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Value of Social Capital to Mid‐Sized Northern Plains Farms

2006· article· en· W1581815753 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Cole R. Gustafson

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d agroeconomie · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicAgricultural Economics and Policy
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersNorth Dakota State University
KeywordsCash flowEconomicsProbability of defaultPaymentCapital (architecture)Value (mathematics)BusinessFinanceCredit risk

Abstract

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As farms increase in size, operators face the decision of remaining loyal to local retail merchants or obtaining volume discounts from distant wholesale input suppliers. When farmers bypass local merchants and buy inputs in volume, they often realize price discounts but forego many services including credit forbearance. When farmers buy locally, they pay higher prices, which decreases profits and increases financial risk, but generates social capital which can be drawn upon during periods of economic adversity. A theoretical model of farm financial risk evaluates borrower behavior in light of cash flow constraints, volume discounts, and social capital. Results delineate financial risks involved and value of social capital. When inputs are purchased locally and social capital is generated, the distribution of year‐end funds had a slightly lower mean and longer left tail. The longer left tail results from additional borrowing arising from credit forbearance. If this forbearance were not available, the firm would be bankrupt. À mesure que la taille des exploitations agricoles augmente, les producteurs doivent décider s'ils demeurent loyaux envers les détaillants locaux ou s'ils tentent d'obtenir des remises sur quantité auprès de fournisseurs d'intrants éloignés. Lorsque les producteurs contournent les marchands locaux et achètent des intrants en grande quantité, ils obtiennent souvent des rabais sur le prix, mais se privent de nombreux services y compris l'indulgence des créanciers. Lorsque les producteurs achètent localement, ils paient des prix plus élevés, ce qui diminue les profits et augmente le risque financier, mais crée du capital social qui peut être mis à contribution en périodes d'adversitééconomique. Un modèle théorique de risque financier agricole évalue le comportement de l'emprunteur en tenant compte des contraintes de liquidités, des remises sur quantité et du capital social. Les résultats présentent en détail les risques financiers en jeu et la valeur du capital social. Lorsque les intrants sont achetés localement et qu'il y a création de capital social, la queue gauche de la distribution des fonds de fin d'année est plus longue et la moyenne est légèrement plus faible. Cette queue gauche plus longue découle des emprunts supplémentaires résultant de l'indulgence des créanciers. Sans cette indulgence, l'entreprise serait en faillite.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.987
Threshold uncertainty score0.025

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.156
Teacher spread0.144 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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