Rowan Shi

rowanxshi@torontomu.cahttp://rowanxshi.github.io


Academic Positions

2020–

Assistant professor. Toronto Metropolitan University

Education

2014–2020

PhD in Economics. Princeton University

Thesis title: International trade with heterogeneous firms and reallocation

2009–2014

BA in Mathematics and Economics. University of California, Berkeley

Highest Honors in Economics, Distinction in General Scholarship

Working papers

Combinatorial discrete choice

with Costas Arkolakis, Fabian Eckert

Non-traded gains from trade: Evidence from Brazil

with Rafael Parente

Solving combinatorial discrete choices in heterogeneous agent models: theory and an application to corporate tax harmonization in the European Union

with Kathleen Hu

Works in progress

Place-based policy for national welfare

with Paula Donaldson, Fabian Trottner

The role of cities: shopping time and inequality in amenities

with Hannah Rubinton

Presentations and invited talks (including upcoming)

2024

ASSA meetings, McMaster University, Queen's University, UCSB/LAEF Junior Macro Conference, Annual Workshop of Southern Ontario Macro Economists (invited discussant), Canadian International Trade Study Group Meeting

2023

Federal Reserve Bank at St. Louis, Canadian Economics Association meetings, EEA-ESEM, NBER International Trade and Investment Program Fall Meeting

2022

Global Economics Networks, Georgetown University

2021

European Meeting of the Urban Economics Association, North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society

Refereeing

Journals. Journal of International Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, International Economic Review

Grants. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

Awards and fellowships

2016–2019

Summer Fellowship. International Economics Section, Princeton University

2014–2020

Doctoral Fellowship. Princeton University

Teaching

2023–

Professor. Undergraduate trade

2020–2022

Professor. Graduate trade I

2020–

Professor. Mathematics for economics II

2018–2020

Course organizer. Introduction to microeconomics, Prof. Kelly Noonan

2018–2020

Course organizer. Introduction to microeconomics, Prof. Kelly Noonan

2019

Course organizer. Introduction to microeconomics, Prof. Henry Farber

2018

Teaching assistant. Introduction to microeconomics, Prof. Kelly Noonan

2017

Teaching assistant. Ethics and economics, Prof. Thomas Leonard

2016–2017

Teaching assistant. Introduction to macroeconomics, Prof. Elizabeth Bogan

Research experience

2015

Research assistant. Prof. Oleg Itskhoki

2014

Research assistant. Prof. Mark Aguiar

2013

Research assistant. Prof. Yuriy Gorodnichenko