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We believe that academic knowledge and insights are a powerful device for improving society. Our goal is to enhance the development of our community by applying state-of-the-art academic knowledge to the solution of complex issues in the real world.
About UTEcon
UTokyo Economic Consulting Inc. (UTEcon) is an economic consulting firm that offers a wide range of economic consulting services to businesses, governments, international organizations, NGOs, and law firms. UTEcon was founded in August 2020 with close ties with the Graduate School of Economics, the University of Tokyo.
UTEcon offers solutions for client-specific problems and provides reliable analyses taking advantage of the expertise of the faculty members of the University of Tokyo and those of the firm’s own experts in economics, accounting, finance, marketing, and machine learning. With the firm’s wide range of practices, we can provide the best-fit solutions to our clients' needs. Our services include demand forecasting and pricing, policy evaluation, machine-learning based prediction of bankruptcy and accounting fraud, market design, antitrust-related analysis, nowcasting, and quantitative and behavioral marketing.
Our Services
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Businesses
UTEcon optimizes decision-making in finance, accounting, human resources, and other important business components with empirical microeconomic knowledge and tools.
Major Clients
Private firms
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Public Policy
UTEcon assists evidence-based policy making (EBPM) through designing randomized controlled trials and applying empirical microeconomic techniques.
Major Clients
Governments/NGOs/international organizations
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Regulatory
In various policy and regulation matters, litigations, and disputes, UTEcon provides rigorous economic analyses applying latest academic research. Our team aims to promote fair judgement with appropriate evidence in court and regulatory authorities.
Major Clients
Law firms/private firms/governments
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Data Products
UTEcon creates highly value-added data products from database that companies own.
Our Products (Product Page)Major Clients
Database companies
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Others
Major Clients
Private and public organizations
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UTEcon Practice Areas
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Our team includes top researchers in the field of Economics, Accounting, Marketing, Machine Leaning, and more. Our experienced experts across diverse areas collaborate together to solve clients’ complex problems, and integrate their expertise to provide the best solutions. The diversity of expertise and background of our team members makes UTEcon distinguished and successful.
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The University of Tokyo Economic Consulting (UTEcon) and ITOKI CORPORATION develop new solution “Reserve Any” to solve meeting room shortage by using market design
The University of Tokyo Economic Consulting Inc. (Head office: Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Yosuke Kawaharata; hereinafter referred to as UTEcon) a provider of consulting services based on academic knowledge in economics, accounting, and business administration, and ITOKI CORPORATION (Head office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; President: Koji Minato; hereafter “Itoki”) announce the development of “Reserve Any,” a next-generation meeting room reservation system, as a new solution to minimize inefficient use of meeting rooms and improve productivity of the entire organization while promoting behavioral change in office workers and achieving overall optimization. The chronic shortage of meeting rooms in offices is an issue without fundamental solutions. In recent years, along with an expansion of hybrid……
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Nissin Foods Holdings Co., Ltd. utilizes UTEcon Product “GEM App”.
The “GEM App (Gender Equality Measurement Application),” a data product developed by the University of Tokyo Economic Consulting Inc. (CEO: Yosuke Kawaharata; hereinafter referred to as UTEcon) is used to analyze wage differences between men and women at Nissin Foods HD (President and CEO: Kouki Ando; hereafter refer to as Nissin Foods HD). The GEM App is a tool that provides solutions to help companies determine if there is a gender pay gap in their company, understand the causes, and take necessary action. In the 76th Annual Securities Report, Nissin Foods HD conducted a multifaceted analysis that controlled for variables such as grade, age, tenure, department, and working hours using……
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Company Information
- Company Name
- UTokyo Economic Consulting Inc.
- Founded
- August, 2020
- Incorporated
- August, 2020
- Capital
- JPY 100 Million (a subsidiary of University of Tokyo. Other shareholders include Nikkei Inc and Tokyo Shoko Research, Ltd.)
- Corporate Headquarters
- 7-3-1 International Academic Research Bldg. #922 University of Tokyo, Hongo, Bunkyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
- Minamiaoyama Campus
- 1-12-3 LIFORK MINAMI AOYAMA #N210, Minamiaoyama, Minato, Tokyo, 107-0062, Japan
- Representative Director and CEO
- Yosuke Kawaharata