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Addressing the Needs of the Agribusiness “Fringe”
Larson, Ronald B. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
Students studying “fringe” agribusiness sectors (e.g,, supermarkets, textile manufacturers, paper mills, wholesale …” areas are not uniform, “generic” agribusiness courses may not address all their specific business skill needs. One starting … point could be to rotate part of the agribusiness capstone course so three major topics are covered in depth different …
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The Impact of Interstate Bank Branching Deregulations on the U.S. Agricultural Sector: From Better Access to Credit to Higher Farm Sales and Profits
Kandilov, Amy; Kandilov, Ivan - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
In this paper, we show that relaxing credit constraints and increasing access to finance by lifting state-level restrictions on interstate bank expansions from the 1970s through the early 1990s benefited the U.S. agricultural industry by increasing farm sales and profits. In our empirical...
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Do Speculators in Futures Markets Make Cash Markets More Volatile?
Li, Yingzi; Fortenbery, T. Randall - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
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El Ni˜no Southern Oscillation Impacts on Crop Insurance
Tack, Jesse B.; Ubilava, David - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
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The Capital Structure of Commercial Banks and its Impact on Participation in the Farm Service Agency's Guaranteed Loan Program
McWilliams, Bruce T. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
This work presents a statistical analysis of the importance of the “Capitalization Effect” among smaller rural banks which may have more restricted access to capital for lending than agricultural banks with greater total assets. This Effect occurs when banks seek ways to leverage scarce...
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The Effects of Area-based Revenue Protection on Producers’ Choices of Farm-level Revenue Insurance
Dismukes, Robert; Coble, Keith H.; Miller, Corey; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
Producers’ increased reliance on crop insurance has led to concerns about losses producers could incur that are not covered by crop insurance. In the current farm bill debate, several proposals that would be based on area (county) revenue and are intended to cover a portion of producers’...
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Premium Benefits? A Heterogeneous Agent Model of Credit-Linked Index Insurance and Farm Technology Adoption
Farrin, Kathleen M.; Miranda, Mario J. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
Lack of protection from downside risk has been posited as one explanation for sluggish technology uptake among subsistence agricultural households in the developing world. Access to credit and insurance is thought to be a stimulant to technology adoption where new methods are riskier but higher...
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Understanding the Investment Behavior of Ugandan Smallholder Farmers: An Experimental Analysis
Ihli, Hanna Julia; Musshoff, Oliver - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
In this study, we experimentally analyze the investment behavior of smallholder farmers in Uganda. We ascertain whether, and to what extent, the real options approach and the classical investment theory can predict farmers’ investment behaviors. We also examine differences in the investment...
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Does Early Cash-Based Interventions in a Food Crisis Enhance Resilience? Evidence from Niger
Tumusiime, Emmanuel - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
This study examined how households’ responded in the Tillabery region, Niger given early cash transfer intervention and the impact on household food access and ability to cope and recover from a food crisis. Data was also collected from households that did not benefit from the cash transfer...
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The Role of Credit and Deposits in the Dynamics of Technology Decisions and Poverty Traps
Guizar-Mateos, Isai; Miranda, Mario J.; Gonzalez-Vega, … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
This paper investigates the farm-household decisions of adopting and abandoning higher-productivity technologies, under different scenarios of inclusion into the credit and deposit markets. The financial environment is further characterized by shallow financial markets, represented by a...
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