Yutaro Inoue

Education

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.

Experiences

Research Experiences

Master's Student, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at The University of Tokyo (April 2022 - March 2024)

Supervisors: Dr. Katsuhiro Saito and Dr. Kentaro Kawasaki

Keywords: Global Agro-Food Trade, Nontariff Measures, Structural Gravity Model, Agricultural Export Promotion in Japan, Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System (QUAIDS)

Undergraduate Student, Department of Agri-food and Environmental Policy at Meiji University (April 2018 - March 2022)

Supervisor: Dr. Shinsaku Nakajima

Keywords: Marketing Board in New Zealand, Text-Mining, Vector Autoregression

Teaching Experiences

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.

Publications

Working Papers

Heterogeneous and Interactive Effects of Nontariff Measures on Agro-Food Trade

Refereed Papers

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.

Presentations

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]

Saito, K., Haga, T., Inoue, Y., Fujii, E., Haganuma, K., and Nagayama, A. Avian Influenza Outbreak and Japan's Importation of Poultry Meat: An Approach from the Estimation of Gravity Model. The 2024 Conference of the Food System Research Association (in Japanese), Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan. June 2024. [Refereed Research Letter]

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. 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]

Honors

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)