Social and Economic Research
At the forefront of global economics, we tackle society’s most pressing issues. Our research drives collaboration and innovation across leading institutes worldwide. By sharing our insights, we shape economic policy and institutional design on an international scale.
Destructive Behaviour, Judgement, and Economic Decision-making under Thermal Stress
Ingvild Almås,
Maximilian Auffhammer,
Tessa Bold,
Ian Bolliger,
Aluma Dembo,
Solomon M Hsiang,
Shuhei Kitamura,
Edward Miguel,
Robert Pickmans
The Economic Journal,
Jan 20, 2025
Optimal Trade Mechanisms with Adverse Selection and Inferential Naivety
Takeshi Murooka,
Takuro Yamashita
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics,
forthcoming
Informal Incentives and Labour Markets
Matthias Fahn,
Takeshi Murooka
The Economic Journal,
Volume:135
Number:665
p.144-179
Dec 10, 2024
Examining the Replicability of Online Experiments Selected by a Decision Market
Felix Holzmeister,
Taisuke Imai,
et al.
Nature Human Behaviour,
Volume:9
Number:2
p.316-330
Mar 1, 2025
Beliefs in Repeated Games: An Experiment
Masaki Aoyagi,
Guillaume R. Fréchette,
Sevgi Yuksel
The American Economic Review,
Volume:114
Number:12
p.3944-3975
Jan 1, 2025
International Economic Review
In collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania (USA), we edit and publish the International Economic Review (IER).
World-leading Researchers
Members of ISER have had their papers published in leading international journals.

News

Apr 21st, 2025
Professor Lorenz Goette (National University of Singapore) is visiting us from Apr 21, 2025 to Apr 25, 2025.
Apr 7th, 2025
Job Opening: Specially Appointed Assistant Professor (Full-Time Position)
Application deadline: May 7th, 2025. Click here for more information.
Apr 6th, 2025
"Financial Forecasting in the Lab and the Field: Qualified Professionals vs. Smart Students", Professor Nobuyuki Hanaki (with Te Bao, Brice Corgnet, Katsuhiko Okada, Yohanes E. Riyanto, Jiahua Zhu) has been accepted for publication in Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance.
Apr 3rd, 2025
"Destructive Behaviour, Judgement, and Economic Decision-making under Thermal Stress", Associate Professor Shuhei Kitamura (with Ingvild Almås, Maximilian Auffhammer, Tessa Bold, Ian Bolliger, Aluma Dembo, Solomon M Hsiang, Edward Miguel, Robert Pickmans) has been accepted for publication in The Economic Journal.
Mar 25th, 2025
"Freedom counts: Cross country empirical evidence", Professor Nobuyuki Hanaki (with João V Ferreira, Fabrice Le Lec, Erik Schokkaert, Benoît Tarroux) has been accepted for publication in European economic review.
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Upcoming Event

5/12
Maurizio Iacopetta
SKEMA Business School
ISER Seminar
Common Ownership, Investment, and Economic Growth: A Theoretical and Quantitative Analysis
10:30 ~ 12:00 (A301)
5/12
Donald R. Davis
Columbia University
ISER Seminar
Segregation, Spillovers, and the Locus of Racial Change (joint with Matthew Easton and Stephan Thies)
14:00 ~ 15:30 (A301)
5/16
Michalis Drouvelis
University of Birmingham
Virtual East Asia Experimental and Behavioral Economics Seminar Series
TBA
16:30 ~ 18:00 (Online)
5/19
Jean-Paul L'Huillier
Brandeis University
ISER Seminar
The Slope of the Phillips Curve and the Mandate of the Central Bank (with Gregory Phelan and William R. Zame)
13:30 ~ 15:00 (A301)
5/26
Armon Rezai
Vienna University of Economics and Business
ISER Seminar
TBA
13:30 ~ 15:00 (A301)
6/2
Atsushi Yamagishi
Hitotsubashi University(Associate Professor)
ISER Seminar
Martyrs, Morale, and Militarism: The Political Impact of Devastation and Slaughter
13:30 ~ 15:00 (A301)
6/9
Daiki Kishishita
Hitotsubashi University
ISER Seminar
TBA
13:30 ~ 15:00 (A301)
6/9
Helios Herrera
University of Warwick(Professor)
ISER Seminar
TBA
10:30 ~ 12:00 (A301)
6/13
Jeffrey Zeidel
New York University, Abu Dhabi
Virtual East Asia Experimental and Behavioral Economics Seminar Series
TBA
16:30 ~ 18:00 (Online)
6/23
Qianxue (Zoe) Zhang
The University of Tokyo
ISER Seminar
TBA
10:30 ~ 12:00 (A301)
6/23
Yuting Chen
Yokohama National University
ISER Seminar
TBA
13:30 ~ 15:00 (A301)
7/4
Lu Dong
Southern University of Science and Technology
Virtual East Asia Experimental and Behavioral Economics Seminar Series
TBA
10:30 ~ 12:00 (Online)
7/14
Jun Nakabayashi
Kyoto University
ISER Seminar
A Field Experiment on Antitrust Compliance (with Kei Kawai)
13:30 ~ 15:00 (A301)
7/25
Zheng (Michael) Song
Chinese University of Hong Kong
ISER Seminar
TBA
13:30 ~ 15:00 (A301)
7/25
Alejandro Martínez-Marquina
University of Southern California
Virtual East Asia Experimental and Behavioral Economics Seminar Series
TBA
10:30 ~ 12:30 (Online)
9/5
Daniel Martin
University of California, Santa Barbara(Associate Professor)
Virtual East Asia Experimental and Behavioral Economics Seminar Series
TBA
10:30 ~ 12:30 (Online)
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Research Highlights

Destructive Behaviour, Judgement, and Economic Decision-making under Thermal Stress
Ingvild Almås,
Maximilian Auffhammer,
Tessa Bold,
Ian Bolliger,
Aluma Dembo,
Solomon M Hsiang,
Shuhei Kitamura,
Edward Miguel,
Robert Pickmans
The Economic Journal,
Jan 20, 2025
DOI: 10.1093/ej/ueae116
Optimal Trade Mechanisms with Adverse Selection and Inferential Naivety
Takeshi Murooka,
Takuro Yamashita
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics,
forthcoming
Informal Incentives and Labour Markets
Matthias Fahn,
Takeshi Murooka
The Economic Journal,
Volume:135
Number:665
p.144-179
Dec 10, 2024
DOI: 10.1093/ej/ueae063
Examining the Replicability of Online Experiments Selected by a Decision Market
Felix Holzmeister,
Taisuke Imai,
et al.
Nature Human Behaviour,
Volume:9
Number:2
p.316-330
Mar 1, 2025
DOI: 10.1038/s41562-024-02062-9
Beliefs in Repeated Games: An Experiment
Masaki Aoyagi,
Guillaume R. Fréchette,
Sevgi Yuksel
The American Economic Review,
Volume:114
Number:12
p.3944-3975
Jan 1, 2025
DOI: 10.1257/aer.20220639
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