PUBLICATIONS

Ma, Meilin, Shira Bukchin-Peles, Jeffery K. Tomberlin, and David Zilberman. 2025. "The Economics of Circular Bioeconomy Supply Chains: Theory and Case Studies," European Review of Agricultural Economics.

Ma, Meilin, Fei Qin, and Jayson L. Lusk. 2024. "Retail Assortment under Demand Shocks: Evidence from the US Yogurt Market," Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, 3: 522-536. 


Ma, Meilin and Ralph B. Siebert. 2024. "The Impact of Private Label Introduction on Assortment, Prices, and Profits of Retailers," Journal of Industrial Economics, 72(1): 356-389. 
Ma, Meilin, Michael S. Delgado, and H. Holly Wang. 2024. “Risk, Arbitrage, and Spatial Price Relationships: Insights from China’s Hog Market under the African Swine Fever," Journal of Development Economics, 166, 103200. Awarded 2024 AAEA China Section Best Article.
Hadachek, Jeffrey, Meilin Ma, and Richard J. Sexton. 2024. "Market Structure and Resilience of Food Supply Chains Under Extreme Events," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 106(1): 21-44 . 
Ma, Meilin, Carson Reeling, Megan Hughes, Shalamar Armstrong, Richard Roth. 2023. "Comparison of Conservation Incentives under Long-Run Yield Uncertainty and Farmer Risk Aversion," European Review of Agricultural Economics, 50(5):1685–1714 . Awarded 2023 ERAE Best Article.
Cooper, Joseph, Vincent Breneman, Meilin Ma, Jayson L. Lusk, Joshua M. Maples, and Shawn Arita. 2023. "Econometric Assessment of the Effects of COVID-19 Outbreaks on U.S. Meat Production and Plant Utilization with Plant-level Data," Food Policy, 119: 102522.
 Ma, Meilin. 2023. "Interdependent Investments in Attached and Movable Assets under Insecure Land Rights," China Economic Review, 77: 101909.
 Deininger, Klaus W., Songqing Jin, and Meilin Ma. 2022. "Structural Transformation of the Agricultural Sector in Low- and Middle-Income Economies," Annual Review of Resource Economics, 14: 221-241.  

Ma, Meilin. 2022. “Insecure Land Tenure, Social Protection, and Resource Misallocation: Evidence from China’s Agricultural Sector,” Economic Development and Cultural Change, 70(2): 835-863. 


Ma, Meilin, Jessie Lin, and Richard J. Sexton. 2022. “The Transition from Small to Large Farms in Developing Economies: A Welfare Analysis,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 104(1): 111-133. 


Ma, Meilin, H. Holly Wang, Yizhou Hua, Fei Qin, and Jing Yang. 2021. “African Swine Fever in China: Impacts, Responses, and Policy Implications,” Food Policy, 102: 102065.  


Ma, Meilin and Richard J. Sexton. 2021. “Modern Agricultural Value Chains and the Future of Smallholder Farming Systems,” Agricultural Economics, 52: 591-606. 


Ma, Meilin and Heng Zhu. 2020. “Efficiency of Decisions under Membership Heterogeneity and Government Regulations: Insights from Farmer Cooperatives in China,” Economic Development and Cultural Change, 68(3): 1009-40.


Ma, Meilin, Tina Saitone, Richard J. Sexton, Richard Volpe, and Michelle Saksena, 2019. “Market Concentration, Market Shares, and Retail Food Prices: Evidence from the U.S. Women, Infants, and Children Program,” Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 41(3): 542-62.



SELECTED WORKING PAPERS

Hadachek, Jeffrey and Meilin Ma. 2024. "Risk Management Externalities in Food Supply Chains" (draft available upon request).

Song, Yujing and Meilin Ma. 2024. "Relational Adaptation in Spot Trading" (draft available upon request).

Qin, Fei and Meilin Ma. 2023. "Unit Price Regulation and Retailer Assortment: Evidence from the U.S. Yogurt Market."

Ma, Meilin and Jayson L. Lusk. 2021. "Concentration and Resilience in the U.S. Meat Supply Chains," NBER Working Paper 29103.


OUTREACH AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Hadachek, Jeffrey and Meilin Ma. 2024. “Navigating Resilience: Challenges and Strategies in U.S. Agricultural and Food Supply Chains.” CAB Quarterly Report, 2024-2.

Hughes, Megan N., Meilin Ma, and Carson J. Reeling. 2024. “Comparing the Effectiveness of Conservation Incentives.” Purdue Agricultural Economics Report, 2024-1. 


Hughes, Megan N., Olivia Wyrick, Carson J. Reeling, and Meilin Ma. 2022. “Understanding the Growing Climate Solutions Act.” Purdue Agricultural Economics Report, 2022-10.


McLaughlin, Patrick, Michelle Saksena, Tina Saitone, Meilin Ma, Richard Volpe, Qi Wu, and Richard Sexton. 2020. “Cost Containment and Participant Access in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC): Evidence from the Greater Lost Angeles Area.” USDA-ERS Economic Research Report, No. ERR-283.


Ma, Meilin, Tina Saitone, Richard Volpe, Richard J. Sexton, and Michelle Saksena. 2018. “Retail Food Prices and Retailer Market Power: Evidence from the Greater Los Angeles Area.” ARE Update, 21(6): 5-8.


Ma, Meilin, Sandro Steinbach, and Junqian Wu. 2014. “A Study on Regional Specialization of China’s Agricultural Production: Recent Trends and Drivers.” Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development, 2: 113-27.