Dr. Yifei Cai serves as a lecturer specializing in aviation economics and finance. I am actively seeking to supervise PhD students who share an interest in research areas such as aviation economics and finance, aviation sustainability, applied econometrics, as well as the intersection of aviation, tourism, and hospitality. My research expertise encompasses a wide range of subjects, with a primary focus on aviation economics, aviation finance, energy economics, and applied econometrics. Several of my recent publications have been featured in prestigious academic journals, including Transport Policy, Energy Economics, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Annals of Operations Research, Technological Forecasting and Social Change,... Read more
About me
Dr. Yifei Cai serves as a lecturer specializing in aviation economics and finance. I am actively seeking to supervise PhD students who share an interest in research areas such as aviation economics and finance, aviation sustainability, applied econometrics, as well as the intersection of aviation, tourism, and hospitality. My research expertise encompasses a wide range of subjects, with a primary focus on aviation economics, aviation finance, energy economics, and applied econometrics. Several of my recent publications have been featured in prestigious academic journals, including Transport Policy, Energy Economics, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Annals of Operations Research, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of Environmental Management, Empirical Economics, Finance Research Letters, International Review of Economics and Finance, Applied Economics, and more.
I am an ad hoc referee for numerous academic journals such as Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Energy Economics, Energy Journal, International Journal of Finance and Economics, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Bulletin of Economic Research, Australian Economic Papers, Applied Economics Letters, Carbon Management, Energy and Environment, Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Environmental Management, Emerging Market Finance and Trade and more.
About me
Doctor of Philosophy The University of Western Australia
Lecturer, Teesside University (UK), 03/2022 - 12/2023.
Assistant Professor, Macau University of Science and Technology (Macao, China), 09/2021 - 01/2022.
Updates on research grants / funding:
1. Evaluating the political and trade impacts of China’s political relation shocks in Indo-Pacific Region, Hinrich Foundation, 2024, with Yahua Zhang, Anming Zhang, and Lei Xu. Proposal submitted.
2. How geopolitical landscape affect ecological transition through rare earths trade, Australia-France Social Science Collaborative Research Program, 2025, with Yahua Zhang and Jamel Saadaoui. Proposal Submitted.
3. Threat or opportunity? The impacts of China's political relations shocks on Australia, Insight Project Funding initiated by UniSA C-EDGE, 2024 (Round 2), Amount: $ 1,200.
Updates on 2024 publications:
1. Ny recent paper titled "Assessing the... Read more
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
Growing sustainable aviation fuel industries in combatting climate crises: opportunities for Australia and China, National Foundation for Australia-China Relations, 30/04/2024 - 06/04/2026
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
Year | Output |
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2024 |
Open access
|
2024 |
Open access
|
2023 |
Open access
4
3
|
2022 |
17
16
3
|
2022 |
Open access
57
50
1
|
Year | Output |
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2025 |
Open access
|
2025 |
Open access
|
2024 |
2
1
|
2024 |
Open access
|
2024 |
1
1
|
2024 |
Open access
|
2024 |
2
2
|
2024 |
6
5
|
2023 |
1
1
|
2023 |
9
9
|
2023 |
3
3
|
2023 |
Open access
4
3
|
2023 |
7
6
1
|
2023 |
Open access
1
1
2
|
2023 |
39
37
|
2023 |
3
3
|
2023 |
17
18
2
|
2023 |
77
70
|
2022 |
Open access
11
18
|
2022 |
2
1
|
2022 |
17
16
3
|
2022 |
Open access
57
50
1
|
2021 |
2
1
|
2021 |
65
57
|
2021 |
3
1
|
2021 |
4
4
|
2019 |
17
17
|
2019 |
32
28
|
2019 |
28
28
|
2019 |
Open access
15
12
|
2019 |
10
9
|
2019 |
8
5
|
2018 |
10
9
|
2018 |
40
34
|
2018 |
378
338
|
Research
Updates on research grants / funding:
1. Evaluating the political and trade impacts of China’s political relation shocks in Indo-Pacific Region, Hinrich Foundation, 2024, with Yahua Zhang, Anming Zhang, and Lei Xu. Proposal submitted.
2. How geopolitical landscape affect ecological transition through rare earths trade, Australia-France Social Science Collaborative Research Program, 2025, with Yahua Zhang and Jamel Saadaoui. Proposal Submitted.
3. Threat or opportunity? The impacts of China's political relations shocks on Australia, Insight Project Funding initiated by UniSA C-EDGE, 2024 (Round 2), Amount: $ 1,200.
Updates on 2024 publications:
1. Ny recent paper titled "Assessing the Influence of Unplanned Oil Supply Outages on Airline Stock Connectedness" has been accepted by Energy Economics (Q1), please refer the following link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2024.108145.
2. My recent paper titled "The Impact of Europe-China Political Relations on the Oil Market: Insights after China’s WTO Accession" has been accepted by Economic Modelling (Q1), please refer the following link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264999324002645.
3. My recent paper titled "Dependence Structure between Energy Uncertainty Index and Airlines Stocks Returns and Volatility: A Short Communication" has been accepted by Transport Economics and Management, with Tsangyao Chang, Shane Zhang.
4. My recent paper titled "Airline Stock Market Performance and Political Relations: A Cross-Quantilogram analysis of Chinese and US carriers" has been published online in Transport Policy (Q1), please refer the following link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967070X24001884.
Updates on revision request:
1. Oil Price Shocks and Airlines Stock Return and Volatility – A GFEVD Analysis, re-submit to Economics of Transportation, with Yahua Zhang and Anming Zhang.
3. On the Time-varying Interactions between US-China Political Relation, with Flight Frequency, and Inbound Tourism, with Shiteng Xua, Yahua Zhang and Chunan Wang, re-submit to Economics & Politics.
4. US Partisan Conflict, Sino-US Political Relation News and Oil Market Dynamics, with Jamel Saadaoui and Gazi Salah Uddin, re-submit to Energy Economics.
Updates on recent submissions:
1. Political Relations Shock and Macroeconomic Impacts in the European Union: China versus Other Permanent Members of the United Nations Security Council, with Shane Zhang, Yanrui Wu and Fredj Jawadi, submit to China Economic Review.
2. Evaluating the Effects of Sino-US Political Relations Shocks on Commodity Prices, with Dimitrios Bakas, submit to International Journal of Finance and Economics.
3. Evaluating the Impacts of Joint Shocks of Climate Risks, Global Supply Chains, Global Real Economic Activity and Geopolitical Risks on Commodity Price, with Jialin Zhang, Yahua Zhang, Xiaowen Fu, and Lei Xu, submit to World Economy.
4. The Contribution of Political Shocks to Total Spillovers in Semiconductor Industry, with Yahua Zhang, Xiaowen Fu, Jialin Yang, submit to Journal of Chinese Political Science.
Conference Attendance:
Conference Organization:
Guest Editors:
External engagement & recognition
Organisation | Country |
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Agricultural University of Athens | GREECE |
Atilim University | TURKEY |
Chaoyang University of Technology | TAIWAN |
Charles Darwin University | AUSTRALIA |
Curtin University | AUSTRALIA |
East China Normal University | CHINA |
Feng Chia University | TAIWAN |
Fengchia University | TAIWAN |
Guangdong University of Finance | CHINA |
Hang Seng University of Hong Kong | HONG KONG |
Harbin Engineering University | CHINA |
Heifei University of Technology | CHINA |
Heriot-Watt University | UNITED KINGDOM |
Hubei University of Economics | CHINA |
Hunan University of Technology | CHINA |
Jiangsu University of Technology | CHINA |
Leeds Beckett University | UNITED KINGDOM |
Leeds Trinity University | UNITED KINGDOM |
Nanchang University | CHINA |
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University | TAIWAN |
Open University of Cyprus | CYPRUS |
Paris Nanterre University (France) | FRANCE |
RMIT University | AUSTRALIA |
Roma Tre University | ITALY |
Southwest Jiao Tong University | CHINA |
Teesside University | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Bradford | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of British Columbia | CANADA |
University of Huddersfield | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of London | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Lorraine | FRANCE |
University of Malaya | MALAYSIA |
University of Northumbria | UNITED KINGDOM |
University of Pretoria | SOUTH AFRICA |
University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
University of Strasbourg | FRANCE |
University of Western Australia | AUSTRALIA |
West University of Timisoara | ROMANIA |
Wuhan University | CHINA |
Zhejiang Yuexiu University | CHINA |
External engagement & recognition
Engagement/recognition | Year |
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Guest EditorJournal of Air Transport Management, Elsevier |
2025 |
Guest EditorTransport Economics and Managment, Elsevier |
2025 |
Local Committee Member for the 2024 CESA Annual Conference at UniSAChinese Economics Society Australia |
2025 |
MembershipChinese Economics Society Australia |
2025 |
Guest EditorJournal of Air Transport Management, Elsevier |
2024 |
Guest EditorTransport Economics and Managment, Elsevier |
2024 |
Local Committee Member for the 2024 CESA Annual Conference at UniSAChinese Economics Society Australia |
2024 |
MembershipChinese Economics Society Australia |
2024 |
Guest EditorEnergy Exploration & Exploitation, Sage Journals |
2023 |
MembershipChinese Economics Society Australia |
2023 |
MembershipChinese Economics Society Australia |
2022 |
MembershipChinese Economics Society Australia |
2021 |
MembershipChinese Economics Society Australia |
2020 |
MembershipChinese Economics Society Australia |
2019 |
MembershipChinese Economics Society Australia |
2018 |
MembershipChinese Economics Society Australia |
2017 |
Referee services:
Journal of Air Transport Managment (3*), Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Energy Economics, Energy Journal, International Journal of Finance and Economics, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Bulletin of Economic Research, Australian Economic Papers, Applied Economics Letters, Carbon Management, Energy and Environment, Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Environmental Management, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Emerging Market Finance and Trade, Natural Hazards, Journal Air Transport Management, Finance Research Letters (2*), Economics Modelling.
Currently, I am the course coordinator of the followings:
Before joining UniSA in 2024, I taught the following courses: (note: Teesside represents Teesside University in UK and M.U.S.T. indicates Macau University of Science and Technology)
Teaching & student supervision
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
Thesis title | Student status |
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Assessing the impact of hydrogen adoption in aviation on technology requirements and airport infrastructure: A case study of Australian airports | Current |