• International and comparative political economy
• Historical international relations
• Historical political economy
• Quantitative methods

• Mitchell, Austin and Weiwen Yin. “Political Centralization, Career Incentives, and Local Economic Growth in Edo Japan.” Online in Explorations in Economic History.
• Yin, Weiwen, Weidong Huo, and Danyang Lin. “The Effects of State Coercion on Voting Outcome in Protest Movements: A Causal Forest Approach.“ Online in Political Science Research and Methods.
• Betz, Timm, Amy Pond, and Weiwen Yin. “Investment Agreement Portfolios and the Fragmentation of Firms across Countries.” Review of International Organizations 16.4 (2021): 755–791.
• Yin, Weiwen. “Domestic Arbitral Institutions and Foreign Direct Investment.” International Relations of the Asia-Pacific 21.3 (2021): 401-429.
• Yin, Weiwen. “Climate Shocks, Political Institutions, and Nomadic Invasions in Early Modern East Asia.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 64.6 (2020): 1043-1069.

Dr. Yin is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Government and Public Administration, University of Macau. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Political Science, Texas A&M University, worked as an assistant professor at The Education University of Hong Kong, and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program.

His research and teaching interests include comparative and international political economy, historical international relations, historical political economy, and quantitative methods, with a regional focus of East Asia. His publications appear in Journal of Conflict Resolution, Review of International Organizations, Political Science Research and Methods, Explorations in Economic History, among others.