He is a professor of economics at Northwestern University[1] and, since December 2018, the chief scientific adviser of the Tokyo Foundation for Policy Research.
[2] He is also international senior fellow at the Canon Institute of Global Studies.
[3] He was awarded the Nakahara Prize from the Japanese Economic Association in 1996 and was elected a fellow of the Econometric Society[4] in 1999, and a fellow of the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory[5] in 2011.
Matsuyama’s main fields of research are international trade and macroeconomics.
He is, in his own words, “interested in understanding the mechanisms behind macroeconomic instability, structural transformation, as well as inequality across countries, regions, and households, and how they interact with credit market imperfections and product market innovations.”[6]