Modern capital management by financial institutions: Implications for agricultural lenders Available to Purchase

This article reviews and analyzes the emerging approaches to capital management under risk by financial institutions. Included are discussions of recent developments in the measurement and modeling of credit risk and other sources of risk, and comparisons of the regulatory environment for capital adequacy under the old versus the proposed New Basel Accord. The relationships for agricultural finance are considered in terms of the uniqueness of agriculture, current institutional capital positions and practices, risk measures, and recent experiences in developing risk‐based approaches to determining capital adequacy in agricultural finance.