Date of birth
- October 21st, 1979 in Hubei (China)
Undergraduate Studies
- 1997-2001
China Agricultural University, P.R.China (Bachelor of Economics, Major in Monetary and Banking) - 2003-2006
Georg August-University Goettingen, Germany (M.Sc. in Socioeconomics of Rural Development)
M.Sc. Thesis:
“Productivity Change and Policy Reform Effects in China’s Agriculture since 1979”
Research Interests
- Productivity and efficiency analysis
- Policy reform and institutional arrangement in transition
Research Project
Publications
- Zhang, Y.J. und Bruemmer, B.: Productivity Change and Policy Reform
Effects in China’s Agriculture since 1979, Asian-Pacific Economic Literature
(forthcoming) - Zhang, Y., Wang, X., Glauben, T., and Bruemmer, B. (2011): The Impact
of Land Reallocation on Technical Efficiency: Evidence from China.
Agricultural Economics, 42(4):495–507. - Wang, X.B., Glauben, T., and Zhang, Y.J. (2010): The Land Rental
Market and its Effect on Agricultural Production in Rural China. In: Beckmann,
V., N.H. Dung, X. Shi, M. Spoor, J. Wesseler (Hrsg.), Economic Transition and
Natural Resource Management in East- and Southeast Asia. Shaker Publisher:
Aachen. - Zhang, Y. and Bruemmer, B. (2008): Productivity Change and Policy Reform Effects in China’s Agriculture Since 1979. In: Asia-Pacific Productivity Conference, Taipeh, Taiwan, 17.-19. Juli
Conference Contributions
- Zhang, Y. and Wang, X.
Land Reallocation and Its Impacts on Technical Efficiency – Evidence from China’s Agricultural Production. Contributed paper accepted for presentation at the XXVII Conference of the International Association of Agricultural Economists, August 16-22th, 2009, Beijing, China. - Zhang, Y. and Bruemmer, B.
Productivity Change and Policy Reform Effects in China’s Agriculture since 1979. Contributed paper accepted for presentation at the Asia-Pacific Productivity Conference 2008 (APPC2008), July 17-19th, 2008, Taipei, China. - Zhang, Y and Bruemmer, B.
Productivity Change and Policy Reform Effects in China’s Agriculture since 1979. Contributed paper accepted for presentation at the International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium (IATRC) Summer Symposium, July 8-9th, 2007, Bejing, China. - Zhang, Y. and Bruemmer, B.
Economic Efficiency and Land Rights - a Stochastic Frontier Analysis of Agricultural Production in China. Poster presentation at the Tropentag 2007, October 9-11th, 2007, Witzenhausen, Germany.
Languages
- Chinese (native)
- English (proficiency)
Other interests
- Badminton, Taekwondo, Travelling, Music