Field of Research

International Relations (Internatioal Political Economy)

Research Topics

International Organizations, Politics of Trade and Foreign Direct Investment

Overview of Research

I study International Relations, specifically International Political Economy and International Organizations.

My first line of research examines how international organizations publish information or establish standards amidst scientific uncertainty, and how domestic actors influence these processes. Global challenges such as climate change have intensified discussions about the politics of information. How do international organizations navigate the political process of publishing such information? One of my studies investigates how multiple organizations in the energy policy regime shape one another’s projections and policy recommendations, and how these outputs are used in domestic contexts. Using data collected from international and domestic organizations, including text data, I demonstrate how overlapping institutions influence each other and how domestic actors leverage their outputs.

Another ongoing project considers how multinational companies (MNCs) influence the international standardization regime through their subsidiary networks. Using an originally collected panel dataset of voting membership for ISO technical committees and project-level data on foreign direct investments (FDI), I test the impact of MNCs on international standardization. The figure below shows that countries receiving foreign direct investment from firms active in ISO standardization are more likely to engage in ISO technical committees in subsequent years.

My second research area, which intersects with the first, explores how multinational firms exert political influence at home and abroad. This includes examining what nationality means for MNCs and, more generally, firm-state relationships in the context of global value chains. I analyze data such as declaration-level customs data, firms’ FDI projects, and survey responses from firm managers to address these questions. Please visit my personal website for more details.

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MIYANO, Sayumi 
Associate Professor
Degree: Ph.D. in Politics (Princeton University)
smiyano@osipp.osaka-u.ac.jp

OSIPP Faculty

	AKAI, Nobuo Professor	Public Economics
	HASUO, Ikuyo  Professor	Global Governance, International Public Administration
	HAWKINS, Virgil Professor	International Politics, Media Studies
	IKEFUJI, Masako Professor	Macroeconomics, Environmental Economics
	ISHISE, Hirokazu Professor	Macroeconomics, International Economics
	KATAGIRI, Azusa Associate Professor	International Relations, Political Methodology
	KAMADA, Takuma Associate Professor	Criminology, Urban Sociology, Social Inequality
	KAWAKUBO Takafumi Associate Professor	International Economics, Organizational Economics, Public Economics
	KAWAMURA, Michiya Professor	Multiculturalism, Liberalism, Migration
	KOHARA, Miki Professor	Labor Economics, Applied Econometrics
	KUBOTA, Masanori Assistant Professor	International Relations,Comparative Politics
	MAEKAWA, Wakako Associate Professor	International Relations, Conflict Resolution, Peace Studies
	MARUYAMA, Shiko Professor
	MATSUBAYASHI, Tetsuya Professor	Political Science, Political Economics, Social Epidemiology
	MATSUSHIMA, Noriaki Professor	Industrial Organization
	MIYANO Sayumi Associate Professor	International Relations (Internatioal Political Economy)
	MINAMI, Kazushi Associate Professor	International Relations of East Asia, U.S. Foreign Relations, Cold War
	NAKAJIMA, Hiroo Professor	History of American Foreign Relations, International History
	NISHIYAMA, Katsuhiko Lecturer	Health economics
	NISUGI, Kento Associate Professor	International Law
	OKUBO, Kunihiko Professor	Civil Law
	OTSUKI, Tsunehiro Professor	Development Economics
	SAIRENJI, Takayuki Associate Professor	EU Law
	TAKATA, Hinako Associate Professor	International Law
	TAKII, Katsuya Professor	Economics of Human Resource Allocation, Economics of Human Capital and Organization, Search and Matching Theory
	WANI, Kentaro Professor	International Law
	YAMASHITA, Mamiko Associate  Professor	Financial Econometrics, Finance
	YAMASHITA, Takuro Professor	Microeconomic theory
	ENDO, Yuya Assistant Professor	Political Behavior
	WATAMURA, Naoki Assistant Professor