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The Research Institute of Capital Formation (RICF) was established on July 1, 1964, as a department of the Japan Development Bank, with Dr. Osamu Shimomura as its first executive director. The institute currently serves as a research department of the Development Bank of Japan, conducting research aimed at the formation of a sustainable economy and society.

Shimomura Fellowship

Development Bank of Japan (DBJ) offers non-Japanese researchers the Shimomura Fellowship, named in honor of the late Dr. Osamu Shimomura, a noted Japanese economist.

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22/03/2024 Research Paper

Discussion Paper "Life Science Ecosystem Formation in Singapore - The Process of Focusing on ‘Translation’ -" was uploaded.

16/01/2024 Financial DB

"Handbook of Industrial Financial Data 2023" was published (in Japanese).

16/02/2024 Seminar

Research seminar "Exorbitant Privilege" as An Equilibrium ― Is the Privilege Persistent? ― was held.

01/11/2023 Research Paper

Economics Today "The Effect of Covid-19 on Cities and the Outlook for the Future" was published.

20/10/2023 Seminar

Research seminar "Trend Inflation in the Japanese pre-2000s: A Markov-Switching DSGE Estimation" was held.

25/07/2022 Seminar

Research seminar "Placeholder CEOs" was held.

13/07/2023 Seminar

Research seminar "Selection and Pricing of Green and Sustainability-Linked Corporate Bonds" was held.

06/07/2023 SpringerBriefs

SpringerBriefs in Economics "Recent Advances in the Theory of Third-Degree Price Discrimination: A Nexus to Network Effects, Innovation, and Behavioral Aspects" was published.

16/06/2023 Seminar

Research seminar "Unsecured loans and Intangible Investment" was held.

08/06/2023 Seminar

Research seminar "Country-Level Air Pollutants and Institutions" was held.

05/06/2023 Seminar

Research seminar "Empowering Women by Index Membership: Evidence from a Unique Experiment from Japan" was held.

01/06/2023 People

We are pleased to announce that Professor John K. Wald (University of Texas) joined our institute as Shimomura Fellow.

28/04/2023 Research Paper

Economics Today "Structure and Ingenuity of Ecosystem Formation in Life Science - System Formation in Belgium and Challenges in Japan -" was published.

21/04/2023 Seminar

Research seminar "The Value of Bank Relationships: Evidence from the COVID-19 Crisis" was held.

13/02/2023 Seminar

Research seminar "The Impact of Quantity Easing on Bank Lending in Japan" was held.

30/01/2023 Financial DB

"Handbook of Industrial Financial Data 2022" was published (in Japanese).

20/01/2023 Seminar

Research seminar "Financial Innovations, Taxes, and the Growth of Finance" was held.

10/01/2023 SpringerBriefs

Springer Monographs"Energy Productivity and Economic Growth: Experiences of the Japanese Industries, 1955-2019" was published.

09/12/2022 Seminar

Research seminar "Floods and Loan Reallocation: New Evidence" was held.

18/10/2022 Seminar

Research seminar "Excellent Science as a Driver for Innovation" was held.

14/10/2022 Seminar

Research seminar "Term limit CEO and firm performance" was held.

31/08/2022 Research Paper

Discussion Paper "The Real Effect of ESG Rating Agencies" was uploaded.

21/07/2022 Seminar

Research seminar "Ecosystem Based Organisation: External, Internal, and Strategic Alignment" was held.

15/07/2022 Seminar

Research seminar "Firm Growth through New Establishments" was held.

14/07/2022 Seminar

Research seminar "ESG in Banking" was held.

05/07/2022 Seminar

Research seminar "Strategic Realignment: Overcoming Disruption and Improving Performance" was held.

01/07/2022 People

We are pleased to announce that Associate Professor Jonathan P. Trevor (University of Oxford) joined our institute as Shimomura Fellow.

13/06/2022 Seminar

Research seminar "Do the asset owner's investment policies affect asset managers' ESG activities?" was held.

03/06/2022 Seminar

Research seminar "The Real Effect of ESG Rating Agencies" was held.

01/06/2022 People

We are pleased to announce that Associate Professor Christo A. Pirinsky (University of Central Florida) joined our institute as Shimomura Fellow.

15/04/2022 Seminar

Research seminar "Fire-Sale Risk in the Leveraged Loan Market" was held.

18/02/2022 Seminar

Research seminar "Triple Bubbles of a Single Firm" was held.

28/01/2022 Seminar

Research seminar "Measuring robot quality: Has quality improvement slowed down?" was held.

Recent Research Papers

Other Research Papers

22/03/2024 Discussion paper

Life Science Ecosystem Formation in Singapore - The Process of Focusing on ‘Translation’ - (Tatsufumi Aoyama)[PDF:439K]

16/01/2024 Financial DB

 Handbook of Industrial Financial Data 2023 (DBJ Research Institute of Capital Formation (ed.)) (in Japanese).

01/11/2023 Economics Today

The Effect of Covid-19 on Cities and the Outlook for the Future (Kenichi Ueno).[PDF:793K]

28/04/2023 Economics Today

Structure and Ingenuity of Ecosystem Formation in Life Science - System Formation in Belgium and Challenges in Japan - (Tatsufumi Aoyama)[PDF:2.2M]

30/01/2023 Financial DB

 Handbook of Industrial Financial Data 2022 (DBJ Research Institute of Capital Formation (ed.)) (in Japanese).

31/08/2022 Discussion paper

The Real Effect of ESG Rating Agencies (Bikmetova, Natalya and Christo A. Pirinsky)[PDF:795K]

20/12/2021 Financial DB

 Handbook of Industrial Financial Data 2021 (DBJ Research Institute of Capital Formation (ed.)) (in Japanese).

06/09/2021 Economics Today

 Board Gender Diversity and Environmental Disclosure: Evidence from Listed Firms in Japan (Ayako Ozawa) (in Japanese).

08/03/2021 Discussion paper

The Distribution of Voting Rights to Shareholders (Fos, Vyacheslav and Clifford G. Holderness)[PDF:661K]

25/09/2020 Economics Today

 Trends of Global Economy and Asia: US-China Disputes, Digitalization and the Course of Japan (Ogawa, Eiji, Jun-ichi Nakamura and Masakazu Sato) (in Japanese).

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Springer Monographs & SpringerBriefs in Economics: DBJ Research Series 新規ウインドウで開きます

SpringerBriefs in Economics: DBJ Research Series English monographs, launched in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of RICF, based on research by the RICF staff as well as other researchers in various capacities.

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