Credit score migration analysis of farm businesses: Conditioning on business cycles and migration trends

Agricultural Finance Review

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-15

  Phillips, Jill M ^a   Katchova, Ani L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Business cycle; Credit; Dependence; Migration; Migration trend; Path; Rating drift; Trend reversal

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946563097     PISSN: 00021466     EISSN: 20416326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00215090480001150     Document Type: Article

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