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. …

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

also strengthened the incentives for mergers within the industry. Concentration of quota shares with fewer and bigger … companies has lately been accelerating. Along with a general liberalisation of the economic policy in Iceland, there seems to be …

, but now it is possible to study how the system works in real settings. Two countries, New Zealand and Iceland, have … adopted ITQ's as an overall fisheries management system on a national level. In Iceland, fish quotas were made transferable …-regime. In Iceland the demand for quotas is influenced by unemployment and lack of alternative sources of income for fishermen …