Dr Zhaoyang Liu (Leo) PhD (Cantab) MPhil (Cantab) MSc (Beijing Normal) BSc (Beijing Normal)

Assistant Professor in Applied Economics at the Department of Land Economy. Areas of his research interest include impact evaluation of environmental policies and valuation of ecosystem services in both rural and urban contexts, using applied economic methodologies such as micro-econometrics and economic experiments. He was Lecturer in Environmental and Health Economics at the University of Glasgow before joining Cambridge.

Paper 1B: Macroeconomics (texts: Blanchard, Mankiw)

Paper 16: Land, Food and Ecosystem Services (economics and policies of rural land use)

Key publications: 

Liu, Z., Banerjee, S., Cason, T., Hanley, N., Liu, Q., Xu, J. & Kontoleon, A. (2024). Spatially coordinated conservation auctions: A framed field experiment focusing on farmland wildlife conservation in China. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. http://doi.org/10.1111/ajae.12447

Liu, Z. & Huang, H. (2022). Valuing water purification by forests: A production function approach using panel data from China's Sichuan province. Environment and Development Economics, 27(6), 491–510.

Liu, Z., Hanley, N & Campbell, D. (2020). Linking urban air pollution with residents' willingness to pay for greenspace: A choice experiment study in Beijing. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 104, 102383.

Liu, Z., Xu, J., Yang, X., Tu, Q., Hanley, N. & Kontoleon, A. (2019). Performance of agglomeration bonuses in conservation auctions: Lessons from a framed field experiment. Environmental and Resource Economics, 73(3), 843–869.

Liu, Z. & Kontoleon, A. (2018). Meta-analysis of livelihood impacts of payments for environmental services programmes in developing countries. Ecological Economics, 149, 48–61.

Liu, Z., Gong, Y. & Kontoleon, A. (2018). How do payments for environmental services affect land tenure? Theory and evidence from china. Ecological Economics, 144, 195–213.

Environmental Economics

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