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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, Sean Posey, Kathy Baylis, Daniel Osgood, Stuart Sweeney   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tiebreaker: Certification and Multiple Credit Ratings [PDF]

This paper explores the economic role credit rating agencies play in the corporate bond market. We consider three existing theories about multiple ratings: information production, rating shopping and regulatory certification.
Dion Bongaerts, William N. Goetzmann, K.J. Martijn Cremers   +2 more
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Temporary Programs, Lasting Questions: Ad Hoc Assistance in the U.S. Farm Safety Net

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Large ad hoc assistance programs have returned to U.S. farm policy since 2017, operating alongside a more developed safety net built around federally subsidized crop insurance, Title I commodity programs, and standing disaster assistance. This paper reviews the renewed use of ad hoc assistance, documents its recent scale using USDA data, and ...
Alejandro Plastina, Oranuch Wongpiyabovorn   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Impact of Value Creation (Tobin’s Q), Total Shareholder Return (TSR), and Survival (Altman’s Z) on Credit Ratings

International Journal of Financial Studies
This research explores the impact of financial indicators on the credit ratings of companies listed on the S&P 500, employing a Sys-GMM model to address endogeneity concerns.
Nazário Augusto de Oliveira, Leonardo Fernando Cruz Basso   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Environmental Risk and Credit Ratings, and the Moderating Effect of Market Competition. [PDF]

Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022
Kim Y, Kim SI.
europepmc   +1 more source

Disentangling the relationships between denomination of origin regulatory councils activities and Spanish wineries' export performance

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract World markets for quality differentiated agri‐food products are highly competitive, presenting significant challenges for firms aiming to compete effectively. Government agencies and business organizations often implement various export promotion policies to address these challenges.
Nicolás Depetris‐Chauvin, Marta Fernández‐Olmos   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sovereign credit ratings during the COVID-19 pandemic. [PDF]

Int Rev Financ Anal, 2021
Tran Y, Vu H, Klusak P, Kraemer M, Hoang T.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

ESG ratings and credit ratings

, 2022
Σε αυτή τη μελέτη εξετάζω τη σχέση μεταξύ της περιβαλλοντικής, κοινωνικής και διακυβερνητικής (ESG) επίδοσης και της πιστοληπτικής ικανότητας των επιχειρήσεων. Ακόμη, διερευνώ ποιος από τους πυλώνες της επίδοσης ESG συνεισφέρει σε αυτή τη σχέση. Η μελέτη ξεκινάει με μία ανασκόπηση των προβλημάτων της ασσυμετρίας πληροφόρησης και των βαθμολογήσεων που ...
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Moody’s credit ratings and the stock market performance of Portuguese rated firms [PDF]

Never has the issue of sovereign credit ratings attracted such an interest by policy and opinion makers, bankers and journalists, or even the public opinion, as witnessed in the last couple of years.
Pacheco, Luís
core   +1 more source

Do outgrower schemes enhance technology adoption and productivity? Evidence from maize farmers in Northern Ghana

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
wiley   +1 more source