Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2025, 71(3):160-172 | DOI: 10.17221/9/2024-AGRICECON

The overall spatial spillover effects of local agricultural policy: A study on China's corn stockpiling policy based on Adaptive Expectation Theory and Spatial Durbin ModelOriginal Paper

Yue Liu ORCID...1, Haoran Yang ORCID...2
1 School of Economics and Finance, Chonqing University of Technology, Chongqing, P.R. China
2 School of Economics, Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Chongqing, P.R. China

In 2007, the Chinese government introduced a temporary corn storage policy targeting four regions: Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning and Inner Mongolia. This policy aimed at stabilising grain markets and ensured farmers' income by providing price support for corn. Its implementation significantly impacted corn prices and the regional distribution of corn cultivation, offering a valuable case for analysing the economic outcomes of China's agricultural policies. This study adopts the adaptive expectations hypothesis to explore the policy's effects, focusing on its influence on farmers' price expectations (mean) and price volatility (variance). Using a Spatial Durbin Model (SDM), we empirically investigate the policy's dynamic regional impacts on corn planting areas. The results show that the temporary corn storage policy significantly increased corn planting areas in the targeted regions, while simultaneously reducing planting areas in non-targeted regions due to negative spatial spillover effects. At the national level, the policy had no statistically significant impact on total corn planting areas, indicating that abolishing the policy alone is unlikely to rationalise or optimise the agricultural planting structure.

Keywords: agricultural price; corn acreage; spatial econometrics; support policy

Received: January 12, 2024; Revised: February 5, 2025; Accepted: February 7, 2025; Prepublished online: March 21, 2025; Published: March 27, 2025  Show citation

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Liu Y, Yang H. The overall spatial spillover effects of local agricultural policy: A study on China's corn stockpiling policy based on Adaptive Expectation Theory and Spatial Durbin Model. Agric. Econ. - Czech. 2025;71(3):160-172. doi: 10.17221/9/2024-AGRICECON.
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