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A Skills Gap Analysis of Farmer Directors of US Farmer Cooperatives

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Boards of directors are vital to firm performance and are an integral part of the decision‐making process of any business. Several studies have been conducted that observe corporate or nonprofit board characteristics, skills, and the board's connection to firm performance.
Jody S. Herchenbach   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Life expectancy and premature mortality among insured and non-insured in India, 2019–21

open access: yesDiscover Public Health
Background Health insurance landscape in India has undergone rapid transformation due to expansion of both centrally and state-funded health insurance schemes, most notable being the Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojna (AB-PMJAY).
Ankita Roy, Jyoti Das, Sanjay K Mohanty
doaj   +1 more source

Do Job Search Rules and Reemployment Services Reduce Insured Unemployment? [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper summarizes state unemployment insurance job search policies based on a recent survey of states by the National Association of State Workforce Agencies.
Christopher J. O'Leary   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Resilience of Small Beef Packers and the USDA Meat Supply Chain Initiative

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We focus on the plant‐size resilience relationship among small beef packers during COVID‐19. Defining resilience as the ability to maintain or increase slaughter and non‐resilience as otherwise, we use survey and secondary data to estimate a logit model where resilience is a function of a plant's capacity and age in addition to labor condition
Sunil P. Dhoubhadel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Coordination Mechanisms and Transaction Costs Promoting Sustainability Performance in Agri‐Food Supply Chains: Evidence From Ecuador

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Social tensions and resource depletion pose significant challenges to the agri‐food sector, highlighting the need for coordinated strategies to ensure sustainability in supply chains. Despite its critical importance, the relationship between coordination mechanisms and sustainability performance remains underexplored.
Carlos Moreno‐Miranda, Liesbeth Dries
wiley   +1 more source

The main determinants of insurance purchase. An empirical study on crop insurance policies in France [PDF]

open access: yes
Using data for 2002-2005 on a representative survey of French farms (FADN-RICA), we investigate the different factors that lead farmers to insure against crop risk.
Geoffroy Enjolras, Patrick Sentis
core   +3 more sources

"FDIC-Sponsored Self-Insured Depositors: Using Insurance to Gain Market Discipline and Lower the Cost of Bank Funding" [PDF]

open access: yes
Insured depositors have no reason to care how their banks perform or how safe they are. Only uninsured depositors have that incentive. This paper offers a plan to replace some insured deposits with uninsured deposits.
Panos Konstas
core  

Agricultural Diversification at the Margin. Strategies and Determinants in Italian Mountain and Remote Areas

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

When prices hardly matter: Incomplete insurance contracts and markets for repair goods [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper looks at markets characterized by the fact that the demand side is insured. In these markets a consumer purchases a good to compensate consequences of unfavorable events, such as an accident or an illness.
Andreas Richter   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Risk-Shifting by Federally Insured Commercial Banks [PDF]

open access: yes
Mispriced and misadministered deposit insurance imparts risk-shifting incentives to U.S. banks. Regulators are expected to monitor and discipline increases in bank risk exposure that would transfer wealth from the FDIC to bank stockholders.
Armen Hovakimian, Edward J. Kane
core  

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