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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The penetration of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in farming communities is increasing the use of smartphone‐based instant messaging apps. Despite this, the reasons behind participation and the impact on farm productivity in developing countries remain unexplored.
Zafar Kurbanov +4 more
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Institutional investor distraction and corporate fraud: Evidence from China
International Review of Economics & FinanceThe monitoring effectiveness of institutional investors is closely related to their attention allocation. Drawing on limited attention theory, this paper investigates how institutional investor distraction affects corporate fraud using a sample of ...
Haifang Wang, Dongjun Fan
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Contract farming is a viable strategy agribusinesses rely on to strengthen coordination across actors in the value chain. However, low contract compliance remains a significant setback to agribusinesses' contract performance in low‐ and middle‐income country context.
Umar Shehu Umar +2 more
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Equity Style Returns and Institutional Investor Flows [PDF]
This paper explores institutional investor trades in stocks grouped by style and the relationship of these trades with equity market returns. It aggregates transactions drawn from a large universe of approximately $6 trillion of institutional funds.
Kenneth A. Froot, Melvyn Teo
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT EU member states have exhibited varying rates of apple production growth. Technical efficiency (TE) estimation is suitable for identifying best‐practice farm performance. This study examined whether the development of the apple sector in Germany, Italy, and Poland was influenced by production efficiency, access to technology, as well as ...
Anika Muder, Jakub Staniszewski
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The Securities Act and its Effect Upon the Institutional Investor [PDF]
, 1937 Kuhn, C. John
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Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Innovation is a presumed channel through which finance affects productivity, yet there is limited research testing the relationship between finance and innovation in the food manufacturing sector. The purpose of the paper is to explore the determinants (e.g., financing, R&D, firm size, expenditure on innovation) of the adoption of innovation ...
Getu Hailu, Deepananda Herath
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International Risk Sharing and Investor Protection: Some Evidence from the EU-15 [PDF]
This note analyzes consumption risk sharing among the EU-15 countries. It is found that the reaction of consumption growth rates to idiosyncratic income growth is too sensitive to be consistent with perfect risk sharing.
Johann Scharler
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Nordic welfare financiers made global portfolio investors : institutional change in pension fund governance in Sweden and Finland [PDF]
, 2010 Pension funds have lately emerged as an essential field of study in various disciplines within social sciences. Political economists, economic geographers and some social policy researchers have studied the role of pension funds very broadly for instance
Roumpakis, Antonios, Sorsa, Ville-Pekka
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Institutional Investors and Stock Market Volatility [PDF]
We present a theory of excess stock market volatility, in which market movements are due to trades by very large institutional investors in relatively illiquid markets. Such trades generate significant spikes in returns and volume, even in the absence of
H. Eugene Stanley +3 more
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