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Calum G. Turvey is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and has a research profile centered on economics, econometrics, and agricultural sciences. Their academic contributions largely focus on the intersections of finance, agricultural policy, and environmental valuation within these fields.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • "The peer effect of training on farmers' pesticides application: a spatial econometric approach" (2020) published in China Agricultural Economic Review
  • "Uptake of insurance-embedded credit in presence of credit rationing: evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Kenya" (2020) published in Agricultural Finance Review
  • "Does Credit Influence Fertilizer Intensification in Rice Farming? Empirical Evidence from Côte D'Ivoire" (2020) published in Agronomy
  • "Heterogeneous demand and supply for an insurance-linked credit product in Kenya: A stated choice experiment approach" (2020) published in Greenwich Academic Literature Archive (University of Greenwich)
  • "Impact of Financial Literacy on Retirement Financial Portfolio: Evidence from China" (2021) published in Asian Economic Journal

The scientist frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including Li Zhou, Apurba Shee, Hong Fu, Yanling Peng, and Yuehua Zhang.

Turvey's work appears in a range of publication venues with the most frequent being:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Agricultural Finance Review
  • The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review
  • China Agricultural Economic Review
  • Agronomy

Their main fields of study are Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these broader areas, subfields of interest include Economics and Econometrics, Soil Science, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Accounting, and Finance.

The primary topics covered in their research portfolio are:

  • Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
  • Agricultural risk and resilience
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Agricultural Innovations and Practices
  • Agricultural Economics and Policy
  • Housing Market and Economics
  • Climate Change Policy and Economics

Best Publications

  • Weather Derivatives for Specific Event Risks in Agriculture

    Calum G. Turvey

  • The effect of agricultural policy on farmland values

    A. Weersink;S. Clark;C. G. Turvey;R. Sarker

  • Informal lending amongst friends and relatives: Can microcredit compete in rural China?

    Calum G. Turvey;Rong Kong

  • Poverty traps and climate risk: limitations and opportunities of index-based risk financing

    Christopher B. Barrett;B.J. Barnett;S. Carter;S. Chantarat

  • Economics of Structural Change in Agriculture

    Ellen Goddard;Alfons Weersink;Kevin Chen;Calum G. Turvey

  • The potential and uptake of remote sensing in insurance: A review

    Jan De Leeuw;Anton Vrieling;Apurba Shee;Clement Atzberger

  • Decomposition Measures of Technical Efficiency for Ontario Dairy Farms

    Alfons Weersink;Calum G. Turvey;Abdulahi Godah

  • Using Weather Index Insurance to Improve Drought Response for Famine Prevention

    Sommarat Chantarat;Christopher B. Barrett;Andrew G. Mude;Calum G. Turvey

  • Quantifying spatial basis risk for weather index insurance

    Michael T. Norton;Calum Turvey;Daniel Osgood

  • Credit scoring for agricultural loans: a review with applications

    C.G. Turvey

  • The relationship between economic value added and the stock market performance of agribusiness firms.

    Calum G. Turvey;Linda Lake;Erna van Duren;David Sparling

  • A farm-level financial analysis of farmers' use of futures and options under alternative farm programs.

    Calum G. Turvey;Timothy G. Baker

  • Borrowing amongst friends: the economics of informal credit in rural China

    Calum G. Turvey;Rong Kong;Xuexi Huo

  • The Impact of Credit Constraints on Farm Households: Survey Results from India and China

    Chandra S. Kumar;Calum G. Turvey;Jaclyn D. Kropp

  • Welfare Impacts of Index Insurance in the Presence of a Poverty Trap

    Sommarat Chantarat;Andrew G. Mude;Christopher B. Barrett;Calum G. Turvey

  • The pricing of degree‐day weather options

    Calum G. Turvey

  • Long-range dependence in the volatility of commodity futures prices: Wavelet-based evidence

    Gabriel J. Power;Calum G. Turvey

  • Whole Farm Income Insurance

    Calum G. Turvey

  • Credit scoring for a federal lending institution: the case of Canada's Farm Credit Corporation.

    C. G. Turvey;R. Brown

  • Weather risk and the viability of weather insurance in China's Gansu, Shaanxi, and Henan provinces

    Calum G. Turvey;Rong Kong

  • Applicability of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Indexin Index-Based Crop Insurance Design

    Megan K. McLaurin;Calum G. Turvey

Frequent Co-Authors

Alfons Weersink
Alfons Weersink University of Guelph
Christopher B. Barrett
Christopher B. Barrett Cornell University
David R. Just
David R. Just Cornell University
Liangzhi You
Liangzhi You International Food Policy Research Institute
Wuyang Hu
Wuyang Hu The Ohio State University
Jerry R. Skees
Jerry R. Skees University of Kentucky
James Hansen
James Hansen Columbia University
Jan W. de Leeuw
Jan W. de Leeuw International Soil Reference and Information Centre
Chandrashekhar Biradar
Chandrashekhar Biradar International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, Egypt
Clement Atzberger
Clement Atzberger BOKU University

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