IATRC

IATRC SYMPOSIUM - BEIJING, July 8-9, 2007

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Invited Papers


Session 1:

1. Justin Lin, China Center for Economic Research, Peking University, “Priorities for Constructing a Harmonious Society in China.”         See Presentation

2. Nicholas Lardy, Peterson Institute of International Economics, Washington DC, “China's Consumption-Driven Growth Path.”         See Presentation

3. Bert Hofman and Louis Kuijs, World Bank, Beijing, “Rebalancing of the Chinese Economy.”

Session 2:

4. Yu Yongding, Director, Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences,The Adjustment of China’s Growth Strategy and Macroeconomic Stability    See Presentation

5. Jianhuai Shi, China Center for Economic Research, Peking University, “Are Currency Appreciations Contractionary in China?”   See Presentation

Session 3:

6. Fred Gale, Economic Research Service, USDA, Washington DC, "A Tale of Two Commodities: China's Trade in Corn and Soybeans."      See Presentation

7. Guoqiang Cheng, Development Research Center of the State Council, “China’s Agriculture within the World Trading System.”     See Presentation

Session 4:

8. Scott Rozelle, Stanford University, “Village Elections, Public Goods Investments and Pork Barrel Politics, Chinese-style”    See Presentation

9. Funing Zhong, Nanjing Agricultural University, “How Mobile are Resources in Chinese Agriculture?  Implications for China’s Agricultural Trade Policy.”      See Presentation

10. Jikun Huang, Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, “Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in China.”   See Presentation

Session 5:

11. Kym Anderson, Will Martin and Ernesto Valenzuela, World Bank, “Long Run Implications of WTO Accession for Agriculture in China.”    See Presentation

12. Steve McCorriston, University of Exeter and Donald MacLaren, University of Melbourne, “An Assessment of the Economic Effects of COFCO.”     See Presentation

13. Fang Cai, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, “Regional Labor Market Integration since China's World Trade Organization Entry"   See Presentation

Session 6:

14. Han Jun, Development Research Center of the State Council, “China: Land Policy Reform for Sustainable Economic and Social Development.”     See Presentation

15. Wang Jinxia, Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, “Water Issues and Agriculture.”  See Presentation

16. Enjiang Cheng, Victoria University, Australia, and Loren Brandt, University of Toronto “Banking System Reform and Rural Finance.”   See Presentation


Contributed Papers

Session I: GM Foods/Food Demand/Consumption

Session II: Migration/Mobility/Rural labor

Session III: Products – Cotton/Soya/Dairy

Session IV:  Trade/Poverty/Growth

Session V.  FDI/Firms/Geography/Exchange Rates/Policy

Session VI:  China’s Trade/Policy

Session VII: Trade/Policy

Session VIII: Country/Regional/Trade

Session IX:  Energy/Environment

Session X: Products – Rice/Fruit 

Session XI: Products – Meat/Seed Corn


Session I: GM Foods/Food Demand/Consumption

7. Satish Y. Deodhar, Sankar Ganesh (IIM, Ahmedabad), and Wen S. Chern (Ohio State University):  “Emerging Markets for GM Foods:  An Indian Perspective on Consumer Understanding and Willingness to Pay” 

8. James Hansen, William Lin, Francis Tuan (USDA/ERS), Mary A. Marchant (Virginia Tech.), Nicholas Kalaitzdonakes (University of Missouri), Funing Zhong (Nanking Agricultural University)and Baohui Song (University of Kentucky):  “Trade Effects of Commercializing Genetically Modified Soybeans in China”

9. William Lin, Francis Tuan (USDA/ERS), Yingchun Dai, Funing Zhong and Xi Chen (Nanjing Agricultural University):   “Does Biotech Labeling Affect Consumers’ Purchasing Decisions? A Case Study of Vegetable Oils in Nanjing, China”

10. Diansheng Dong (USDA/ERS) and Brian W. Gould (University of Wisconsin): “Product Quality and the Demand for Food: The Case of Urban China”

11. Meng Zhao (University of Minnesota):    “Are Chinese Health-Oriented Food Consumers? A Panel Study of Household Food Demand in China from 1989 to 2004”

12. Xiaohua Yu and David Abler (Penn State University): “Interaction between Cigarette and Alcohol Consumption in Rural China”  


Session II: Migration/Mobility/Rural labor

14. William McGuire, Belton Fleisher, and Ian Sheldon (Ohio State University): “Off-Farm Employment Opportunities and Educational Attainment in Rural China”

15. Haiyan Wang and Alan Matthews (Trinity College, Dublin): “Labor market distortions and the impacts of further trade liberalization in China” 

17.* Qi Zhang (Northwestern University), Jikun Huang, and Jianwei Mi (Chinese Academy of Sciences): "Income Inequality and Economic Mobility in Rural China: Who Can Move up the Ladder of Success?"

18. Qin Tu (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences/University of Wageningen):  “Trust, Market Participation and Economic Outcomes: Evidence from Rural China”

19.* Ha Thuc Vien (Nong Lam University, Ho Chi Minh City):  “Impacts of Land Allocation and Land Titling on Rural Livelihoods: An Examination from the Southern Uplands of Vietnam”

30. Suwen Pan, Jaime Malaga (Texas Tech University), Xiurong He (China Agriculture University), and Samarendu Mohanty (Texas Tech University):  “Market Liberalization and Crop Planting Decision: A Case of China” (Click for presentation)

73. Jianwei Mi (Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy), Qi Zhang (Northwestern University), and Qin Liang (Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy): "Policy burdens, demand rationing and supply rationing – A framework for Chinese rural land markets in the 1990s”

* Copy of paper received, but author unable to attend symposium


Session III: Products – Cotton/Soya/Dairy

49. George Vlontzos and M.N. Duquenne (University of Thessaly): “Evolution of trade flows for Chinese cotton”

50. Hongye You (Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences): “China's Trade Policy of Cotton under Globalization”

51. Baohui Song (California State University), Mary Marchant (Virginia Tech.), Michael Reed (University of Kentucky), and Shuang Xu (University of Kentucky):  “Market Power and Competitive Analysis of Chinese Soybean Import Market” 

52. Hongyan Liu (Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences): “A Study on Chinese Trade of Whole Milk Powder in the Process of Trade Liberalization”

53. Huiyuan Zou and Andrew M. Novakovic (Cornell University): “The Chinese Dairy Sector: Interregional Trade Patterns (Implications for Modeling, Markets and Development)”

72. Qiu Yan (China Agricultural University): "The Influence of Trade Policy Changes on China’s Soybean Market”


Session IV:  Trade/Poverty/Growth

35. Wusheng Yu and Hans Jensen (University of Copenhagen): "Modeling Agricultural Domestic Support in China: Some Illustrated Scenarios on Its Future Development"

36. Yanjie Zhang and Bernhard Bruemmer (University of Göttingen):   “Productivity Change and Policy Reform Effects in China’s Agriculture since 1979”

37. Zhu Jing and Hong Wei (Nanjing Agricultural University):  “Trade Openness, Domestic Terms of Trade, and Welfare of Agricultural Producers in China”

38. Xiaohe Lui (Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences), Lan Fang (Shannxi Development and Reform Committee), and Hongye You (Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences):  “Agriculture Trade Liberalization and Poverty in China: Linked CGE Model Analysis” 

39. Jiang Yuan (Renmin University of China): “Institutional Analyses of Poverty Evolution in Rural China”

41. Thomas W. Hertel (Purdue University), Carlos E. Ludena, Alla Golub, and Allan Rae (Massey University): “Food and Agricultural Trade and Productivity Growth in Asia:  Baseline Projections to 2025


Session V.  FDI/Firms/Geography/Exchange Rates/Policy 

60. Titus Awokuse and Weishi Gu (University of Delaware): The Contribution of Foreign Direct Investment to China’s Export Performance: Evidence from Disaggregated Sectors” 

64.* Juyan Zhang (South-Western University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu): “Ownership Structure, Input Control and Bargaining in China’s Processing Firms”

65. Rodrigo Echeverria (Universidad Austral de Chile) and Munisamy Gopinath (Oregon State University): “Geographic Concentration of Economic Activity” 

66. Fuzhi Cheng (Cornell University) and David Orden (Virginia Tech./IFPRI):  “Exchange Rate Alignment and Producer Support Estimates (PSEs) of China”

70. David Bullock (University of Illinois): “Should We Expect Government Policy to be Efficient? 

71. Brad Gilmour (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada): “Agri-Food Regulation and Sectoral Performance: Catalysts and constraints to innovation, responsiveness and competitiveness in China & elsewhere”

* Copy of paper received, but author unable to attend symposium


Session VI:  China’s Trade/Policy 

27. Liu Heguang and Sun Dongsheng (Chinese Academy of Agricultural Science): The Impacts of International Agricultural Policy Reform on China’s Agricultural Sector and Countermeasures

28. Andrzej Kwieciński and Frank von Tongeren (OECD, Trade and Agriculture Directorate): “Quantitative Evaluation of a Decade of Agricultural Policies in China: 1995 – 2005” 

31. Shangnan Shui (EST/FAO):  Changes in China’s trade structure and efficiency after its WTO admission”

32. Agapi Somwaru, Francis Tuan, Mark Gehlhar, Xinshen Diao and Suchada Langley (USDA/ERS): “Forces behind China’s Surging Trade: Competitiveness or Policy Driven?”


Session VII: Trade/Policy

29. Wu Laping and Cheng Jie (China Agriculture University): "Potential Effects of Blue Box Policy Reform on Domestic Support in Agriculture"

25. Imad Elsin Elfadil Abdel Karim Yousif and Izdihar Alfahl (University of Khartoum): The Impact of Domestic and Trade Policies on Sudan’s Agricultural Export Earnings 

26. Ashutosh Kumar Tripathi (Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, New-Delhi): “Market Access: Negotiating Modalities and Likely Consequences for Indian Agriculture” 

33. Shunli Yao (Peking University):  “Persistence of Chinese Agricultural Trade Patterns: Some National and Regional Evidence” 

34. Jeevika Weerahewa (University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka), and Karl Meilke (University of Guelph): “Indo-China Trade Relationships: Implications for the South Asian Economies”


Session VIII: Country/Regional/Trade

20. David Abler and David Blandford (Penn State University): “Implications of a Doha Agreement for Agricultural Policies in the European Union”

21. Kuo-I Chang (University of Tokyo) and Kazunobu Hayakawa (Keio University):  “Border Effects and the Impact of their Elimination: Agricultural vs. Manufactured Foods” 

22. Bruce Huff (Huff and Associates) and Aisha Humera (Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock, Pakistan): “Agriculture in the China-Pakistan Free Trade Agreement: Impact, Process and Future Prospects”

23. Silvia Helena G. de Miranda, Vitor A. Ozaki, Ricardo M. Fonseca, and Caio Mortatti (University of Sao Paulo):  Perspectives of the Trade China-Brazil-U.S.A.: Evaluation through a gravity model approach

24. Joon-Keun Park (Chonnam National University, Gwangju), Jin Hao, Suying Gao (Hebei University of Technology), and H.Y. Lee (Chonnam National University, Gwangju):   “Agricultural Trade between China and Korea”


Session IX:  Energy/Environment

1. Li Chaomin  (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics): China’s Fuel Ethanol Pilot Program: Policy, Market and Interest Groups”

2. Xiaohe Lui and Hongye You (Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences): “Impacts of China Agriculture to Oil Price Changes: An Investigation Using GTAP Model”

3. Quiqiong Huang (University of Minnesota), Scott Rozelle (Stanford Univesrity), and Richard Howitt (UC Davis) “Determining the Optimal Disaggregate Level for Policy Analysis

4. Bryan Lohmar and James Hansen (USDA/ERS): “Interactions between Resource Scarcity and Trade Policy: The Potential Effects of Water Scarcity on China’s Agricultural Economy under the Current TRQ Regime”

6. Hongmei Liu (Yunnan Agricultural University) and Michael Cuddy (National University of Ireland, Galway):  The analysis of farmers’ adoption behavior on environmental improvement measures in Chinese highland agriculture: the case of Kelang village


Session X: Products – Rice/Fruit 

42. Taeho Lee and Hanho Kim (Seoul National University): “An Outlook for China’s Japonica Rice Trade Position: Will it be an Exporter or Importer?”  

43.* Linh Vu (University of Minnesota”: “Efficiency of Rice Farming Households in Vietnam: A DEA with Bootstrap and Stochastic Frontier Application”

44. Guillaume Gruere, Simon Mevel and Antoine Bouët (IFPRI):  Genetically modified rice and international trade in India in the background of China. Should the Elephant move ahead of the Dragon?”

45. Satish Deodhar (IIM, Ahmedabad), Barry Krissoff and Maurice Landes (USDA/ERS): “Transaction Costs in Emerging Markets:  A Study of India’s Apple Trade”

46.Linde Götz (University of Göttingen) and Harald Grethe (Humboldt University): "Does the Entry Price System Restrict Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Exports from China to the EU?"

48. Liu Xue (China Agriculture University, Beijing) and Brian Revell (Harper Adams College): "Fresh or Processed Vegetables:  Which Way Forward for China's Future Exports?"

* Copy of paper received, but author unable to attend symposium


Session XI: Products – Meat/Seed Corn

54. Wen Gong (University of Sydney), Kevin A. Parton (Charles Sturt University), Zhangyue Zhou (James Cook University), and Rodney J. Cox (Charles Sturt University): “Beef Supply Chain Management in China and Australia: A Comparative Perspective”

55. Scott Waldron (University of Queensland): “Transitions in Rural China from the Perspective of the Beef Industry and its Participants”

57. Hongbo Lui (University of Sydney), Kevin Parton (Charles Sturt University), Zhangyue Zhou (James Cook University), and Rodney Cox (Charles Sturt University): “Meat consumption in the home in China: An empirical study”

58. John Beghin, GianCarlo Moschini, Denis McGee (Iowa State University), and Jorge Fernandez-Cornejo (USDA/ERS): “Phytosanitary Regulations and their Impact on Seed Trade. Preliminary Evidence from US Seed Corn Exports”

59. Cathy Jabara (USITC), Mary Burfisher (US Naval Academy), and David Ingersoll (USITC): “Wood Packaging SPS Regulations: Effects on U.S. Imports and Containerized Trade”


Luncheon Speeches

Zhang Xiangchen, Director General, Department for WTO Affairs, Ministry of Commerce: "China, WTO   and Doha Development Agenda" (Click to see picture)