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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
  • Applied 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)

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.
  • Mitchell Roznik, Ashok K. Mishra, Hongqiang Yan. Field Rotation Related Soil Productivity Changes, Yield Risk, and Efficiency in Crop Insurance Rating.

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.