In this paper, we investigate how Itô's excursion theory can be usefully applied to economic time series data (Itô 2007). We relate excursion theory to geometric and fractional Brownian motion and the Hurst coefficient. We then calculate the Hurst coefficient for all stocks on the DOW 30, S&P...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a specific test of the Boucher, Carter and Guirkinger (2008) framework to determine the extent of risk rationing amongst potential rural borrowers. Using data from 730 farm households in the Shaanxi province of China and from 372 farmers in northeastern...

Incentive mechanisms are important attributes to financial decision-making. A framed field experiment was conducted to test loan decision behaviors. It showed that lenders' risk-aversion and behavioral responses resulted in credit rationing under certain incentive schemes. In the experiment,...

This paper employs mean-variance and mean-skewness optimization to investigate farmers' crop choices under Gross Revenue Insurance (GRIP), Whole Farm Income Insurance, the Canadian Agricultural Income Stabilization program, and its modified 2008 program AgrInvest. To our knowledge this paper is...

Considering a pure exchange economy with habit formation utility, this paper explores the equilibrium relationships between the market pricing kernel, the market prices of risks and the market risk aversion under a continuous time stochastic volatility model completed by liquidly traded put...

Considering a pure exchange economy with habit formation utility, this paper explores the equilibrium relationships between the market pricing kernel, the market prices of risks and the market risk aversion under a continuous time stochastic volatility model completed by liquidly traded put...

India and China have the largest farm-household populations in the world and in many areas also the poorest. Among the many factors that affect farm livelihoods access to credit has been identified as a significant barrier. While there has been a significant literature on credit constraints in...

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of a new index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) product designed to compensate for area average predicted livestock mortality loss in northern Kenya, where previous work has established the presence of poverty traps. We simulate household-specific wealth...