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Hello, I’m Hongqiang Yan (严宏强), a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Morrison School of Agribusiness, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. My research interests lie in production economics, technology adoption, and applied econometrics.

I completed my Ph.D. at NC State University and my M.S. at Texas A&M University.

To learn more about my current and past research projects, feel free to contact me at:
hongqiang dot yan [at] asu dot edu
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EDUCATION

  • Ph.D. in Economics, NC State University, 2018-2024

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • Production Economics
  • Econometrics

PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES

  • Yan, H., Mishra, A. K., & Zhou, X. (2025). Do all food and beverage firms benefit from voluntary ESG reporting? Evidence from China’s listed companies. Agribusiness, forthcoming.

  • Khanal, A. K., Mishra, A. K., Hazrana, J., & Yan, H. (2025). Risk attitude, perception, management experience, and productivity: Evidence from a semiparametric approach and a less-developed economy. European Review of Agricultural Economics, forthcoming.

SUBMITTED MANUSCRIPTS

  • Hongqiang Yan, Serkan Aglasan, Le Chen, Roderick Rejesus. The Dual Damage from Soil Erosion: Lower Yields and Higher Risk in US Agriculture. (Under Review, American Journal of Agricultural Economics)
  • Mitchell Roznik, Ashok K. Mishra, Hongqiang Yan. Field Rotation Related Soil Productivity Changes, Yield Risk, and Efficiency in Crop Insurance Rating. (Under Review, Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

WORKING PAPER

  • Jiatong Li, Hongqiang Yan. Uniform Inference in High-Dimensional Threshold Regression Models. (Co-first authored).
    Latest version

  • Hongqiang Yan, Barry Goodwin, Mehmet Caner. Global Maize Market Integration: A High-Dimensional Local Projection Approach with Mixed-Frequency Data and Regime Switching.
    (Available upon request)

  • Hongqiang Yan, Ashok K. Mishra, Jaweriah Hazrana. Spatial Analysis of Modern Rice Varieties Technology on Production: Evidence from Panel Data in Bangladesh.
  • Hongqiang Yan, Mark Manfredo, Ashok K. Mishra. Machine Learning Forecasts for Food Price Inflation: Expanding FRED-MD.
  • Mitchell Roznik, Ashok K. Mishra, Hongqiang Yan. Extreme Climate, Financial Health, and Credit Default Risk: An American Landscape.

WORK IN PROGRESS

  • Hongqiang Yan. Data-Driven Estimates of Structural Change in the Demand for Multiple Peril Crop Insurance.
  • Hongqiang Yan, Ashok K. Mishra, Xi Zhou. Examining the Role of Spatial Heterogeneity in Productivity-Enhancing Activities: Evidence from the Chinese Food and Beverage Sector.