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Albeit notably increasing studies dedicated to investigating the impact of air pollution on enterprises’ productivity and profit, few have oriented onto explicitly probing how the enterprises, particularly those foreign-invested firms, made their location choices concerning air quality. Accordingly, this study contributes to explain the impact of air pollution on the site selection of foreign-invested manufacturing enterprises with a unique firm-level dataset of China. The study also discloses the heterogeneity of air pollution effects attributable to enterprises’ various features regarding ownership property, host country, industrial classification, and investment scale. Our result justifies a statistically significant and negative impact of air pollution on the siting of foreign-invested manufacturing enterprises. The heterogeneous effects of air pollution manifest that the location choice would be remarkably more sensitive for the sole-venture enterprises, and for those headquartered in developed countries, engaged in high-technology industries, and at small and medium investment scales. The study finds that the siting of small-scale firms in high-technology sectors appears to be the most sensitive to air pollution, signifying that air pollution severity would be a pivotal factor pushing aside high-quality foreign-invested enterprises to invest in polluted areas in general.
Qi Cui; Bo Yuan; Yexin Zhou; Hao Chen; Yuanning Hu. Will bad air quality affect the siting of foreign-invested manufacturing enterprises? The evidence from China. Applied Economics 2021, 53, 5221 -5241.
AMA StyleQi Cui, Bo Yuan, Yexin Zhou, Hao Chen, Yuanning Hu. Will bad air quality affect the siting of foreign-invested manufacturing enterprises? The evidence from China. Applied Economics. 2021; 53 (45):5221-5241.
Chicago/Turabian StyleQi Cui; Bo Yuan; Yexin Zhou; Hao Chen; Yuanning Hu. 2021. "Will bad air quality affect the siting of foreign-invested manufacturing enterprises? The evidence from China." Applied Economics 53, no. 45: 5221-5241.
International conflicts cause global energy price fluctuations and supply disruptions, which can threaten energy security and economic growth in energy-importing countries, including China. However, the implications and impact mechanisms of international conflicts on the energy security and economy of oil-importing countries have been poorly explored. Using US economic sanctions on Iran as a case, a global energy-extended computable general equilibrium model, GTAP-E, is employed to assess the impacts of international conflicts on China’s energy production, trade and supply, sectoral outputs, and economic growth. The results indicate that the USA–Iran tension would threaten China’s energy security, mainly due to the instability of the energy supply and the consequent upsurge of energy prices. However, if increased oil exports from other Persian Gulf countries compensate for the global oil supply shortages, China’s energy supply would be generally assured. Moreover, because of the close energy cooperation links between Iran and China, the sanctions could decrease the Chinese outputs of non-energy sectors and economic growth. Nevertheless, compared with sole-sanction situations, the results from a possible USA–Iran tension escalation, going as far as Iran’s closure of the Hormuz Strait, could pose a more serious risk to China’s energy security and economic growth.
Xiaoxiao Hu; Ling He; Qi Cui. How Do International Conflicts Impact China’s Energy Security and Economic Growth? A Case Study of the US Economic Sanctions on Iran. Sustainability 2021, 13, 6903 .
AMA StyleXiaoxiao Hu, Ling He, Qi Cui. How Do International Conflicts Impact China’s Energy Security and Economic Growth? A Case Study of the US Economic Sanctions on Iran. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (12):6903.
Chicago/Turabian StyleXiaoxiao Hu; Ling He; Qi Cui. 2021. "How Do International Conflicts Impact China’s Energy Security and Economic Growth? A Case Study of the US Economic Sanctions on Iran." Sustainability 13, no. 12: 6903.
In many developing countries, including Pakistan, the enormous water losses due to outdated irrigation infrastructure threaten livelihoods and food security, while investment in the development of efficiency improvements can help the countries to cope with water scarcity and improve farmers’ wellbeing. This study evaluates how rural farmers’ decisions regarding improving irrigation watercourses and other irrigation conditions affect their wellbeing. We employ hypothesis testing and an ordered logit model on field survey data of 300 farming households from rural Pakistan. The mean test results suggest that farmers on lined watercourses are happier than those on unlined and partially lined watercourses. The regression results suggest that farmers on a fully lined watercourse have higher wellbeing than those on a partially lined watercourse. The time taken by canal water and groundwater to reach farmers’ land reduces their wellbeing. Irrigation quotas, the return of stolen water and the distance of groundwater sources from land have positive effects on farmers’ wellbeing. The study establishes a strong correlation between irrigation conditions, improved irrigation network and farmers’ wellbeing.
Abdul Nadeem; Tariq Ali; Wei Wei; Qi Cui; Shaoan Huang. Can Irrigation Conditions Improve Farmers’ Subjective WellBeing? An Investigation in Rural Pakistan. Water 2021, 13, 505 .
AMA StyleAbdul Nadeem, Tariq Ali, Wei Wei, Qi Cui, Shaoan Huang. Can Irrigation Conditions Improve Farmers’ Subjective WellBeing? An Investigation in Rural Pakistan. Water. 2021; 13 (4):505.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAbdul Nadeem; Tariq Ali; Wei Wei; Qi Cui; Shaoan Huang. 2021. "Can Irrigation Conditions Improve Farmers’ Subjective WellBeing? An Investigation in Rural Pakistan." Water 13, no. 4: 505.
As an essential policy experiment initiated by the Chinese government, the pilot free trade zone (FTZ) policy aims to attract foreign investment and accelerate China’s economic growth. However, its full effects on the entering of foreign-investment enterprises are still inadequately understood. This article, employing the panel data of China’s prefecture-level cities from 2009 to 2017, empirically examines the effects of the pilot FTZs on attracting the entering of foreign-invested enterprises with a difference-in-difference (DID) regression. With a parallel trend test, the results disclose that the pilot FTZs can significantly attract the entering of foreign-invested enterprises. The yearly number of newly-registered foreign-invested enterprises can increase by over 90% if the city enforces the pilot FTZ policy. Besides, the heterogeneous effects of pilot FTZs are analysed, unveiling that the cities with implementation of the Special Economic Zone policy in earlier years would have much larger effects. In particular, the recently established pilot FTZs appear to have insignificant effects on attracting the entering of foreign-invested enterprises, probably due to the time-lag effects on the implementation of the FTZ policy and the progressive perfecting of supportive policies.
Hao Chen; Bo Yuan; Qi Cui. Does the pilot free trade zone policy attract the entering of foreign-invested enterprises? The evidence from China. Applied Economics Letters 2020, 28, 1162 -1168.
AMA StyleHao Chen, Bo Yuan, Qi Cui. Does the pilot free trade zone policy attract the entering of foreign-invested enterprises? The evidence from China. Applied Economics Letters. 2020; 28 (14):1162-1168.
Chicago/Turabian StyleHao Chen; Bo Yuan; Qi Cui. 2020. "Does the pilot free trade zone policy attract the entering of foreign-invested enterprises? The evidence from China." Applied Economics Letters 28, no. 14: 1162-1168.
To mitigate climate change impacts and achieve low-carbon transformation, China has accelerated the development of renewable energy, which is severely challenged by the curtailment of renewable electricity. This study uses a dynamic multi-sectoral CGE model with alternative nesting structures and substitution elasticities for electricity with different power sources to capture the economic and environmental feasibility of reducing renewable electricity curtailment across all economic sectors in China. The reduction of renewable electricity curtailment is simulated during 2021–2030 from the curtailment rates of 2015–2017. We found that the reduction of renewable electricity curtailment would lead to a significant expansion in the output of renewable electricity and a moderate decrease in non-renewable electricity production. Among the renewable electricity, wind power has the most significant output gain (over 9%), with solar power and hydropower outputs rising by over 5% and 1.5%, respectively. However, without the cost-neutrality assumption, the impacts of reducing electricity curtailment would be largely over-estimated with CGE models simulated by improved technology. The disparity between results from the models with alternative nesting constant elasticity of substitution (CES) functions for electricity sectors is highly dependent on the difference between their substitution elasticities. Accompanying the changes in electricity generation, the reduction of renewable electricity curtailment would bring multiple green co-benefits like significantly reducing CO2 and air pollutants emitted from electricity sectors, and improvements in real GDP and employment.
Qi Cui; Yu Liu; Tariq Ali; Ji Gao; Hao Chen. Economic and climate impacts of reducing China's renewable electricity curtailment: A comparison between CGE models with alternative nesting structures of electricity. Energy Economics 2020, 91, 104892 .
AMA StyleQi Cui, Yu Liu, Tariq Ali, Ji Gao, Hao Chen. Economic and climate impacts of reducing China's renewable electricity curtailment: A comparison between CGE models with alternative nesting structures of electricity. Energy Economics. 2020; 91 ():104892.
Chicago/Turabian StyleQi Cui; Yu Liu; Tariq Ali; Ji Gao; Hao Chen. 2020. "Economic and climate impacts of reducing China's renewable electricity curtailment: A comparison between CGE models with alternative nesting structures of electricity." Energy Economics 91, no. : 104892.
As the transition towards a clean energy system is indispensable for combatting climate change and realizing low carbon development, China has enforced a series of policy incentives and investments to expedite renewable energy production. Such an acceleration is, however, contradictory to serious renewable power curtailment occurring recently. Taking on a water-energy-carbon nexus perspective, the impact of such curtailment can be of multifold, far from a lens viewing the mere loss in productivity of renewable energy sources. This study extensively reviews relevant literature to examine the causes and consequences of renewable power curtailment in China, and the inter-connections between water, energy, and carbon emission in power generation. Then two types of experiments are designed, namely the complete-depletion experiment and the partial-depletion experiment, to assess the potential implications on carbon emission and water resource if a range of incremental curtailment reductions applies. The experiments manifest that reductions on renewable energy curtailment would spawn notable reductions in carbon emission and savings on water resource, given the fact that renewable energy, particularly wind and solar power, would require far less water use and emit no carbon emission in their electricity generation than fossil-fired thermal power. We demonstrate that reduction of wind power curtailment would produce the most significant environmental benefits, followed by reductions of solar power and hydropower curtailments. The analytical results highlight the urgency and significance of addressing the renewable energy curtailment challenge experienced in China, which in turn requires synthetic introspection and consciousness on China’s power system transformation policy and its practices. Expected advancement in technical solution and market reform in China calls for enhancing the flexibility of the whole energy generation-trade system with increased, stabilized quotas for renewable energy production.
Qi Cui; Ling He; GuoYi Han; Hao Chen; Juanjuan Cao. Review on climate and water resource implications of reducing renewable power curtailment in China: A nexus perspective. Applied Energy 2020, 267, 115114 .
AMA StyleQi Cui, Ling He, GuoYi Han, Hao Chen, Juanjuan Cao. Review on climate and water resource implications of reducing renewable power curtailment in China: A nexus perspective. Applied Energy. 2020; 267 ():115114.
Chicago/Turabian StyleQi Cui; Ling He; GuoYi Han; Hao Chen; Juanjuan Cao. 2020. "Review on climate and water resource implications of reducing renewable power curtailment in China: A nexus perspective." Applied Energy 267, no. : 115114.
China has initiated various dedicated policies on clean energy substitution for polluting fossil-fuels since the early 2010s to alleviate severe carbon emissions and environmental pollution and accelerate clean energy transformation. Using the autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) regression, we project the potentials of substituting coal and oil with clean energy for different production sectors in China toward the year 2030. Based on the projections, a dynamic multi-sectoral computable general equilibrium model, CHINAGEM, is employed to examine: the impacts of future clean energy substitution on China’s energy production, outputs of non-energy sectors, macro-economy, and CO2 emissions. First, we found that most production sectors are projected to replace polluting fossil-fuels with clean energy in their terminal energy consumption in 2017–2030. Second, clean energy substitution enables producing green co-benefits that would enable improvements in energy production structure, reductions in national CO2 emissions, and better real GDP and employment. Third, technological progress in non-fossil-fuel electricity could further benefit China’s clean and low-carbon energy transformation, accelerating the reduction in CO2 emissions and clean energy substitution. Furthermore, the most beneficiary are energy-intensive and high carbon-emission sectors owing to the drop in coal and oil prices, while the most negatively affected are the downstream sectors of electricity. Through research, various tentative improvement policies are recommended, including financial support, renewable electricity development, clean energy utilization technology, and clean coal technologies.
Hao Chen; Ling He; Jiachuan Chen; Bo Yuan; Teng Huang; Qi Cui. Impacts of Clean Energy Substitution for Polluting Fossil-Fuels in Terminal Energy Consumption on the Economy and Environment in China. Sustainability 2019, 11, 6419 .
AMA StyleHao Chen, Ling He, Jiachuan Chen, Bo Yuan, Teng Huang, Qi Cui. Impacts of Clean Energy Substitution for Polluting Fossil-Fuels in Terminal Energy Consumption on the Economy and Environment in China. Sustainability. 2019; 11 (22):6419.
Chicago/Turabian StyleHao Chen; Ling He; Jiachuan Chen; Bo Yuan; Teng Huang; Qi Cui. 2019. "Impacts of Clean Energy Substitution for Polluting Fossil-Fuels in Terminal Energy Consumption on the Economy and Environment in China." Sustainability 11, no. 22: 6419.
The adverse effects of extreme disasters on crop production, often assessed using crop models or field experiments, may be overestimated as these methods focus on natural impacts while ignoring the behavioral changes of farmers and international traders. This study takes barley as an example and uses GTAP model (a global economic equilibrium model) to showcase the role of the behavioral changes and to assess the economic impact of climate change on crop production after the occurrence of most extreme disasters. The results show that under RCP 8.5, the impact of extreme disasters on barley yields in China and Australia are –12% and –25.8%, respectively. After considering farmers and international traders’ behavioral change, the effects of climate change on barley production in China and Australia are reduced to –0.38% and –3.5%, respectively. Variations in production level mainly depend on the extent of farmers’ ability to expand barley sown area and the severity of government intervention in agricultural exports. In order to reduce the impact of disasters on food supply, it is necessary to give full play to the role of market mechanisms and to reduce government interventions in trade.
Wei Xie; Qi Cui; Tariq Ali. The Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Grain Production and Policy Implications: A CGE Model Analysis. Regional Research Frontiers - Vol. 2 2019, 359 -373.
AMA StyleWei Xie, Qi Cui, Tariq Ali. The Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Grain Production and Policy Implications: A CGE Model Analysis. Regional Research Frontiers - Vol. 2. 2019; ():359-373.
Chicago/Turabian StyleWei Xie; Qi Cui; Tariq Ali. 2019. "The Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Grain Production and Policy Implications: A CGE Model Analysis." Regional Research Frontiers - Vol. 2 , no. : 359-373.
Agriculture’s ability to adapt to the impacts of climate change is critical for agricultural households as well as the general public and policymakers. Economic agents can play a vital role in adapting to climate disasters. We use a global computable general economic model (GTAP) to assess the role of the domestic market and international trade in mitigating agriculure production losses due to climate change, taking barley as an example. Our results suggest that under the worst-case scenario of extreme events, the domestic and international market imperfections would cause the losses in domestic supply for barley importers to increase by 3.5% and 0.6%, respectively. We conclude that policies aimed at integrating the markets can also effectively act as adaptation measures for climate change.
Wei Xie; Qi Cui; Tariq Ali. Role of market agents in mitigating the climate change effects on food economy. Natural Hazards 2019, 99, 1215 -1231.
AMA StyleWei Xie, Qi Cui, Tariq Ali. Role of market agents in mitigating the climate change effects on food economy. Natural Hazards. 2019; 99 (3):1215-1231.
Chicago/Turabian StyleWei Xie; Qi Cui; Tariq Ali. 2019. "Role of market agents in mitigating the climate change effects on food economy." Natural Hazards 99, no. 3: 1215-1231.
Climate change would pose a direct and severe challenge to China’s rice production and self-sufficiency. Here we use Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) model to evaluate the impacts of climate change on the self-sufficiency of rice in China due to 2 °C rise in temperature, and further analyze the impact and transmission mechanisms of climate change through market and trade. Our simulation method switches different regional mechanisms in the GTAP model by employing alternative closures and scenarios. Our results suggest that the fluctuation in rice price is much larger than that of rice production. The active regional feedback mechanism has much larger effects than the passive one in assessing climate change impacts. With the passive regional feedback mechanism (Single Regional General Equilibrium, SRGE and Multi-Regional General Equilibrium with China’s shock, MRGE_C), China’s rice export would decrease by more than 8%, and import would increase by over 5%, which leads to a decrease in rice self-sufficiency by more than 0.06 percentage points. With the active regional feedback mechanism (Multi-Regional General Equilibrium with China’s shock, MRGE_W), climate change will increase China's rice export by 2.7% as rising rice exports to South Korea overweight the export decrease to other countries, concurrently, China’s rice import would decrease by 0.04%, which leads to a slight increase in rice self-sufficiency. As a whole, climate change will not severely threaten China’s rice self-sufficiency. By the decomposition analysis, climate change impacts on China’s rice self-sufficiency mainly depend on the changes in China’s domestic rice production. Interestingly, the source of China’s rice import will switch from Vietnam to Pakistan under MRGE_W, which derives from the input structure of paddy rice and rice sectors in different countries.
Xuebiao Zhang; Yawen Liu; Yu Liu; Qi Cui; Lingyu Yang; Xiaohong Hu; Jialin Guo; Jinzhu Zhang; Shunxiang Yang. Impacts of climate change on self-sufficiency of rice in China: A CGE-model-based evidence with alternative regional feedback mechanisms. Journal of Cleaner Production 2019, 230, 150 -161.
AMA StyleXuebiao Zhang, Yawen Liu, Yu Liu, Qi Cui, Lingyu Yang, Xiaohong Hu, Jialin Guo, Jinzhu Zhang, Shunxiang Yang. Impacts of climate change on self-sufficiency of rice in China: A CGE-model-based evidence with alternative regional feedback mechanisms. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2019; 230 ():150-161.
Chicago/Turabian StyleXuebiao Zhang; Yawen Liu; Yu Liu; Qi Cui; Lingyu Yang; Xiaohong Hu; Jialin Guo; Jinzhu Zhang; Shunxiang Yang. 2019. "Impacts of climate change on self-sufficiency of rice in China: A CGE-model-based evidence with alternative regional feedback mechanisms." Journal of Cleaner Production 230, no. : 150-161.
China's food security has been facing several challenges, which are likely to be worsened due to climate change. The purpose of this paper is to provide an evidence on the impacts of climate change on China's agriculture, with particular attention to the market and trade responses. Using projected crop yield changes for China and its' main trading partners under changing climate, we employ an agricultural partial equilibrium model (CAPSiM) and a linked national and global equilibrium model (CAPSiM-GTAP) to assess the impacts on food production, price, trade and self-sufficiency of China. Our results show that climate change will have significant effects on crop production though with large differences among crops. Under the worst climate change scenario RCP 8.5, wheat yield in China is projected to decline by 9.4% by 2050, which is the biggest yield reduction among the crops. However, the market can also respond to the climate change, as farmers can change inputs in response to reduced yields and rising prices. As a result, production losses for most crops are dampened. For example, wheat production loss under RCP8.5 reduces to only 4.3% due to market response. The adverse impacts on crop production will be further reduced after accounting for the trade response as farmers adjust production to much higher prices in the more severely affected countries. The paper concludes that we need to learn more from farmers who optimize their production decisions in response to the market and trade signals during climate change. A major policy implication is that policymakers need to mainstream the market and trade responses into national plans for climate adaptation.
Wei Xie; Jikun Huang; Jinxia Wang; Qi Cui; Ricky Robertson; Kevin Chen. Climate change impacts on China's agriculture: The responses from market and trade. China Economic Review 2018, 62, 101256 .
AMA StyleWei Xie, Jikun Huang, Jinxia Wang, Qi Cui, Ricky Robertson, Kevin Chen. Climate change impacts on China's agriculture: The responses from market and trade. China Economic Review. 2018; 62 ():101256.
Chicago/Turabian StyleWei Xie; Jikun Huang; Jinxia Wang; Qi Cui; Ricky Robertson; Kevin Chen. 2018. "Climate change impacts on China's agriculture: The responses from market and trade." China Economic Review 62, no. : 101256.
Beer is the most popular alcoholic beverage in the world by volume consumed, and yields of its main ingredient, barley, decline sharply in periods of extreme drought and heat. Although the frequency and severity of drought and heat extremes increase substantially in range of future climate scenarios by five Earth System Models, the vulnerability of beer supply to such extremes has never been assessed. We couple a process-based crop model (decision support system for agrotechnology transfer) and a global economic model (Global Trade Analysis Project model) to evaluate the effects of concurrent drought and heat extremes projected under a range of future climate scenarios. We find that these extreme events may cause substantial decreases in barley yields worldwide. Average yield losses range from 3% to 17% depending on the severity of the conditions. Decreases in the global supply of barley lead to proportionally larger decreases in barley used to make beer and ultimately result in dramatic regional decreases in beer consumption (for example, −32% in Argentina) and increases in beer prices (for example, +193% in Ireland). Although not the most concerning impact of future climate change, climate-related weather extremes may threaten the availability and economic accessibility of beer.
Wei Xie; Wei Xiong; Jie Pan; Tariq Ali; Qi Cui; Dabo Guan; Jing Meng; Nathaniel D. Mueller; Erda Lin; Steven Davis. Decreases in global beer supply due to extreme drought and heat. Nature Plants 2018, 4, 964 -973.
AMA StyleWei Xie, Wei Xiong, Jie Pan, Tariq Ali, Qi Cui, Dabo Guan, Jing Meng, Nathaniel D. Mueller, Erda Lin, Steven Davis. Decreases in global beer supply due to extreme drought and heat. Nature Plants. 2018; 4 (11):964-973.
Chicago/Turabian StyleWei Xie; Wei Xiong; Jie Pan; Tariq Ali; Qi Cui; Dabo Guan; Jing Meng; Nathaniel D. Mueller; Erda Lin; Steven Davis. 2018. "Decreases in global beer supply due to extreme drought and heat." Nature Plants 4, no. 11: 964-973.
This study investigates the effects of high-speed rail (HSR) on China’s air passenger transport from the perspective of airports. The difference-in-differences approach is used with unbalanced panel data of 206 airports over the period from 2006 to 2015. Our estimation results found that the negative effects of HSR on the growth rate of China’s air passengers is both statistically and economically significant. However, these adverse effects are not catastrophic.
Yongtao Li; Bo Yang; Qi Cui. The effects of high-speed rail on air passenger transport in China. Applied Economics Letters 2018, 26, 745 -749.
AMA StyleYongtao Li, Bo Yang, Qi Cui. The effects of high-speed rail on air passenger transport in China. Applied Economics Letters. 2018; 26 (9):745-749.
Chicago/Turabian StyleYongtao Li; Bo Yang; Qi Cui. 2018. "The effects of high-speed rail on air passenger transport in China." Applied Economics Letters 26, no. 9: 745-749.
Qi Cui; Wei Xie; Yu Liu. Effects of sea level rise on economic development and regional disparity in China. Journal of Cleaner Production 2018, 176, 1245 -1253.
AMA StyleQi Cui, Wei Xie, Yu Liu. Effects of sea level rise on economic development and regional disparity in China. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2018; 176 ():1245-1253.
Chicago/Turabian StyleQi Cui; Wei Xie; Yu Liu. 2018. "Effects of sea level rise on economic development and regional disparity in China." Journal of Cleaner Production 176, no. : 1245-1253.
Ji-Kun Huang; Wei Wei; Qi Cui; Wei Xie. The prospects for China's food security and imports: Will China starve the world via imports? Journal of Integrative Agriculture 2017, 16, 2933 -2944.
AMA StyleJi-Kun Huang, Wei Wei, Qi Cui, Wei Xie. The prospects for China's food security and imports: Will China starve the world via imports? Journal of Integrative Agriculture. 2017; 16 (12):2933-2944.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJi-Kun Huang; Wei Wei; Qi Cui; Wei Xie. 2017. "The prospects for China's food security and imports: Will China starve the world via imports?" Journal of Integrative Agriculture 16, no. 12: 2933-2944.
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the potential economic impacts of China’s insect-resistant GM maize and provide new evidence for decision making concerning its commercialization. Design/methodology/approach This study uses data drawn from the production trials of insect-resistant GM maize and expert interviews to determine the impacts of commercializing GM maize at farm level under three scenarios with varying severity of insect pest attacks in maize production. Economic impacts are simulated using a modified Global Trade Analysis Project model. Findings In farm terms, insect-resistant GM maize increases crop yield and reduces both pesticide and labor inputs. In national terms, China can increase its GDP by USD8.6 billion and maize self-sufficiency by about 2 percent given normal insect pest attacks if China commercializes GM maize. Additional beneficiaries include consumers and the livestock industry. Non-maize crops can also benefit from land saving through GM maize commercialization. Chemical is a sector with the decrease in its output because demand for pesticides will fall. Originality/value Although China has announced a roadmap for commercializing GM crops for use as feed and in processing after nearly two decades of producing GM cotton, no clear timetable for producing GM maize as feed has been established due to several concerns, including the potential for economic gains from GM maize. This study is the first to assess the economic impacts of commercializing China’s GM maize. The findings should have significant policy implications for the development and commercialization of GM crops in general and GM maize in particular.
Wei Xie; Tariq Ali; Qi Cui; Jikun Huang. Economic impacts of commercializing insect-resistant GM maize in China. China Agricultural Economic Review 2017, 9, 340 -354.
AMA StyleWei Xie, Tariq Ali, Qi Cui, Jikun Huang. Economic impacts of commercializing insect-resistant GM maize in China. China Agricultural Economic Review. 2017; 9 (3):340-354.
Chicago/Turabian StyleWei Xie; Tariq Ali; Qi Cui; Jikun Huang. 2017. "Economic impacts of commercializing insect-resistant GM maize in China." China Agricultural Economic Review 9, no. 3: 340-354.
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impacts of large income and expenditure shocks on household food expenditures and determines whether the impacts of large shocks differ among households, especially low-income households. Design/methodology/approach The study’s data are drawn from a household survey conducted in rural China. Multivariate analysis examines the impacts of large income and expenditure shocks on food expenditures. Findings The impacts of large positive income shocks on food expenditure are moderate. However, households reduce their per capita food expenditures within a range of about 25-30 percent after suffering large negative shocks. The greatest impact is found for shocks where expenditures more than double, followed by the impact of shocks where income declines by more than half. Moreover, food expenditures among low-income households are much more sensitive to large negative income and expenditure shocks. The paper concludes with policy implications. Originality/value This is the first Chinese study to empirically examine the impacts of different income and expenditure shocks on household food expenditures. The results have important implications for smoothing households’ food consumption after they suffer from shocks.
Qi Cui; Jikun Huang. Food expenditure responses to income/expenditure shocks in rural China. China Agricultural Economic Review 2017, 9, 2 -13.
AMA StyleQi Cui, Jikun Huang. Food expenditure responses to income/expenditure shocks in rural China. China Agricultural Economic Review. 2017; 9 (1):2-13.
Chicago/Turabian StyleQi Cui; Jikun Huang. 2017. "Food expenditure responses to income/expenditure shocks in rural China." China Agricultural Economic Review 9, no. 1: 2-13.