Research Title: Sensory Evaluation and Consumers’ Perception of Functional Pork Sausages_A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Xinyi Hong is an early-career scholar, who has research interests and expertise in the areas of agricultural economics, food science and econometrics. Her Ph.D. research topics focused on combining sensory tests with a conjoint experiment to investigate consumer preferences for functional meat. Besides the strong innovative element and cross-disciplinary perspective, her studies also included a cross-cultural comparison to explore the similarities and differences of Chinese and Irish consumer groups. Her work has been presented at several conferences, including
Universitas 21 Health Sciences Group Virtual Annual Meeting, 25-28 August 2020
Agricultural & Applied Economics Association 's China Section Virtual Meeting, 10-14 August 2020
Chinese Economic Association (11th Europe and 30th UK) Annual Conference, Stockholm, 1-3 September 2019
Research Title: Spatial Price Transmission and Strategic Trade Patterns for Global Dairy Trade
Huidan Xue
Registered period: 2015-2020
Current Status: PhD Degree Conferred
Research Title: Spatial Price Transmission and Strategic Trade Patterns for Global Dairy Trade
Introduction: This research provides a comprehensive global framework and analysis of price dynamics and market mechanisms for major dairy export countries (regions) under different global market shocks. It sheds light on the spatial price transmission of dairy export prices and deciphers interactions of export prices with various influencing factors in international trade at national, regional and global levels. It addresses price leadership in a dairy major import country, market integration, as well as impacts of market shocks and the economic policy uncertainties on the export price dynamics and trade patterns for the global dairy sector. It also connects the research on dairy international trade to domestic dairy market and economic conditions, energy market and market the other commodities, thus highlighting the market mechanism and strategic trade patterns of the dairy sector in the contexts of dynamic economic and policy scenarios at global scope.
Research Title: Estimation on Degree of Market power in Irish Beef Sector.
Rao Fu
Introduction: The Irish beef sector is Ireland’s largest agricultural sector. But poor economic viability of beef farmers is often attributed to asymmetries of power within the beef supply chain, which has been described as favoring processors and retailers. My research focuses on the degree of market power by applying empirical estimation and structural econometrics to specify the conjectural elasticity then testify whether the processors and retailers exercise market power on farmers. My results show that processors have statistically significant market power on farmers. As there is limited study concerned about market power in the Irish beef sector, my research extends this area and contributes to the existing literature.
Research Title: Consumers’ Behavior towards Functional Dairy Products
Si Wu
Introduction: Functional dairy products range from traditional fermented yogurt to today's popular nutritional formula and probiotic products. They not only have the functions of basic nutrition, but also must have one or more nutrition that have been proven to improve the function of the human body health or reduce the risk. My work is to understand older consumers' perceptions and preference for different dairy products as functional carrier, as well as older consumers' willingness to pay for different functional dairy products. Besides, making comparation of older consumers' behavior for functional dairy products in China and Ireland.
Research Title: The Financial Contagion between China and Its Key Trading Partners in the Context of the US-China Trade War
Yujie Shi
Introduction: The US-China trade war was officially triggered in 2018, placing substantial pressures on international trades and investments. There are different definitions of financial contagion from broad ones to restrictive ones. Kuusk, Paas and Viikmaa (2011) summarized three main definitions that were stated on the World Bank Group’s website: Definition 1 (Fundamentals-based contagion). Contagion is the cross-country transmission of shocks or the general cross-country spillover effects which have been emphasized during the crisis times. Definition 2 (Excess co-movement). Contagion is the transmission of shocks to other countries or the cross-country correlation, beyond any fundamental link among the countries and beyond common shocks. Definition 3 (Shift-contagion). Contagion occurs when cross-country correlations increase during "crisis times" relative to correlations during "tranquil times". We attempts to detect spillover effects between Chinese and international stock markets and examine the potential determinants and channels behind the spillovers to see whether the US-China trade war have affected the contagion between markets.
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