Yutaro Inoue
1st-year Ph.D. Student
Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University
403 Mitch Daniels Blvd, KRAN #556,
West Lafayette, IN 47907
inoue0[at]purdue.edu
(Currently Preparing)
Yutaro Inoue is a 1st-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University. His research involves econometric analyses of trade policies such as Non-tariff measures. He is also interested in the relationship between the agro-food trade and environmental issues with the ultimate aim to contribute to the achievement of a stable and sustainable agro-food supply all over the world through his research.
MSc (Agriculture), March 2024, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
BSc (Agriculture), March 2022, Department of Agri-food and Environmental Policy, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan.
Visiting Undergraduate Student, September 2021 - December 2021, Columbia University, NY, U.S.A.
International Honors Program, June 2021 - August 2021, Stanford University, CA, U.S.A.
Under the supervision of Prof. Katsuhiro Saito and Dr. Kentaro Kawasaki, I studied topics related to Japan's agricultural export promotion policies and the international agro-food trade. The related methodology includes the estimation of the Linear Approximate Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System (LA/QUAIDS) and the structural gravity model. Through my studies here, I acquired skills for estimation via programming language, R.
Under the supervision of Dr. Shinsaku Nakajima, I focused on research on Japan's agricultural export policies. I studied the relationship between the New Zealand kiwifruit producer group's export activity and its sales in the export destination country, Japan, to obtain implications for Japan's export promotion strategies. I collected and analyzed thousands of tweets and estimated vector auto-regression models. This study is the first to apply text-regression methodology to food consumption research. From this research experience, I acquired skills in academic writing, analyzing alternative data such as text data, and statistical software, Stata.
Teaching Assistant, Quantitative Economic Analysis, April 2024 - September 2024, Faculty of Agriculture, The University of Tokyo.
Teaching Assistant, Microeconomics, October 2023 - March 2024, Faculty of Agriculture, The University of Tokyo.
Teaching Assistant, Microeconomics, October 2022 - March 2023, Faculty of Agriculture, The University of Tokyo.
The Effects of Non-Tariff Measures on Agro-Food Trade: Heterogeneity of Seven Measures and Their Effects on Agro-Food Sectors
Inoue, Y. & Nakajima, S. (2024) The role of tweets in agricultural export: an approach from text-mining and time-series analyses. British Food Journal, Vol.126, No.4, pp.1597-1616.
Inoue, Y., Saito, K. and Kawasaki, K. The Effects of Non-Tariff Measures on Agro-Food Trade: Heterogeneity of Seven Measures and Their Effects on Agro-Food Sectors. 32nd International Conference of Agricultural Economists (Oral presentation, refereed), NASC Complex, New Delhi, India. August 2024.[Conference Paper]
(Presentations in Japan)
Inoue, Y., Saito, K. and Kawasaki, K. Are Non-Tariff Measures Barriers or Catalysts for Agro-Food Trade?: Evidence from the Structural Gravity Model. The Agricultural Economics Society of Japan (AESJ) Annual Meeting 2024 (in Japanese), Tohoku University, Miyagi, Japan. March 2024.
Saito, K., Haga, T., Inoue, Y., Fujii, E., Haganuma, K., and Nagayama, A. Avian Influenza Outbreak and Japan's Importation of Poultry Meat: Gravity Model Approach. The 63rd Conference of The Japan Society of Veterinary Epidemiology (in Japanese), Nippon Veterinary and Life Science University, Tokyo, Japan. March 2024.
Inoue, Y., Saito, K. and Kawasaki, K. Import Demand Analysis of Beef in Hong Kong: Investigating Potential of Japanese Beef Export by LA/QUAIDS. The 2023 Conference of the Food System Research Association of Japan (FSRAJ) (in Japanese), Meiji University, Kanagawa, Japan. June 2023. [Refereed Research Letter]
JB award, August 2024
Travel grant of 100,000 Japanese Yen for the 32nd ICAE (Awarded by The Agricultural Economics Society of Japan)
UTokyo Sustainable Agricultural Program, October 2023
Monthly Stipend (Awarded by Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo)
Alumni Association Award for Graduates, March 2022
Awarded for high academic achievement at Stanford and Columbia and volunteer activities at Meiji (Awarded by Alumni Association, Meiji University)
Meiji University Scholarship for Study Abroad at Top Universities, Type S, September 2021
Scholarship of 3,000,000 Japanese Yen for the study abroad program at Columbia University (Awarded by Meiji University)
Meiji University Scholarship for Study Abroad at Top Universities, Type S, June 2021
Scholarship of 3,000,000 Japanese Yen for the study abroad program at Stanford University (Awarded by Meiji University)
Dean’s Award, April 2021
Awarded for winning the second prize in the YANMAR Student Paper Contest (Awarded by School of Agriculture, Meiji University)
Second Prize in the YANMAR Student Paper Contest, January 2021
Awarded for a contest paper jointly with M. Nagasawa, H. Hara, and Y. Yoo (Awarded by YANMAR Agribusiness Co., Ltd.)
The Sakata Foundation Scholarship, October 2019
Fellowship (Awarded by The Sakata Foundation)