Yuki Matsuura

Research fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO).

Yuki Matsuura is a research fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO).

My academic interests center around empirical studies of politics and political economy in developing countries and beyond. Specifically, my current projects deal with 1) how land endowment affects the trajectory of regional economic development, 2) whether human rights concerns shape domestic acts of authoritarian regimes, and 3) what issue dimensions are salient in international deliberations.

I apply quantitative methods, causal inference methodology, and geospatial analysis to observed data.

I obtained my B.A. and M.A. from the University of Tokyo.

Education

University of Tokyo

  • M.A. in International Relations
  • B.A. in Liberal Arts

Research Interests

IR

  • Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime
  • Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
  • Human Rights

CP

  • Authoritarian Regimes
  • Land Politics

Methodology

  • Causal inference with panel data
  • Text-as-data and application of LLMs
  • Geospatial analysis