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Introduction
Land-use regulation in China differs structurally from most market economies: rural and urban land regimes operate under distinct legal frameworks, local governments are simultaneously regulators and beneficiaries of land development, and the resulting policy outcomes carry implications for inequality, environmental quality, and economic productivity that I find continuously interesting.
My published work in this line examines the return of state control over land markets, off-farm employment and land-use efficiency, local-government debt financing of infrastructure, behavioural land-use policy, and the political economy of rural homestead reforms. Land Use Policy is my home journal in this line; six papers have appeared there since 2020.
Research Grants
- Behavioural Economics and Institutional Analysis: China’s Land System Reform
- Spatial Governance, Behavioural Interventions and Regional Inequality
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Publications
- The hidden cost of uncertainty: How policy instability delays industrial land development in Shanghai, China
- Behavioural Economic Analysis of Institutional Changes: Lessons Learned from China’s Land System Reforms
- Land-use efficiency and local government revenue: Evidence from 272 Chinese cities using a novel structural equation modelling approach
- Social capital and the effectiveness of land use policies: Evidence from rural China
- Understanding local government debt financing of infrastructure projects in China: Evidence based on accounting data from local government financing vehicles
- Unpacking the effects of rural homestead development rights reform on rural revitalization in China
- Assessing the ecological impacts of coastal reclamation on cropland protection: An integrated index system
- Behavioural land use policy studies: Past, present, and future
- Off-farm employment and agricultural land use efficiency in China
- The impact of urbanization on farmland productivity: Implications for China’s requisition–compensation balance of farmland policy
- The return of state control and its impact on land market efficiency in urban China
- Rural land rights reform and agro-environmental sustainability: Empirical evidence from China
- Land use policy and spatiotemporal changes in the water area of an arid region
- On the potential of urban three-dimensional space development: The case of Liuzhou, China
- Changes in farmers’ welfare from land requisition in the process of rapid urbanization
- Strategic planning framework for land consolidation in China: A top-level design based on SWOT analysis
- Land Market in Beijing: Goldmine or Landmine?
- Land reallocation reform in rural China: A behavioral economics perspective
- Land value determination in an emerging market: empirical evidence from China
Working papers
- Farmers’ Decisions on Rural Homestead Land Withdrawal: A Value-Function Framework and Determinants
- The Effect of Procedural Justice and Psychological Preference on Farmers’ Satisfaction with Land Acquisition
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