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general Stochastic Dominance (SD) criteria, focusing on the recent theoretical advances in analyzing portfolio diversification …
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other countries, hedge their consumption basket against ex-change rate risk, realize diversification effects and take …
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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 …
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The industrial diversification of cities is explained without imposing linkages among industries. In each of two city … diversification. …
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Loss of biodiversity is regarded as one of the key problems affecting the environment. In order to demonstrate the significance of biodiversity, the value of individual species or ecosystems today is generally determined in science and practice. The underlying thought is that a species or...
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, 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 …
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Financial conglomerates, combining banking, securities trading, and insurance, have become an important part of the financial landscape in many countries. Cross-sector consolidation has been fostered by trends such as disintermediation, globalization, and deregulation creating new challenges for...
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.g. tourism, mining, timber processing, etc). The promotion of diversification of activities may be an important component of …
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In past years the study of the impact of risk attitude among risks has become a major topic, in particular in Decision Sciences. Subsequently the attention was devoted to the more general case of bivariate random variables. The first approach to multivariate risk aversion was proposed by de...
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. 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 …
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