Mission Statement

The Mission of Research Division VI, Taiwan Institute of Economic Research (TIER), is to actively conduct research in the areas of macroeconomics, financial and monetary markets, knowledge-intensive business service sector, industrial value added, and recently, transportation economics. Upon completing its research, the Division then periodically presents its findings to the government, companies, and also the academia for reference in order to stimulate economic development.

Division VI currently has a strong team composed of 15 academically accomplished and experienced research fellows, and consultants of great renown from public and private sectors and the academia. Under the combined effort of everyone on the staff, the scale of our research along with the number of research findings continues to grow. In addition, our researchers have been recognized for the diligence and enthusiasm with which they provide the public and private sectors with research findings and consulting services of division's area of expertise. Division VI will continue to actively promote global affairs and cooperation and exchange between TIER and other international academia institutions.

Below introduces the core fields in brief:

1. Research of topics related to the financial industry and market
‧Value added of new business models in the financial service industry
‧Development and trend of the financial asset management market
‧Development and trend of unsecured loans by banking institutions
‧Promotion of corporate participation in futures trading
‧Modeling and forecasting of the real estate market

2. Research of topics related to domestic and foreign macroeconomics
‧Macroeconomic analysis and forecasting
‧Macroeconomic monetary policies and related studies
‧Macroeconomic analysis of major and emerging economies

3. Cost-Benefit Analysis of Transportation Projects
‧Establishment of standard procedures for cost-benefit analyses of transportation projects
‧Study of the methodology employed for assessing user benefits
‧Study and investigation of parameter values used for cost-benefit analysis
‧Evaluation methodology of External benefits for transportation projects

4. Research of the knowledge-intensive business services sector
‧Development and policies of the technical service industry
‧Service trade of the knowledge-intensive business services
‧Case study of enterprises in the knowledge intensive business sector
‧Intangible Capital Formation in the knowledge-intensive business service industry

5. Research of topics related to industrial value added
‧Theoretical analysis and case study of the determining factors for industrial value added
‧Econometric analysis of the evolving industrial value chain
‧Value added of new business models in the financial service industry
‧Measurement of industrial value added and competitiveness