Dr. Guanming Shi is the Renk Agribusiness Chair and Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Drawing on more than two decades of empirical research and senior academic leadership, she works at the intersection of industrial organization, agricultural economics, and intellectual property, with deep expertise in both U.S. and Chinese markets.
Dr. Shi’s research examines how horizontal and vertical market structure shape pricing and firm conduct in differentiated-product industries. Much of her research focuses on strategic behavior under imperfect competition—pricing, product offering, collusion, and intellectual property protection, with applications to the biotechnology seed industry and other agricultural input sectors such as fertilizer and pesticides. This work has informed the analysis of major seed-industry consolidations, including the Bayer–Monsanto, DuPont–Dow, and ChemChina–Syngenta transactions, as well as the design of IP regimes that promote biotechnology innovation. Dr. Shi has also produced influential empirical research on intellectual property enforcement and competitive structure in China’s pesticide market.
Dr. Shi holds a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from UC Berkeley. She is fluent in English and a native Mandarin speaker.