The principal part of what I have studied was done in Japan. Since April 2000 I'm studying at Tottori University thanks to the Minister of Education of Japan (Monbusho Scholarship). My advisors, Prof. Shoichi Ito and Kouzo Kazahara are helping me with my research, difficult task, but so far we managed to move on. I will stay in Japan until March 2004, one more winter and I'm done!.

If you want to have an idea of what I was doing before this new phase of my life started, you better check my Curriculum Vitae (English: MS Word - PDF, Spanish: MS Word - PDF)). You can also complement that idea with some photos, I tried to post some form every part of my life, I don't have photos when I was a baby though. Bolivia, Zamorano, Chile and so on.

The second part of what I have studies is the result of field work in Bolivia and Africa. A couple of papers, that's all.

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My doctoral research was concentrated in agricultural trade, focussed in South American countries. I analyzed agricultural trade (exports and imports), policy tools (basically the exchange rate and the money supply) and their relation with food supply. My doctoral dissertation is based on these papers, comments are welcome:

1. "Effects of the exchange rate on the agricultural supply in a model with non-tradables" . Juan de Dios Mattos, Shoichi Ito and Koichi Usami. Japanese Journal of Farm Management. Vol. 41 (1): 122-125. June, 2003. (Short version)

Abstract in Japanese (Word - PDF))

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2. "Macroeconomic policies and the food supply: Exchange rate effects in a model with non-tradables". Juan de Dios Mattos, Shoichi Ito and Kozo Kasahara. Presented at the conference of the Kyushu Society of Agricultural Economics - Nagasaki, October 2002. (Short version)

3. Monetary policy and agricultural prices: Implications of the overshooting hypothesis for agriculture and food supply. Juan de Dios Mattos, Shoichi Ito and Koichi Usami. (Draft)

4. Monetary shocks, persistence and temporal effects in agricultural and non-agricultural prices in an impulse response analysis framework. The case of Bolivia and Japan. Juan de Dios Mattos and Shoichi Ito. (Draft)

I will publish in future drafts in this page, and data as well. I just have to find out how to connect this page to my database.

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Doctoral Thesis

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