Recent Activities

Prof. Inoue’s research project was adopted as Promotion Project of Research for Next Generation (Post COVD-19 field), of which University of Hyogo made a public invitation.

In regard of his project about economic impact of COVID-19, many institutions including Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, have already cooperated. 

The focus of many research assistance projects this year is mainly on society for post COVID-19.
The adopted project targets to toughen supply chain to be more resilient to pandemic such as COVID-19.

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We are inviting a postdoc at RIKEN who can develop models of social and economic phenomena and simulate them on large scale data. The contract is annual but can be renewed by March 2025.(This invitation is different from the last one.)
https://www.riken.jp/…/researchers/20210618_2/index.html

Seeking a Research Scientist or a Postdoctoral Researcher at Discrete Event Simulation Research Team (R-CCS2107)

Discrete Event Simulation Research TeamRIKEN Center for Computational Science (Team Leader: Nobuyasu ITO)

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。

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Prof. Inoue’s discussion paper titled “Market Selection in Global Value Chains” (https://www.uni-bamberg.de/fileadmin/uni/fakultaeten/sowi_faecher/vwl/BERG/BERG_170.pdf(opens in a new tab)) was published on BERG Working Paper Series organized by University of Bamberg. 

This paper computes productivity of each industry, using interindustry relations table of the world. It discovers that more growth can be estimated by considering, not only a single particular industry, but also other industries related.

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Prof. Inoue’s group paper “Money flow network among firms’ accounts in a regional bank of Japan” was published on EPJ Data Science. 

Money flow network among firms’ accounts in a regional bank of Japan

In this study, we investigate the flow of money among bank accounts possessed by firms in a region by employing an exhaustive list of all the bank transfers in a regional bank in Japan, to clarify how the network of money flow is related to the economic activities of the firms. The network statistic…

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Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) is world’s largest community among economic scientists, and VOXEU is its portal website.

Prof. Inoue’s article posted last month ranked fifth in the most read articles in this month. It seems the effect of countermeasures of COVID-19 is still a big concern and occupies the interest of the public.

How the economic effects of COVID-19 lockdowns in different regions

The economic benefit from lifting lockdowns may depend significantly on the lockdown strategies of other regions and countries due to supply chain links. This column analyses the importance of supply

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Freshmen enrolled in 2021, Mr. Nakagun and Mr. Yamamoto belonging M1 started taking Prof. Inoue’s seminar.
Prof. Inoue was excited to promote interesting research with them further.

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Prof. Inoue’s research (Hiroyasu Inoue, Yohsuke Murase, Yasuyuki Todo, “The impact of supply-chain networks on interactions between the anti-COVID-19 lockdowns in different regions”, COVID Economics, 56, pp.157-194, 2020.) was picked up on public relations magazine of Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI).

RIETI – RIETI広報誌

経済産業研究所RIETIからのお知らせ。年報・広報誌などを掲載しています。

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Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) is world’s largest community among researchers.

Prof. Inoue’s research ( Inoue, H, Y Murase and Y Todo (2020), “Do Economic Effects of the Anti-Covid-19 Lockdowns in Different Regions Interact through Supply Chains?” RIETI Discussion Paper, 21-E-001, Trade Research Institute for Economy, and Industry.)
was picked up on its portal site, VOXEU.

How the economic effects of COVID-19 lockdowns in different regions

The economic benefit from lifting lockdowns may depend significantly on the lockdown strategies of other regions and countries due to supply chain links. This column analyses the importance of supply

posted by Emiri Sugata