Selected Publications
1) Liu C., Zhou L., Hoeschle L. And X. Yu, Food Price
Dynamics and Regional Clusters: Machine Learning Analysis of Egg Prices in
China. Forthcoming in China Agricultural Economic Review.
2) Koemle D., R. Arlinghaus, T. Dao, and X.
Yu. Subsidies, temporary laying-up, and efficiency in a coastal commercial
fishery. Forthcoming in Marine Resource Economics
3) Yang D., Z. Liu, X. Wang, Tang Y. and X.Yu, How Has
the New Round of Farmland Certification in China Affected Farmers’Economic
Welfare?, Forthcoming in International Food and
Agribusiness Management Review.
4) Ding Y., S
Min, X Wang, X Yu (2022) Memory of famine: The
persistent impact of famine experience on food waste behavior. China
Economic Review 73, 101795.
5) Maruejols
L., L. Hoeschle, X. Yu (2022) Vietnam between economic growth and
ethnic divergence: A LASSO examination of income-mediated energy consumption.
Forthcoming in Energy Economics.
6) Chen Y., S.
Fan, C. Liu and X. Yu (2022) Is there a tradeoff
between nature reserves and grain production in China? . Forthcoming
in Land Use Policy.
7) Chen X., C Liu, X Yu(2022) Urbanization, Economic
Development, and Ecological Environment: Evidence from Provincial Panel Data in
China. Sustainability 14 (3), 1124
8) Wang J., X Yu, K Lyu, JH Feil (2022) The Impact of
Mobile Finance Use on Livelihoods of Farmers in Rural China. Emerging
Markets Finance and Trade, 1-13
9) Graskemper V., X. Yu and Jan-Henning Feil
(2022) Values of Farmers-Evidence from Germany, Journal of
Rural Studies. Vo. 89:13-24.
10)
Wang
H., L. Maruejols, and X.Yu (2021) Predicting energy poverty with combinations of
remote-sensing and socioeconomic survey data in India: Evidence from machine
learning. Forthcoming in Energy Economics. Vol.
102, 105510. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2021.105510
11) Chen Y. and X. Yu (2021) Estimating
Market Power > for Chinese Fluid Milk Market with Imported Products. Agribusiness. 38 (2), 386-401.
12) Wang H., Wang J. and X.
Yu (2022). Wastewater Irrigation and Crop Yield: A Meta-analysis.
Journal of Integrative Agriculture. 21 (4),
1215-1224
13) Graskemper
V., X. Yu and Jan-Henning Feil (2021). Farmer
Typology and Implications for Policy Design – an Unsupervised Machine Learning
Approach. Land Use Policy. Volume 103, April 2021, 105328.
14) Mao R. M. Xing, and X.
Yu (2021), Quality Response to Real Exchange Rate Shocks: A Panel SVAR
Analysis on China’s Agricultural Exports.” Agricultural Economics.
Vol. 52(5): 719-731.
15) Zhang, X, and X. Yu (2021) Short supply chain participation, and agrochemicals' use
intensity and efficiency: evidence from vegetable farms in China. China
Agricultural Economic Review. Vol. 13 (4): 721-735. https://doi.org/10.1108/CAER-05-2020-0108
16) Graskemper
V., X. Yu and Jan-Henning Feil (2021), Analyzing Strategic
Entrepreneurial Choices in Agriculture – Empirical Evidence from Germany. Agribusiness.
Vol. 37(3):569-589.
17) Sun F., D. Abler, X. Yu (2021), Crop
Allocation and Increasing Returns to Fertilizer Use in China. Land
Economics. Vol. 97(2):491-508. doi: 10.3368/le.97.2.491
18) Wang
H., J-F. Feil and Yu X. (2021) Disagreement on Sunspots
and Soybeans Future Price, Economic Modelling. Vol. 95:385-393
19) Lu
Z., Bao T. and X. Yu.(2020) Gender and Bubbles in Experimental
Markets with Positive and Negative Expectation Feedback. Forthcoming in Computational
Economics.
20) Luo H. and X.
Yu(2020) National Day Holiday and Weight Gain in China: Evidence from
the CHNS Surveys. Forthcoming in Applied Economics Letters.
21) Min S., X. Wang, X. Yu (2021) Does
dietary knowledge affect household food waste in the developing economy of
China?, Food Policy. Volume 98, 101896
22) Zhang
X., Z. Wang, P. Qing ,D. Koemle &X. Yu （2020）Wheat yield convergence and its
driving factors in countries along the Belt and Road. Ecosystem Health and Sustainability. Vol. 6.1819168. https://doi.org/10.1080/20964129.2020.1819168
23) Giampietri Elisa, X.
Yu, Samuele Trestini (2020)The role of trust and perceived barriers on
farmer’s intention to adopt risk management tools. Forthcoming in Bio-Based
and Applied Economics. DOI: 10.13128/bae-8416.
24) Zhang, Y.; Jin, S.; Zhang,
Y.; Yu, X.(2020) How country-of-origin influences Chinese
consumers‘ evaluation of imported milk?. China Agricultural
Economic Review. Vol. 13 No. 1, pp.
150-172. https://doi.org/10.1108/CAER-06-2019-0103
25) Koemle D. and X. Yu.(2020) Choice
Experiments in Non-market Value Analysis: Some Methodological Issues. Forestry
Economics Review. Vol. 2 (1):3-31.
26) Zhang X., X. Yu,
L. You (2020), Does the Granary County Subsidy Program Lead to manipulation of
grain production data in China? , China Economic Review. Volume
62, August 2020, 101347
27) Yu X. et al.
(2020) The impact of COVID-19 on food prices in China: evidence of four
major food products from Beijing, Shandong and Hubei Provinces. China
Agricultural Economic Review. Vol. 12 No. 3,
pp. 445-458.
28) Yu
X., H. Luo, Wang H., and J-F Feil
(2020) Climate Change and Agricultural Trade in Central Asia:
Evidence from Kazakhstan. Forthcoming in Ecosystem Health and
Sustainability. Vol. 6:1766380.
29) Wang
H., Zhao Q., Y. Bai, L. Zhang and X.Yu (2020) Poverty and
Subjective Poverty in Rural China, Social Indicators Research. Vol.150:219–242.
30) Zhou
S., X. Yu, and D. Koemle (2020) Policy Choices for Air Pollution
Abatement in Beijing: Status Quo or Change. The Singapore Economic Review
65 (03), 715-736.
32) Zeng, Q., X. Yu,
T. Bao (2020) Memory Utility, Food Consumption and Obesity. China Economic
Review. Vol. 62:101345.
33) Zhou
D., X. Yu, Chen D. and D. Abler (2020) Projecting Meat and
Cereals Demand for China Based on a Meta-Analysis of Income Elasticities. China
Economic Review. Vol. 59,101135.
34) Tian
X. and X. Yu (2019) Crop Yield Gap and Convergence in African
Countries. Food Security. Vol.11：1305–1319.
35) Zhang X., X. Yu, Xu
Tian• Xianhui Geng• Yingheng Zhou (2019)Farm Size, Inefficiency and Rice
Production Cost in China. Journal of Productivity Analysis. vol. 52(1), pages 57-68, December.
36) Koemle Dieter, S. Lakner and X.
Yu (2019) The Impact of Natura 2000 Designation on Agricultural Land
Rents in Germany. Land Use Policy. Vol.
87, September 2019, 104013
37) Zhou J., Yang Z., Yu
X. and K. Li (2019) Direct Intervention or Indirect Support? The
Effects of Cooperative Control Measures on Farmers’ Implementation of Quality
and Safety Standards. Food Policy. Volume 86, 101728
38) Zhang X., Qing P., and X.
Yu, (2019) Short supply chain participation and market performance for
vegetable farmers in China, Australian Journal of Agricultural and
Resource Economics. 63 (2),
282-306.
39) Zeng Q. and X. Yu (2019) Overweight and
Obesity Standards and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from China, Economics and
Human Biology. Vol.33: 144-148.
40) Chen Y. and X. Yu (2019) Do Subsidies
Cause a Less Competitive Milk Market in China?. Agricultural Economics. Volume50(3):303-314.
41) Tian
X., F. Yi and X. Yu (2019), Rising Cost of Labor
and Transformations in Grain Production in China. China Agricultural
Economic Review. Vol. 12 No. 1, pp. 158-172.
42) Sun
F. and X. Yu (2020) The Cost of Separatism: Economic
Consequences of the 19871989 Tibetan Unrests. Defense and Peace
Economics. Vol.31(3), pages 315-340,
43) Bao
T. and X. Yu (2019) Social Norm and Giving with Indivisibility
of Money: An Experiment of Selfishness, Equality and Generosity. Journal
of Institutional and Theoretical Economics. 175 (2): 272-290 (19)
44) Mahmood
T., X. Yu and S. Klasen (2019) Do the Poor really Feel Poor?
Comparing Objective Poverty with Subjective Poverty in Pakistan. Social
Indicators Research. 142(2):543–580
45) Gao
Z., C. Li and X. Yu (2019) The Interaction between Country of
Origin and Genetically Modified Orange Juice in Urban China Food Quality and
Preference. Food Quality and Preference. Vol.71:475-484
46) Hasiner
E. and X.Yu (2019) "When Institutions Matter: A Gravity
Model for Chinese Meat Imports." International Journal of Emerging
Markets. Vol. 14
Issue: 1, pp.231-253,
47) Chen,
Y. and X. Yu (2018), Does the centralized Slaughtering Policy
Create Market Power for Pork Industry in China, China Economic Review.
Vol. 58:59-71.
48) Koemle
D., Dieter Koemle, Yves Zinngrebe and X.Yu (2018), Highway
Construction and Wildlife Populations: Evidence from Austria. Land Use
Policy.Vol.73:447-457 .
49) Bao
T., Dai Y. and X. Yu (2018) Memory and Discounting: Theory and
Evidence. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. Volume 88,
March 2018, Pages 21-30 .
50) Schwan
S. and X. Yu (2018) “Social protection as a strategy to
address climate-induced migration”, International Journal of Climate
Change Strategies and Management. Vol. 10(1):43-64.
51) Zhou
J. Tang L. and X. Yu (2018) Estimating the average treatment
effect of adopting stress tolerant variety on rice yield in China. Journal
of Integrative Agriculture. Vol. 17(4):940-948.
52) Yu
X. (2018) Engel Curve, Farmer Welfare
and Food Consumption in 40 Years of Rural China, China Agricultural
Economic Review. Vol.10(1):65-77.
53) Quan
S., Y. Zeng, X. Yu and T. Bao (2018) WTP for Baby Milk Formula in China: Using
Attribute Non-Attendance as a priori Information to Select Attributes in Choice
Experiment. Agribusiness: An International Journal. Volume34,
Issue2: Pages 300-320.
54) Tian
X.,X. Yu and S. Klasen (2018) Gender Discrimination in China
Revisited: A Perspective from Family Welfare. Journal of Chinese
Economic and Business Studies. Vol. 16(1):95-115.
55) Sun
F., Dai Y. and X. Yu (2017) Air pollution, food
production and food security: A review from the perspective of food
system. Journal of Integrative Agriculture 2017, 16(12):
2945-2962.
56) Zhou
J., Q. Liu, R. Mao, Xiaohua Yu.(2017) “Habit Spillovers or Induced
Awareness: Willingness to Pay for Eco-Labels of Rice in China”. Food
Policy, 71, 2017: 62-73.
57) Sun.
F., D. Koemle and X. Yu (2017) Air pollution and short-run
food prices: Evidence from Beijing, China. Australian Journal of
Agricultural and Resource Economics. Vol. 61(2)：195-210.
58) Zhou
S. and X. Yu (2017) “Regional Heterogeneity of Life
Satisfaction in Urban China: Evidence from Hierarchical Ordered Logit
Analysis”. Social Indicators Research. Vol.132(1):25-45. DOI:
10.1007/s11205-016-1377-3。
59) Zhang,
X.; Chu, F.; Yu, X.; Zhou, Y.; Tian, X.; Geng, X.; Yang, J.(2017)
Changing Structure and Sustainable Development for China’s Hog Sector. Sustainability 2017,
9, 69.
60) Tian
X., and X. Yu (2017) “The Quality of Imported Fruits in
China”. Emerging Markets Finance & Trade.
DOI:10.1080/1540496X.2016.1179627. Vol.53:1603–1618, 2017
61) Yu,
X. and Shimokawa S. (2016) “Nutrition
Impacts of Rising Food Prices in African Countries: A Review”. Food
Security. Vol. 8(5):985-997. DOI: 10.1007/s12571-016-0605-7.
62) Giampietri
E. , D. Koemle, X. Yu and A. Finco (2016) Consumers’ Sense of
Farmers’ Markets: Tasting Sustainability or Just Purchasing Food?
Sustainability 2016, 8(11), 1157; doi:10.3390/su8111157.
63) Hasiner
E. and X. Yu (2016) “ Meat Consumption and Democratic
Governance: A Cross National Analysis ”, China Economic Review. DOI:
10.1016/j.chieco.2016.06.008.
64) Yu.
X., Z. Gao and S. Shimokawa (2016)
“Consumer Preferences for US Beef Products: A Meta-Analysis”. Italian
Review of Agricultural Economics (REA) 2016(2): 177-195.
65) Yu
X. and D. Abler (2016) “Matching
Food with Mouths: A Statistical Explanation to the Abnormal Decline of Per
Capita Food Consumption in Rural China”, Food Policy. Vol.63:36-43.
66) Zhou
D., and X. Yu (2016) “Calorie Elasticities with Income
Dynamics: Evidence from the Literature”, Applied Economic Perspective
and Policy. Vol.38 (1): 50-72.
67) Tian
X. , Zhang X., Zhou Y. and Yu X. (2016) “Regional Inequality
in China revisited: A Perspective of Club Convergence,” Economic
Modelling. Vol. 56:50-58.
68) Chen
D., D. Abler, D. Zhou, X. Yu, and W. Thompson (2016), A
Meta-Analysis of Food Demand Elasticities for China, Applied Economics
Perspective and Policy. Vol. 38(1):5072.
69) Tian
X.* and X. Yu (2015). Using Semiparametric Models to Study
Nutrition Improvement and Dietary Change with Different Indices: The Case of
China. Food Policy. Vol. 53:67–81
70) Zhou
D. , X. Yu and T. Herzfeld (2015).”Dynamic Food Demand in
Urban China”. China Agricultural Economic Review.
Vol.7(1):27-44.
71) Zhao
Q., X. Yu, X. Wang and T. Glauben(2014), ”The impact of parental
migration on children’s school performance in rural China”, China
Economic Review. Vol. 31:43-54.
72) Yu
X., B. Yan and Z. Gao (2014). Can Willingness-To-Pay
Values be Manipulated? Evidences from an Experiment on Organic Food in
China, Agricultural Economics. 45(S1):119-127.
73) Yu
X. and D. Abler (2014). “Where Have
All the Pigs Gone? Inconsistencies in Pork Statistics in China”. China
Economic Review, Vol.30: 469-484.
74) Yu.
X. (2014) "Monetary Easing
Policy and Long-Run Food Prices in China", Economic Modelling,
Vol.40:175-183.
75) Yu
X., Z. Gao and Y. Zeng (2014).
“Willingness to Pay for the ‘Green Food’ in China.” Food Policy,
Vol. (45):80-87.
76) Yu.
X.(2014) “Raising Food Prices and Welfare
Change: A Simple Calibration”. Applied Economics Letters. Vol.
21(9):643-645.
77) Meyer
S. and X. Yu (2013): “The Impacts of Production Uncertainties
on World Food Prices”, China Agricultural Economic Review.
Vol.5(4):459-472.
78) Gao
Z., X. Yu and J. Lee (2013): “Consumer Demand for Healthy
Diet: New Evidence from the Healthy Eating Index”, Australian Journal
of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Vol.57(3):301-319.
79) Holst
R., Yu. X. and C. Gruen (2013): “Climate Change, Risk and
Grain Yields in China”. Journal of Integrative Agriculture, Vol.
12(7) 1279-1291.
80) Tian
X. ,and X. Yu (2013): “The Demand for Nutrients in China”, Frontiers
of Economics in China. Vol.8(2):186-206.
81) Bu
M., Z. Liu, M. Wagner and X. Yu (2013): “Corporate
Social Responsibility and the Pollution Haven Hypothesis: Evidence from
Multinationals' Investment Decision in China”, Asia-Pacific Journal of
Accounting & Economics. Vol 20(1):85-99.
82) Li
Z., X. Yu, Y. Zeng and R. Holst (2012): “Estimating Transport
Costs and Trade Barriers in China: Direct Evidence from Chinese Agricultural
Traders”, China Economic Review, Vol.23(4):1003-1010.
83) Tian
X. and X. Yu (2012): “The Enigmas of TFP in China: A
Meta-Analysis”, China Economic Review. Vol. 23(2): 396-14.
84) Yu
X. (2012): “Productivity, Efficiency
and Structural Problems in Chinese Dairy Farms”, China Agricultural
Economic Review, Vol.4 (2): 168-175.
85) Ji
Y., X. Yu, and F. Zhong (2012): “Machinery Investment Decision
and Off-Farm Employment in Rural China”. China Economic Review.
Vol.23(1):71-80.
86) Gao
Z., L. House and X. Yu (2010): “Using Choice Experiment to
Estimate Consumer Valuation: the Role of Experiment Design and Attribute
Information Loads”, Agricultural Economics, Vol. 41 (6):555-565.
87) Yu
X. and Z. Gao (2010): “An Updated
Ranking of the Economic Research Institutions in China (2000-2009)", China
Economic Review, Vol. 21(4):571-581.
88) Gao
Z., T. Schroeder and X. Yu (2010): “Consumer
Willingness-to-Pay for Cue Attribute: the Value beyond its Own”, Journal
of International Food and Agribusiness Marketing, Vol.22(1):108-124.
89) Yu
X. and David Abler (2010):
“Incorporating Zero and Missing Responses into CVM with Open-Ended Bidding:
Willingness to Pay for Blue Skies in Beijing”, Environment and
Development Economics, Vol.15:535-556.
90) Yu
X. and D. Abler (2010): “Interactions
between Cigarette and Alcohol Consumption in Rural China”, European
Journal of Health Economics. Vol. (11):151–160.
91) Yu
X. and G. Zhao (2009): “Chinese
Agricultural Development in 30 Years: A Literature Review”, Frontiers
of Economics in China, Vol.4 (4):633-648.
92) Yu
X. and D. Abler (2009): “The Demand
for Food Quality in Rural China”, American Journal of Agricultural
Economics, Vol. 91(1): 57-69.
i. Book
Chapter
93) Bu M., Z Liu,
M Wagner, X Yu (2014) Corporate Social Responsibility and the Pollution
Haven Hypothesis: Evidence from Multinationals’ Investment Decision in China.
Globalization and the Environment of China (Edited by Bu and Yang). Emerald ,
UK. （Reprint of Bu et al. 2013）
94) Yu, X. (2022)
The Political Economy of Anti-Food-Waste in China: From Anti-Corruption to
Enhancing Food Security, Chapter 11 in Food Loss and Waste Policy:From
Theory to Practice (edited by S. Busseti and N. Pace),Routledge.
ii. Book
Review and Editorial
95) Yu. X., D.
Abler and S. Shimokawa, Introduction to the Special Issue on „Sustainable
Food Consumption in China“， China
Economic Review, 2018.
96) Yu X.
(2015), Meat consumption in China and its impact on international food
security: Status quo, trends, and policies, Journal of Integrative
Agriculture. Vol. 14(6):989-994.
97) Yu X.
(2015), Book Review for Zhang-Yue Zhou, Hongbo Liu and Lijuan Cao (2014): Food
Consumption in China: The revolution Continues. Cheltenham, Glos, UK: Edward
Elgar Publishing, 200 pages. ISBN: 978-1-78254-919-2. Quarterly Journal
of International Agriculture 54 (2015), No. 2: 215-217.