Japanese Economic Association

Japanese Economic Association
AbbreviationJEA
Formation1934[1]
HeadquartersChiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
Region served
Japan
Members
3,200
President
Hideshi Itoh
Websitewww.jeaweb.org

The Japanese Economic Association (JEA)[2] is the professional body of Japanese economists. The Japanese Economic Association is the largest, with more than 3,000 members, among academic economic associations in Japan. The Association is also one of the oldest, founded in 1934. The Association was reorganized as the Theoretical Economic Association and the Japanese Econometric Association. These two Associations were reunited as the Japan Association of Economics and Econometrics in 1968. The original name of the Association was restored in 1997.[3] Its current president is Hideshi Itoh.[4] It publishes the Japanese Economic Review.[5]

The Association created an official prize, the Nakahara Prize, for the first time in 1995,[6] named after its sponsor Nobuyuki Nakahara. The aim of the prize is honoring and encouraging young (under 45 years) economists to publish internationally recognised researches.[7]

  1. ^ Heinz-Dieter Kurz (2011). The Dissemination of Economic Ideas. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-85793-558-8.
  2. ^ Shinsuke Ikeda, Hideaki Kiyoshi Kato, Fumio Ohtake, Yoshiro Tsutsui. Behavioral Interactions, Markets, and Economic Dynamics: Topics in Behavioral Economics. Springer. 2015. p. 5. ISBN 978-4-431-55501-8.
  3. ^ Nihon Keizai Gakkai Rengō (1999). Information Bulletin of the Union of National Economic Associations in Japan. The Union.
  4. ^ "Presidents". www.jeaweb.org. Retrieved October 17, 2022.
  5. ^ Aiko Ikeo (2014). A History of Economic Science in Japan: The Internationalization of Economics in the Twentieth Century. Taylor & Francis. p. 119. ISBN 978-1-317-74753-6.
  6. ^ Yoichi Matsubayashi, Tamotsu Nakamura, Kosuke Aoki, Wataru Takahashi. Monetary Policies in the Age of Uncertainty. Springer. 2021. p. 10. ISBN 978-981-16-4146-6.
  7. ^ Aoki, Kosuke (March 23, 2022). "The 2021 Japanese Economic Association Nakahara Prize Professor Fuhito Kojima". The Japanese Economic Review. 73 (3): 459–461. doi:10.1007/s42973-022-00112-3.