Anca Cristea

Anca Cristea is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Oregon's College of Arts and Sciences. She specializes in international trade, transportation economics, and applied econometrics, with a focus on trade policy, regional development, and environmental impacts of freight transport. During 2024-2025, she will serve as a visiting researcher at CREI (Pompeu Fabra University).

• Education:
  • Ph.D., Economics, Purdue University (2010)
  • M.A., Economics, Clemson University (2005)
  • B.A., Economics, Babeṣ-Bolyai University, Romania (2003)

Her research explores critical intersections of trade policy, transportation networks, and economic development. Key themes include quantifying trade liberalization benefits, analyzing communication costs in services trade, and assessing environmental impacts of global freight movement. Recent work examines aviation market liberalization in Africa and trade implications of maritime insecurity.

Publications span top journals like American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Journal of Urban Economics, and Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. Current projects investigate firm-level trade dynamics and transport policy experiments.

Contact: cristea@uoregon.edu