About Me

I am a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at the University of Florida. I will be joining Oberlin College as an Assistant Professor of Economics in July 2023!

My research interests include Industrial Organization, Regulation, Antitrust, Transportation Economics, and Applied Microeconomic Theory.

I am a graduate instructor for intermediate microeconomics in the Economics Department at the University of Florida.

Publications

1. The impact of vertical integration on losses from collusion (with Germán Bet and David E.M. Sappington)
International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 77, June 2021, Article 102756

2. Access pricing in network industries with mixed oligopoly (with David E.M. Sappington)
Journal of Regulatory Economics, Vol. 59(3), June 2021, pp. 193-225

3. Restructuring the Chinese freight railway: two scenarios (with Russell Pittman and Jian Zhao)
Asia and the Global Economy, Vol. 1(1), January 2021, Article 100002

4. Regulated versus negotiated access pricing in vertically separated railway systems (with David Besanko)
Journal of Regulatory Economics, Vol. 55(1), February 2019, pp. 1-32

5. Railway restructuring and organizational choice: network quality and welfare impacts (with David Besanko)
Journal of Regulatory Economics, Vol. 50(2), October 2016, pp. 164–206

6. Horizontal versus vertical separation in railway networks: implications for network quality (with David Besanko)
Economics Letters, Vol. 138, January 2016, pp. 78-80

Fields of Interest

• Industrial Organization
• Regulation
• Antitrust
• Transportation Economics
• Applied Microeconomic Theory

Contact Information

University of Florida 
Department of Economics
224 Matherly Hall
P.O. Box 117140
Gainesville, FL 32611-7140

E-mail: shanacui@ufl.edu 
Phone: 847.868.6182
Office: 341C Matherly Hall