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Purpose – This paper aims to provide a “biography” of sorts on Agricultural Finance Review . The paper tracks the evolution of Agricultural Finance Review from its introduction in 1938 to its current status. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on a complete review of every...
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Purpose – This paper aims to clarify the relationship between wealth and trustworthiness with the goal of understanding why micro‐lending institutions grant loans to poor individuals countering well‐known models of credit markets and credit rationing, such as those proposed by Stiglitz and...
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Purpose – This paper reviews the life of Liberty Hyde Bailey and highlights his contributions to the structure of US farm credit 100 years after the Country Life Commission. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is a qualitative historical review. Findings – The paper provides a...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the application of sustainable growth challenge (SGC) model in agricultural finance as a conceptual paradigm and then uses the model to measure sustainable growth rates for Illinois grain and livestock farmers. The SGC concept is used to...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the life of the famous mathematician Kiyosi Itô and discuss his influence on the study of agricultural finance and agricultural economics. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is a qualitative historical review. Findings – The paper...
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Purpose – Motivated by recent congressional interest in eradicating government sponsored enterprises (GSE), the purpose of this paper is to develop a framework to price the implicit government guarantee embedded in the bonds issued by the Farm Credit System. Design/methodology/approach – The...
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This paper presents a model and framework for pricing degree‐day weather derivatives when the weather variable is a non‐traded asset. Using daily weather data from 1840S1996, it is shown that a degree‐day weather index exhibits stable volatility and satisfies the random walk hypothesis....
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This paper reviews various optimization approaches used to address a variety of issues related to risk in agricultural finance and farm management. The central focus is in the Markowitz mean‐variance model, which represents the classical approach to balancing risk and returns in an...
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