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La nuova struttura delle relazioni tra imprenditore agricolo e sistema creditizio: un'analisi sintetica del merito creditizio delle aziende agricole italiane
No full textProfile of the Italian farmer : The main entrepreneurial types
No full textThe aim of this work was to schematise the main strategic profiles found in Italian farming. In a scenario of widespread structural weakness in Italy's agricultural sector, we found a broad entrepreneurial area where farmers with a high risk of extinction work together with farmers who are able to allocate their family resources efficiently both within and outside their farms. In this context, it would be appropriate to implement a new framework of public intervention in the agricultural sector in Europe, which would consider the overall features belonging to the family's objective function in decision-making, such as the presence of work outside the farm. In Italy, the rationale of the farmers' decision-making process is chiefly consistent with the overall socio-economic environment surrounding the family, as confirmed by our econometric analysis. Although the income level of the different types introduced in the analysis is positively affected by the presence of public support, total aid appears unable to provide a stimulus for farmers, generating considerable farm revenue dependent of off-farm income for their survival
Il merito creditizio delle aziende agricole italiane
No full textIl merito creditizio delle aziende agricole italiane, una fotografia realizzata attraverso i dati della rete di Informazione Contabile Agricol
La nuova struttura delle relazioni tra imprenditore agricolo e sistema creditizio: Un'analisi sintetica del Merito creditizio delle aziende agricole italiane attraverso le informazioni della Rete di Informazione Contabile Agricola (RICA)
No full textLe profonde evoluzioni di cui sono stati protagonisti i sistemi agricoli negli ultimi anni hanno sollecitato una crescente attenzione da parte degli operatori e dei policy maker al tema dell'accesso al capitale di rischio.
Il regime speciale di cui ha goduto il credito agricolo ha di fatto considerevolmente ridotto i rischi sia dei beneficiari che degli istituti erogatori, sfavorendo l'acquisizione di competenze organizzative e imprenditoriali strutturate da parte delle imprese e di strumenti e risorse specializzati nella gestione del rischio da parte delle banche.
Il presente lavoro ha lo scopo di fornire un quadro di insieme sulle capacità attuali delle aziende agricole italiane di accedere al mercato del credito, utilizzando il patrimonio informativo della Rete di Informazione Contabile Agricola (RICA), gestita in Italia, dall'Istituto Nazionale di Economia Agraria (INEA), relativamente afgli anni 2004, 2005 e 2006
Natural Vs Financial Insurance in the Management of Weather Risk Exposure in the Italian Agriculture
No full textThis paper seeks to contribute to these different strands of literature, by providing empirical
evidence of the determinants of the decision to insure and its implications on farmers’ welfare under
uncertainty. We test for the role of crop biodiversity on the probability of adopting an insurance
scheme. We then analyze the role of insurance and diversification on farmers welfare under risk. To
this end we estimate a stochastic production function a’ la Antle (1983) where biodiversity and
insurance are regressed against the three moments of the distribution of revenues. To take into
account of the potential endogeneity of the variable insurance we estimate a treatment-effects model
by using a full maximum likelihood estimator. The treatment-effects model considers the effect of
an endogenously chosen insurance binary treatment on another endogenous continuous variable,
conditional on two sets of independent variables. Data are drawn from a very rich panel data form
Italy. We have access to 8500 farmers from 2004 to 2007 (more than 25000 observations). To our
knowledge this is the first empirical analysis, in this strand of literature, that make use of such large
set of information
Negative externalities of crop insurance subsidies: a case study in Italy
Full text linkThis study evaluates the impacts of risk management policies on the environment. The effects of public risk management programmes, such as subsidised crop insurance on optimal nitrogen fertilizer use and land allocation to crops, were examined empirically by developing a mathematical programming model of a representative wheat-tomato farm in Puglia, a region in southern Italy. The results show that with current crop insurance programmes, for tomato the optimal nitrogen fertilizer rate slighty increases and the optimal acreage substantially increases, whereas for wheat they both decrease. Hence, this type of public intervention could lead to an increase in surface and groundwater pollution by nitrates
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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