Rate My Professor Yifei Cai

Dr. Yifei Cai is a Senior Lecturer in Aviation at Adelaide University, within the College of Engineering and Information Technology's School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. Specializing in aviation economics and finance, international relations and political shocks, time series econometrics, applied macroeconomics, and sustainability, Cai holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Western Australia (2017–2021). His academic career trajectory includes serving as Lecturer at the University of South Australia (2024–2025), Lecturer at Teesside University (2022–2023), and Assistant Professor at Macau University of Science and Technology (2021–2022).

Cai's research interests include applied economics, time-series analysis, international political economy (excluding international trade), air passenger transport, and environment and resource economics. He teaches courses in Aviation Economics and Management, International Political Economy, Research Methods in Economics, and Econometrics. Key publications encompass 'US partisan conflict, Sino-US political relation news, and oil market dynamics' (Energy Economics, 2025, with Saadaoui and Uddin), 'US-China tensions, global supply chains pressure, and global economy' (Economics Letters, 2025), 'Assessing the influence of unplanned oil supply outages on airline stock connectedness' (Energy Economics, 2025, with Zhang and Xu), 'Oil price shocks and airlines stock return and volatility - A GFEVD analysis' (Economics of Transportation, 2025, with Zhang and Zhang), 'Geopolitical risks and airlines stock return - Implications to the financial stability of European airlines' (Transport Policy, 2025, with Fu and Zhang), 'Political relations and trade: new evidence from Australia, China, and the United States' (Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2023, with Saadaoui and Wu), and 'Time-varying interactions between geopolitical risks and renewable energy consumption' (International Review of Economics and Finance, 2021, with Wu). For the 2023 paper on political relations and trade, Cai received the 2024 Adam Smith Best Paper Award from the Scottish Economic Society. He also serves as a Board Member for the Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies (2024–ongoing), contributing to the field through rigorous econometric analysis of geopolitical impacts on aviation, energy, and trade dynamics.