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Microeconomic impacts of a state‐funded farmer loan program
Glenn Pederson, Wonho Chung, Roelof NelThe purpose of this paper is to determine if there are positive microeconomic effects from a state‐funded loan participation program on farm productivity and investment behavior.
Access to credit, factor allocation and farm productivity: Evidence from the CEE transition economies
Pavel Ciaian, Jan Fałkowski, d'Artis KancsThe purpose of this paper is to analyse how farm production and input use (land, variable inputs, labour, and capital) is related to farm access to credit in the Central and…
Strategic options associated with cooperative members' equity
Gabriel J. Power, Victoria Salin, John L. ParkBuilding on the property rights framework, the purpose of this paper is to frame the cooperative business model in terms of strategic options held either by the board or by…
Comparison of alternative sources of farmland values
Christopher Zakrzewicz, B. Wade Brorsen, Brian C. BriggemanConsistent and reliable data on farmland values is critical to assessing the overall financial health of agricultural producers. However, little is known about the idiosyncrasies…
Land registration, credit and agricultural investment in Africa
Daniel Domeher, Raymond AbdulaiThe purpose of this paper is to critically examine the argument linking land registration to agricultural investment and to provide theoretical reasons as to why this linkage may…
The profit impacts of risk management tool adoption
Todd H. Kuethe, Mitch MorehartThe purpose of this paper is to measure the profit impacts of adopting input and output risk management tools at the farm level.
Premium estimation inaccuracy and the actuarial performance of the US crop insurance program
Octavio A. Ramirez, Carlos A. CarpioThe purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of the levels of inaccuracy associated with three different premium estimation methods, one of which attempts to mimic the…
Implications of within county yield heterogeneity for modeling crop insurance premiums
Joseph Cooper, Carl Zulauf, Michael Langemeier, Gary SchnitkeyFarm level data are essential to accurate setting of crop insurance premium rates, but their time series tends to be too short to allow them to be the sole data source. County…
Combining participating insurance and financial policies: A new risk management instrument against natural disasters in agriculture
Geoffroy Enjolras, Robert KastThe purpose of this paper is to examine a new insurance policy against natural disasters.
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