{"id":99,"date":"2013-04-06T22:43:03","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T13:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tcer.or.jp\/?page_id=99"},"modified":"2026-01-06T15:42:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T06:42:56","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tcer.or.jp\/en\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About TCER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tokyo Center for Economic Research (TCER) is an inter-university organization managed by economists at prominent universities in the Tokyo metropolitan area, since 1959. TCER has three core activities: research projects by TCER Fellows, TCER Conferences, and promotion of international research such as helping the Journal of the Japanese and International Economies (JJIE). TCER working paper series was started in 2006, to provide an inter-university place to find research papers in one place, just like NBER working papers and CEPR working papers. TCER working papers cover most of JEL classifications and can be submitted by TCER fellows or invited researchers at TCER Conferences.<\/p>\n<h2>Organization of the TCER<\/h2>\n<p>The TCER is governed by a Board of Directors with representatives from the leading universities in the Tokyo metropolitan area. Keiichiro Kobayashi is the TCER&#8217;s Representative Director and Toyotaka Sakai is the Deputy Representative Director. In addition to the TCER Fellows, the TCER employs support staffs. The TCER&#8217;s has a main office in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Board of Directors<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Updated November 2024<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Representative Director<\/strong><br \/>\nKenichi Ueda, <em>The University of Tokyo<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Deputy Representative Director<\/strong><br \/>\nTaisuke Nakata, <em>The University of Tokyo<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Board Members<\/strong><br \/>\nTakahiro Hattori, <em>The University of Tokyo<\/em><br \/>\nHibiki Ichiue, <em>Keio University<\/em><br \/>\nSatoshi Myojo, <em>Hosei University<\/em><br \/>\nMunechika Katayama, <em>Waseda University<\/em><br \/>\nMari Sakudo, <em>Tsukuba University<\/em><br \/>\nMasao Kumamoto, <em>Hitotsubashi University<\/em><br \/>\nShigenori Shiratsuka, <em>Keio University<\/em><br \/>\nYasuyuki Todo, <em>Waseda University<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Auditors<\/strong><br \/>\nRyo Kato, <em>Asia University<\/em><br \/>\nHiroaki Miyamoto, <em>Policy Research Institute, Ministry Of Finance<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">TCER Office<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Tokyo Center for Economic Research (TCER)<br \/>\nSankyo Main Building #703,<br \/>\n1-7-10 Iidabashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0072, JAPAN<br \/>\nTelephone &amp; Fax: +81-3-3239-2524<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tokyo Center for Economic Research (TCER) is an inter-university organization managed by economists at prominent universities in the Tokyo metropolitan area, since 1959. TCER has three core activities: research projects by TCER Fellows, TCER Conferences, and promotion of international &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcer.or.jp\/en\/about\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcer.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcer.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcer.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcer.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcer.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":117,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcer.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2467,"href":"https:\/\/www.tcer.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99\/revisions\/2467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tcer.or.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}