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Current Challenges in Financing Agricultural Cooperatives
Barton, David G.; Boland, Michael A.; Chaddad, Fabio Ribas - In: Choices 26 (2011) 3
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Agricultural Trade Policy
Sumner, Daniel A. - American Enterprise Institute
secure agricultural trade policy reform. …
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Incorporating options and forecast information in producer hog marketing strategies: Conceptual and measurement issues
Adam, Brian Dale - 1990
Both options and better information about prices have been proposed to increase the attractiveness of livestock hedging strategies. This study examines the value of incorporating both into hedging strategies for live hogs. A two-period simulation model in which a hog producer chooses a hedging...
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Financial and managerial implications of mergers and acquisitions in food industries in the 1980s
Declerck, Francis - 1992
Food firms can improve their profits by focusing on one or a few specialized activities because of efficiency gains and/or market power benefits. This study documents that profits increase with increasing concentration for firms in food industries whose top-4-concentration ratio is greater than 38%.
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Currency devaluation and resource mobilization in the agricultural sector: Welfare and trade balance implications in Cameroon
Amegbeto, Koffi Nenonene - 1996
food and export agriculture sectors allows a distinction between tradeable and nontradeable agricultural commodities and an … to examine how micro-level markets in the agricultural sector respond to macro-level changes such as exchange rate and … agricultural households and urban rich at the expense of rural non-farm and urban poor households. Under the package of combined …
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Forecasting volatilities in option pricing: An application of Bayesian inference
Lai, Yue - 1994
This study investigates the problem of forecasting volatilities used in option pricing models for live cattle and live hog futures. The forecast problem is cast in the framework of Bayesian inference. Six types of individual forecast models are used--GARCH models, ARIMA models, systems of...
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Noise trader sentiment and the behavior of futures prices
Sanders, Dwight Robert - 1995
In this research, the noise trader sentiment model of De Long, Schleifer, Summers, and Waldmann is modified and applied to futures markets. The theoretical model predicts that overly optimistic (pessimistic) noise traders result in futures prices that are greater (less) than fundamental value....
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Farmer participation in government commodity programs: A multiyear risk management analysis
Monke, James Dale - 1995
Government programs for agricultural commodities affect planting decisions and farm income for many producers. Many …
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Performance-based credit scoring model
Khoju, Madhab Raj - 1993
The repayment ability of the borrower and, therefore, the loan performance should be contingent on actual performance of the financed business because other sources of income may not be reliable as evidenced by recent economic recession in USA. Accordingly, credit scoring models should basically...
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Pricing Carbon: Allowance Price Determination in the EU ETS
Hintermann, Beat - 2008
The allowance price in Phase I of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) followed a peculiar path, increasing from €7 in 2005 to over €30 in 2006, before crashing, recovering and ultimately finishing at zero by the end of 2007. I examine if the price can be explained by...
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