China Agricultural Economic Review: Volume 3 Issue 4

Factors influencing Shaanxi and Gansu farmers' willingness to purchase weather insurance

Rong Kong, Calum G. Turvey, Guangwen He, Jiujie Ma, Patrick Meagher

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…

Factors affecting crop insurance purchases in China: the Inner Mongolia region

Milton Boyd, Jeffrey Pai, Qiao Zhang, H. Holly Wang, Ke Wang

The purpose of this paper is to explain the factors affecting crop insurance purchases by farmers in Inner Mongolia, China.

Evaluating agricultural catastrophic risk

Lei Xu, Qiao Zhang, Xi Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to provide an evaluation method for agricultural catastrophic risk.

Testing for adverse selection of crop insurance in northern China

Linging Hou, Dana L.K. Hoag, Yueying Mu

The purpose of this paper is to examine the efficiency of current subsidized crop insurance products (SCIPs) in Miyun county, in northern China, by testing the existence of…

Factors affecting Chinese enterprises' hedging decision making

Shi Zheng, Pei Xu, Zhigang Wang

The purpose of this paper is to find factors that explain why some enterprises hedge but others do not. The authors' analysis relies on Heckman model (a probit and Tobit model…

Is contract farming a risk management instrument for Chinese farmers?: Evidence from a survey of vegetable farmers in Shandong

H. Holly Wang, Yanping Zhang, Laping Wu

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…

A strategic risk management program for agriculture

Dana L.K. Hoag

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how an organized framework for risk management called Risk Navigator SRM^© can be practically applied to common risk management problems.

Impacts of agricultural public spending on Chinese food economy: A general equilibrium approach

Shiwei Xu, Yumei Zhang, Xinshen Diao, Kevin Z. Chen

The purpose of this paper is to develop a dynamic computable general equilibrium (DCGE) model to analyze economy‐wide impacts of different types of public spending in China. A…

The role of public policy and agricultural risk management in food security Public policy: implications for food security

Milton Boyd, H. Holly Wang