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ICT adoption and income diversification among rural households in China

Applied Economics, 2020
Although the determinants of income diversification have been widely examined in the literature, little is known about whether and how information and communication technology (ICT) adoption affects household income diversification.
Chenxin Leng, Wanglin Ma, Jianjun Tang, Zhongkun Zhu   +3 more
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Export product diversification and CO2 emissions: Contextual evidences from developing and developed economies

, 2020
Ascertaining cleaner production and sustainability is a major issue in the developed and developing world; income and international trade are the predominant factors behind this.
U. Shahzad, Diogo Ferraz, Buhari Doğan, Daisy Aparecida do Nascimento Rebelatto   +3 more
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Farm diversification as an adaptation strategy to climatic shocks and implications for food security in northern Namibia

World Development, 2020
Limited non-farm opportunities in the rural areas of the developing world, coupled with population growth, means agriculture will continue to play a dominant role as a source of livelihood in these areas.
Chalmers K. Mulwa, M. Visser
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Financial crisis, bank diversification, and financial stability: OECD countries

, 2020
Using a sample of commercial banks based in OECD countries, we investigate the effect of bank diversification on financial stability and find a significantly nonlinear (i.e., inverted U-shaped) relationship.
Hakkon Kim, J. Batten, Doojin Ryu
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Bank diversification, economic diversification? [PDF]

, 2006
Business cycle volatility has fallen in the United States during the past two decades. Trehan (2005) explains some of the possible mechanisms behind our now more stable economy. Some researchers have argued, for instance, that businesses manage inventory better today than in the past, or that innovations in financial markets have helped smooth out ...
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"Homemade" Diversification vs. Corporate Diversification

The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 1967
In a recent article in this Journal, Jacob B. Michaelson and Robert C. Goshay (hereafter M-G) argue that the rule of maximizing share values does not adequately explain the portfolio selection practices of financial intermediaries. Moreover, M-G suggest that their analysis “has ramifications that reach far beyond financial intermediaries.” In ...
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Corporate diversification

Review of Accounting and Finance, 2018
Purpose The purpose of this study is to compare two theories that relate the proportion of diversified firms in the economy and the implied discount for diversified firms: the first is a real-options model predicting a positive relationship between the ...
G. Smith, Jeffrey M. Coy
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Heterogeneous impact of livelihood diversification on household welfare: Cross-country evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

World Development, 2019
This article investigates the empirical linkages between crop and livelihood diversification strategies, extreme weather events, and household welfare using a unique dataset that integrates harmonized, national representative household surveys and geo ...
S. Asfaw, A. Scognamillo, Gloria Di Caprera, N. Sitko, A. Ignaciuk   +4 more
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Optimal Versus Naive Diversification: How Inefficient is the 1/N Portfolio Strategy?

, 2009
V. DeMiguel, Lorenzo Garlappi, Raman Uppal   +2 more
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Household strategies and rural livelihood diversification

, 1998
F. Ellis
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