This study examines credit score migration rates of farm businesses. We test whether migration probabilities differ across business cycles. Our results suggest that agricultural credit ratings are more likely to improve during expansions and deteriorate during recessions. We also test whether agricultural credit ratings depend on the previous period migration trends. Our results show that credi...

This study is on the determinants of credit access by small scale farmers in Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi State, Nigeria. The specific objectives are to; identify the major source of credit among the small scale farmers; estimate the determinants of farmers’ access to formal credit; compare the farm income of farmers who have access to formal credit and those who have not and identify c...

Global Change and Photosynthesis Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service, Departments of Plant Biology and Crop Sciences, Institute of Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801 (D.R.O.); Chinese Academy of Sciences-German Max Planck Society Partner Institute for Computational Biology and Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology...

Hyunsook Kim,* Patricia A. Pennisi,* Oksana Gavrilova, Stephanie Pack, William Jou, Jennifer Setser-Portas, Joyce East-Palmer, Yan Tang, Vincent C. Manganiello, and Derek LeRoith Diabetes Branch and Mouse Metabolism Core Laboratory, National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases; Beltsville Human Nutrition Center, Agricultural Research Service-United States Department of Agricult...

J. A. Daniel, T. H. Elsasser, A. Martı́nez, B. Steele, B. K. Whitlock, and J. L. Sartin Animal and Range Sciences, South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota; United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service Growth Biology Laboratory, Beltsville; Cell and Cancer Biology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; and Depa...

From the Departments of *Medicine, ~Pediatrics, and SMicrobiology and Immunology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland 20814; the IILaboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892; the 82 of Inflammation/ Autoimmune Diseases, Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc., Nutley, New J...

Global Change and Photosynthesis Research Unit, United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service, Departments of Plant Biology and Crop Sciences, Institute of Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801 (D.R.O.); Chinese Academy of Sciences-German Max Planck Society Partner Institute for Computational Biology and Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology...

We examine the dynamic effects of credit shocks using a large data set of U.S. economic and financial indicators in a structural factor model. The identified credit shocks, interpreted as unexpected deteriorations of credit market conditions, immediately increase credit spreads, decrease rates on Treasury securities, and cause large and persistent downturns in the activity of many economic sect...