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Biblioteca(s): | Embrapa Unidades Centrais.
Data corrente: | 14/10/1998
Data da última atualização: | 12/12/2007
Autoria: | OLIVEIRA, A. J. de.
Título: | Derived demand for agricultural credit- a multiperied investment model.
Ano de publicação: | 1977
Fonte/Imprenta: | Purdue: Purdue University, 1977.
Páginas: | 150p.
Idioma: | Português
Notas: | Tese Doutorado.
Conteúdo: | Policy makers in Brazil, recognizing the potential for using credit policy as an instrument for achieving more rapid agricultural development, have instituted a variety of specialized credit programs for agriculture. The interest rate is set below the prevailing market rate. Since inflation has been a chronic problem in the Brazilian economy, low interest rates correspond to negative real rates. Thus, agricultural credit programs in Brazil, appear to be based on the assumption that the demand for agricultural credit exhibits high elasticity with respect to interest rates. However, little or no empirical evidence has been generated to substantiate this point. The objectives of the study are: (1) to set forth an appropriate investment model for the farm firm, (2) to derive the short-, intermediate-, long-term and total demand for credit for the farm firm level, (3) to identify and analyze the factors that affect the short-intermediate-, long-term and total demand for credit at the firm leval, and (4) to make suggestions for revising agricultural credit programs and policies to make them more effective instruments for stimulating agricultural development. The logic underlying the study is presented in a theoretical framework of farmer investment decisions. This theoretical framework forms the basis from which an empirical model using multiperiod linear programing is developed. The empirical model incorporates production coefficients, prices and constraints drawn from data series and farm data collected in the region of study. The model includes the production of rice, soybeans, corn and beef cattle, which can be produced on five types of land, with four levels of technologie over a twelve year planning horizon. Land can be clare with labor or machinery, fertilizer and lime can be purchased, and labor hired. Funds can be borrowed to relax three types of capital constraints- short, intermediate, and long-term capital. Only internal investment opportunities are considered in the model. Exogenous factors defined as discount rate, rate of inflation, interested rates and level of product and factor prices are incorporated. The empirical model is developed using current data and is defined as the basic model. The demand for agricultural credit is derived from the basic model by changing thea interest rate borrowed capital. The effects of discount rate, rate of inflation and grace period on the derived demand for agricultural credit are analyzed.
Palavras-Chave: | Rural credit.
Thesagro: | Agricultura; Crédito Rural; Política.
Thesaurus Nal: | agriculture; politics.
Categoria do assunto: | --
Registro original: | Embrapa Unidades Centrais (AI-SEDE)
Exemplares: | AI-SEDE - (5107-1) - ADD - TS - -- - 77/058 - OLI - 1977.00058 - DIS