Professor Yeung-Nan Shieh was born in Hsin-Chu, Taiwan. He received a BA in
economics from National Taiwan University in 1966, and a MA in economics from University
of Rochester in 1976 and a Ph.D. in economics from Texas A&M University in 1980.
Before coming to SJSU in 1989, he taught at Texas A&M university in College Station,
Texas, University of Dallas in Irving, Texas and University of Alaska Fairbanks in
Fairbanks, Alaska. 

Professor Shieh's current research interests are: (1) C. F. W. Launhardt's
contributions to location theory and spatial economics; (2) the impact of distance and
transportation costs on the output and welfare effects of price discrimination and wage
discrimination; (3) the effect of transportation costs on the optimum tariff.

Refereed Publications in English

External Economies of Scale and Optimal Plant: A Correction (with H. Hwang and C. C. Mia), Pacific Economic Review (2011)
 
Specific Commodity Taxes, Output and Location Decision under Free Entry Oligopoly (with Ming-Chieh Chen), The Annals of Regional Science (2011)
 
The Implications of Quantity-Discounted Transportation Rates on Output Effects of Discriminatory F.O.B. Pricing, Economics Bulletin (2011)
 
The Implications of Quantity Discounted Transportation Rates on Output Effect of Spatial Price Discrimination, Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences (2010)
 
Pollution Taxes and Location Decision under Free Entry Oligopoly (with Hsin-I Fan), Economics Bulletin (2009)
 

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Refereed Publications in Chinese

Perspectives of Taiwan's New Financial Reform (Published in Chinese Language) (with C. N. Yeh), Taiwan Economic Forum (2004)
 
Re-examination of the Theory of Factor Demand (Published in Chinese Language), Academia Economic Papers (1978)
 
The Demand for International Reserve in Taiwan (Published in Chinese Language), Academia Economic Papers (1973)
 
Monetary and Fiscal Policies under Fixed Exchange Rates (Published in Chinese Language), Academia Essay Series, Institution of Economics, Academia Sinica, Taipei (1972)
 
Survey of Monetary Growth Theory (Published in Chinese Language), Taiwan Economic Paper, National Taiwan University (1971)
 

Presentations at Conferences

Tariffs and Plant Location under Free Entry Oligopoly, 85th Annual WEAI International Conference (2010)
 
Spatial Monopoly Theory in 1885 – Wilhelm Launhardt, International Trade Workshop, Department of Economics (2009)
 
Transportation Rates and Output Effect of Spatial Price Discrimination, 84th Annual WEA International Conference (2009)
 
Sale Taxes and Location Decision under Free Entry Oligopoly, 83nd Annual WEA International Conference (2008)
 
Pollution Taxes and Location Decision under Free Entry Oligopoly, 82nd Annual WEA International Conference (2007)
 

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