Agricultural Finance Review: Volume 76 Issue 3

Incentive mechanisms, loan decisions and policy rationing: A framed field experiment on rural credit

Ying (Jessica) Cao, Calum Turvey, Jiujie Ma, Rong Kong, Guangwen He, Jubo Yan

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether negative incentives in the pay-for-performance mechanism would trigger loan officers to strategically reject potentially good…

Participation and output effect of a Block Farm Credit Programme in selected districts of Northern Ghana

Samuel A. Donkoh, Abdulai Eliasu, Edinam Dope Setsoafia, Isaac Gershon Kodwo Ansah

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MoFA) Block Farm Credit Programme (BFCP) participation on crop output in four districts…

Non-performance of financial contracts in agricultural lending: A case study from Karnataka, India

Basri Savitha, Naveen Kumar K.

Evaluating a portfolio of agricultural loans has become an important issue in recent years primarily due to a large number of loan defaults. The purpose of this paper is to…

Farm income variability and off-farm employment in Ireland

Jason Loughrey, Thia Hennessy

The purpose of this paper is to identify the potential relationship between farm income variability and off-farm employment decisions in the short and medium term for the case of…

Current trends in cooperative finance

Brian C. Briggeman, Keri L. Jacobs, Phil Kenkel, Gregory Mckee

The purpose of this paper is to explore the recent financial trends affecting grain and farm supply cooperatives.

Evaluating the marginal risk management benefits of the supplemental coverage option

Nicholas Paulson, Gary Schnitkey, Patrick Kelly

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the risk management benefits provided by the supplemental coverage option (SCO) insurance plan which was created in the 2014 Farm Bill…