External equity financing in agriculture via profit and loss sharing contracts: a proposed financial innovation

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An institutional framework is developed to provide farmers with options for debt and equity financing. The financial market structure is characterized by the capital user or farmer entrepreneur, the intermediary or investment institution and the capital provider or investment deposit supplier. The structure approximates a profit and loss sharing equity market that minimizes agricultural financial risk and farm program costs.

Agriculture, Crop Production, Models, Agricultural subsidies, Produce industry

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The wealth effect of swap usage in the food processing industry

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Interest rate swaps are used by American companies as a financial derivative to manage interest rate risk. This research investigates the effects of the usage of swaps on the wealth of shareholders by using a sample from the food processing industry.

Finance, Stockholders, Agricultural processing industry, Interest rate swaps

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Futures trading activity and commodity cash price volatility

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The impact of futures trading on price variations of agricultural goods is examined. Granger causality is used for the study.

Forecasts, trends, outlooks, Commodity & service prices, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION--CROPS, Pricing Policy, Methods, Analysis, Agricultural industry, Prices and rates, Forecasts and trends, Pricing, Market trend/market analysis, Economic forecasting, Farm produce, Agricultural products, Margins (Futures trading), Company pricing policy, Product price

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