Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study

19-20 February, International Conference on Real Estate Statistics 2026 (Paper Submission Deadline: 28 November 2025)

  1. 13 March, The 84th regular seminar: Dr. Gabriella Conti, Department of Economics and Social Research Institute, University College London, “Workforce Quality and Early Childhood Development at Scale”

  2. A contract was signed with Jizoku Inc. for a joint research project entitled “Appropriate Pricing Levels for Carbon Credits in Rural Southeast Asia”

  3. Discussion Paper HIAS-E-156 “Macroeconomic Effects of Unconventional Monetary Policy in Japan: Analysis Using Narrative Sign Restrictions” has been issued.

  4. Discussion Paper HIAS-E-155 “LOST IN MONETARY TRANSLATION : MONETARY SINGLENESS AND RELATIVE PRICE DISTORTIONS” has been issued.

  5. 11-12 July, Hitotsubashi Summer Institute (HSI) 2026: Microeconomic Theory (onsite) [Event dates announced]

  6. 4 February, IIR Innovation Forum: LEE Jiman (Professor, Yonsei University, School of Business) “Intergenerational transfer of knowledge and skills in a long-lived family business : The Case of MinSokJu AnDong Soju” & “Further Research Proposal” (onsite)

  7. 24 February, The HIAS Brown Bag Seminar #25: Dr. Marc K. Francke (Specially Appointed Professor, HIAS), “Graph-Laplacian Modeling of Spatio-Temporal Effects for House-Price Estimation” (onsite)

  8. 12 February, The HIAS Brown Bag Seminar #24: Robert Hill (Specially Appointed Professor, HIAS), “Are Energy Efficiency Improvements Capitalized in Property Prices? A Hedonic Analysis of Market Incentives” (onsite)

  9. 29 January, EMG Workshop Tokyo

  10. David Uriel Socol de la Osa (Assistant Professor, HIAS) has been appointed Area Editor for Data & Policy (Cambridge University Press) in January 2026