Research Institute of Capital Formation (RICF) | Development Bank of Japan (DBJ)

What's New

20/09/2024		Discussion Paper "The Role of Corporate Venture Capital in Japan" was published.
20/08/2024		Research seminar "The Role of Corporate Venture Capital in Japan" was held.
22/07/2024		Research seminar "Do Activists Trade Options: Evidence from Passive Blockholders Becoming Active" was held.
18/07/2024		We are pleased to announce that Professor Vladimir I. Ivanov (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission) joined our institute as Shimomura Fellow.
16/07/2024		Research seminar "Managing Ownership by Management" was held.
03/06/2024		Economics Today "Sustainability in Medical and Long-Term Care－ Rebuilding the Medical and Long-Term Care Provision System Post-2025 －" was published (in Japanese).
24/05/2024		Research seminar "The Role of Public Intangibles on Externalities of Public Infrastructure in Japan-Empirical Studies Using the Japanese Regional Database-" was held.
30/04/2024		Economics Today "The Behavioral Discipline and the Moral of Economic Agents: Messages from Dr. Kozo HORIUCHI toward the Moral Philosophy for the Future" was published (in Japanese).
30/04/2024		Discussion Paper "Selection and Pricing of Green and Sustainability-Linked Corporate Bonds" was uploaded.
12/04/2024		Research seminar "Unleashing Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Ripple Effects of Employment Protection Reforms" was held.
29/03/2024		Discussion Paper "Post-Pandemic Surges of Real Unit Energy Costs in Eight Industrialized Countries" was uploaded.
22/03/2024		Discussion Paper "Life Science Ecosystem Formation in Singapore - The Process of Focusing on ‘Translation’ -" was uploaded.
16/01/2024		"Handbook of Industrial Financial Data 2023" was published (in Japanese).
16/02/2024		Research seminar "Exorbitant Privilege" as An Equilibrium ― Is the Privilege Persistent? ― was held.
01/11/2023		Economics Today "The Effect of Covid-19 on Cities and the Outlook for the Future" was published.
20/10/2023		Research seminar "Trend Inflation in the Japanese pre-2000s: A Markov-Switching DSGE Estimation" was held.
25/07/2022		Research seminar "Placeholder CEOs" was held.
13/07/2023		Research seminar "Selection and Pricing of Green and Sustainability-Linked Corporate Bonds" was held.
06/07/2023		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		Research seminar "Unsecured loans and Intangible Investment" was held.
08/06/2023		Research seminar "Country-Level Air Pollutants and Institutions" was held.
05/06/2023		Research seminar "Empowering Women by Index Membership: Evidence from a Unique Experiment from Japan" was held.
01/06/2023		We are pleased to announce that Professor John K. Wald (University of Texas) joined our institute as Shimomura Fellow.
28/04/2023		Economics Today "Structure and Ingenuity of Ecosystem Formation in Life Science - System Formation in Belgium and Challenges in Japan -" was published.
21/04/2023		Research seminar "The Value of Bank Relationships: Evidence from the COVID-19 Crisis" was held.
13/02/2023		Research seminar "The Impact of Quantity Easing on Bank Lending in Japan" was held.
30/01/2023		"Handbook of Industrial Financial Data 2022" was published (in Japanese).
20/01/2023		Research seminar "Financial Innovations, Taxes, and the Growth of Finance" was held.
10/01/2023		Springer Monographs"Energy Productivity and Economic Growth: Experiences of the Japanese Industries, 1955-2019" was published.
09/12/2022		Research seminar "Floods and Loan Reallocation: New Evidence" was held.
18/10/2022		Research seminar "Excellent Science as a Driver for Innovation" was held.
14/10/2022		Research seminar "Term limit CEO and firm performance" was held.
31/08/2022		Discussion Paper "The Real Effect of ESG Rating Agencies" was uploaded.
21/07/2022		Research seminar "Ecosystem Based Organisation: External, Internal, and Strategic Alignment" was held.
15/07/2022		Research seminar "Firm Growth through New Establishments" was held.
14/07/2022		Research seminar "ESG in Banking" was held.
05/07/2022		Research seminar "Strategic Realignment: Overcoming Disruption and Improving Performance" was held.
01/07/2022		We are pleased to announce that Associate Professor Jonathan P. Trevor (University of Oxford) joined our institute as Shimomura Fellow.
13/06/2022		Research seminar "Do the asset owner's investment policies affect asset managers' ESG activities?" was held.
03/06/2022		Research seminar "The Real Effect of ESG Rating Agencies" was held.
01/06/2022		We are pleased to announce that Associate Professor Christo A. Pirinsky (University of Central Florida) joined our institute as Shimomura Fellow.
15/04/2022		Research seminar "Fire-Sale Risk in the Leveraged Loan Market" was held.
18/02/2022		Research seminar "Triple Bubbles of a Single Firm" was held.
28/01/2022		Research seminar "Measuring robot quality: Has quality improvement slowed down?" was held.

Recent Research Papers

Other Research Papers

20/09/2024		The Role of Corporate Venture Capital in Japan (IVANOV, Vladimir I)[PDF:307K]
03/06/2024		Sustainability in Medical and Long-Term Care－Rebuilding the Medical and Long-Term Care Provision System Post-2025－ (Tatsufumi Aoyama) (in Japanese).
30/04/2024		The Behavioral Discipline and the Moral of Economic Agents: Messages from Dr. Kozo HORIUCHI toward the Moral Philosophy for the Future (Yaginuma Hisashi, Morio Kuninori, Makoto Hasebe and Yuko Hosoda) (in Japanese).
30/04/2024		Selection and Pricing of Green and Sustainability-Linked Corporate Bonds (Ramirez, Maria Gonzalez and John K. Wald)[PDF:387K]
29/03/2024		Post-Pandemic Surges of Real Unit Energy Costs in Eight Industrialized Countries (Nomura Koji, and Sho Inaba)[PDF:2.2M]
22/03/2024		Life Science Ecosystem Formation in Singapore - The Process of Focusing on ‘Translation’ - (Tatsufumi Aoyama)[PDF:439K]
16/01/2024		Handbook of Industrial Financial Data 2023 (DBJ Research Institute　of Capital Formation (ed.)) (in Japanese).
01/11/2023		The Effect of Covid-19 on Cities and the Outlook for the Future (Kenichi Ueno).[PDF:793K]
28/04/2023		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		Handbook of Industrial Financial Data 2022 (DBJ Research Institute　of Capital Formation (ed.)) (in Japanese).

Information: Springer Monographs & 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.