assets and hedge fund returns and examines their effects on the assumptions of linearity-in-the-mean testing and portfolio … assumption of linearity required for the covariance matrix in portfolio selection. To examine the linearity assumption as it … relates to a mean-variance investor, a hypothesis test approach is employed which investigates the linearity-in-the-mean of …

section reviews EC policies on sustainability in transport and logistics. The main part of the analysis concentrates on the …

In the past two decades, clusters have received widespread attention as an instrument for enabling firms to overcome … throughout time. In the 21st century a lot of work has been done towards the system approach of clusters and the policies that … preliminary stage of a PhD research project concerning the possibility of construction clusters in the region of Crete. …

Much of the literature on clusters has focused on the economic advantages of clusters and how these can be achieved in …’s boundaries. The paper concludes that HRM can assist in generating rents for firms and clusters more broadly when the function …

inexistem clusters no estado de MS; quanto aos pólos de crescimento, foi identificado em Ivinhema, o Pólo mandioqueiro, sem …-industrial clusters of Mato Grosso of Sul (MS), based of the available methodologies of local development. The importance of this study if … it gave for the fact to identify the industrial clusters (Local Systems of Production) distributed by the territory of …

Why do biotech firms cluster? New and established firms in biotech clusters are said to capitalize on knowledge … mechanism by which clusters might contribute to the establishment of new firms. This paper proposes a conceptual framework for …