concerned with their welfare) in agricultural diversification strategies. However, empirical research on diversification in … between different diversification strategies and farm performance (farm growth rates). The results of fixed- and random …-effect models for approx. 3,900 farms in Schleswig-Holstein for the period 1988/89-1997/98 show that diversification into related …

of on-farm diversification. Using linked census data for Upper-Austria from 1980, 1985 and 1990 we provide evidence that … farms. A significantly lower degree of diversification (higher degree of specialisation) as well as a stronger reduction in … diversification over time is also reported for businesses operated by older, less educated, part-time farm operators. The analysis of …

A positive relationship between firm size and product diversification is a long-standing stylized fact. However, so far …

We present empirical evidence on diversification patterns in Italian manufacturing firms and detect a robust … relationship between firm size and diversification levels, with an elasticity of diversification that does not depend on firm size … and is well below unity. Diversification does not lead to decreased corporate risk when measured in terms of the growth …