refers to constraining impacts on farm credit through policy action or inaction. To present the ideas the author discusses …/methodology/approach – The paper is developed as a narrative on agricultural credit policies based largely on existing literature. Findings … – This paper argues that the various critiques of rural credit policy in favor of free market principles have generally not …

Farm Credit System. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses the Black-Scholes model to extract the implied … – Bottom line results show that the average bond yield for a 3M Farm Credit bond from January 13th 2009 to February 10th 2011 … would be 0.3744 percent if the Farm Credit System had no GSE status, which is 13.62?bps higher than the actual bond yield …

This paper empirically estimates individual household credit demand elasticities based on 897 farm households surveyed … techniques to extract individual household credit demand functions from which we estimated point demand elasticities. From a … theoretical point of view, we proposed that as interest rates fell the demand for credit increased in elasticity, and this appears …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the farm and rural credit system in China. To do this … the authors use the so-called “7 Cs” of credit (these include: Credit, Character, Capacity, Capital, Condition, Capability … a variety of credit issues in China. Findings – A number of key factors related to credit delivery and demand are found …

authors created within the survey a discrete-choice credit demand build to determine borrower credit demand elasticities. The … paper provides evidence that the elasticity of demand for credit is different among the three credit rationed groups: risk … China, while only risk aversion is significant in Mexico. The results suggest that efforts to enhance credit access must …