Credit market access and profitability in Tunisian agriculture
利用突尼斯农村数据，建立计量模型分析信贷准入对农业盈利能力和投资的影响，发现信贷约束显著降低农场盈利能力，但对投资影响不显著。
This work develops an econometric model that links credit access with agricultural profitability and investment. Using data collected from rural Tunisia, this work provides direct estimates of credit access and its effects. Econometric estimates are run for agricultural investment and profitability as a function of credit access. The investigation of credit access and its effect suggests that the presence of credit market constraints does impinge significantly on farm profitability, but not on investments.