... and guaranteed loans by farm size. Bank, Farm Credit System (FCS), and FSA data from 1996 to 2015 were adjusted to 2014 values. Lender size groups were constructed to analyze changes in bank and association numbers, farm loans, and use of FSA guaranteed loans by lender size. Findings The greatest...

...Xuan Shen; Valentina Hartarska Purpose The purpose of this paper is to estimate the impact of financial derivatives on profitability in agricultural banks. Agricultural banks are new to the derivatives market and are unlikely to use financial derivatives for risk speculation. Thus, the paper also...

...Nicholas Paulson; Xiaofei Li; Cesar L. Escalante; James E. Epperson; Lewell F. Gunter Purpose The late 2000s Great Recession led to a surge of bank failures in the USA with nearly 300 banks failing from 2009 to 2010. Recalling the farm crises of the 1980s where the farm sector was pinpointed...

...Oliver Musshoff; Norbert Hirschauer Purpose Often farmers do not switch to a new bank even if it offers better interest rates than the house bank. This can be attributed partly to transaction costs, and partly to bounded rationality. The purpose of this paper is to better understand farm borrowers...

... of the existence of a geographic effect indicate that despite bank management belief to the contrary, branches may not be homogeneous. Research limitations/implications This analysis would be improved if more data were available in an easily obtainable manner to control for unobserved heterogeneity. Unobserved...

...Mamudu A. Akudugu; Irene S. Egyir; Akwasi Mensah‐Bonsu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine women farmers' access to credit from rural banks (RBs) in the Upper East region of Ghana. The paper examines the nature of credit supply by the RBs to their customers and the proportion that goes...