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Agricultural and nonagricultural bank productivity: A DEA approach
Weeratilake Dias, Glenn A. HelmersNonparametric data envelopment analysis is used to determine productivity and efficiency of agricultural and nonagricultural banks categorized into six different asset size…
Characteristics of unsuccessful versus successful agribusiness loans
Richard L. GallagherResearch on agribusiness loan success and failure has been limited, and has typically adopted the nonagricultural business approach of using financial ratios to predict loan…
A comparison of criteria for evaluating risk management strategies
Brent A. Gloy, Timothy G. BakerSeveral criteria that produce rankings of risk management strategies are evaluated. The criteria considered are expected return, value at risk, the Sharpe ratio, the necessary…
Agricultural banks and the federal home loan bank system
Julie A. Dolan, Robert N. CollenderChanges within the financial services industry have raised concerns about the ability of agricultural banks to adequately fund local rural development. To address these concerns…
Economic risk and the structural characteristics of farm businesses
Peter J. Barry, Cesar L. Escalante, Sharon K. BardThis study uses farm‐level data from the Illinois Farm Business Farm Management Association to determine whether the variability of net farm income is significantly influenced by…
Off‐farm investment of farm households: A logit analysis
Ashok K. Mishra, Mitchell J. MorehartThis investigation considers factors affecting off‐farm investment of farm households. A national farm‐level survey was used to evaluate the effects of various farm and operator…
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0002-1466Online date, start – end:
2000Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Dr. Todd Keuthe