China Agricultural Economic Review: Volume 4 Issue 3

Rural people's perception of income adequacy in China

Bjorn Gustafsson, Ximing Yue

The purpose of this paper is to investigate rural people's perception of income adequacy in order to understand how it is affected by income in the county where the respondent…

Price transmission market power and industry technology: a note

Habtu T. Weldegebriel, Xiuqing Wang, Anthony J. Rayner

The purpose of this paper is to develop a theoretical model of price transmission from the farm to the retail sector, allowing not only for an interaction between oligopoly power…

Evidence of rational addiction to carbonated soft drinks?

Xiaoou Liu, Rigoberto Lopez

The purpose of this paper is to apply the Becker‐Murphy theory of rational addiction to the case of carbonated soft drinks. The research aims to reveal the rational addiction…

Reforms, WTO, arbitrage efficiency and integration between the China‐US soybean markets

Shengfei Han, Pei He

The purpose of this paper is to develop a new approach to market analysis, and test how the China‐US soybean market integration and arbitrage efficiency have changed across…

Why do farmers quit from grain production in China? Causes and implications

Jin‐Tao Zhan, Yan‐Rui Wu, Xiao‐Hui Zhang, Zhang‐Yue Zhou

The number of farms engaged in grain production in China has been declining in recent years. Limited efforts have been devoted to examine why producers quit from grain production…

Network strength, transaction‐specific investments, inter‐personal trust, and relationship satisfaction in Chinese agri‐food SMEs

Hualiang Lu, Shuyi Feng, Jacques H. Trienekens, S.W.F. Omta

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of network strength, transaction‐specific investments and inter‐personal trust on business relationship satisfaction for…

Who has the final say?: Market power versus price discovery in China's sugar spot and futures markets

Ling‐Yun He, Wen‐Si Xie

There is a distinct separation of price discovery from pricing power in China's sugar spot and futures markets. The purpose of this paper is to identify the reasons and provide…

Is China entering a high food price era?: A summary of CAER‐IFPRI 2011 Annual International Conference

J. Alexander Nuetah, Yitian Xiao, Pei Guo

The purpose of this paper is to provide readers with the main findings and conclusions of papers presented at the 2011 CAER‐IFPRI International Conference held under the theme “Is…

Dilemma in China’s agricultural land transfer to enterprises: good or bad?

Xian Xin