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Toshinobu Matsuda2000 Volume 36 Issue 2 Pages 53-62
Published: September 25, 2000
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JOURNAL FREE ACCESSIn this paper an inverse demand system is estimated and tested in comparison with a regular demand system. The regular system assumes that supplies are perfectly elastic and that demands adjust to clear the market, while the inverse system assumes that quantities are predetermined (or supplies are perfectly inelastic) and that prices adjust. Therefore the inverse system may be useful when analyzing the demand for perishable products such as fresh vegetables. The data set, based on Japanese household survey, consists of monthly per capita data from January 1980 through December 1995 for twelve principal items of fresh vegetables—cabbage, spinach, Chinese cabbage, Welsh onions, lettuce, radishes, carrots, onions, cucumbers, eggplants, tomatoes, and green peppers. The empirical results indicate that the inverse system dominates the regular system both in goodness of fit in the estimation sample period and in out-of-sample forecasting performance, and that prices are endogenous in the regular system while quantities can be regarded as exogenous in the inverse system. The estimates of inverse system suggests that prices are less responsive to change in consumption than found in the regular system.View full abstractDownload PDF (1282K) -
A Case Study of Qinghe Village, Yunnan Province in ChinaShiguo Cheng, Kotaro Ohara2000 Volume 36 Issue 2 Pages 63-75
Published: September 25, 2000
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JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe Qinghe village in the Yunnan Province of China is one of the food supply bases for that province. The results of a survey in Qinghe designed to document the characteristics of family farming in that village reveal that improving land productivity, raising fish in paddy fields, increasing the number of piglets, and expanding planting acreage of tobacco are the goals of these farmers. Because of the permeation of economic rationalism to farm households, primary family laborers and working capital were easily transferred from rice production to cash crop production, from the agricultural sector to non-agricultural sectors which will generate higher income. As a result, food grain production, i. e. rice production, was ignored to some extent.
The village and the agricultural cooperation office provided farmers services such as recommended varieties and farming methods and paying for the transplanting rice and harvest by farming-work contractors during the busy season. The results of the questionnaire indicate that while 95% of the farmers didn't want to expand their farmland and 87.5% of them disapproved of developing livestock farming, they all were satisfied with the prevalence of agricultural technology. Furthermore, the farmers want free marketing of rice by the abolishment of the current dualtrack system and the continued use of manure.
The results of the research also revealed that the environmental pollution became severe in the surveyed area and the reform of food grain circulation system departed from the farmers' real needs.View full abstractDownload PDF (1795K) -
Hiroto Tanaka2000 Volume 36 Issue 2 Pages 76-83
Published: September 25, 2000
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JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe aim of this paper is to analyze the factors of decision to stay in rural areas. The standard logit model has been often used for an analysis of rural recreation behavior. But I can not use this model, if the errors exhibit heteroscedasticity. Thus, I use the random parameter logit (RPL) model, which can be coped with heteroscedasticity.
To confirm whether the errors exhibit heteroscedasticity, I compare the RPL model with the logit model by likelihood ratio test. The result is that the RPL model is superior to logit model. Then, I hypothesize that the estimated parameter of the travel cost including staying cost is random. When the staying cost in Miyama Town is discounted by half, the probability of choice of staying rises to 9.1% and the social surplus is 0.10 billion yen.View full abstractDownload PDF (1243K) -
Kotaro Ohara2000 Volume 36 Issue 2 Pages 84-85
Published: September 25, 2000
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Akihiro Katsura2000 Volume 36 Issue 2 Pages 86-88
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Masao Koike2000 Volume 36 Issue 2 Pages 89-91
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Bai Hu2000 Volume 36 Issue 2 Pages 92-94
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Eiji Honjo2000 Volume 36 Issue 2 Pages 95-96
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Takuji Hashimoto2000 Volume 36 Issue 2 Pages 96-98
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Hajime Kobayashi2000 Volume 36 Issue 2 Pages 98-100
Published: September 25, 2000
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