Agricultural Finance Review: Volume 77 Issue 3

Employer-provided health benefits and employment decisions of US farm workers

Tianyuan Luo, Cesar Escalante

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of employer-provided health benefits (EPHBs) on labor supply decisions of documented and undocumented farm workers. By…

Institutional drivers of land mobility: The impact of CAP rules and tax policy on land mobility incentives in Ireland

Cathal Geoghegan, Anne Kinsella, Catahl O’Donoghue

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of institutional factors in agricultural structural change in the European Union (EU) using the case study of land mobility in…

Financing agricultural cooperatives with retained earnings

Jeffrey Royer

The purpose of this paper is to explore the advantages equity capitalization programs based on retained earnings from patronage sources may provide cooperatives and their patrons…

Introduction of the trend-adjusted crop insurance program: Participation- and coverage-level responses

HongSeok Seo, Taehoo Kim, Man-Keun Kim, Bruce A. McCarl

Recently, USDA-RMA introduced a Trend Adjusted-Actual Production History (TA-APH) program, which increases APH by a trend factor to cover yield changes over time. The purpose of…

Agricultural price volatility and speculation by commodity index funds: a theoretical analysis

Alexandre Gohin, Jean Cordier

The role that speculation in futures markets plays during food price spikes is a subject of lively dispute. This issue is often addressed with empirical analyses. They suffer from…