5 results for “Shoichi Ito”

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the author namesStudy on the Relationship between International and Domestic Grain Prices in Developing Countries—An Application of Markov-Switching Autoregressive Model—Shuqin Yan, Kolawole Ogundari, Hiroshi Isoda, Shoichi ItoThis study aims at estimating the influence of international grain prices on the domestic grain prices in 24 developing countries using a nonlinear model, Markov-Switching Autoregressive model. The results indicate that international grain prices have a positive influence on domestic grain prices before and during/after the grain price-hikes, while the degree of influence may vary depending upon grains and countries. … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 8, Issue 2 · 31 Jul 2016 · 7,796 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the author namesPrice Volatility of Grains: Relationship with Crude Oil Price Using CCC-Multivariate GARCH ModelAreerat Todsadee, Hiroshi Kameyama, Shoichi ItoAgricultural commodities prices have increased and become significantly more volatile during the past few years periods. The high agricultural commodity prices in recent years have raised the question of whether or not volatility is increasing and leading to more frequent extreme price swings. It is very important to quantify price variability of agricultural products. This paper measures the volatility of … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 6, Issue 4 · 2 Jan 2015 · 6,640 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the author namesAnalysis on Characteristics of Corn Farmers on Selecting Seeds Under the Seed Subsidy in China: A Case Study in Liaoning and Hebei Provinces, ChinaNing-Ning Sun, Shoichi Ito, Qianhui Gao et al.The Seed Subsidy (SS) is the direct subsidy to encourage farmers cultivate with high quality seeds, which was introduced to nationwide farmers by Chinese government since 2004. China is the second biggest corn producer in the world and the government has provided SS for the corn producers since 2004. As the government allocated an increasing amount of budgets on SS … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 4, Issue 2 · 22 May 2013 · 7,166 accessesView PDF Cite

Research ArticleOpen accessIn the author namesTrans Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership With Japan, South Korea and China Integrate: General Equilibrium ApproachTodsadee Areerat, Hiroshi Kameyama, Shoichi Ito, Koh-en YamauchiProblem statement: The Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership Agreement (TPP) is a high standard and broad based Free Trade Agreement that aims to integrate the economies of the Asia-Pacific region. Recently, the US is pressing Japan to join the group. Japan is considering joining the TPP because of the dual considerations of its own economy and the political situation in East … …American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Vol. 4, Issue 1 · 17 Jan 2012 · 9,883 accessesView PDF Cite