... such as mobile banking had any bearing on credit decisions. Research limitations/implications This paper presents a first step in using in-the-field choice experiments to better understand rural finance in China. Although the sample size satisfies conventional levels of significance and rank conditions...

...Xiujuan Tian; Manhua Wu; Lin Ma; Ning Wang Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the effect of rural finance on industrial integration of rural primary, secondary and tertiary industries. Design/methodology/approach Using household-level data collected by Third...

...., 2005). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Rural finance Agribusiness Agricultural investment As an important part of the ecosystem, weather has an enormous influence on socioeconomic systems in terms of agriculture, energy, transportation, construction, tourism and other...

... as possible for income fluctuations. To this end, d and x are determined by maximizing the correlation between the weather index and the maize yield. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 China Rural finance Agricultural economic theory China is one of the world's...

... of borrowers with multiple borrowing from both microfinance and informal credit at the same time (row 6 and 7, column 2 and 5, Table I). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Rural development Rural finance Credit is essential for rural development in a variety of ways. Credit promotes...

... repayment problems existed in the survey area. The default rate was 34.7 percent (65 households), and only 65.3 percent (160 households) repaid both the principle and interest before maturity. China Rural development Rural finance Group lending, one of the major innovations of microfinance...

... Financial institutions Rural finance Regional development policy Specifically, the equation for empirical estimation in the first stage is as follows: Equation 2 where Y_i is binary variable indicating whether the household has a positive borrowing...

... distribution function. i=1, 2, … , N are the indexes of observations. China Livestock Insurance Livestock insurance choices Risk analysis Bi‐variate probit Partial observability Rural finance Agricultural supply and demand analysis Household analysis China is one of the biggest hog...