题目：Climate Change and Dynamic Adjustment of Agricultural TFP : A Cross-regional Comparison of Broadacre Farms in Australia

主讲人：Dr. Yu Sheng（School of Advanced Agriculture and Science, Peking University）

时间：2017年3月1日（周三）上午9:30

地点： 主楼六层 能源与环境政策研究中心

主讲人介绍：
　　Dr. Yu Sheng is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Advanced Agriculture and Science （SAAS）, the Peking University. He is also a senior economist of Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES), Department of Agriculture Australia. He is specialised in climate change and its impact on agricultural productivity by using cross-country comparable data, international trade, FDI and employment, energy security and regional integration and economic development and institutional reforms. In recent years, his researches have been published in a series of international peer reviewed journals including Canadian Journal of Economics, Journal of International Money and Finance, Energy Economics, Review of International Economics, Review of Income and Wealth, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics etc.
　　As a member of the Working Group on Agricultural Productivity Metrics under the G20 Meeting of Agricultural Chief Scientists, Yu Sheng is responsible to liase the cooperation between ABARES and other international agencies in researches on agricultural productivity. Over the past two years, he had been working with the USDA-ERS, Agriculture and Ag-food Canada and the EU countries to develop the international comparable agricultural total factor productivity. In addition, Yu Sheng is also a member of Farm-level Analysis Expert Group under the direction of the Trade and Agricultural Directorate OECD, and an external consultant of Asian Development Bank (ADB) on regional economic integration and agricultural policies.

内容介绍：
　　We investigate the dynamic impact of climate change on agricultural TFP in Australia through using a vector error correction model to the panel data and allowing for regional heterogeneity and other control variables. Climate change generates a complex impact on agricultural productivity across regions: In the long run, water availability and temperature; In the short run, water availability matters more. Farmers are able to adopt to climate change through optimising the capital-labor ratio and adjusting the output mix.

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