Jihye Park

Jihye Park

Postdoctoral Researcher · University of Geneva

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. My research spans various topics in international political economy, including politics of trade, development finance, firm lobbying, and quantitative methods (with particular interest in large language models and causal inference).

My job market paper, Aid, Lending, and TRIPS, was recently published in the Review of International Organizations. It shows that the United States pays for intellectual property standards stricter than the WTO requires, and that the channel of payment follows the recipient's regime type. Democracies get bilateral aid, while autocracies get International Finance Corporation lending routed to their private sectors, well out of congressional reach. To measure US pressure I fine-tuned a DeBERTa-v3 model that scores the intellectual property sections of 28 years of USTR National Trade Estimate reports, released as the nteText R package.

I am now extending this agenda to the politics of computing capacity. Every advanced economy has declared AI hardware a matter of national security while depending on a very short list of firms for the processors, the fabrication tools, and the cloud capacity that the declaration concerns. I study how corporate coalitions shape the scope of export controls and who gets designated strategic, building language models that turn regulatory dockets, consultation archives, and lobbying disclosures into data.

I am on the 2026-27 academic job market.

For those who are curious about how to pronounce my first name, it's [JEE-hey] in phonetic spelling. It means "wisdom" in Korean, just for your extra piece of information :)

If you'd like to know more about me when I'm off-duty, visit my Attic and get a sneak peek of my life as a painter and a LEGO aficionado! And one last thing - Go BILLS!🏈

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