 2014. I was deeply impressed by excellent research and living

environments provided by IER. Furthermore, I recognized that IER made an

important contribution to the advancement of economic and other social

sciences for the past half century as a "joint-use and collaboration" center. In

particular, its historical data archive is unique in both in quantity and quality.

IER has provided me a place for interactions among economists and historians

through various workshops and conferences, covering empirical works and

frontier econometric theory.

I have collaborated with Prof. Iwasaki, Prof. Kumo, and Prof. Kuboniwa at

IER for various international conferences, workshops and seminars. In

addition, I coauthored a research paper with a postgraduate student at IER,

which is now in a revise and resubmit stage for a major economics journal. I

presented a multiple number of my papers at IER and were benefitted by

constructive and valuable comments from the economists at IER.

The institute already functions as a hub of not only national but also

international scholarly exchange and collaboration. I strongly believe that the

IER will continue to play a pivotal role for "joint-use and collaboration" if it

obtains official recognition as an Inter University Institution.

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Cheng Hsiao

University of Southern California

May 8, 2015


I am writing this letter to give my strongest support for the designation of the

Histotsubashi University Institute of Economic Research as an Inter-University

research Institute by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and

Technology. The Institute has provided invaluable service to the advancement

of economic research and other social sciences for more than half a century by

functioning as a "joint-use and collaboration facility". The Institute's historical

data archive is unique in both scope and quality such as the 14 volume

Long term economic statistics of Japan since 1868 and Asian long-term

statistics, etc. The institute has also been instrumental in promoting interactions

among researchers internationally and different fields and organizations. It has

supported research and graduate education on the theory and practice of micro

data analysis. The most recent one I attend was the International penal Data

conference held in July 2014. Leading scholars around the world has presented

their research findings there and they all considered this was one of the most

successful international conference. The Institute will also organize the

symposium of theoretical and applied econometrics conference at the end of

May 2015 which I understand many leading scholars in Asia, Australia and US

will also attend.

The Institute has already functioned as a hub for Japanese and international

scholarly exchange and collaboration. I sincerely hope that the academic

community can continue to rely on the Institute to fulfill its pivotal role as a

"joint-use and collaboration" by the official recognition and an Inter University

Institution.

Sincerely yours,

cheng hsiao

Professor of Economics

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University of Southern California

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Christopher Mark Davis

University of Oxford, Department of Economics

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am pleased to confirm that the Institute of Economic Research of Hitotsubashi

University has been most helpful in supporting my academic research and

promoting collaboration between UK and Japanese scholars. I was a visiting

scholar at the Institute in October 2014 to work on topics related to economic

statistics in the USSR and Russia with Prof. Kazuhiro Kumo. While there I

gave a seminar presentation on the topic of "Soviet Industry Statistical Issues:

Structure, Economic Environment, Performance, Hidden Processes". The

feedback I received was most helpful. Over the past six months I have prepared

an academic journal article that was related to my visit to Hitotsubashi

University entitled: "The Ukraine conflict, economic-military power balances,

and economic warfare". It has been submitted to the journal European Security

and there is an acknowledgement of the support provided by Hitotsubashi

University. On the basis of my positive experience I recommend that the

Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology continue to

support the Institute of Economic Research of Hitotsubashi University as a

collaborative research center.

Prof. Christopher Mark Davis, Reader in Command and Transition Economies,

University of Oxford

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David Weinstein

Columbia University

I strongly support IER's bid to be a joint-use, collaborative research facility.

They have done first-rate research, and the statistics they have generated have

enormously benefited my research. Feel free to contact me if you have any

further questions.

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Dongwoo Yoo

West Virginia University




Naka 2-1, Kunitachi





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 am familiar with Prof. Chiaki Moriguchi and Prof. Katsuo Kogure at the

institute. I note that our research agenda overlaps and we get mutual benefits

in studying Asian economies in a comparative perspective.

I visited the institute for 4 months in 2014. During that period I was able to

develop fruitful research topics including "comparative Asian economic

history" and "mapping and economic development." This would not have been

possible without the support of the institute. I was particularly impressed by

the critical feedbacks from Institute of Economic Research faculty members.

Moreover, the IO/Labor and Development seminar series invited top-notch

international/domestic scholars and I was able to share ideas with those

scholars. Their comments were very helpful in developing my research agenda.

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scholarly exchange and collaboration. I dearly hope that the academic




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Emanuela Ceva

University of Pavia (Italy)

I have visited the Institute of Economic Research of the Hitotsubashi

University as a Visiting Foreign Researcher in May 2014. The Institute

provided the most congenial environment for my research. In particular, during

my stay, I had the opportunity to work with Prof Reiko Gotoh whose research

expertise lies at the intersection of economics and philosophy and with whom

I share an interest in issues of respect for the rights and opportunities of

minorities. The interaction with prof Gotoh has proved particularly fruitful and

has led to the formulation of a joint research project for the mobility of young

researchers that has now been funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion

of Science (involving also the universities of Oxford and Princeton alongside

Hitotsubashi and Pavia). As a part of this program, a junior colleague of mine

has visited Hitotsubashi in March 2015 to take part in an international

conference related to the themes of the project.

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Eric J. Iversen

The IER has been uniquely successful in promoting interaction among

researchers in related but different fields and organizations.

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. 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 surprisingly 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

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

constantly more crowded world.

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Evgeni Peev

Vienna University of Economics and Business

I visited the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University a few

years ago.

This is a really great place for change of ideas and inspiration.

Coming back to Europe, I have discussed my experience with colleagues from

different universities which definitely shared my opinion.

Thus, I strongly support the Institute of Economic Research, an internationally

recognized institution for research collaboration, in its current application in

Japan.

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Geir B. Asheim

University of Oslo




Naka 2-1, Kunitachi








use and collaboration" facility. It has provided a place for interaction among





I have visited Hitotsubashi University in 2004, 2005, 2008 and 2013, invited

by Professor Kotaro Suzumura and Professor Naoki Yoshihara. Each visit has

been of a week's duration, generously supported by the "Project on

Intergenerational Equity" and the later COE projects.

The conferences, workshops and seminars which I have participated in during

these visits have provided fruitful meeting places for inter-disciplinary

exchange of intellectual ideas between Japanese scholars and the international

visitors, leading to important academic advances. In particular in relation to

theories of intergenerational equity and the importance of such theories for the

evaluation of climate policies, these activities have been of outmost

importance.


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scholarly exchange and collaboration. I sincerely hope that the academic




Sincerely yours,

Geir B. Asheim

Department of Economics

University of Oslo

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Gyoergy Szell

University of Osnabrueck

I have the pleasure to have been working since more than twenty years closely

with the IER, Hitotsubashi University, several times as visiting professor,

supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the Japan Fdt.

in 2004-2005 I was a full professor, where I organized an international

symposium. The outcome of which was amongst others the book 'Corporate

Social Responsibility in the EU and Japan'. In the meantime I have become

editor-in-chief of the Asian Journal of German and European Studies

<www.ajges.com> and intend to intend in this capacity to continue the high-

level cooperation with this leading economic research institute in Japan and

one of the leading ones in the world.

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Harald Hagemann

University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany

Since I first have been at Hitotsubashi University in December 2004 to attend

the conference 'Carl Menger and the Historical Aspects of Liberalism' I have

come to know the Institute of Economic Research as an excellent research

institution which is widely recognized internationally as an outstanding place

in economics. This holds for the history of economics, as for example,

Professor Shionoya's work on Schumpeter, Weber et al., or Professor

Nishizawa's work on Fukuda, Marshall and Brentano, as well as in particular

for the collection and provision of large-scale research data. Thus the Institute

has been a major force in empirical research work. The Institute's collection of

long-term data for Southeast Asia is remarkable as is its collection of Soviet

Union Statistics. The more recent work on poverty reduction, institutions,

markets and policies in developing countries is a very topical issue as is the

project on real estate, financial crisis, and economic dynamics. As a scholar

who repeatedly has come to Japan and gave lectures and seminars at various

Japanese universities I strongly support the Institute of Economic Research at

Hitotsubashi University to be designated an Inter University Institution for

"Joint-use, collaborative Research" by the Council for Science and

Technology.

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Hee-Dong Yang

Ewha Womans University

I do declare my strong support for the academic activities of Institute of

Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.

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Heinz D. Kurz

Graz Schumpeter Centre, University of Graz, Austria

Having cooperated successfully with members of Hitotsubashi University

during the past couple of years I fully endorse the petition under consideration.

Heinz D. Kur

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Hun-Chang Lee

Department of Economics, Korea University

Dear Professor Yukinobu Kitamura,


Research of Hitotsubashi University 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

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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 Konoscke Odaka, Osamu Saito, and Kyoji. Fukao. Since 2008

Korea University's Institute for Economic Research has been awarded for the

Focused 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 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.

Hun-Chang Lee

Professor of Korean Economic 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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Iikka Korhonen

Bank of Finland

Dear Sirs,

I merely want to state that I have always enjoyed cooperating with the high-

quality staff of the Institute of Economic Research at the Hitotsubashi

University. Their skills and dedication have made them excellent coauthors and

cooperators in many of my projects.

I also greatly valued my three-month stay at the IER. The Institute provided an

intellectually stimulative environment, and for this I am grateful.

Yours,

Iikka Korhone

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Imre Ferto

Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, Hungarian

Academy of Sciences

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J. Mark Ramseyer

Harvard University

The Hitotsubashi IER is a priceless jewel within Japanese higher education.

It has had a long history of absolutely first-rate economic and econometric

research, and has made enormous contributions to economic study. My own

field is "law & economics," and my position is within the Harvard Law School.

Over the years, I have found IER publications enormously useful. I have

given seminars on my own research at IER, and the responses have been

priceless. It's been a wonderful experience.

Here at the Law & Economics Program of the Harvard Law School, we are

hoping that we will be able to work with the IER to assemble a dataset on

litigation and settlement in the Japanese courts. I would find such a dataset

massively helpful, and I can think of no place better than IER to house such a

project. I very much hope that the joint Hitotsubashi-Harvard project on

Japanese litigation can come to fruition.

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Jean-Pascal Bassino

ENS de Lyon

To whom it may concern.

I am writing in support of the renewal of the appointment from 2016 onwards

of the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, as designated

Inter University Institution providing joint-use, collaborative research facilities

1) to develop and utilize large research facilities 2) to accumulate, maintain

and promote common use of large scale research data, and 3) to promote

interaction among researchers in related but different fields and organisations.

My statement is based on my experience as visiting researcher at the Institute

of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, on several occasions since

2010 during relatively short stays (about two weeks or less each) as well as

during a 3-month invitation as research associate in the Summer 2010. The

Institute is an outstanding academic institution playing a unique role as an

organisation serving as a center for data collection and management for

empirical research in economics on Japan and the World. 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.

For these reasons, I strongly wish to support the application submitted by the

Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, for the renewal of the

appointment as designated Inter University Institution from 2016 onwards.

Sincerely

Jean-Pascal Bassino

Professor or economics

ENS de Lyon, Lyon, France

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Jennifer Prah Ruger

University of Pennsylvania

I am writing this letter to strongly 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,




I visited the institute for 9 days in March of 2015. During that period, I served

as visiting professor and gave a lecture titled, "Health Capability Profile." This

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

particularly impressed by the gracious hospitality I received from the institute

and the attentiveness of the audience to whom I gave my lecture. Particularly,

I would like to thank Reiko Gotoh and Hiroyuki Kuribayashi, who were most

helpful to me and my staff before, during, and after my visit.






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Jing-Yuan Chiou

National Taipei University, Department of Economics

Dear Sir,

I am writing to express my wholehearted support of the Institute of Economic

Research of Hitotsubashi University for their continuation as one of the

designated Inter University Institutions.

I have the great chance to participate in workshops and other academic events

organized by IER, and am very impressed by as well as benefited from my

experiences at IER and interactions with their faculty members. The

researchers I met at IER are no doubt leading scholars in their areas. In

addition, in events organized by IER they managed to assemble a strong body

of scholars with rich diversity of backgrounds. These intensive exchanges of

knowledge and stimulations of research ideas make IER a particularly valuable

research center for scholars all over the world to come and work here.

Based on these experiences, I have no doubt that if IER receives or maintains

the supports it deserves, it will continue to make its own unique and

irreplaceable contributions to the academic world.

sincerely yours,

Jing-Yuan Chio

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Jin-Li Hu

College of Management, National Chiao Tung University

To whom it may concern:

I support the efforts of the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi

University, Japan to continue to be an Inter University Institution.

I personally shortly visited this great institute for a week in 2013. I also

published two papers in an international economic journal managed by

Hitotsubashi University in 2014. I have seen their achievements and on-

going efforts in promoting academic cooperation domestically and

internationally.

Best wishes.

Jin-Li Hu

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Jin-Li Hu

Institute of Business and Management

National Chiao Tung University

118, Sec. 1, Chung-Hsiao W. Rd.

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My ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7337-2935

2013 Elsevier Excellence in Reviewing:

http://blog.sina.com.tw/jinlihu/article.php?entryid=649400

2012 Asia's Best Professor in Economics:

http://blog.sina.com.tw/jinlihu/article.php?entryid=649399

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http://benthamopen.com/TOENVIRJ/home/

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John A. Weymark

Vanderbilt University

Hitotsubashi University is a world leader in the investigation of normative

issues in Economics. The COE Project on Intergenerational Equity and

earlier related projects have helped provide the foundation for formulating

government policy objectives on important policy issues, such as climate

change and pensions. Hitotsubashi's President, Koichi Tadeuma, has himself

made important research contributions to this branch of Economics. The

funding provided by the Japanese government has enabled Hitotsubashi to

bring prominent scholars from around the world to Tokyo for conferences and

for extended stays to conduct collaborative research. Continuance of this

support is essential if Hitotsubashi is to retain its very distinguished

international reputation. I strongly endorse the renewal of the financial

support of Hitotsubahsi University.

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Laura Hein

Department of History Northwestern University, Evanston IL USA

I first visited the Institute for Economic Research in 1983 when I was writing

a dissertation on the history of the energy industries in Japan. The

combination of learned scholars, excellent library resources, and original long-

term data sets has made it a "must-go" location ever since. I highly value the

IER for subsequent projects: for example, the papers of Tsuru Shigeto and

Nakayama Ichiro. The institute fosters cooperative work that combines

qualitative and quantitative methodologies and is always of very high quality.

Most of the top overseas scholars who work on Japan count it as an essential

stop on their research itineraries. Please continue to fund something that in

its area of expertise is much like a "living national treasure.

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Lee Branstetter

Carnegie Mellon University

I am making these comments in support the designation of Institute of

Economic Research as an Inter-University Research Institute by Ministry of

Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. I strongly support this

designation.

Throughout my career as an economist interested in innovation, international

commerce, and Asian economic growth, I have repeatedly returned to

Hitotsubashi University's Institute of Economic Research to access its

outstanding data and interact with its internationally recognized faculty. When

I served on the staff of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers in

2011-2012, I frequently turned to the scholarship of the IER and its faculty for

guidance in thinking about economic developments in Japan and the rest of

Asia. I read and frequently cite the work of IER faculty in my own research,

and direct my own Ph.D. students to the outstanding scholarship of IER

affiliates. IER is an outstanding resource for economists around the world,

and it richly deserves the designation of Inter-University Research Institute.

Best regards,

Lee Branstetter

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Lin Pei-Hsin（林佩欣）

一橋大学経済研究所

一橋大学経済研究所は、経済研究に関する情報や文献などを網羅的に

収集して整備し、研究員、事務員皆が情熱的、若手研究者の私たちに

研究に関する各事情を支えてあげます。経済研究所の一員として研究

できるとのこと、非常に幸せです。私は、経済研究所の事を、心より応

援します。

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Lloyd Steier

University of Alberta, School of Business

Dear Sirs:



Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. I had the opportunity to visit the

Institute for 3 months in 2008 as well as attend several academic conferences

hosted by the Institute. I - as well as many of my colleagues at the University

of Alberta, Canada - view the Institute as unique in the world. It offers an

extraordinary confluence of scholars and ideas.

My hosts at the Institute were extremely helpful in discussions related to

general research inquiry as well as matters related to the Japanese economy.

As an academic I have travelled to many countries throughout the world--from

my perspective the Institute of Economic Research is an exemplary

ambassador for both the value of rigorous research as well as the country of

Japan.

Sincerely,

Lloyd Steier

Vice Dean

Professor, Strategic Mgmt & Organization

Distinguished Chair, Entrepreneurship & Family Enterprise

Academic Director, CEFE & ABFI

University of Alberta School of Business

Edmonton, AB T6G 2R6 Canada

780-492-517

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LU Ming

Fudan University and Shanghai Jiaotong University

I have worked with Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University

for many years as a research fellow. I mainly use CHIPS data to joint studies

on Chinese economy with Prof. Hiroshi Sato. We have published several

papers on top Chinese journals, Chinese Social Science, and well-known

English Journals, such as World Development. I appreciate IER and Prof. Sata

for their efforts to share data and coauthor papers with me. I learned a lot, and

the cooperation has been fruitful. I sincerely hope we can continue the

cooperation. I have joined Shanghai Jiaotong University, and lead the China

Center for Development Studies. I will be more than happy to extend our inter-

personal and inter-institutional cooperation to SJTU, which is also a leading

university in China.

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Luis Cabral

New York University

I support the designation of Institute of Economic Research as an Inter-

University Research Institute by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports,

Science and Technology. I visited the IER in recent years and was impressed

by its accomplishments in collaborative research. The workshop on innovation

that I had the chance of attending was one of the best workshops on the topic I

ever had a chance to attend.

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Madhura Swaminathan

Indian Statistical Institute Bangalore

Our Institution has had close collaboration with academics at the Institute of

Economic Research, Hitotsubashi, with mutual visits, and exchange of

research ideas and papers.

Interacting with scholars at Hitotsubashi has been intellectually stimulating

and rewarding.

We look forward to more collaborative research in the future.

I strongly endorse the Institute for being recognised as a centre for inter-

university collaboration.

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Marco Dardi

University of Florence, Italy

It is with great conviction that I am writing to support the designation of the

Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, as Inter University

Institution by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and

Technology. This conviction derives from my past experience as a frequent

participant in international workshops organized by the Institute since 2003.

The workshops covered topics in history of economic thought that were at the

cutting edge of international research. I have always found that the Institute

provided the ideal atmosphere for scholarly exchange and international

collaboration. I admire the excellent facilities for research provided by the

Institute, the wealth of historical data and bibliographic materials preserved in

its archives, and the high efficiency and collaborative spirit of the personnel. I

hope that the academic community will be able to rely on the invaluable service

of the Institute also in the future.

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Marcus Asplund

Copenhagen Business School

To whom it may concern



Culture, Sports, Science and 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 the Institute directly regarding future cooperation initiatives.

Sincerely

Marcus Asplund

Professor

Department of Economics


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Maria Cristina Marcuzzo

Sapienza, University of Rome

I strongly support the designation of Hitotsubashi University as Inter


It is a highly respected and known centre of excellent in many fields. I have

been personally involved in research activities there, I confirm that it stands up

to its reputation.

With kind regards,

Maria Cristina Marcuzzo

Professor of Economics

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Maria Laura Di Tommaso

Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Torino, Italy

To whom it may concern,

I am writing to support the Institute of Economic Research on the Petition for

Inter University Institution.

My experience with the Institute started in 2003 when I was a visiting Professor

invited by Prof. Chiaki Hara.

Then I visited the Institute again in February 2015, invited by Prof. Reiko

Gotoh.

Both times I had an extremely pleasant stay and my hosts made me feel very

welcome.

Concentrating on my recent experience, I was invited by Professor Reiko

Gotoh on the project "International Collaboration for Formulating Trans-

positional Capability Index". My stay in Hitotsubashi University was

extremely pleasant. Prof. Gotoh was a very good host and I felt very welcomed.

I was invited to give a seminar in the Institute of Economic Research. The

seminar was very well organised and I had many important feed-backs on my

work. There were many participants and most of them provided very valuable

comments on my research project.

I am sure that the collaboration with Prof. Reiko Gotoh to continue and it was

certainly enhanced by my visiting period in Hitotsubashi.

Practicalities of my last stay in Kunitachi were dealt with extreme efficiency

by Mr Hiroyuki Kuribayashi.

I also had a lot of help from the Economics Department secretarial staff which

I found extremely professional and kind.

Sincerely yours,

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Maria Laura Di TOmmas

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Markus Heckel

Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

To whom it may concern,

I was a visiting reserach fellow at the IER from March 16 to April 30 this year.

I greatly appreciated the perfect research facilities which helped my research

on the Japanese labor markets a lot. Besides of that I had plenty opportunity to

meet Professors from the IER which not only taught me a lot of things about

the Japanese economy but also had many discussions to various topics of the

economy in general which raised ideas for future research. These new ideas on

future research led to concrete projects that will be done in the near future as

joint work.

I think via this joint work between Japanese Professors and outside researchers

valuable results can be expected. Very important is also comparative analysis

between economic systems (e.g. Japan and Europe).

For me, the IER is the one of the best institutions to conduct future research in

Japan and I strongly recommend the support of this institution.

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Martin Daunton

University of Cambridge

I strongly support the work of Hitotsubashi University. I have collaborated

on a number of projects on the history of economic thought, and have found

them stimulating and original Also, Prof Saito has been a visiting professor of

economic history in Cambridge, and has very strong links with us which are

invaluable in understanding the contrasting economic development of Asia and

Europe. Our links have been very exciting and fruitful.

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Maurice Salles

University of Caen

I strongly support the Institute of Economic Research of Hitotsubashi

University.

In my research domain (social choice and welfare), this institute and more

generally Hitotsubashi University are internationally famous. In my view, in

this domain, the Institute is among the top five research organizations in the

world.

There is now a long tradition of excellence with major scholars such as Kotaro

Suzumura, and younger people such as Koichi Tadenuma, Reiko Gotoh,

Tatsuyoshi Saijo and Naoki Yoshihara. This is an impressive list and all

universities worldwide would be happy to gather such eminent persons.

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Mukul G Asher

Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore




Naka 2-1, Kunitachi







and other social sciences for the past half a century by functioning as a "joint-







I am particularly familiar with Professor Nuriyuki Takayama, who has since

retired, at the Institute. He and I collaborated for several years on inter-

generational pension issues. These included civil service and military pension

reforms in Asia, and administrative and compliance issues relating to provident

and pension funds. Both these are relatively less researched areas and as a

result they contributed to addressing an important gap in the pensions

literature.

I have also been fortunate to be associated with other faculty of the IER,

including you, in various conferences organized by Asian Development Bank

Institute, the World Bank and other organisations. The World Bank's

conference in Tokyo on closing the coverage gap in pensions across the world

has had significant influence on pension reforms in many countries.

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I visited the Institute for three months in 2010. During that period I was able

to pursue research on civil service and military pension reforms in selected

Asian Countries. This would not have been possible without the support of the

Institute. I was particularly impressed by the stimulating collaborative

research environment, with opportunities to meet other economists such as

Professor Mahera and Professor M. Sato from the Hitotsubashi University, at

the Institute.

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


community will be able to safely rely on the Institute in the future to fulfill its



Mukul G. Asher

Professorial Fellow, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National

University of Singapore

7 May 2015

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Nadezhda Mikheeva

The Federal Governmental and Academic Institute of the Ministry of

Economic Development of the Russian Federation and Russian Academy of

Sciences "Council for the Study of Productive Resources" Moscow, Russia The

Federal Governmental and Academic Institute of the Ministry of Economic

Development of the Russian Federation and Russian Academy of Sciences

"Council for the Study of Productive Resources" Moscow, Russia




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

and historians through various workshops and conferences, covering both



young scholars.

I am particularly familiar with professors Iwasaki I., Fukao K., Kumo K. at the

institute. I know them as brilliant researchers whose papers and books are

widely known in the world.

I visited the institute for 2 years in 2003-2005. During that period I began

researches on use of methodology of national accounts, in particular matrixes

of social accounts, for the analysis and forecasting of development of the

Russian regions. My researches were based on studying and use of the

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international first of all Japanese experience of statistical researches. This

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

particularly impressed by "Asian Historical Statistics Project" a long-term

economic statistical database for Asia developed in the Institute.






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Nahm Jae

Korea University

Hitotsubashi University is renowned for its activeness in research. I am certain

to say that it is functioning as the center of research in the East Asia.

In 2013, Korea University's Institute of Economic Research and Hitotsubashi

University's Institute of Economic Research jointly held a conference on Aging

issues. Our main interest was on the aging society. The conference was a huge

success, and we find the results very precious and also instructive, and

Hitotsubashi University's Institute of Economic Research has compiled

research capacity in this area.

I visited the institute around 10 weeks in 2010-2011. I was able to personally

experience the dynamic atmosphere of the institute. Seminars were held

actively, and I was very impressed with them.

Thank you.

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Partha Sen

Centre for Development Economics, Delhi School of Economics

My colleagues and I have gained enormously from the interaction and data

collection activities of the Institute of Economic Research at Hitotsubashi

University.

I hope this will continue into the future.

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Pascalis Raimondos


I have visited several times the Department of Economics at Hitotsubashi

University and indeed it is a great environment. My personal contact are

professors Jota Ishikawa and Taiji Furusawa; both experts in International

Trade and world know for their contributions. An ex Ph.D. candidate of

Hitotsubashi, now Asc. Professor at Chuo University, Yoshimasa Komoriya, is

currently visiting our Department. He is will be staying with us for 2 years.

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Peter Havlik

The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw)/International

Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

Myself and my institue in Vienna (wiiw) have been for a long time engaged in

a fruitful academic cooperation with the Institute of Economic Research,

Hitotsubashi University. Cooperation partners at IER Hitotsubashi were in

particular Profs Yo. Nishimura, Ma. Kuboniwa and Ich. Iwasaki.

I spent 3 months on sabbatical as a visiting professor in Kunitachi in 1998,

published working papers in IER series and participated in the anniversary

conference in 2012. Several colleagues from IER visited wiiw in Vienna over

the years in order to exchange views on economic developments in Eastern

Europe. Such exchange of views is very useful and I appreciate very much to

listen to views and assessment of the Japanese colleagues.

My IER Hitotsubashi related publications:

'Economic Transitions in Central and Eastern Europe: Any Lessons for the

Arab Spring?’ Russian Research Center Working Paper Series, No. 36, The

Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, June 2012

(http://www.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/rrc/RRC_WP_No36.pdf);

'Russian Economic and Integration Prospects', Russian Research Center

Working Paper Series, No. 5, The Institute of Economic Research,

Hitotsubashi University, April 2008;

'Wages, Productivity and Labour Costs in the CEECs', The Institute of

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

359, Tokyo, December 1998.

Currently, P. Havlik (wiiw) and IER (Prof Iwasaki) applied for a research grant

in order to investigate economic developments in Eastern Europe.

I wish IER and its research team a lot of success and look forward for the

cooperation in future.

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Best regards,

Peter Havlik, wiiw Vienna, Austria

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Peter S Heller

Williams College, Williamstown Massachusetts, USA

I wish to strongly support the work undertaken at the Institute of Economic

Research of Hitotsubashi University. Having participated as a Visiting Scholar

at the Institute, I can testify strongly to the exceptionally high quality of the

economic and statistical research that is being carried out at the Institute. Its

academic researchers carry out studies which are of exceptional importance in

terms of economic and social policy. In particular, I am very familiar with their

work on pensions policy and aging populations, which has provided me with

valuable insights into how Japan is addressing the challenging of an aging

population.

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Prasanta Kumar Pattanaik

University of California, Riverside, USA

The Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, is an outstanding

center for research in economics. The volume and quality of its research output

are truly impressive. I have had the privilege of visiting the Institute of

Economic Research many times in the past. My interaction with the scholars

there has contributed much to my intellectual life and I am deeply grateful for

that. I believe that the Institute fully deserves all possible support necessary

for it to continue its highly admirable work as a major international center of

economic research.

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Ralph Paprzycki

Independent scholar

I have been working with and conducting research at the IER for more than a

decade. The IER does an exemplary job of collaborating with researchers from

around the world, providing them with research facilities and access to data. I

strongly support the IER's renewal as a designated Inter University Institution.

Kind regards,

Ralph Paprzycki

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Ritu Vij

University of Aberdeen

To Whom It May Concern:

I write in enthusiastic support of the IER Institute. I have had the privilege of

being a part of its robust intellectual life as a participant in a seminar recently

hosted by Professor Reiko Gotoh.

Hitotsubashi Dai's stellar reputation precedes it; I was, however, nonetheless

surprised by the rich and deeply inter-disciplinary nature of the intellectual

conversation that brought economists, philosophers and historians together in

the seminar I was part of. The faculty at IER were equally impressive, as were

the students and administrative staff I met.

Most strikingly, however, and key to IER's reputation as a world class

institution, is the cosmopolitan environment nurtured at the Institute,

represented in the nationalities, languages, cultures and intellectual interests of

those affiliated with IER.

IER is a globally recognized institution that deserves every support it can get.

I wish it every success in the years ahead and very much hope support to it will

be renewed so the Institute can flourish in the years ahead.

Please do not hesitate to contact me at [email protected] if you have any

questions.

Best Wishes,

Ritu Vij (PhD)

University of Aberdeen

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Roger Backhouse

University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

I have been attending events organised at the Institute of Economic Research

at Hitotsubashi University for over ten years, and I have formed a high opinion

of the research that is done there and of the professors that I have met. Though

I am not familiar with all the research projects it has undertaken--there are so

many projects that probably no one person could be--buy I have been

impressed by everyone I have met and the seriousness with which they

undertake their research. The institute has a very high reputation outside Japan

and does valuable work in collaboration with researchers outside Japan.

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Rudi Bekkers

Eindhoven University of Technology

In spring 2014, during my sabbatical, I was kindly invited as a guest researcher

by Hitotsubashi university for a period of approximately 2 months. The

pleasant interaction with the university's academics, the research facilities, and

the support by staff made this a very productive and worthwhile event.

Especially the intensive interaction at the seminars I have and the activities

with the professorial staff were stimulating and helpful in accomplishing the

academic projects I was working on at the moment, in particular the creation

and analysis of a large scale database on patented technology in technological

standards. Moreover, the large number of other visiting researchers provided

for a lively and interactive environment. I praise Hitotsubashi university for

being a rather unique place and thank them for their hospitality.

Rudi Bekkers

Associate Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology

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Sarker M. Mizanur Rahman

Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University

I strongly 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



young scholars.

I was a student of this institute. I published four international papers. I

participated in the II World Conference of the Spatial Econometrics

Association, New York, USA and 55th Annual North American Meetings of

the Regional Science Association International, New York in 2008. I shared

my research ideas with international experts and received their comments. This

would not have been possible without the support of the institute. Moreover,

I am doing research in the institute as a visiting researcher since December,

2014 and I have written a research paper. I am particularly highly impressed

by faculties’ cooperation as well as research environment and facilities.




pivotal role for “joint-use and collaboration” by official recognition as an Inter


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Saumik Paul

University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus




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I am particularly familiar with Yukinobu Kitamura, Takashi Kurosaki and

Takashi Oshio at the IER. I visited the institute for 1 month (January) in 2015.

During that period I was able to apply for a joint-use research grant (with Prof.

Yukinobu Kitamura, Prof. Takashi Kurosaki and Prof. Takashi Oshio) and

prepare a working paper. This would not have been possible without the

support of the institute. I was particularly impressed by Prof. Takashi Kurosaki

for his overall guidance and excellent feedback on my research. I was also

impressed by Prof. Yukinobu Kitamura, Prof. Takashi Kurosaki and Prof.

Takashi Oshio for brainstorming over many ideas in topics related to inequality

in Japan. The administrative support during my stay was excellent, particularly

by Akiko Ito.

I participated in the PRIMCED workshop in 2015 hosted by Takashi Kurosaki.

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community will be able to safely rely on the institute in the future to fulfil its



May 12, 2015

Saumik Paul

University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus

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Shane Greenstein

Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

I visited Hitotsubashi University a number of years ago at the invitation of

Professor Reiko Aoki, who I have known for many years.

It was a fantastic visit. I found the colleagues to be very stimulating and the

atmosphere was constructive. I learned a great deal about many issues facing

Japanese firms. The visit was very valuable. I have maintained contacts with a

number of researchers from Hitotsubashi.

Japan should be proud to sponsor such a center of higher learning.

Best regards,

Shane Greenstein

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Sophie Mitra

Fordham University

The researchers of IER at Hitotsubashi University, I have interacted with

during my visit in 2015 perform top quality research in economics and in other

disciplines. The breadth and depth of their work is impressive. Given this, I am

writing this message in support for the re- appointment of IER as a designated

Inter University

Institution.

Sincerely,

Sophie Mitra

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Tatiana G. Dolgopyatova

National Research University 'Higher School of Economics' (Moscow, Russian

Federation)

I visited the IER for a week in Autumn, 2003 where I participated at the

Workshop "Corporate Governance in Transition Economies" (with the

presentation 'Corporate ownership and control in the Russian companies after

the decade of reforms" and established useful and stable contacts with

colleagues from the Institute, especially with Prof. Ichiro Iwasaki. In 2004 a

long-term joint research project "Corporate governance and Integration

Processes in the Russian Economy" based on a large-scaled survey of Russian

companies was launched by the IER and Higher School of Economics (HSE).

I was a project leader from Russian side and Prof. Iwasaki was a leader from

Japanese-side. It was a great pleasure to work with him and his colleagues on

this academic project.

During the project years (2005-2009) two joint monographs were published

(edited by me, Prof. Iwasaki and Prof. Yakovlev from HSE): 1) the book in

Russian (Russian corporation: internal organization, outside interactions and

prospects for development, first edition in 2007 and the second one - in 2009);

2) the monograph in English (Organization and Development of Russian

Business: A Firm-level Analysis; by Palgrave McMillan in 2009). And a

number of working papers (including IER Discussion papers Series (B) and

HSE Working papers) and articles in international and Russian journals were

published by Russian and Japanese participants of the project.

During the project years and later I had a positive experience of participation

in a number of panels organized jointly with colleagues form the IER at various

international conferences (Congresses of ICCEES, Bi-Annual conferences of

EACES, Annual HSE Academic International conferences). And now, we

continue to collaborate with Prof. Iwasaki on empirical studies of Russian firm

behavior and competiveness planning some further joint academic activities as

well.

I would like to support the designation of IER as an Inter-University Research

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

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The IER 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


covering both empirical work and frontier econometric theory.

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Thomas G. Rawski

University of Pittsburgh

Thanks for providing this opportunity to comment on the ongoing work of the

Hitotsubashi University Institute of Economic Research in the area of

compiling and analyzing statistical evidence relating to Asian economic

history. A long succession of IER projects has opened many doors for

researchers worldwide, including myself, my co-authors, and a number of my

students. At the moment, I am working on a long-term analysis of Chinese

industrialization with comparisons to Japan, India and Russia. To this end, I

have on my desk 4 volumes issued by IER: the LTES volumes on Capital Stock

(edited by K. Ohkawa) and Textiles (edited by S. Fujino and others)- volumes

3 and 11 in that endlessly useful series; also the recent China volume, number

3 in the series Ajia chooki keizai tookei (edited by R. Minami et al); and the

volume Kyuu Nihon shokuminchi keizai tookei (edited by T. Mizoguchi).

This is and has been a typical circumstance for me over the past several decades

since the appearance of the LTES series. I use the results of IER's ongoing

research virtually every day; I expect this to continue; I look forward to new

publications from this highly productive and justly famous institute with eager

anticipation. I hope that the Japanese government will continue funding what

I see as a "National Treasure" in the academic sphere.

Thomas G. Rawski

13 May 2015

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Timothy Kam

Research School of Economics, Australian National University

I have had the privilege of being an academic visitor once to the Hitotsubashi

IER in 2010. It is a unique institution where I had benefitted from meeting

various Professors within and outside of my own field of research. I found this

community to have been extremely welcoming and I had a productive time

while I was there. As a result I was able to substantively develop two papers

which were previously disseminated as Hitotsubashi IER working papers.

Subsequently these papers have been published in the Journal of Mathematical

Economics and the International Economic Review. I hope this unique

institution will continue in its mission of academic excellence and international

outlook.

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Tina Kao

The Australian National University

I have been a visitor to IER myself for several times including a sabbatical

leave of 3 months during Oct to Dec 2014. IER has always been a wonderful

research institute to visit. I have enjoyed the seminars and research

collaboration during my visits. I highly support the renewal of IER's

appointment as designated Inter University Institutions from 2016 onward.

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Tiziano Raffaelli

University of Pisa - Italy

In the past I had many opportunities to collaborate with researchers of the IER,

and to appreciate the first-rate quality of the studies that are pursued in it.

I warmly hope it will continue to be active and to give its contribution to world

research in the field of economics.

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Tue Gorgens

The Australian National University

Dear Sir,

I understand that the status of the Institute of Economic Research at

Hitotsubashi University as a "joint-use, collaborate research" facility is under

review with a view on continuing from 2016.

I strongly support this bid. The IER has an excellent reputation in the

international research community, both for building and maintaining valuable

databases and for conducting sophisticated research at the highest standard. I

have personally had the pleasure of visiting the IER several times in recent

years, and I have been greatly impressed with the level of academic activities.

Domestic and international collaboration is everywhere, the visitor programs

are extensive, the seminar programs are great both in numbers and in quality,

ditto conferences and workshops, etc.

The IER has provided a wonderful service to the academic community in the

past, and I am sure the Institute will be able to continue playing this important

role in the future.

Yours sincerely,

Tue Gorgens

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Vamsi Vakulabharanam

University of Massachusetts

I have collaborated closely with the Institute of Economic Research at

Hitotsubashi University over the last two years. In particular, I worked with

Professor Yukinobu Kitamura on issues surrounding Japanese Inequality.

Institute of Economic Research, located at Hitotsubashi University, has (for the

past seven decades, roughly since 1940) produced empirical work of the

highest standards on the Japanese economy, Asian economies and also the

global economy. Hitotsubashi University is a top-ranked global academic

institution that is absolutely essential for facilitating collaborative research

among serious and first-rate researchers.

It is precisely because Institute of Economic Research had the status of an Inter

University Institution that they were able to facilitate collaborative work of

such high quality among researchers from across the world (such as myself).

The Institute of Economic Research richly deserves to continue with the status

of being an Inter University Institution.

Sincerely,

Vamsi Vakulabharanam

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Walter Bossert

University of Montreal

Over the last fifteen years, I have visited the Institute of Economic Research at

Hitothsubashi University on numerous occasions to attend workshops and

conferences and work with collaborators on joint research projects. My

experiences have been extremely positive. The academic environment and

collaborative atmosphere is truly outstanding and ideally suited for large-scale

collaborative efforts in an international setting. I fully approve of the role of

the Institute and I do so without any hesitation or reservations. I hope that

these comments will be of use to keep this outstanding research facility

operating at the highest possible level.

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Yongsheng Xu

Georgia State University

The Institute has a great reputation in many research areas and attracts

researchers from outside Japan to visit it and spend some time there. I hope

it continues its excellence in those many areas.

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