.g. tourism, mining, timber processing, etc). The promotion of diversification of activities may be an important component of …

. The advantage to the earlier efficiency tests is that the proposed approach explicitly accounts for diversification …. Allowing for diversification can both improve the power of the empirical SD tests, and enable SD based portfolio optimization …

general Stochastic Dominance (SD) criteria, focusing on the recent theoretical advances in analyzing portfolio diversification …

other countries, hedge their consumption basket against ex-change rate risk, realize diversification effects and take …

the determinants of livelihood diversification away from agriculture as well as the manner in which different agro …-ecological determinants affect such diversification. The probability of participating in non-agricultural activities was estimated in an …-climactic variables were found to determine the nature of diversification. Against the backdrop of the recent deagrarianisation thesis …

, this way of looking at the situation is inadequate. Biodiversity, rather like a share portfolio or a portfolio of insurance …

, favoring an agency explanation for unrelated diversification. In the 1960s, however, conglomerates were not valued at a … discount. Evidence from acquisition histories suggests that conglomerate diversification may have added value by creating …

Financial conglomerates, combining banking, securities trading, and insurance, have become an important part of the …

The industrial diversification of cities is explained without imposing linkages among industries. In each of two city … diversification. …