The relationship between appreciation of the exchange rate and employment is investigated in the period 1980-2008 for the United States. Previous literature has found a negative relationship, studying as channels of transmission the role of exports, substitution of factors of production, terms...

Replaced by updated/revised version. This is an electronic version of a journal article, please cite as: Collier, B., A.L. Katchova, and J. Skees. “Loan Portfolio Performance and El Nino, an Intervention Analysis.” Agricultural Finance Review 71(2011):98-119.

Recent trend depicts that tomatoes and tomatoes products rank 2nd most important vegetable crop in the United States after potatoes and potatoes products contributing 20 percent of total vegetable production. More-so, tomato is equally ranked 2nd in the United States in terms of production...

Starting from the predicament for agricultural insurance development in China, we use the principle of economics and game theory to analyze the causation of the difficulty in developing agricultural insurance based on apprehending the connotation of agricultural insurance. And related...

This model evaluates the potential success of a cellulosic ethanol plant in Florida. Critical Economic factors of the plant were simulated to assess the ability of this project. These critical factors include the feedstock to be used, the cost of the facility, transportation costs and the...

We summarize the status of rural areas in China, and introduce the principle of Cluster Analysis. According to related statistical data, per capita net income of rural households in various regions of China is analyzed by adopting the method of Cluster Analysis. The results showed that 31...

We quantitatively analyze the relationship between the industrial structure and economic growth in Guangdong Province of China from 1980 to 2006 by impulse response function and variance decomposition on the basis of the establishment of VAR model. Result shows that there is a long-term, stable...

We establish the optimized grey model with logarithm new development coefficient by screening according to the latest statistical data during 2007 in Jiangsu Province. Empirical analysis and prediction research on rural gross social output value in Jiangsu Province from the year 2008 to 2012 are...

This paper expatiates the conception and property of agricultural insurance, and introduces the features and legislation principle of agricultural insurance. Finally, suggestions on how to perfect the legal system of agricultural insurance are put forward.

The disparity of consumption expenditure among rural areas in China was studied. Then income and living expenditure of rural residents were divided into 5 grades. Principle and method of Cluster Analysis were introduced. Next, Cluster Analysis was adopted to research the disparity of rural...