Rohan Shah

Rohan Shah is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Mississippi.

His research focuses on macroeconomics, monetary economics, antitrust economics, and industrial organization. He studies firms’ decisions to invest in research and development or physical capital, and the effects of those choices on business cycles, firm life cycles, and economic recoveries.

Before entering academia, Shah worked as a consultant at RBB Economics, where he conducted antitrust analysis and helped lead merger and competition matters involving major corporate transactions.

His honors include a Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Ph.D. dissertation fellowship, the J. Graham Smith Memorial Prize in Applied Economics, recognition as a finalist for the Concurrences Antitrust Writing Awards, fellowships from the Institute for Humane Studies, and a university fellowship from The Ohio State University.

He earned a Ph.D. in economics and a master’s in economics from The Ohio State University, as well as a master’s in economics and a bachelor’s from the University of Warwick.