The New Basel Capital Accord (Basel II) provides added emphasis to thedevelopment of portfolio credit risk models. An important regulatory change in Basel IIis the differentiated treatment in measuring capital requirements for the corporateexposures and retail exposures. Basel II allows...

Periodically, events occur in the domestic and global economies that remind agriculturaleconomists that macroeconomics matter. This was evident in the early 1980s when theFederal Reserve responded to double-digit inflation by driving interest rates to post–World War II period highs. The Asian...