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| Gustafson, Cole R.. |
| This article utilizes the Survey of Small Business Finances to compare and contrast trade credit practices of rural small business firms. The results show that these firms borrow money and then re-lend it to others in the form of trade credit. There is a strong direct relationship between various forms of debt held by these firms and their level of accounts receivable (e.g., trade credit extended to customers). The actual level of re-lending varied among firms depending on their adoption level of computers that are used for cash management and credit services. Accounts receivable balances were also dependent on sales levels, costs of doing business, and other income. The most important source of funds for re-lending was obtained from mortgages and... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Agribusiness; Trade; Credit; Finance; Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2004 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/23513 |
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| Hoveid, Oyvind; Raknerud, A.. |
| Feedbacks between on-farm and off-farm activities are analyzed with a state-space model over a panel of farm household accounts. We discover significant positive effects of farm capital both on farm income and on wage labor income. The latter effect is interpreted as wage labor partly paying the debt incurred by investments in farm capital. Significant positive effects on farm capital from wealth - indicating credit rationing or an immediate willingness to pay for farm investments - are also discovered. The wealth effect on farm income is also significantly positive. By and large - at least for the household for which the results are estimated, and for the model applied - Fishers separation theorem is rejected. |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Farm households; Finance; Investment; Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44461 |
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| Staatz, John M.. |
| Since 1980, agricultural economists have begun to reexamine fundamental issues in the theory of agricultural cooperation. These include the basic nature of farmer cooperation; the theoretical benefits and limits of cooperative enterprise; and the implications of these for cooperative members, managers, and public policy. Analysts have extended previous models of the cooperative as a type of business firm in order to analyze the impact of large cooperatives on market performance. They have also developed new models to analyze how cooperatives attempt to serve the divergent interests of different participants, such as managers and different classes of farmers. This report describes and evaluates recent theoretical developments, outlines remaining areas of... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Cooperative theory; Public policy; Market coordination; Economic performance; Finance; Pricing; Member control; Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 1989 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/52017 |
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| Ruan, Jianqing; Zhang, Xiaobo. |
| The traditional literature emphasizes the causal role of finance in promoting industrial growth. China’s rapid industrialization over the past several decades, which has occurred in the absence of well-functioning financial markets, seems to defy the conventional wisdom. By studying a cashmere sweater cluster in China, this paper argues that rural industrial clustering, as a new business model, lowers the entry barriers of initial capital investment through the division of labor. Within these clusters, enterprises can often acquire trade credits from upstream or downstream firms and obtain informal financing from friends and relatives, and use these funds to mitigate constraints of working capital. These findings help explain China’s rapid... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Industrialization; Cluster; Finance; China; Growth; Financial Economics; International Development. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42322 |
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| Stafford, Thomas H.. |
| Combined balance sheets and operating statements were used to develop benchmark financial ratios for dairy marketing cooperatives. Data from 291 cooperatives were summarized for five types of dairy cooperatives, then by three types and three size combinations. Both type and size of cooperative made differences in most of the 16 financial ratios calculated as well as in the common size balance sheets and operating statements. |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Finance; Dairy; Cooperatives; Milk; Ratios; Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 1985 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/50729 |
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| Hine, Susan E.; Fulton, Joan R.; Loureiro, Maria L.; Vandeburg, Jennifer M.; McNamara, Kevin T.. |
| Agricultural cooperatives have been restructuring, by way of mergers, acquisitions, joint-ventures, and strategic alliances, to increase efficiencies to remain competitive in a changing business environment. The research evaluating the reorganization of cooperatives has revealed that less than one-half of the restructured businesses are financially successful. There is the potential to significantly influence the future health of the cooperative business sector if, first, insights can be gained concerning the factors being considered by cooperative managers when making restructuring decisions and, second, extension education programs can be adapted to meet the greatest need. In this study we examine: (a) what methods of valuation cooperatives are using... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Capital budgeting methods; Cooperatives; Finance; Restructuring; Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/14677 |
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| Ekboir, Javier M.; Dutrenit, Gabriela; Martinez V., Griselda; Vargas, Arturo Torres; Vera-Cruz, Alexandre O.. |
| Since the 1980s, developing countries’ agriculture has become more complex and diversified. In general, the public research and extension institutions in these countries were criticized for not participating in the emergence of the most dynamic agricultural markets. In recent years, many of these institutions have struggled to adapt to the new environment but they could not overcome the hurdles posed by organizational rigidities, strict public regulations, deteriorating human capital, shrinking budgets and a model of science that hampered their integration into dynamic innovation processes. In general, developing countries applied similar agricultural research policies: separation of financing and implementation of research, reductions in direct budgetary... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural Research; Mexico; Finance; Agricultural Innovations; Organizational Learning; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55511 |
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