Regression models of Farm Service Agency borrower net worth, debt-to-asset ratio, and loan servicing actions over an average seven-year period following loan origination are estimated to identify determinants of borrower financial progress over time. Results show significantly increasing net...

County-based group crop insurance is not effective to growers in counties with heterogenous production practice. A model-based cluster and classification method is developed to facilitate the information needed in the study of sub-county-zone-based crop insurance. Wheat yield data from Whitman,...

Nowadays libraries are full of books on the theory of competitiveness and its measurement possibilities. There is even no accordance, however, among scientists regarding definition and measurement. Large number of approaches and hundreds of measures show the difficulty to exactly define what we...