Farm Loan Bonds Under the Rural Credits Act

Health coverage tax credits under the Trade Act of 2002.

The Freedom to Farm Act

U.S. Rep. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), Chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture, has introduced a leading contender in the 1995 farm bill debate. Under the Freedom to Farm Act (FFA), farmers who have participated in farm programs during three of the past five years would be eligible to enter into a sevenyear contract with the federal government. Through these contracts, farmers would receive an ...

Farm Machinery Investment and the Tax Reform Act of 1986

The Tax Reform Act of 1986 significantly changed incentives for investing. This analysis specifically examines how changes in marginal tax rates, depreciation schedules, and the investment tax credit altered the cost of capital and net investment in agriculture. A stochastic coefficients econometric methodology is used to estimate an investment function which is then used to simulate the effect...

Defaultable Bonds under Imprecise Information

This paper develops a structural model for defaultable bonds in a fuzzy environment. The numerical results calculated from the closed-form solution show that the fuzziness of the stochastic underlying asset and of bankruptcy costs have material impact on the term structures of credit spreads and on the duration of

The Effects of Non-Farm Business in Rural Sustainable Development: A Case Study in Sanandaj's Rural Areas, Kurdistan

Rural economy has an important role in rural sustainable development in every region or country. However, the rural economy in Iran is too much depending on agriculture and development of other rural economy in particular nonfarm activities, has been neglected by Iranian rural communities. Therefore, the aim of this study was to identify the role of non-farm business on rural sustainable develo...