enterprise diversification. The results suggest that quantifying the impacts of socioeconomic factors on variability of net farm …-section data, increases in interest costs, age, and diversification were found to have positive relationships with net income … variability. However, only the diversification variable was significant when deviations below mean net farm income were used as …

of the household are also very important factors that impact on the diversification level of the households. …

informational rents. Therefore, asymmetric information pushes the manufacturer away from diversification and towards sole …-sourcing. Surprisingly, the additional cost that asymmetric information imposes on diversification may cause the manufacturer to cease … information. Despite these trends away from diversification, the value of the dual-sourcing option should not be underestimated …

Dramatic increases in concentration in the seed business, coupled with aggressive efforts to vertically integrate the …

liquidity on the dispersion and mean of industry productivity distributions, as well as on industry concentration measures using … associated with a decline in industry concentration measures. This is consistent with predictions from the standard industry … alternative measures of dispersion and concentration, and alternative methods of estimating total factor productivity. …