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Title
Professor and Chair
Name
LiHsien Hank Chien ( 簡立賢 )
Classification
Full-time
Academic Background
Ph.D. (Agricultural Economics), Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, U.S.A.
Specialty
Agricultural Marketing, Agribusiness Decision and Management, Industrial Economics, Risk Economics
E-Mail
lhchien@nchu.edu.tw
Tel
886-4-22840350 ext 206、207, 886-4-22851541
Personal Website
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2104-3988
 
 
Present Academic Positions ：
Professor and Chair, Department of Applied Economics, NCHU
Executive Director, Chung-Hwa Association of Rural Development (CARD)
Committee of the Executive Board, Rural Economics Society of Taiwan (REST)
Committee of the Executive Board, Taiwanese-German Association for Economic and Social Research 

(Updated: February 1, 2024)
 
Course ：
Undergraduate
  • Sustainable Agriculture(fall and spring)
  • Introduction to Agriculture(spring)
  • Macroeconomics (full year)
  • Project Study and Planning (fall)
  • Agricultural Policy and Law (fall)
  • Industrial Economics(spring)
  • Agricultural Marketing and Price Analysis(spring)
  • Methods for Economic Forecasting(fall)
Master program(IMP: In-service Master Program, MABM: IMP for Agri. Business Mgmt)
  • Economics of Risk (fall)
  • Business Operation and Decision Analysis (Fall, IMP)
  • Macroeconomics (spring, IMP)
  • Information Economics (spring, IMP)
  • Agricultural Marketing and Price Analysis (spring, MABM)
  • Application of Blockchain in Agricultural Business (spring, MABM)
  • Artificial Intelligence and Agribusiness Strategy (spring, MABM)
Doctoral Program
  • Economics Analysis of Technical Change
 
Previous Academic Positions：
  • Professor and Chair, Department of Applied Economics, National Chung Hsing University, 2024-present
  • Executive Committee of Executive Board, Rural Economics Society of Taiwan (REST), 2018-2020.
  • Committee of Executive Board, Rural Economics Society of Taiwan (REST), 2009- present
  • Member of Executive Board, Executive Board of Supervisors, Association of Taiwan Tea, 2015-2018
  • Visiting Scholar, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Tokyo, Japan, 2010.8-2011.3.
  • Committee of Executive Board, Taiwanese-German Association for Economic and Social Research, 2011.1- 2017.12
  • Deputy Dean, Office of International Affairs, National Chung Hsing University, 2015.08- 2017.07.
 
Honors and Awards：
Honored Mentor Award, NCHU (2018.09)
Honored Mentor Award, CANR, NCHU(2016, 2018)
Excellent Service Award, NCHU (2012.08)
Excellent Service Award, CANR, NCHU (2006)
 
Research Areas：
  • Marketing System and Pricing Policy Analysis on Agricultural Products
  • Measurement of Economic Decision Indexes and its Applications
  • International Agricultural Policy
  • Economics in Risk and Technical Change
  • Performance Analysis and Evaluation of Industrial Business Operation
 
Ph.D. Thesis：
Testing the Causes of Backwardation of Stochastic Prices in Grain Markets: A Real Option Valuation Approach, 1999, at the Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, U.S. A.
 
Journal Publications：
  1. Chi, S. Y., Chang, C. C., & Chien, L. H. 2025. Global Tangerine Trade Market: Revealed Competitiveness and Market Powers. Economies, 13(7), 203. (Scopus, Q2, IF=2.3)   https://doi.org/10.3390/economies13070203
  2. 黃景建(Ching-Chien Huang)；陳韻如(Yun-Ju Chen)；簡立賢(Li-Hsien Chien). 2023. Contract Decision-Making Model for Environmentally Friendly Rice Farming: A Case of Wufeng District, Taichung.  Taiwanese Agricultural Economic Review, 29(1), 119-154.
  3. Chi, S. Y., & Chien, L. H. 2023. Why Defuzzification Matters: An Empirical Study of Fresh Fruit Supply Chain Management. European Journal of Operational Research, 311(2): 648-659. （SCIE, Q1, IF＝6.4）
  4. ​Chi, S. Y., Hwang, T. C., & Chien, L. H. 2023. Business Policy and Competitiveness of Farmers’ Organizations—Empirical Evidence from Taiwan. Agriculture-Basel, 13(3): 593. (SCIE, Q1, IF=3.6)
  5. Chi, S. Y., & Chien, L.-H. 2022. Influence of Ecological and Quality Concerns on the Adoption Intention of Environment-smart Agricultural Systems. Applied Ecology and Environmental Research, 20(1): 363-381. (SCIE, Q4, IF=0.7)(Scopus)
  6. Li-Hsien Chien Shu Yi Chi, 2022, Implementation of Rural Regeneration Plan and Intention to Cooperate with Local Organizations,  Journal of Agricultural Association of Taiwan, 22(1): 46-66。
  7. LiHsien Hank Chien, Shu Yi Chi, Pei-Hsin Lo and Kuei-Fang Pai, 2021, Integrated Technology Development of Litchi Stinkbug (Tessaratoma papillosa) Control from the Biological Control Viewpoint,  Journal of Agriculture and Forestry, 68(2): 71-84.
  8. Huang, Ching Chien, Shu-Yi Chi, LiHsien Chien, 2021, An Analysis of the Intention of Farmers' Participation in Organizing Contracts - A Case of Yihchuan Aromatic Rice Farming Contract of Farmers' Association in Wufeng District, Journal of Agriculture and Forestry, 67(3):195-205.
  9. Chien, LiHsien, Shu-Yi Chi, Chin-Nien Tai, Cheng-Chung Huang, 2020, Evaluation and Analysis of Hedonic and Descriptive Sensory Measurements - An Application in Taiwan Alpine Tea, Survey Research — Method and Application (TSSCI). 44:131-170. https://journal.survey.sinica.edu.tw/app/paper.php?action=show_content&Sn=314
  10. Chien, LiHsien, Shu-Yi Chi, 2019, An Integrated Data Envelopment Approach for Evaluating the Meat Companies Efficiency, Agricultural Economics (Zemědělská ekonomika) Czech, 65:470-480. (SCIE,Q2, IF=2.2),    https://www.agriculturejournals.cz/web/agricecon.htm?type=article&id=91_2019-AGRICECON
  11. Chi, Shu-Yi, LiHsien Chien, 2019, A New Approach into the Classification Index of Fundamental Farmers' Associations- An Example of Taichung City, Quarterly Journal of Cooperative Economics, 140, 41-53. (in Chinese)  http://journal.survey.sinica.edu.tw/news/news.php?Sn=56
  12. Chien, LiHsien, Shu-Yi Chi, 2019, Corporate Image as a Mediator between Service Quality and Customer Satisfaction: Difference across Categorized Exhibitors, Heliyon, 5(3), E01307. (SCIE, Q2, IF=4).https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e01307 
  13. Chien, Li-Hsien, Shu-Yi Chi, 2019, The influence of corporate image and service quality on exhibitor satisfaction and behavior intention, Survey Research — Method and Application, 43, 089-134. (TSSCI)   https://www.rchss.sinica.edu.tw/SRMA/app/paper.php?action=show_content&Sn=309
  14. Tsai, Chien-Chung, LiHsien Chien, 2017, A Study on Business Efficiency for Meat Markets Taiwan, Journal of Agricultural Association of Taiwan, 18(2), 189-212. (in Chinese).  http://dx.doi.org/10.6730%2fJAAT.201706_18(2).0006
  15. Nguyen Chi, Thi Minh, Li-Hsien Chien, Shwu-En Chen, 2015, Impact of Certification System on Smallhold Coffee Farm’s Income Distribution in Vietnam, Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development, 5(6), pp. 137-149. http://www.aessweb.com/pdf-files/1-566-5(6)2015-AJARD-137-149.pdf 
  16. Chen, Han-Shen, Li-Hsien Chien, Tsuifang Hsieh, 2013, A Study of Assessment Indicators for Environmental Sustainable Development of Science Parks in Taiwan, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 185 (8), pp 7001–7012. (SCIE, Q3, IF=3) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-013-3080-z
  17. Aprilia, Anisa, Ratya Anindita, Syafrial, Grace Tsai, Li-Hsien Hank Chien, 2012, Threshold Cointegration Pada Pasar Jagung Di Indonesia, Agrise, 14(1), pp 1-13.   https://agrise.ub.ac.id/index.php/agrise/article/view/112/138
  18. Wang, B.Y., Li-Hsien Chien, and S.W. Roan, 2012, POMA-BROILER: A Computer Simulation Model to Evaluate the Optimal Market Age of Broilers, Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances, 11(14), pp. 2493-2502. (SCIE, Q4, IF= 0.365).   http://docsdrive.com/pdfs/medwelljournals/javaa/2012/2493-2502.pdf
  19. Chien, Li-Hsien, C. Jatuporn, and O.M.C. Narreto, 2011, Price Analysis of Domestic Rice Market in the Philippines, Empirical Economics Letters, 10(7). pp.639-46. (EconLit). https://myspace.nchu.edu.tw/navigate/s/7C22CB385FB343E7BB8E219444DD3B719QY
  20. Jatuporn, C., Li-Hsien Chien, Patana Sukprasert, and  Supaporn Thaipakdee, 2011, Does A Long-Run Relationship Exist between Agriculture and Economic Development in Thailand? International Journal of Economics and Finance, 3(3), pp.227-33. http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ijef/article/view/7875
  21. Chien, Li-Hsien, S-H Chang, 2009，A Study on Rice Quota Auction in Taiwan, Journal of Agriculture and Forest (農林學報), 58(3), pp.，241-254. http://ir.lib.nchu.edu.tw/bitstream/11455/80896/1/151261-6.pdf
  22. Chien, Li-Hsien, J.-Y. Wei, 2009, An Economic Analysis on Sharing Behavior in Peer-to-peer Software Usage, Proceedings of the 2009 WRI World Congress on Computer Science and Information Engineering, Los Angeles, USA. (EI)
  23. Chien, Li-Hsien, M.-H. Yeh, 2009, Information, Risk Perception and Disease Insurance Decision, International Journal of Economic Policy Studies, 4(11), Tokyo, Japan. ISSN 1881- 4387.   http://web.nchu.edu.tw/pweb/users/aeboilermaker/research/8274.pdf
  24. Chien, Li-Hsien, 2001，A Study on the Estimation of Price Risk fro Grain Commodities: An Application of Flexible Least Squares Method. Journal of Agricultural Marketing, 6, PP263-277.   http://ir.lib.nchu.edu.tw/bitstream/11455/79519/1/150983-5.pdf
  25. Chien, Li-Hsien, 2000，Uncertainty and Its Effects on Price: Time Spread in Grain Markets.  Taiwanese Agricultural Economic Review(農業經濟叢刊), 5(2), pp.191-222. http://dx.doi.org/10.6196/TAER.2000.5.2.3
  26. Chien, Li-Hsien, 2000，An Economic Analysis on Boiler Feed Formulation- The Impact of Nutrient Correlation upon Feed Costs. Journal of Agricultural Economics(農業經濟半年刊), 68，PP.91-116.   http://dx.doi.org/10.7086/JAE.200012.0091
  27. Lee, Chyau-shan, C.K. Hsaio, B.H. Ling, Li-Hsien Chien，2000，The Impact of Agricultural Trade Liberalization on China's Rural Self-reliance Development and the Position of Foreign Negotiations ，Taiwan Land Finance Quarterly (台灣土地金融季刊)，37(2)，pp.101-124.
 
Working Papers：
Measurements and Their Indexes in Efficiency Evaluation for Agribusiness Organization. 
 
Participation in Government Projects：
  • Development of Export Diagnosis Systems for Problem Soils in Tea Plantations (2/3)- (5)Analysis on Economic and Social Benefits, 2019, funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan. (co-researcher)
  • Management Performance and Social Enterprise Responsibility of Agricultural Association: Improve the Implementation Plan of Rural Regeneration Development, July 1, 2019 - Dec. 31, 2019, National Chung Hsing University, funded by Council of Agriculture, Taiwan. 
  • 2019 International Symposium on Rural Community and Agricultural Products Sales Bases, Jan. 1, 2019 - Dec. 31, 2019, Rural Economics Society of Taiwan, funded by Council of Agriculture, Taiwan.
  • Development of Export Diagnosis Systems for Problem Soils in Tea Plantations (1/3)- (5)Analysis on Economic and Social Benefits, 2018, funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan. (co-researcher)
 
Particular Portfolio Work：
  • Mentor, 2018 class of Department of Applied Economics, NCHU.
  • Editor, Journal of Taiwan Agricultural Research, 
  • Executive Editor, Semi-Annual Journal of Agricultural Economics(retitled as Taiwan Journal of Applied Economics since 2008), Department of Applied Economics, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan.  
 
Other：
  1. Leading Coordinator, The e-Learning Course on International Trade in Agricultural and Food Products, Asia Productivity Organization, E-meeting, 10/4-6 2011, Taipei, Taiwan.
  2. Visiting Scholar, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Tokyo, 8/1, 2010-3/31,2011, Tokyo, Japan, 
  3. Country Representative, Agricultural Products Export Promotion Multi-Country Observation Study Group,  Workshop, Asia Productivity Organization, 3/1-6, 2010, Tokyo, Japan.
  4. Country Representation, Multi-country observation and study mission to export processed agricultural products to non-member countries, Workshop, 10/8-12, 2009, Germany.
  5. Leading Coordinator, Agricultural products marketing to global emerging market video courses, E-meeting, 6/2-4, 2009, Taipei, Taiwan.
 
 
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