Working papers
Li, Haoyang and Jinhua Zhao, "What Drives the Slow Diffusion of New Irrigation Technologies: A Structural Dynamic Estimation Approach," 2022
Fan, Maoyong, Shunqi Ge, Haoyang Li, and Jinhua Zhao, “State Ownership and Cost-effectiveness of Environmental Policy: Firm-level Evidence,” 2022
Rausser, Gordon C., Leo K. Simon, and Jinhua Zhao, “Polarization, Hyperbole and the Battle for Control over the Narrative,” 2022
Selected publications
Lin, Liguo, Wei Sun and Jinhua Zhao, “Environmental Protection for Bureaucratic Promotion: Water Quality Performance Review of Provincial Governors in China,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2024, 128, 103060. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2024.103060
Zhou, Li, Bei Liu, Zongzhi Liu, and Jinhua Zhao, “Farmers as Prosumers: Evidence from Cadmium-contaminated Rice in China,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, accepted, 2024, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajae.12497
Chen, Ke, Yazhen Gong, and Jinhua Zhao, “Are facemasks effective against particulate matter pollution? Evidence from the field,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2024, 125, 103001. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2024.103001
Chen, Xiaohong, Jinhua Zhao, and Li Zhou, “Knowledge Protects Against Pollution: The Health Effects of the Cadmium Rice Event in China,” World Development, 2024, 175, 106470
Zhao, Jinhua, “Aggregate Emission Intensity Targets: Applications to the Paris Agreement,” Economic Inquiry, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecin.13085. Online Appendix.
Qiu, Yun and Jinhua Zhao, “Adaptation and the Distribution Effects of Heat: Evidence from Professional Archery Competitions,” Southern Economic Journal, 2022, 88, 1149-1177.
Lee, Sangjun and Jinhua Zhao, “Adaptation to Climate Change: Gradual Changes vs. Extreme Events,” Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2021, 133, 104262.
Karplus, Valerie J., Junjie Zhang, and Jinhua Zhao, “Navigating and Evaluating the Labyrinth of Environmental Regulation in China,” Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2021, 15(2), 300-322. Online appendix.
Zhao, Jinhua, John M. Kerr, Maria K. Lapinski and Rob Shupp, “Reciprocity and social norms: short- and long-run crowding out effects of financial incentives,” Frontiers of Economics in China 16, 177-213.
Wesseler, Justus and Jinhua Zhao, “Real Options and Environmental Policies - the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2019, 11, 43-58.
Zhao, Jinhua, “Environmental Regulation: Lessons for Developing Economies in Asia,” in Bihong Huang and Eden Yu ed. Ways to Achieve Clean Asia, Chapter 3, Asian Development Bank Institute, 2020
Wang, Min and Jinhua Zhao, “Are Renewable Energy Policies Climate Friendly? The Role of Capacity Constraints and Market Power,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2018, 90, 41-60.
Li, Haoyang and Jinhua Zhao, “Rebound Effects of New Irrigation Technologies: The Role of Water Rights,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2018, 100(3), 786-808.
Ye, Guangliang and Jinhua Zhao, “Environmental Regulation in a Mixed Economy,” Environmental and Resource Economics, 2016, 65, 273-295.
Kim, Younjun, Catherine L. Kling and Jinhua Zhao, “Understanding Behavioral Explanations of the WTP-WTA Divergence Through a Neoclassical Lens: Implications for Environmental Policy,” Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2015, 7, 169-187.
Rausser, Gordon C., Leo K. Simon, and Jinhua Zhao, “Rational Exaggeration and Counter-Exaggeration in Information Aggregation Games,” Economic Theory, 2015, 59(1), 109-146.
Wang, Min, Jinhua Zhao, and Joydeep Bhattacharya “Optimal Health and Environmental Policies in a Pollution-Growth Nexus,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2015, 71, 160-179.
Wang, Min and Jinhua Zhao, “Monopoly Extraction of a Nonrenewable Resource Facing Capacity Constrained Renewable Competition,” Economics Letters, September 2013, 120, 503-508.
Kling, Catherine, L., John List, and Jinhua Zhao, “A dynamic explanation of the willingness to pay and willingness to accept disparity,” Economic Inquiry, 59(1), January 2013, 909-921.
Kling, Catherine L. Daniel J. Phaneuf, and Jinhua Zhao, “From Exxon to BP: Has Some Number Become Better Than No Number?” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 26(4), 2012, 3-26.
Zilberman, David, Jinhua Zhao, and Amir Heiman “Adaptation versus Adoption: with Emphasis on Climate Change,” Annual Review of Resource Economics, 4, 2012, 27-53.
Song, Feng, Jinhua Zhao, and Scott Swinton “Switching to Perennial Energy Crops under Uncertainty and Costly Irreversibility,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 93(3), 2011, 768-783.
Zhao, Jinhua and Catherine L. Kling, “Welfare Measures When Consumers Can Learn: A Unifying Theory,” Economic Journal, v 119 (540), October 2009, 1560-1585.
Corrigan, Jay R., Catherine L. Kling, and Jinhua Zhao “Willingness to pay and the cost of commitment: An empirical specification and test,” Environmental and Resource Economics, v 40, 2008, 285-298
Bose, Subir and Jinhua Zhao “Optimal Use of Correlated Information in Mechanism Design When Full Surplus Extraction May Be Impossible,” Journal of Economic Theory, v 135, 2007, 357-381
Zhao, Jinhua, “The Role of Information in Technology Adoption under Poverty,” Chapter 8, in Machiko Nissanke and Erik Thorbecke ed., The Impact of Globalization on the World's Poor, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
Kurkalova, Lyubov A., Catherine L. Kling, and Jinhua Zhao, “Green Subsidies in Agriculture: Estimating the Adoption Costs of Conservation Tillage From Observed Behavior,” Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, v 54, 2006, 247-267
Feng, Hongli and Jinhua Zhao, “Alternative Intertemporal Permit Trading Regimes with Stochastic Abatement Costs,” Resource and Energy Economics, v 28, 2006, 24-40
Zhao, Jinhua and Catherine L. Kling, “Willingness-to-Pay, Compensating Variation, and the Cost of Commitment,” Economic Inquiry, v 42, n 3, July 2004, 503-517
Zhao, Jinhua, “Irreversible Abatement Investment under Cost Uncertainties: Tradable Emission Permits and Emissions Charges,” Journal of Public Economics, v 87, December 2003, 2765-2789
Zhao, Jinhua and Catherine L. Kling, “Policy Persistence in Environmental Regulation,” Resource and Energy Economics, v 25, 2003, 255-268
Karp, Larry, Jinhua Zhao, and Sandeep Sacheti, “The Long-run Effects of Environmental Reform in Open Economies,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, v 45, n 2, March 2003, 246-264
Heiman, Amir, Bruce McWilliams, Jinhua Zhao, and David Zilberman “Valuation and management of money-back guarantee options,” Journal of Retailing, v78, n2, Autumn 2002, 193-205
Feng, Hongli, Jinhua Zhao, and Catherine L. Kling, “The Time Path and Implementation of Carbon Sequestration,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, v 84, n 1, Feb 2002, 134-149
Zhao, Jinhua, “Uncertainty, Irreversibility and Water Project Assessment,” Water Resources Update, Jan. 2002, issue 121, 51-57
Zhao, Jinhua and Catherine L. Kling, “A New Explanation for the WTP/WTA Disparity,” Economics Letters, v73, 2001, 293-300
Karp, Larry, Sandeep Sacheti, and Jinhua Zhao, “Common Ground Between Free-Traders and Environmentalists,” International Economic Review, v 42, n 3, August 2001, 617-647
Zhao, Jinhua and David Zilberman, “Fixed Costs, Efficient Resource Management and Conservation,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, v 83, n 4, Nov 2001, 942-957
Zhao, Jinhua, “Trade and Environmental Distortions: Coordinated Intervention,” Environment and Development Economics, v 5 (special issue on international trade and the environment), 2000, 361-375
Kling, Catherine L. and Jinhua Zhao, “On the Long-Run Efficiency of Auctioned vs. Free Permits,” Economics Letters, v 69, n 2, November 2000, 235-238
Zhao, Jinhua and David Zilberman, “Irreversibility and Restoration in Natural Resource Development,” Oxford Economic Papers, v 51, n 3, July 1999, 559-573
Rausser, Gordon C., Leo K. Simon, and Jinhua Zhao, “Information Asymmetries, Uncertainties, and Cleanup Delays at Superfund Sites,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, v 35, n 1, January 1998, 48-68