Financing Rural America

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• Preface (PDF, 9K)
  Craig S. Hakkio
  Senior Vice President and Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
  
  John E. Yorke
  Senior Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

• Financing Rural America: A Conference Summary (PDF, 52K)
  Mark Drabenstott
  Vice President and Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
  
  Larry Meeker
  Vice President and Director of Community Affairs, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

• Keynote Address: Where Are Rural Capital Markets Headed? (PDF, 507K)
  Marvin Duncan
  Professor, North Dakota State University

• Liquidity and Competition in Rural Credit Markets (PDF, 178K)
  Peter J. Barry
  Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Illinois
  
  Paul N. Ellinger
  Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Illinois

Commentary (PDF, 13K)
Thomas H. Stanton
Fellow, Johns Hopkins University

Commentary (PDF, 20K)
James A. Hansen
Director of Banking and Finance, State of Nebraska

• Improving Secondary Markets in Rural America (PDF, 292K)
  Kerry D. Vandell
  Tiefenthaler Professor and Director, Center for Urban Land Economics Research, University of Wisconsin

Commentary (PDF, 80K)
Frank L. Altman
President, Community Reinvestment Fund, Minneapolis

• Implications of Banking Consolidation for the Financing of Rural America (PDF, 51K)
  R. Alton Gilbert
  Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Commentary (PDF, 28K)
Kenneth A. Guenther
Executive Vice President, Independent Bankers Association of America

• Luncheon Address: What Role for Public Policy in Rural Capital Markets? (PDF, 57K)
  Dayton J. Watkins
  Administrator, Rural Business Cooperative Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture

• Developing Rural Equity Capital Markets (PDF, 80K)
  David J. Brophy
  Professor, Business School, University of Michigan

Commentary (PDF, 15K)
Dennis D. Roedemeier
Executive Director, Missouri Enterprise Business Assistance Center

• Closing Panel: Improving Rural Capital Markets
  

Emery N. Castle, Moderator (PDF, 13K)
Professor, Oregon State University

Alan R. Tubbs (PDF, 20K)
President, Citizens State Bank, Maquoketa, Iowa, and former president, American Bankers Association

Douglas D. Sims (PDF, 10K)
Chief Executive Officer, CoBank, Denver

Kathleen Beery (PDF, 11K)
Administrator for the Division of Community and Rural Development, Iowa Department of Economic Development

Gary Warren (PDF, 27K)
Executive Vice President, Hamilton Telecommunications, Aurora, Nebraska

• Contributors (PDF, 23K)

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