RIKEN and Prof. Inoue’s research group issued a joint press release tilted “First in the World – Revealing the Money Flow Network: Big Data Analysis on Banking in Cutting-edge Network Science“ based on the recently released research paper titled “Money flow network among firms’ accounts in a regional bank of Japan”. お金の流れのネットワーク構造を世界で初めて解明理研ら共同研究グループは、最新のビッグデータ・ネットワーク科学を用いて、地方銀行の企業口座間のお金の流れの構造を解明することに成功しました。 posted by Emiri...
Our research project was selected for a four-year KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B). The project estimates the effects of disasters and infectious disease control measures on firms and the economy using a comprehensive network of interfirm transactions. With this award, the laboratory has received continuous KAKENHI support for 17 years since its establishment.
Fujitsu Journal featured research using the Fugaku supercomputer to study the societal effects of COVID-19. RIKEN, working with Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, made part of Fugaku available ahead of its planned launch for shared use in fiscal 2021 to support the response to the pandemic. Fugaku was jointly developed by...
Our research group has been building a patent bibliographic database to study innovation in prewar Japan. A paper describing the database construction method and presenting descriptive analyses has been published in RIETI’s Policy Discussion Paper Series. RIETI is the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, an incorporated administrative agency under Japan’s Ministry of Economy,...
The May 6, 2020 morning edition of Kobe Shimbun featured our research on its front page. The article covered our use of Fugaku to estimate the economic effects of requests to restrict activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Related article / information
Nikkei featured a research initiative using Fugaku to investigate the societal effects of COVID-19. Led by Nobuyasu Ito at RIKEN, the team examined these effects from multiple perspectives, using the supercomputer to support its analyses. Related article / information
We released a video visualizing the estimated economic effects of a hypothetical lockdown of Tokyo’s 23 wards as a possible measure against the spread of COVID-19. The analysis was presented in a paper in RIETI’s Discussion Paper Series. RIETI is the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, an incorporated administrative agency under Japan’s Ministry...
An article coauthored by Hiroyasu Inoue and Yasuyuki Todo of Waseda University was published in Gendai Business. It discussed, from several perspectives, the potential economic effects of imposing a lockdown on Tokyo’s 23 wards similar to those implemented in Europe and North America. Related article / information
Our paper estimating the economic effects of a hypothetical lockdown of Tokyo as a possible COVID-19 containment measure was published in RIETI’s Discussion Paper Series. RIETI is the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, an incorporated administrative agency under Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Read the RIETI paper
Books&Apps featured our research on the potential economic effects of a hypothetical lockdown of Tokyo’s 23 wards. The article discussed the implications of restrictions similar to those implemented in Europe and North America during the COVID-19 pandemic. Related article / information
