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The Role of Gender Diversity in Downside Risk: Empirical Evidence from Vietnamese Listed Firms
Mathematics, 2020 Corporate governance has been marked as an important component of the fast-growing pace of the Vietnam economy recently. Aligning with the concern that gender plays a critical role in corporate management, this study aims to reveal the entire benefits of
Cong-Duc Tran +3 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In emerging economies where smallholder farming dominates agricultural production, agribusinesses serve as critical intermediaries linking smallholders to broader markets, and their resilience directly affects agricultural sustainability. Short‐term‐oriented capital is reluctant to adequately finance highly uncertain and cyclical agricultural ...
Siyuan Lyu +5 more
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LLM‐Based Scientific Assistants for Knowledge Extraction: Which Design Choices Matter?
Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.A comprehensive framework for optimizing Large Language Models in domain‐specific applications is introduced. The LLM Playground integrates Prompt Engineering, knowledge augmentation, and advanced reasoning strategies to enable systematic comparison of architectures and base models.
David Exler +7 more
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Crop insurance and irrigation behavior: The conditional role of pumping costs
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Excessive water use for irrigation can accelerate the depletion of water resources, undermining agriculture's resilience to weather‐related shocks. Understanding how farmers make water use decisions is essential for developing effective water management policies.
Sungmin Cheu, Molly Sears
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ESG as protection against downside risk
, 2023 peer ...
Kräussl, Roman +2 more
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Improving access to new technologies: An experiment with Kenyan input sellers
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Agrodealers play a critical role in rural economies, selling essential inputs for agricultural production, stocking new products, and providing farmers with technical advice. However, uncertainty can discourage them from stocking newer, less familiar products, limiting the availability of innovative technologies and leading to market failures ...
Sarah W. Kariuki +6 more
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Measurement of Commodity Price Risk: an overview of Brazilian agricultural markets
Revista de Economia e Sociologia Rural: This study explores different procedures to estimate price risk in commodity markets. Focusing on Brazilian agricultural markets, the paper proposes to assess both dispersion and downside risk measures using five different approaches (volatility ...
Daniel Henrique Dario Capitani +1 more
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Portfolio selection with limited downside risk [PDF]
Journal of Empirical Finance, 2000 A safety-first investor maximizes expected return subject to a downside risk constraint. Arzac and Bawa [Arzac, E.R., Bawa, V.S., 1977. Portfolio choice and equilibrium in capital markets with safety-first investors. Journal of Financial Economics 4, 277–288.] use the Value at Risk as the downside risk measure.
Jansen, DW +2 more
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Risk management externalities in agrifood supply chains
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Firms may under‐ or over‐invest in risk management from the social planner's perspective, resulting in a negative externality on other economic agents in the supply chain. The externality of risk management is particularly relevant for agrifood supply chains, which frequently experience disruptions and play a primary role in preventing major ...
Jeffrey Hadachek, Meilin Ma
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Downside Risk Efficiency Under Market Distress [PDF]
, 2009 In moments of financial distress downside risk measures like lower partial moments are more appropriate than the standard variance to characterize risk. The goal of this paper is to study how to choose optimal portfolios in these periods.
Gonzalo, Jesús, Olmo, José
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