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Why Didn't I Get a Payout? Understanding Farmer Choices, Index Insurance, and Basis Risk
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Index insurance, while heralded as a potential solution to alleviate poverty and food insecurity among agricultural households, has its own set of challenges, notably basis risk. Basis risk is the discrepancy between the insurance payout and losses incurred, posing a significant deterrent to the adoption of index insurance.
S. Lucille Blakeley +4 more
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Information, Contract Design, and Unsecured Credit Supply: Evidence from Credit Card Mailings
, 2015 How do lenders of unsecured credit use screening and contract design to mitigate the risks of information asymmetry and limited commitment in the absence of collateral?
Song Han, Benjamin J. Keys, Geng Li
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract Nucleus outgrower schemes are contractual arrangements where well‐resourced large‐scale farmers (nucleus farmers) are empowered by development support agencies to take charge of smallholder farmers, by providing them with market access and the necessary training on agronomic practices and farm inputs for production.
Dominic Tasila Konja, Awudu Abdulai
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Risk of Credit Cooperatives: An analysis based on the profile of the cooperated
Revista Sociedade, Contabilidade e Gestão, 2012 This work has as purpose to analyze among the credit operations, those that generate larger breach of contract risk for the cooperative, with base in the profile of the cooperated, and to identify which the strategies can be pointed to avoid possible ...
José Roberto de Souza Francisco +2 more
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Contract Farming Preferences of Smallholder Rice Producers in Benin: A Stated Choice Model Using Mixed Logit Erodibility [PDF]
Tropicultura, 2017 In developing countries, smallholder farmers face many constraints including lack of information, and lack of access to credit and markets. To overcome these constraints, smallholder farmers can engage in contract farming. However, contract farming needs
Arouna, A. +4 more
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, 2007 The Essay begins in Part I with a summary of the problems presented by standardized terms in consumer transactions. Part II describes the contracting practices that dominate the modern credit card industry. I argue that sophisticated card issuers have learned to exploit the boilerplate features of their agreements to produce a set of dynamic ...
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Financial contracts and strategic customer exclusion [PDF]
, 2003 The paper studies an incentive contract in a monopolistic and duopolistic credit market where borrowers are different in risk. One lender is in an advantaged position with respect to the other due to past relations with the borrowers.
Kojima, N
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Business Groups in Emerging Markets - Substitutes for Missing Institutions [PDF]
, 2004 : Business groups in emerging markets perform better than unaffiliated firms. We study how business groups can substitute some functions of missing institutions, for example, enforcing contracts. In a two period model, there is no contract enforcement in
Hainz, Christa
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The Relationship Between Interest Rates and Agricultural Commodity Price Dynamics
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The U.S. Federal Reserve has undertaken several interest rate interventions in the past decade. This study explores the relationship between U.S. corn and soybean prices and Federal Reserve monetary policy interventions, in the short and long run.
Zhining Sun, Ani L. Katchova
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Can Soft Clauses in Letter of Credit Transactions Be Considered Letter of Credit Fraud in China?
Nordic Journal of Commercial Law, 2011 Documentary credit (also letter of credit, or more formally documentary letter of credit), which was created in trade and business several hundred years ago, is a well known financial method for international trade parties nowadays.
Yanan Zhang
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