Chia Yu Yeh

Chia Yu Yeh

Associate Professor

National Chi Nan University

Department of Economics

No.1 University Rd. Puli, Nantou 54561, Taiwan

Phone: 886-49-2910960; Fax: 886-49-2914435

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Education

1. Ph.D. Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, Ohio State University, U.S.A.

2. M.A. Economics, Ohio State University, U.S.A.

3. B.S. Forestry, Resource Management Division, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.

Employment

1. Associate Professor, Department of Economics, National Chi Nan University, Taiwan (2011.6-present)

2. Assistant Professor, Economics, National Chi Nan University, Taiwan (2003.2-2011.6)

Research Interests

Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Health Economics, Recreation, Leisure, and Tourism Economics, Applied Economics

 

Courses Taught

Economics (I), Computer Software in Commerce, Mathematical Economics, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Recreational Economics, etc.

Honors and Awards

Research Award of Ministry of Science and Technology (2014)

Memberships

Member of Taiwan Economics Association (2011~present)

Member of Taiwan Environmental and Resource Economics (2014~present)

 

Academic Services

Ÿ Executive Editor of Journal of Hotel & Business Management (2013~2014)

Ÿ Journal Reviewer of the following journals:

1. Agriculture and Economics (2014)

2. Taiwan Journal of Applied Economics (2014)

3. Taiwanese Agricultural Economic Review (2014a, 2014b)

4. Journal of Economic Surveys (2014)

5. Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research (2014)

6. International Journal of Hospitality Management (2014)

7. The European Journal of Health Economics (2013)

8. Journal of Hospitality Management and Tourism (2013)

9. Ling Tung Journal (2013)

10. Tourism Economics (2012)

11. Chang Gung Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (2012)

12. Journal of Hotel & Business Management (2012)

13. Obesity (2011)

14. Sun Yat-Sen Management Review (2011)

15. Environment and Development Economics (2010)

16. City and Planning (2006)

Publications

1. Yeh, Chia-Yu, L-J. Chen, P-W Ku, C-M Chen*. (2014) Modeling the Vicious Circle between Obesity and Physical Activity in Children and Adolescents by Bivariate Probit Model with Endogenous Regressors, Journal of Biosocial Science.

2. Chen, Chiang-Ming, Chia-Yu Yeh, Ching-Hsing Chang* (2014). “Volunteering and Life Satisfaction: An Investigation of Endogeneity,” Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, 55(1).

3. Wen S. Chern, Tzu-Ching Liao, Chia-Yu Yeh* (2013). “Analyzing the Impacts of Power Transmission Line on Farm Land Value,” Taiwanese Agricultural Economic Review, 18(2): 121-165.

4. Yeh, Chia-Yu, Chiang-Ming Chen*, Jin-Li Hu (2012). Business Diversification in the Hotel Industry: A Comparative-Advantage Analysis, Tourism Economics, 18(5): 941-952.

5. Chen, Chiang-Ming, Chia-Yu Yeh* (2012). The Causality Examination between Demand Uncertainty and Hotel Failure: A Case Study of International Tourist Hotels in Taiwan, International Journal of Hospitality Management, 31: 1045-49.

6. Chia-Yu Yeh, Chiang-Ming Chen (2012). “Uncertain Lodging Demand and Hotel Costs: An Empirical Study of International Tourist Hotels in Taiwan,” Taiwan Journal of Applied Economics, 92: 93-117.

7. Chen, Chiang-Ming, Chia-Yu Yeh*, Jin-Li Hu (2011). The Influence of Uncertain Demand on Product Variety: Evidence from the International Tourist Hotel Industry in Taiwan, Tourism Economics, 17(6): 1275-1285.

8. Chen, Chiang-Ming, Chen-Kang Chang, and Chia-Yu Yeh* (2012). A Quantile Regression Approach to Re-investigate the Relationship between Sleep Duration and Body Mass Index in Taiwan, International Journal of Public Health, 57(3): 485-493.

9. Tan, Hsiu-Fen, Chia-Yu Yeh, Hsueh-Wei Chang, Chen-Kang Chang, and Hung-Fu Tseng* (2009). Private Doctors' Practices, Knowledge, and Attitude to Reporting of Communicable Diseases: a National Survey in Taiwan, BMC Infectious Diseases, 9:11.

10. Yeh, Chia-Yu , Timothy Haab, and Brent Sohngen* (2006). Modeling Multiple-Objective Recreation Trips with Choices over Trip Duration and Alternative Sites, Environmental and Resource Economics, 34(2): 189-209.

 

Conference Papers

1. Yeh, Chia-Yu, and Chen-Kang Chang (July 2-5, 2014). “Investigating the Endogeneous Relationships between Physical Activity and Residential Environment in the Elderly with an Application of Treatment Effect Model,” The 19th Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2. Yeh, Chia-Yu (2013). Assessing the Value Impacts of MRT Stations on Residential House Market in Application of Difference-in-Difference Method, Taiwan Economic Association Annual Meeting, New Taipei, Taiwan.

3. Yeh, Chia-Yu, and Chen-Kang Chang (November 2-4, 2013). “Applying the Multinomial Logit Model on the Relationship between BMI and Physical Activity in Adolescents,” The 6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Exercise and Sport Science, Taipei, Taiwan.

4. Yeh, Chia-Yu (July 4-6, 2013). “Applying Random Effect Model to Allocate Hotel Positioning Strategies of Location, Price and Scale in Cluster Analysis Framework,” Finance and Economics Conference 2013, Frankfurt, Germany.

5. Yeh, Chia-Yu, and Chiang-Ming Chen (June 25-30, 2013). “Investigating the Weather Dependency of Hotel Industry: An Empirical Study of International Tourist Hotels in Taiwan,” The 3rd Advances in Hospitality and Tourism Marketing & Management Conference, Taipei, Taiwan.

6. Yeh, Chia-Yu, Li-Jung Chen, Po-Wen Ku, and Chiang-Ming Chen (June 2012). “Examining the Endogenous Relationship between Physical Activity and Obesity: A Case Study of Children and Adolescents in Taiwan,” International Conference on Socioeconomic Determinants and Consequences of Public Health, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.

7. Yeh, Chia-Yu, Chiang-Ming Chen, and Jin-Li Hu (2011). “Economic Analysis for Travel Agency Services Utilized by the Inbound Tourists to Taiwan,” Taiwan Economic Association Annual Meeting, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

8. Chen, Chiang-Ming and Chia-Yu Yeh (2011), “Volunteering and Life Satisfaction: An Investigation of Endogeneity,” Taiwan Economic Association Annual Meeting, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

9. Yeh, Chia-Yu, Chiang-Ming Chen, and Jin-Li Hu(2010年12月), “Business Diversification in Hotel Industry: A Comparative-Advantage Analysis,” Taiwan Economic Association Annual Meeting, Taipei, Taiwan.

10. Yeh, Chia-Yu, Chiang-Ming Chen, and Hong-Wen Lin (2010). “Pricing Amenity Value in House Market: Applying Hedonic Price Model in Taichung, Taiwan”, The Global Chinese Real Estate Congress, Taipei, Taiwan.

11. Yeh, Chia-Yu, and Jia-Yi Chen (June 2008), “Applying Hedonic Pricing Method to Value Hotel Amenities in Taiwan,” International Conference on Business and Information, Seoul, Korea.

12. Yeh, Chia-Yu, and Hsin-Ying He (July 2007), “Analyzing Economic Impacts of Sport Industry in Taiwan by Input-Output Table,” International Conference on Business and Information, Tokyo, Japan.

13. Yeh, Chia-Yu (May 2006), “Ecotourism and Ecocomunity Management for Sustainable Development of Ecosystem,” Hawaii International Conference on Business, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

 

Research Grants

#

Projects

Grant Source

Period

Position

Grants

Amount

1

Transformation and Governance of Livable Township (2/3)

Ministry of Science and Technology

103/7/1~

104/6/30

Co-Director

6,000,000

2

Transformation and Governance of Livable Township (1/3)

Ministry of Science and Technology

102/7/1~

103/6/30

Data Manager

10,000,000

3

Evaluating the Profitability of Tourism Policies, Recreation Resources, and Transportation Systems to Tourism Hotels in Taiwan: Applications of Difference in Difference Method and Spatial Analysis

Ministry of Science and Technology

102/8/1~

103/7/31

Director

580,000

4

The Optimal Positioning of Location, Price, and Scale in Hotel Industry in Taiwan

National Science Council

101/8/1~

102/7/31

Director

396,000

5

BMI, Physical Activity, and the Residential Environment in Adolescents: Joint Analysis of Health Economic Model and GIS Spatial Method

National Science Council

100/8/1~

101/7/31

Director

449,000

6

Analyzing the Effect of Environmental Factors on Physical Activity in the Elderly Using Geographic Information System

National Science Council

99/8/1~

100/7/31

Director

400,000

7

Input-Output Analysis for Sport Industry: Applying in Water Sport

National Science Council

95/8/1~

96/7/31

Director

372,000

8

Ecotourism and Eco-Community Management for Sustainable Development of Ecosystem

Taiwan Forestry Research Institute

94/1/1~

94/12/31

Director

500,000

9

Applying Hedonic Travel Cost Method on The Dynamic Recreation Demand

National Science Council

93/8/1~

94/7/31

Director

419,200

 

Advised Thesis Topics of Master Students

Year

Student

Topic

1

2004

Chien-Chih

Cheng

Applying the System Dynamic Method to Account the Importance of Forest Resources into Green Net National Product

2

2005

Jia-Yi

Chen

Applying Hedonic Pricing Method to Value Hotel Amenities in Taiwan

3

2005

Hsin-Ying

He

Economic Impact Analysis of Sport Industry in Taiwan

4

2005

Liang-Sen Wang

Valuing Time in Recreational Demand Models

5

2006

Chih-Yu

Chen

Valuing the Variety of Biodiversity

6

2006

Li-Yin

Huang

Sustaining Quality Management in the Ecotourism Community

7

2007

Wei-Ming

Yu

Valuing Amenities in Recreation Lodging Market of Taiwan: An Hedonic Approach

8

2007

Hung-Wen Lin

Pricing Amenity Value in House Market: Applying Hedonic Price Model on Taichung City, Taiwan

9

2008

Jun-Wei

Liu

Assessing Forest Certification Eligibility for CDM Sink Project from the Case of Taiwan Sugar Corporation in Taiwan

10

2008

Kuan-Shen Lin

Hotel Cost Structure, Uncertain Demand, and Occupation Rate

11

2008

Cheng-Yi

Yu

Residents’ Attitude toward Tourism Development: The Case of Taomi Ecological Village in Puli

12

2008

Yuan-Chuang Tseng

Evaluating Economic Impacts of Highway Number 6: An Input-Output Model Application

13

2009

Jung-Yu

Chou

Evaluating Recreational Benefits in the Ecotourism Community of Taomi, Puli

14

2009

Jong-Jie Young

Sport Event Impact Analysis: A Case of the World Game in Kaohsiung, Taiwan

15

2009

Yao-Hua

Jhan

Analyzing the Economic Benefits of the World Games in Kaohsiung -Changes of Recreational Expenditure in Sports

16

2010

Yen-Ling

Su

Assessing the Value Impacts of Taichung MRT Stations on Residential House Market

17

2011

Li-Wun

Peng

Allocating the Optimal Location, Price, and Scale Strategies of Hotel Industry in Taiwan

18

2011

Meng-Hsuan Yang

Investigating the Relationships among Residential Environment, Physical Activity and Health of Elders in Taichung, Taiwan

19

2011

Chih-Chi Wang

Investigating the Relationships among BMI, Physical Activity and Medical Care of Elders in Taichung, Taiwan

20

2012

Hi-Ching

Lin

Investigating the Relationships among Residential Environment, Exercise Habit and Physical Activity of Junior High School Students in Taichung, Taiwan

21

2012

Chia-Chi Chang

Applying the Multinomial Logit Model on Analyzing the Relationship between BMI and Physical Activity in Adolescents

22

2013

Ting-Zhong Zhou

The Cost-Benefit Analysis of Land Use in Puli Area: Applying GIS to Allocate the Optimal Land Transformation from Agriculture to Leisure Farm

23

2013

Han-Zhong Yen

The Cost-Benefit Analysis of Land Use in Puli Area: Applying GIS to Allocate the Optimal Land Transformation from Agriculture to Ecological Conservation

24

2013

Chia-Jui

Hsu

Evaluating the Inbound Visitor Effect of Tourism Policies in Taiwan by Difference in Difference Method