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Inward Versus Outward Growth Orientation in the Presence of Country Risk [PDF]

open access: yes
The purpose of this paper is to model the role of trade dependency in determining the access of a developing economy to the international credit market, and its desirable growth strategy.
Joshua Aizenman
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Competition Policy and Agribusiness in the Biden Administration

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Biden Administration pursued a set of ambitious competition policy initiatives in agriculture and agribusiness, primarily aimed at livestock and poultry supply chains, farm inputs, and food retailing. The initiatives included expanded antitrust enforcement; new US Department of Agriculture (USDA) contract regulations requiring poultry ...
James M. MacDonald
wiley   +1 more source

Semi-analytic pricing formulas for basket credit-linked notes with and without counterparty risks

open access: yesSystems Science & Control Engineering, 2020
This paper discusses the pricing of basket credit linked notes (BCLN) under the reduced model. Three types of BCLNs are discussed: the first, the second and the mth-to-default BCLNs with and without counterparty risks.
Yongzeng Lai   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Managing Credit Risk with Credit and Macro Derivatives [PDF]

open access: yes
The industrial organization approach to the microeconomics of banking augmented by uncertainty and risk aversion is used to examine credit derivatives and macro derivatives as instruments to hedge credit risk for a large commercial bank.
Gerhard Schweimayer   +2 more
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Dependent Dirichlet Process Rating Model (DDP-RM) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Typical IRT rating-scale models assume that the rating category threshold parameters are the same over examinees. However, it can be argued that many rating data sets violate this assumption. To address this practical psychometric problem, we introduce a
Fujimoto, Ken Akira, Karabatsos, George
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Do Tax Incentives for Farmland Leases Increase Farm Supply? Evidence From Iowa's Beginning Farmer Tax Credit

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent decades, agriculture has become increasingly concentrated through horizontal mergers and acquisitions via corporate entities, and policy makers are concerned this will be exacerbated by the aging population of farm operators. To reduce market concentration in agriculture, many states have enacted policies to entice new prospective ...
Justin M. Ross   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

An application to credit risk of a hybrid Monte Carlo-Optimal quantization method [PDF]

open access: yes
In this paper we use a hybrid Monte Carlo-Optimal quantization method to approximate the conditional survival probabilities of a firm, given a structural model for its credit defaul, under partial information.
Abass Sagna, Giorgia Callegaro
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Measuring measuring: Toward a theory of proficiency with the Constructing Measures framework [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper is relevant to measurement educators who are interested in the variability of understanding and use of the four building blocks in the Constructing Measures framework (Wilson, 2005).
Draney, K, Duckor, Brent M, Wilson, M
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Generalized Partially Linear Additive Models for Credit Scoring

open access: yesKorean Journal of Applied Statistics, 2011
Credit scoring is an objective and automatic system to assess the credit risk of each customer. The logistic regression model is one of the popular methods of credit scoring to predict the default probability; however, it may not detect possible nonlinear features of predictors despite the advantages of interpretability and low computation cost.
Ju-Hyun Shim, Young-K. Lee
openaire   +1 more source

Why Didn't I Get a Payout? Understanding Farmer Choices, Index Insurance, and Basis Risk

open access: yesApplied 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
wiley   +1 more source

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