Jinhua Zhao

Biography

Jinhua Zhao is a professor and the David J. Nolan Dean at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. Before joining Dyson, he was a professor of economics and director of the Environmental Science and Policy Program at Michigan State University.

Zhao was a co-editor of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and served on the editorial councils of JEEM and the Review of Development Economics, and is on the editorial committees of Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, Annual Review of Resource Economics and Frontier of Economics in China. He served on the Environmental Economics Advisory Committee of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Science Advisory Board as well as the Air, Climate and Energy Committee of EPA's Board of Scientific Counselors.

Zhao conducts research in the broad area of environmental and resource economics, with special interests in global climate change, renewable energies, water, technology adoption, dynamic decision making under uncertainty, and applied microeconomics in general. He also has research interests in China's environment, including government regulation and individual behavior, environmental valuation and payment for ecosystem services. His publications have appeared in, among others, the Economic Journal, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Public Economics, JEEM and American Journal of Agricultural Economics. His research projects have been funded by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and EPA.

Selected Publications

• Qui, Yun; Zhao, Jinhua. "Adaptation and the distributional effects of heat: Evidence from professional archery competitions"Southern Economic Journal. 88.3 (2022): 1149-1177
• Zhao, Jinhua. "Aggregate Emission Intensity Targets: Applications to the Paris Agreement"Economic Inquiry. 60.4 (2022): 1875-1897
• Lee, Sangjun; Zhao, Jinhua. "Adaptation to Climate Change: Extreme Events versus Gradual Changes"Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. 133 (2021): 104262
• Karplus, Valerie; Zhang, Junjie; Zhao, Jinhua. "Navigating and Evaluating the Labyrinth of Environmental Regulation in China"Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. 15.2 (2021)
• Wang, Min; Zhao, Jinhua. "Are renewable energy policies climate friendly? The role of capacity constraints and market power"Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 90 (2018): 41-60
• Li, Haoyang; Zhao, Jinhua. "Rebound Effects of New Irrigation Technologies: The Role of Water Rights"American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 100.3 (2018): 786-808
• Wang, Min; Zhao, Jinhua; Bhattacharya, Joydeep. "Optimal Health and Environmental Policies in a Pollution-Growth Nexus"Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 71 (2015): 160-179
• Song; Zhao, Jinhua; Swinton. "Switching to Perennial Energy Crops Under Uncertainty and Costly Reversibility"American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 93.3 (2011): 768-783
• Zhao, Jinhua; Kling, Catherine. "Welfare Measures when Agents can Learn: A Unifying Theory"Economic Journal. 119.540 (2009): 1560-1585
• Bose, Subir; Zhao, Jinhua. "Optimal use of correlated information in mechanism design when full surplus extraction may be impossible"Journal of Economic Theory. 135.1 (2007): 357-381

Awards and Honors

• Winner (2008) Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements Research Paper Competition
• Outstanding Journal Article Award (2007) Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics

Academic Degrees

• PhD University of California at Berkeley, 1997
• MS University of Guelph, 1992
• BEng University of Science and Technology, 1987