The aim of this paper is to empirically analyse the effects of governmentally promoted credit access on the investment behaviour of credit rationed farmers. This is done by specifying an empirical investment equation which is estimated on a cross-sectional sample of Polish farm household data....

Der Bericht behandelt die Agrarkreditpolitik und Agrarkreditpraxis in der Europäischen Union. Ziel der Studie war es, die Träger, das Volumen und die besonderen Bedingungen sowie die unterschiedlichen Wettbewerbsvoraussetzungen für das Agrarkreditgeschäft in den elf europäischen...

This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model of an agricultural economy in which poor farmers borrow from rich farmers. Because output is stochastic (we allow for idiosyncratic and aggregate shocks) there may be default ex-post. We compare equilibria with and without political...