...Tim Ölkers; Marius Michels; Anna Roeland; Oliver Mußhoff Purpose The purpose of this study is to evaluate how global agricultural stock markets reacted to African Swine Fever (ASF) outbreaks in China and Germany in 2020, and to identify which agricultural sub-industries were most affected...

... 21 09 2016 22 09 2016 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Emerald Group Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Germany Agricultural credit Borrowed capital Debt use Interest rate elasticity Loan demand Currently, the agricultural sector is globally...

...Dulat Tubetov; Syster Christin Maart-Noelck; Oliver Musshoff Purpose – The purposes of the study are to compare the investment behavior of farmers in Kazakhstan as a transforming country and in Germany as a Western industrialized country as well as to analyze whether the investment behavior...

... is to investigate how a reduction in water quotas and increased water prices affect risk‐efficient crop choices and the related economic implications for northern German farmers. Design/methodology/approach The authors apply a whole‐farm risk programming approach to a typical arable farm in northern Germany...

.../methodology/approach The basis of this comparison are empirical yield time series of the winter wheat production of 32 farms located in central Germany, as well as daily temperature and precipitation data collected by selected weather stations over several years. Insurance is structured as an option...

... The study is based on yield time series from individual farms in central Germany and weather data provided by the German Meteorological Service. Insurance is structured as put‐option on a cumulated precipitation index. The analysis includes the estimation of the hedging effectiveness of insurance...

...' financing decisions. The basis for our analysis is a written survey that was conducted in the middle of 2008. In this survey, we addressed a convenience sample of 280 North German farmers that was largely derived from the address pools of two management consultancy companies in North Germany...