Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate market power in dairy industry in China. Specifically, we analyze market power for different firm size, locations of region and city empirically. Design/methodology/approach We estimate the market power by controlling the unobserved price...

Purpose: This research is to examine the impact of online channels on food stockpile behavior. Design/methodology/approach: In this study, we use bivariate probit models to empirically investigate the impact of online purchasing channels on Chinese urban consumer food hoarding behaviors with...

Purpose: This paper traces the timeline and milestones of Chinese graduate students in agricultural economics and related fields at foreign universities, with an emphasis on North American universities, since the early 1980s, and assesses the contributions of Chinese doctoral recipients from...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate contract farming in China, using vegetable production as a case. Specifically, the authors analyze farmers' contract decisions for different types of contracts, their contract compliance behaviors, and their profitability affected by the...

Purpose – China frequently suffers from weather-related natural disasters and weather risk is recognized as a source of wide-spread systemic risk throughout large swaths of China. During these periods farmers' crops are at risk and for a largely poor population few can afford the turmoil to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a thorough analysis of meat demand in China and predict future trends in meat consumption. Design/methodology/approach – Expenditure as well as Marshallian and Hicksian demand elasticities of various meats in China are evaluated using the...

Purpose – Since 1999, China has undergone reform of its healthcare system. City-based social health insurance (SHI) is the primary form of current health insurance, supplemented by various commercial health insurance programs. The rural new cooperative medical system (NCMS) was introduced in...

Purpose – Since 1999, China has undergone reform of its healthcare system. City‐based social health insurance (SHI) is the primary form of current health insurance, supplemented by various commercial health insurance programs. The rural new cooperative medical system (NCMS) was introduced in...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a thorough analysis of meat demand in China and predict future trends in meat consumption. Design/methodology/approach – Expenditure as well as Marshallian and Hicksian demand elasticities of various meats in China are evaluated using the...