An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Agricultural Product Price Fluctuations on China’s Grain Yield

Hualin Xie and Bohao Wang
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Hualin Xie: Institute of Ecological Civilization, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanchang 330013, China
Bohao Wang: School of Economics, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanchang 330032, China

Sustainability, 2017, vol. 9, issue 6, 1-14

Abstract: In recent years, food security, especially supply, has been an important issue in China’s agricultural production. The stability of grain prices is related to the stability and development of the grain market. Based on agricultural production data from 1970 to 2015, this paper explores the influence of agricultural product price fluctuation on grain production by using the cobweb theory and vector error correction (VEC) model. The results show that changes in grain production in China are affected by fluctuations in agricultural product prices, that the production change lags behind the price change, and that there is a long-term equilibrium relationship between grain yield and agricultural product price. A Granger causality test shows that the change in agricultural product price is the Granger cause of grain yield change.

Keywords: agricultural product price; grain yield; cobweb theory; VEC model; food security; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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