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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

Loan loss provisioning rules, procyclicality and financial volatility [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Interactions between loan-loss provisioning regimes and business cycle fluctuations are studied in a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with credit market imperfections.
Agénor, Pierre-Richard, Zilberman, Roy
core   +1 more source

Is Youth's Engagement in Agribusiness an Opportunity or a Necessity? A Closer Look at the Situation in South Kivu, Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the broad focus on necessity‐ and opportunity‐driven entrepreneurship in research and policy, the entrepreneurial dichotomy within the agribusiness context has not been adequately addressed. This study contributes to closing this knowledge gap by examining youth's perceptions of agribusiness through the lens of the push‐pull motivation
Cool Dady Mangole   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of climate-related matters on financial instruments’ reporting: An examination of disclosure quality in the annual reports of banks in the European Union [PDF]

open access: yesMAB
This study examines the disclosure quality in the 2023 annual reports of the impact that climate-related matters have on the reporting of financial instruments within banks. The sample contains the 44 largest banks supervised by the European Central Bank.
Tristan Brouwer, Ralph ter Hoeven
doaj   +3 more sources

Firm Heterogeneity and Credit Risk Diversification [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper considers a simple model of credit risk and derives the limit distribution of losses under different assumptions regarding the structure of systematic and idiosyncratic risks and the nature of firm heterogeneity.
M. Hashem Pesaran   +2 more
core  

Casino Gambling is Hot: Gambling Debt Collection is Hot [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
Gambling on credit, considered a vice by some, is not judicially collectible based upon the Statute of Anne. This common law statute prevents the collection of gambling losses, unless expected by state statute.
Strate, Larry D.
core  

Does ESG Matter for Unlisted Companies in the Agri‐Food Industry? Evidence From Japan's Unlisted Agri‐Food Companies

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While ESG (environmental, social, and governance) is emphasized among listed companies for their stakeholders and ESG disclosures, ESG engagement among unlisted companies has been rarely examined due to data limitations. This is particularly problematic for the agri‐food industry that has significant impacts on the environment and consists ...
Ying Wang, Satoru Shimokawa
wiley   +1 more source

Creating Shared Value as an Antecedent of Value Co‐Creation: B2B Relationships in the Agri‐Food Sector

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study analyzes the effects of value co‐creation and creation of shared value in agricultural input marketing. This study used a sample of 178 agricultural companies in Costa Rica. The data were analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS‐SEM) with SMART PLS software. Our findings reveal the significant influence
Luis Ricardo Solís‐Rivera   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modeling the Probability of Default Term Structure Using Different Methodologies Under IFRS 9

open access: yesInternational Journal of Financial Studies
To mitigate credit risk, banks are required to set aside a specific amount as a safety net to absorb the expected loss on a banks’ loan portfolio called loan loss provisions (LLPs) or provisions for bad debts.
Kgotso Rudolf Moremoholo   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Climate‐Smart Dairy Practices: The Role of Practice Clusters in Enhancing the Performance of Dairy Farms in Kenya

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate variability is affecting the productivity, profitability, and resilience of smallholder dairy producers in developing countries. The adoption of climate‐smart (CS) dairy practices has been promoted to mitigate these negative effects. However, while interest in dairy CS practices is growing, empirical evidence on their adoption patterns
Mercy Mburu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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