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Consumer lending efficiency: commercial banks versus a fintech lender

open access: yesFinancial Innovation, 2022
Fintechs are believed to help expand credit access to underserved consumers without taking on additional risk. We compare the performance efficiency of LendingClub’s unsecured personal loans with similar loans originated by banks.
Joseph P. Hughes   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Farmers' Participation in Messenger‐Based Social Groups And Its Effects on Performance in Irrigated Areas of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The penetration of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in farming communities is increasing the use of smartphone‐based instant messaging apps. Despite this, the reasons behind participation and the impact on farm productivity in developing countries remain unexplored.
Zafar Kurbanov   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Analysis of Insider Trading in the Credit Derivatives Market Using the Event Study Methodology

open access: yesManagement and Business Administration. Central Europe, 2013
Purpose: In this paper I investigate the information fl ow between the credit default swap market and the stock market as well as insider trading in the credit default swap market. Methodology: For my analysis I use the event study methodology.
Ewa Wareluk
doaj  

Assessing Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity in Latin America

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The agricultural sector in Latin America plays a vital role in ensuring food security while impacting the environment. However, there remains a lack of analysis regarding the inputs responsible for pollution within its sub‐technologies. Hence, this article aims to assess agricultural green total factor productivity (TFP) through a novel ...
Tianxiang Li   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Credit securitization and credit derivatives : financial instruments and the credit risk management of middle market commercial loan portfolios [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
Banks increasingly recognize the need to measure and manage the credit risk of their loans on a portfolio basis. We address the subportfolio "middle market".
Burghof, Hans-Peter   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Drivers of Farmers' Contract Compliance Behavior: Evidence From a Case Study of Dangote Tomato Processing Plant in Northern Nigeria

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contract farming is a viable strategy agribusinesses rely on to strengthen coordination across actors in the value chain. However, low contract compliance remains a significant setback to agribusinesses' contract performance in low‐ and middle‐income country context.
Umar Shehu Umar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

INTERACTIONS BETWEEN TWO INFORMAL SECTOR LENDERS AND INTEREST RATE DETERMINATION IN THE INFORMAL CREDIT MARKET: A THEORETICAL ANALYSIS [PDF]

open access: yes
The paper provides a theory of interest rates determination in the informal credit market in backward agriculture highlighting the interactions between two informal sector lenders (a professional moneylender and a trader-interlocker) and explains the ...
Sarbajit Chaudhuri
core   +3 more sources

CREDIT MARKET IMPERFECTIONS AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF POLICY RENTS: THE COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY IN THE NEW EU MEMBER STATES [PDF]

open access: yes
This article analyses how credit market imperfections affect the impacts of subsidies by analyzing the effects of agricultural subsidies in the new Eastern Member States of the European Union with a partial equilibrium model which integrates credit and ...
Ciaian, Pavel, Swinnen, Johan F.M.
core   +1 more source

Charting the Path to Increased Oil Palm Output in Ghana Beyond Area Expansion: Technology or Managerial Capacity — Which Leads the Way?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

CREDIT AND HOUSING MARKETS IN VIETNAM: EVIDENCE FROM VECM ANALYSIS

open access: yesФінансово-кредитна діяльність: проблеми теорії та практики
This study focuses on examining the role of the credit market in the housing market in the two largest cities of Vietnam, a developing country with limited empirical research on this issue.
Ngoc Toan Bui
doaj   +1 more source

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