Results 41 to 50 of about 2,361 (255)

Deforestation and Efficiency: Insights From Forest Transition in the Brazilian Cerrado

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper estimates technical efficiency (TE) and environmental efficiency (EE) of agricultural production at the municipal level of the Brazilian Cerrado in 2006 and 2017, and investigates their underlying mechanisms in relation to forest transition theory.
Ricardo Muniz Simões, Cassiano Bragagnolo, Humberto Francisco Silva Spolador   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Accounting for animal health in efficiency analysis: An application to Swedish dairy farms

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Poor animal health is a central concern in modern livestock production. Despite the necessity to incorporate animal health in efficiency analysis, the theoretical and empirical developments are limited on this subject. This article appropriately characterizes the axiomatic properties of animal health within a production framework.
Frederic Ang, Enoch Owusu‐Sekyere, Karin Alvåsen, Helena Hansson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

How wildlife respond to tropical cyclones: short‐term tactics and long‐term impacts

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT From butterflies to lizards and from sharks to seabirds, wildlife exhibit tactics to survive the impacts of tropical cyclones, also known as hurricanes, cyclones, or typhoons depending on where they occur. Some species seek refuge during the storm by moving, some remain in place and ride it out, and others move longer distances, avoiding the ...
Erin L. Koen, Mohamed Khalil Meliane, Zachery B. Holmes, Karl E. Miller, William J. Barichivich, Emilie Dedeban, Alex Furst, Miranda Imeri, Peyton E. Niebanck, Samantha Nunn, Kailee Pearson, Nicole Rita, Brier Ryver, Dakotah Shaffer, Susan C. Walls, E. Hance Ellington   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Examination of Herding Behavior in the Brazilian Equity Market

BBR: Brazilian Business Review, 2021
The aim of the present study is to investigate herding behavior in the Brazilian stock market. This bias is quite common in times of market downturns and can cause investors to suffer large losses.
Patrícia Fernanda Correia Lima Signorelli, Eduardo Camilo-da-Silva, Claudio Henrique da Silveira Barbedo   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Role of Illusion of Control Bias in Herding Behaviour

Adarsh Journal of Management Research, 2015
Herding is a behavior that follows the decision of the majority and is described as an imitation behavior resulting from individual factors and often leading to inefficient outcomes for the market as a whole. Information assymetry plays a major role in herding and so does other behavioural biases.
openaire   +2 more sources

Impact of herding behavior and overconfidence bias on investors’ decision-making in Pakistan

Accounting, 2019
La toma de decisiones de los inversores está influenciada por ciertos sesgos como se informa en la literatura. El análisis fundamental se basa en el supuesto de que los inversores piensan racionalmente, pero en la práctica, las cosas pueden ser diferentes.
Muhammad Qasim, Rana Yassir Hussain, Intkhab Mehboob, Muhammad Usman Arshad   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

A new conceptualization of investor sophistication and its impact on herding and overconfidence bias

Investment Management and Financial Innovations, 2022
Despite the success of behavioral finance, the question of whether behavioral biases persist in the face of expertise is an oft-expressed concern. It becomes pertinent to explore if investor sophistication is associated with behavioral biases, as traders gain sophistication with experience and knowledge.
Ashutosh Yadav, Deepshikha Yadav, Ishan Kashyap Hazarika   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Examining ESG Performance Through TNFD‐Aligned Disclosure Practices

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines adherence to the Taskforce on Nature‐related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) framework in relation to the ESG performance of non‐financial and non‐utility S&P 500 firms. Drawing on legitimacy, stakeholder, and institutional monitoring theories, we construct measures of TNFD, nature‐related risk and opportunity indicators for ...
Dauda Bola Abdulsalam, Duminda Kuruppuarachchi, Helen Roberts   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The influence of emotional intelligence and behavioural biases on mutual fund churning frequency: Evidence from India

Acta Psychologica
Behavioural finance invalidates the rationalistic assumptions of the efficient market hypothesis by proposing a realistic explanation for overreaction and underreaction.
R. Annapurna, Savitha Basri
doaj   +1 more source

From Ecological Culture to Green Innovation: The Role of Ethnic Minority Corporate Leaders in China

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Do ecological values embedded in ethnic cultures influence the environmental strategies of corporate leaders and their firms' green innovation? We examine this question in China's multiethnic context, where distinct ecological traditions across ethnic groups create sharp cultural contrasts that can be traced into leadership composition and ...
Yuan Du, Yingxin Di, Wei Cui
wiley   +1 more source