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Comparing Recreational Benefit Estimated from Contingent Valuation and Travel CostTakashi Fujimoto1995 Volume 31 Issue 3 Pages 93-102
Published: June 25, 1995
Released on J-STAGE: September 05, 2011
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) and travel cost method (TCM) are available to estimate environmental benefits. The primary purpose of this study is to assess the validity of the hypothetical value estimated by CVM compared to actual behavior-based TCM analysis.
Special attention is given to measurement problems concerned with question formats in the CVM.
The first issue is to evaluate payment vehicles relating to quantity response format and price response. A second issue is to evaluate elicitation methods relating to open ended format, check list and dichotomous choice.
The conclusions emerged from this study: (1) The quantity response CVM value is slightly larger than price response, and approximates to the TCM value, (2) The dichotomous choice CVM value is obviously larger than open ended and check list, and approximates to the TCM value.View full abstractDownload PDF (1496K) -
Bai Hu1995 Volume 31 Issue 3 Pages 103-111
Published: June 25, 1995
Released on J-STAGE: September 05, 2011
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThis study assesses total factor productivity (TFP) growth in Japanese agriculture, and examines the determinants of productivity change. The following results are found: 1) the overall 30-year period can be divided into 3 sub-periods, characterized by a rapid TFP growth in 1960-75, a drastic decrease in 1975-80, and a slow recovery since 1980. 2) TFP in smaller-size farm classes grew faster than that in larger-size ones during most of the period.
It is caused mainly by the rapid decrease in working hours in agriculture due to the faster outflow of agricultural labor and a significant increase of part-time farmers in smaller-size ones. 3) The changes of TFP in Japanese agriculture has been greatly influenced by agricultural terms-of-trade, the performance of agricultural cooperatives, the growth of the public expenditure on agriculture, the Paddy-Field Acreage Control Program since 1970, as well as technological changes.View full abstractDownload PDF (1575K) -
Keiko Fuyuki1995 Volume 31 Issue 3 Pages 112-120
Published: June 25, 1995
Released on J-STAGE: September 05, 2011
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThis paper discusses the functional properties of central wholesale markets in provincial areas, and the cause and the mechanism of those properties are examined. The wholesale price of the tomatoes at Nara Prefectual Central Wholesale Market produced in Nara Prefecture was studied with both the counter-part price at Osaka City Central Wholesale Market, the prices at which market strongly affect the other wholesale markets in Western Japan, and those at wholesale markets in Osaka Prefecture as basis for comparative analyses.
Nara Prefectual Central Wholesale Market is different from other wholesale markets in that local tomatoes were transacted in smaller units with a distinctively higher price than those at other wholesale markets in this study. There is demand only for smaller lots at Nara even though the wholesale unit-price of the item should little differ. This naturally results in a higher wholesale price of one case.View full abstractDownload PDF (1452K) -
Hironori Ikegami1995 Volume 31 Issue 3 Pages 121-129
Published: June 25, 1995
Released on J-STAGE: September 05, 2011
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