Chyi-Lyi Liang

Linkages Between Community-Focused Agriculture, Farm Sales, and Regional Growth

Community-focused agriculture has been heralded as a development strategy to induce local economic growth. This study examines county-level linkages between community-focused agriculture and growth in total agricultural sales and economic growth more broadly. Using Census of Agriculture data, regional growth models are estimated on real personal income per capita change between 2002 and 2007. We find no association between community-focused agriculture and growth in total agricultural sales at the national level, but do in some regions of the United States. A

Impact of Market-Oriented Policies on China's International Tourism and Regional Economic Development

1 increase in farm sales led to an annualized increase of

SPATIAL AND VARIETAL PRICE ANALYSIS OF DRY EDIBLE BEAN MARKETS

0.04 in county personal income. With few exceptions, community-focused agriculture did not make significant contributions to economic growth in the time period analyzed.

Exploring the Myths of Optimism and Realism in Entrepreneurship Related to Expectations and Outcomes

Abstract Chinas international tourism industry has expanded rapidly since its market-oriented economic reform started in 1978. This paper examines the national trends of Chinas international tourism since 1982, and analyzes its impacts on regional disparities as well as economic development since 1995. While the trend analysis suggests that Chinas international tourism is likely to keep growing at a significant rate, the analysis of the regional disparities based on Gini coefficient indicates that the regional inequality in the number of international tourists and income has been going down since 1995. Findings from this study suggest that Chinas new marketing strategies have stimulated the growth in international tourism, and the international tourism has made an increasing contribution to its economic growth and business development at the regional level.

Are Entrepreneurs Optimistic, Realistic, Both or Fuzzy? Relationship between Entrepreneurial Traits and Entrepreneurial Learning

Dry bean prices, as received by the grower and the dealer, were analyzed for four different production regions, and for two of the major varieties grown in the US. The dry bean price series were not stationary. Prices for each variety were cointegrated across the production regions and between grower and dealer markets. However causality tests failed to show the dominant regional variety as the price leader. Further, prices of the two varieties were not cointegrated, which indicated that growers would benefit from growing more than one variety at the same time.