Date of birth

October 21st, 1979 in Hubei (China)

Undergraduate Studies

• 1997-2001
  China Agricultural University, P.R.China (Bachelor of Economics, Major in Monetary and Banking)
• 2003-2006
  Georg August-University Goettingen, Germany (M.Sc. in Socioeconomics of Rural Development)
  
  M.Sc. Thesis:
  “Productivity Change and Policy Reform Effects in China’s Agriculture since 1979”

Research Interests

• Productivity and efficiency analysis
• Policy reform and institutional arrangement in transition

Research Project

Economic Efficiency and Land Rights – A stochastic frontier analysis of agricultural production in China

Publications

• Zhang, Y.J. und Bruemmer, B.: Productivity Change and Policy Reform
  Effects in China’s Agriculture since 1979, Asian-Pacific Economic Literature
  (forthcoming)
• Zhang, Y., Wang, X., Glauben, T., and Bruemmer, B. (2011): The Impact
  of Land Reallocation on Technical Efficiency: Evidence from China.
  Agricultural Economics, 42(4):495–507.
• Wang, X.B., Glauben, T., and Zhang, Y.J. (2010): The Land Rental
  Market and its Effect on Agricultural Production in Rural China. In: Beckmann,
  V., N.H. Dung, X. Shi, M. Spoor, J. Wesseler (Hrsg.), Economic Transition and
  Natural Resource Management in East- and Southeast Asia. Shaker Publisher:
  Aachen.
• Zhang, Y. and Bruemmer, B. (2008): Productivity Change and Policy Reform Effects in China’s Agriculture Since 1979. In: Asia-Pacific Productivity Conference, Taipeh, Taiwan, 17.-19. Juli

Conference Contributions

• Zhang, Y. and Wang, X.
  Land Reallocation and Its Impacts on Technical Efficiency – Evidence from China’s Agricultural Production. Contributed paper accepted for presentation at the XXVII Conference of the International Association of Agricultural Economists, August 16-22th, 2009, Beijing, China.
• Zhang, Y. and Bruemmer, B.
  Productivity Change and Policy Reform Effects in China’s Agriculture since 1979. Contributed paper accepted for presentation at the Asia-Pacific Productivity Conference 2008 (APPC2008), July 17-19th, 2008, Taipei, China.
• Zhang, Y and Bruemmer, B.
  Productivity Change and Policy Reform Effects in China’s Agriculture since 1979. Contributed paper accepted for presentation at the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium (IATRC) Summer Symposium, July 8-9th, 2007, Bejing, China.
• Zhang, Y. and Bruemmer, B.
  Economic Efficiency and Land Rights - a Stochastic Frontier Analysis of Agricultural Production in China. Poster presentation at the Tropentag 2007, October 9-11th, 2007, Witzenhausen, Germany.

Languages

• Chinese (native)
• English (proficiency)

Other interests

Badminton, Taekwondo, Travelling, Music