Tomoaki Nakatani, PhD

Professor, School of Data ScienceYokohama City University

Dr. Nakatani is a professor of econometrics, School of Data Science, Yokohama City University, Japan. Before joining the School, he was an associate professor of agricultural economics, Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Japan. He received a Ph. D. in Agricultural Economics in 2000 from Hokkaido University as well as a Ph. D. in Economic Statistics in 2010 from Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden. His area of expertise is econometrics, in particular time series econometrics. His recent research has focused on time series analysis of commodity prices and climate anomalies, both of which are collected in global scale data bases. His research interests also include quantitative analysis of agricultural policies and consumers’ purchasing behavior for food/agricultural commodities. He has published several articles in Econometrics Journal, Finance Research Letters, Land Use Policy and Agricultural Water Management. He is an experienced user of the free statistical environment R and is one of the co-authors of “Stated Preference Methods using R”, which has been published in the Chapman & Hall/CRC Press R Series.