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Style, Fees and Performance of Italian Equity Funds
Cesari, R.; Panetta, F. - Banca d'Italia - 1998
Using a clustering procedure, we classify Italian funds ex-post on the basis of the composition of their portfolios and find that the optimal number of clusters is equal to 4. The four groups which result from the statistical classification closely match the 4-level aggregation of the 20 ex-ante...
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The choice of alternative corporate governance systems: ownership structures and performance in Italian unlisted firms in 2008
Pellegrini, Carlo Bellavite; Pellegrini, Laura; Sironi, … - In: International Journal of Trade and Global Markets 6 (2013) 3, pp. 242-261
The 2003 Italian corporate law reform, which established one-tier and two-tier boards for listed and unlisted joint stock companies, introduced alternative corporate governance systems. In addition to the traditional model, which, at least in its basic features, continues to be used by the...
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Comment on “Communicating earthquake risk to the public: the trial of the ‘L’Aquila Seven’” by David E. Alexander
Gabrielli, Franco; Bucci, Daniela - In: Natural Hazards 75 (2015) 1, pp. 991-998
of Civil Protection of Italy and, in particular, to the Italian Department of Civil Protection. As civil servants of this …
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Market Size, the Informational Content of Stock Prices and Risk: A Multiasset Model and some Evidence
Pagano, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1986
of stock prices as predictors of future dividends. This paper analyses the relationship between market size and risk as …
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Klimaresilienz durch Agrobiodiversität? Literaturstudie zum Zusammenhang zwischen Elementen der Agrobiodiversität und der Empfindlichkeit von landwirtschaftlichen Produktionssystem...
Petersen, Ute; Weigel, Hans-Joachim - Bundesforschungsinstitut für Lädliche Räume, Wald … - 2015
Im globalen und regionalen Kontext wird wiederholt auf eine Diversifizierung der Agrarproduktion von der genetischen über die Betriebs- bis hin zur Landschaftsebene als eine entscheidende Maßnahme zur Anpassung an den Klimawandel hingewiesen. Allgemein bekannt ist, dass für die züchterische...
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Natural Disasters and Agriculture: Individual Risk Preferences towards Flooding
Sauer, Johannes - Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften … - 2011
. It suggest a microeconometric method for measuring flooding related risk preferences of affected individuals. The method …-experimental approach to measure differences in the risk attitudes of farmers located in high flooding risk areas versus farmers located in … low flooding risk areas is followed. Changes in flooding risk related behaviour over time is analysed and marginal effects …
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Which type of crop insurance for Kazakhstan? Empirical results
Heidelbach, Olaf; Bokusheva, Raushan; Kussaiynov, Talgat - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2004
Risk plays an important role in agricultural decision-making, particularly in those regions that are remarkably exposed … conditions, risk attitudes and risk management techniques with respect to the requirements of a functioning crop insurance system …Risiko spielt eine wichtige Rolle im Entscheidungsprozess landwirtschaftlicher Unternehmer, insbesondere in Regionen …
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Crop insurance in transition: a qualitative and quantitative assessment of insurance products
Bokusheva, Raushan - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2004
This discussion paper considers insurance as a possible instrument of farm income stabilization and compares several crop insurance products with respect to their applicability in a transition economy using the case of Kazakhstan. The analysis is based on a qualitative evaluation as well a...
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OECD’s work on agricultural policy: A bridge between research and government
Cahill, Carmel - In: Journal of International Agricultural Trade and Development 59
The role of the OECD in linking the research and policy communities is described as well as the processes whereby OECD member countries scrutinize the work undertaken. A major project on decoupling of agricultural policy measures is used to illustrate the approaches and processes used. Attention...
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Risikoberücksichtigung in der nicht parametrischen Effizienzanalyse: Auswirkungen auf die Effizienzbewertung von deutschen Schweinemastbetrieben
Tiedemann, Torben; Breustedt, Gunnar; Latacz-Lohmann, Uwe - In: Journal of International Agricultural Trade and Development 60 (2011) 4
In diesem Beitrag werden zwei Modellansätze zur Integration von Risiko in die Data Envelopment Analyse (DEA … angewendet. Beide Ansätze bilden das Risiko des Gesamtbetriebs in Form der Schwankungen des betrieblichen Gesamtdeckungsbeitrags … der Ergebnisse mit denen eines Standard-DEA-Modells wird gezeigt, dass die Berücksichtigung von Risiko zu veränderten …
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