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Hiroyasu Inoue presented at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Urbanology. The presentation analyzed the effects of urban lockdowns in the Kyoto–Osaka–Kobe region using large-scale supply chain simulation.

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Hiroyasu Inoue received a FIT Encouragement Award for his presentation at the 20th Forum on Information Technology (FIT2021).

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Hiroto Nakagori, a first-year master’s student in our laboratory, received an Outstanding Poster Award at the University of Hyogo’s Knowledge Exchange Symposium 2021.

His presentation used large-scale supply chain simulation to estimate the economic effects of COVID-19, focusing on how infection prevention measures affected individual firms.

Prof. Inoue was selected for a researcher of the new research theme of SAKIGAKE, one of the projects of Japan Science and Technology Agency. The project would be carried out for 3 years and a half, from October, 2021 to March, 2025.

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Prof. Inoue’s paper “Propagation of International Supply-Chain Disruptions between Firms in a Country” was published on Journal of Risk and Financial Management. 

The paper analyzes how the shock from overseas spreads on supply chain of Japan. 

Propagation of International Supply-Chain Disruptions between Firms in a Country

This study shows how import and export shocks propagate through domestic supply chains using actual Japanese supply-chain data and a world input-output table (WIOT) based on firm-level agent-based simulations. We propose three different models with which to connect the domestic firms to a WIOT. Then…

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Prof, Inoue had a presentation at 20th Forum on Infomation Technology (FIT 2021). The title of the presentation was “The economic impact of heavy rain stream on supply chain” and it espaecially uncovers the influence of long-term rain. 

Hiroyasu Inoue, “The Economic Impact of Heavy Rains on Supply Chains”, Social Science Research Network, 2021.

FIT2021

情報処理学会と電子情報通信学会（情報・システムソサイエティ、ヒューマンコミュニケーショングループ）とは2002年から合同で毎年秋季にFIT（Forum on Information Technology）を開催しており、2020年9月には第19回目をオンライン開催いたします。

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His research was picked up by RIETI Report published by RIETI.

RIETI (Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry) is an independent administrative institution under the jurisdiction of Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry. 

Yoshi Fujiwara, Hiroyasu Inoue, Takayuki Yamaguchi, Hideaki Aoyama, Takuma Tanaka, Kentaro Kikuchi, “Money flow network among firms’ accounts in a regional bank of Japan”, EPJ Data Science, 10(19), 2021.

Articles「Money flow networks: Evidence from Japan」

VoxEU Column

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VOX EU is a portal site of Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), the world’s largest community of economic researchers. His team’s research was picked up on the site.

You can read the article from the link below.

Yoshi Fujiwara, Hiroyasu Inoue, Takayuki Yamaguchi, Hideaki Aoyama, Takuma Tanaka, Kentaro Kikuchi, “Money flow network among firms’ accounts in a regional bank of Japan”, EPJ Data Science, 10(19), 2021.

Money flow networks: Evidence from Japan

The way money flows among firms can tell us about their economic activities and responses to economic shocks such as the one caused by Covid-19. This column uses data on remittances in a regional

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Prof. Inoue will have an invited lecture at a seminar “How COVID-19 Impacts Supply Chains and the Economy: Evidence from Europe and Asia”, cosponsored by the Banque de France and RIETI.
The title of his presentation is “Supply Chains and the Economic Effects of Lockdowns”.

You can apply for the seminar from the link below.

RIETI – How COVID-19 Impacts Supply Chains and the Economy: Evidence from Europe and Asia

The COVID-19 crisis has walloped the world economy. Fear of infection prevented consumers from engaging in face-to-face transactions. Uncertainty restricted investment. Lockdowns reduced output in many regions. How do policies that restrict production in one region affect downstream firms in other r…

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