An imperfect competition model for the Japanese rice market is developed to examine the impact of the current supply control policy used in Japan. The model simulates farm revenues with and without the current Acreage Reduction Program (ARP). The results indicate that the current ARP enhances...

A generalized Bertrand-type model is applied to gain insights on Japanese firms' pricing conduct regarding milk beverages made from fresh milk and reconstituted milk. The empirical results, based on weekly scanner data, indicate the original Bertrand model is inappropriate for our empirical...

Three qualitative attribute models were applied to data from a 1997 Japanese consumer survey conducted for milk, domestic cheese, and imported cheese consumption. The three models estimated were neural networks, Quantification Theory Type II and probit models. The neural network model had the...

Whether China's diet will follow western diets or not is an important question in predicting the future world food shortage. To address this question, world dietary patterns were grouped using the principal component analysis. The results show that China's dietary pattern is indeed moving from...

This article examines the relative importance of various consumer attributes on beverage consumption decisions in Japan. A logit model is used to identify significant demographic, socioeconomic, and lifestyle characteristics affecting the consumption of nine beverages. The logit model is applied...

This article identifies consumer characteristics associated with preferences toward milk products. Using Japanese consumer data and Quantification Theory Type III, consumer' milk and other beverage preferences are quantified. The results indicate that men, middle-aged people, and people with no...

This article addresses three issues related to Japanese dairy demand analysis. First, an econometric fluid milk demand model is estimated using store-level daily scanner data to determine whether the own-price elasticities are significantly different from previous estimates based on aggregate...

This study analyzes the impacts of climate change on maize yields using an econometric model that incorporates climate, economic, and technology variables. The major finding is climate change will not universally cause negative impacts of maize yields in the United States and China. The results...

This article examines whether the assumption of perfect competition in the U.S. dairy industry biases the findings of economic impacts of generic dairy advertising. An imperfect competition model based on an approach similar to that of Appelbaum is developed and used to evaluate generic milk...