Predictors of farm performance and repayment ability as factors for use in risk-rating models

Agricultural Finance Review

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 41-54

  Zech, Lyubov ^a   Pederson, Glenn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Farm financial performance; Regression models; Repayment ability; Risk rating

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890160290     PISSN: 00021466     EISSN: 20416326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00214990380001140     Document Type: Article

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