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Why is GDP growth so much more volatile in poor countries than in rich ones? We identify four possible reasons: (i) poor countries specialize in more volatile sectors; (ii) poor countries specialize in fewer sectors; (iii) poor countries experience more frequent and more severe aggregate shocks...
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diversification. Production makes use of different input varieties, which are subject to imperfectly correlated shocks. Technological … the number of varieties in our model provides diversification benefits against variety-specific shocks and it can hence …
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Why is GDP growth so much more volatile in poor countries than in rich ones? We identify four possible reasons: (i) poor countries specialize in more volatile sectors; (ii) poor countries specialize in fewer sectors; (iii) poor countries experience more frequent and more severe aggregate shocks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744831
This paper addresses the questions of the effects of diversification strategies on firms' profitability. Empirical … analyses do not seem to confirm the hypothesis that diversification is the optimal response to the presence of synergies and …
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, it is only relatively recently that rural poverty decline has become strongly linked to diversification of the village …
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benefit of greater diversification in terms of higher monitoring dominates the costs of free-riding and duplication of efforts …
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hazard between entrepreneurs and investors. Diversification could mitigate the moral hazard problem. However for a single … paper we show that delegation can be the only way to exploit the gains from diversification when overload costs of … diversification are high; delegation thus is the key ingredient to be able to diversify. …
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Lack of access to finance is often cited as a key reason why poor people remain poor. This paper uses data on the Indian rural branch expansion program to provide empirial evidence on this issue. Between 1977 and 1990, the Indian Central Bank mandated that a commercial bank can open a branch in...
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standard correlation-based definition of neutrality. Variance neutrality, Value-at-Risk neutrality and tail neutrality all … relate to the neutrality of the risk of the hedge fund to market risks. Finally, complete neutrality. corresponds to … one-quarter of these funds exhibit some significant exposure to market risk. …
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Debates about urban growth and change often center on specialization.However, arguments linking specialization to metropolitan economic development contain diverse, and sometimes conflicting, claims. Is it better to be highly specialized or diversified? Does specialization refer to the absolute...
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