Analisis Pendapatan dan Kelayakan USAhatani Kelapa dalam di Desa Kasoloang Kecamatan Bambaira Kabupaten Mamuju Utara Provinsi Sulawesi Barat

Low and fluctuating income of coconut farming systems per land unit area cannot support their farmers to live up to the standard of living. Effort to improve their income could be achieved through increasing the value added of coconut and kopra products sold by the farmers. This study aims to determine the feasibility of coconut farming systemin Kasoloang village Bambaira subdistrict of North Mamuju regency. This research was conducted in June to July 2015. Respondents of 34 coconut farmers were randomly sampled and data collected was analyzed using feasibility and income analysis. The income of the coconut farmers was IDR 6,586,731/ha. The revenue of cost ratio was 2 indicating that the farming system is feasible to be developed

Identifying Bank Lending Channel in Indonesia: a Vector Error Correction Approach with Structural Break

There was a question whether monetary policy works through bank lending channelrequired a monetary-induced change in bank loans originates from the supply side. Mostempirical studies that employed vector autoregressive (VAR) models failed to fulfill thisrequirement. Aiming to offer a solution to this identification problem, this paper developed afive-variable vector error correction (VEC) model of two separate bank credit markets inIndonesia. Departing from previous studies, the model of each market took account of onestructural break endogenously determined by implementing a unit root test. A cointegrationtest that took account of one structural break suggested two cointegrating vectors identifiedas bank lending supply and demand relations. The estimated VEC system for both marketssuggested that bank loans adjusted more strongly in the direction of the supply equation