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Competing Risk Proportional Hazard Models of Farm Service Agency Direct Operating Loans
Dixon, Bruce L.; Ahrendsen, Bruce L.; Foianini, Monica; … - 2008
The USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) direct farm loan program is designed to provide credit to family-sized farms unable to obtain credit from conventional sources at reasonable rates and terms despite having sufficient cash flow to repay and an ability to fully securitize the loan. FSA policy...
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Modeling duration of FSA operating and farm ownership loan guarantees
Long, Deng; Ahrendsen, Bruce L.; Dixon, Bruce L.; … - In: Agricultural finance review 76 (2016) 4, pp. 426-444
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A Detailed Look at Lender Participation in the Farm Service Agency Guaranteed Loan Program
Settlage, Latisha A.; Dixon, Bruce L.; Ahrendsen, Bruce L. - Agricultural Economics Society - AES - 2006
This paper presents a detailed summary analysis of commercial bank, Farm Credit System (FCS), and other commercial lenders use of Farm Service Agency (FSA) guaranteed loan program over the time period fiscal 1993-2003. Key aspects of the guaranteed program are examined including the usage level...
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Determinants of FSA Direct Loan Borrowers' Financial Improvement and Loan Servicing Actions
Dixon, Bruce L.; Ahrendsen, Bruce L.; Landerito, Aiko O.; … - Agricultural Economics Association of Georgia - AEAG
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...
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Why FSA May Want to Consider Changing the 3/31/2015 Crop Program Election Deadline
Zulauf, Carl - Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, …
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FSA Direct Farm Loan Program Graduation Rates and Reasons for Exiting
Dixon, Bruce L.; Ahrendsen, Bruce L.; Nwoha, Ogbonnaya John - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 39 (2007) 03
Farm Service Agency (FSA) direct loans are intended to provide transitory credit to creditworthy borrowers unable to obtain conventional credit at reasonable terms. Farm loan program (FLP) effectiveness is measured in part by how readily direct loan borrowers graduate to conventional credit. A...
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Competing Risk Proportional Hazard Models of Farm Service Agency Direct Operating Loans
Dixon, Bruce L.; Ahrendsen, Bruce L.; Foianini, Monica; … - Regional Research Committee NC-1014: Agricultural and … - 2008
The USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) direct farm loan program is designed to provide credit to family-sized farms unable to obtain credit from conventional sources at reasonable rates and terms despite having sufficient cash flow to repay and an ability to fully securitize the loan. FSA policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005256600
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Racial disparities in farm loan application processing : are black farmers disadvantaged?
Mishra, Ashok K.; Short, Gianna; Dodson, Charles B. - In: Applied economic perspectives and policy 46 (2024) 1, pp. 111-136
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Credit Risk Assessment and Racial Minority Lending at the Farm Service Agency
Escalante, Cesar L.; Brooks, Rodney L.; Epperson, James E. - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 38 (2006) 01
The nature of credit risk assessment and basis of loan approval decisions of the Farm Service Agency are analyzed in the aftermath of the black farmers’ 1997 class action suit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This study did not uncover convincing evidence of racial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005041378
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A DECOMPOSITION APPROACH TO ANALYZING RACIAL AND GENDER BIASES
Wu, Ya; Escalante, Cesar L.; Gunter, Lewell F.; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2009
This study provides a different perspective in revisiting the racial and gender discrimination issue regarding FSA loans. The Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition method, commonly used in wage discrimination analysis, is employed to determine whether there exist unwarranted differences between the loan...
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