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Efficiency and Technology Gap in European Apple Production—A Metafrontier Model for Germany, Italy, and Poland

open access: yesAgribusiness, 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
wiley   +1 more source

Access to Finance and Innovation in the Canadian Food Processing

open access: yesAgribusiness, 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
wiley   +1 more source

Performance Sports Group: To Invest or Not to Invest

Case Studies in Sport Management, 2017
In August of 2015, Felix Farmer received notice that he would be inheriting a large sum of money from his great-uncle’s will. Farmer is contemplating investing $50,000 CAD ($38,251 USD) of his inheritance in the parent company of his favorite hockey brand, Bauer.
Erin P. Jackson   +4 more
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Investment Taxation and Portfolio Performance

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006
Taxes have a first-order impact on portfolio returns. Most research mistakenly assumes that portfolios command similar tax burdens, or that tax burdens are proportional to dividend yields. Portfolio strategies differ in the pace of capital gains realization.
Daniel B. Bergstresser   +1 more
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Relational Investing And Firm Performance

Journal of Financial Research, 2003
AbstractA substantial academic and popular literature argues that the performance of American corporations might improve if American corporations had long‐term outside investors (relational investors) who would hold large stakes, actively monitor management performance, and engage with management in setting corporate policy. Institutional investors can
Sanjai Bhagat   +2 more
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COMPONENTS OF INVESTMENT PERFORMANCE*

The Journal of Finance, 1972
THIS PAPER SUGGESTS methods for evaluating investment performance. The topic is not new. Important work has been done by Sharpe [21, 22], Treynor [23], and Jensen [13, 14]. This past work has been concerned with measuring performance in two dimensions, return and risk.
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The Evaluation of Investment Performance

The Journal of Business, 1977
The first question to which the investment theorist addresses himself is, Given a number of assets with known expectations, risks, and correlations, what is an optimum portfolio, that is, a portfolio with the maximum expectation for a given risk? This question has been dealt with exhaustively in a number of publications.
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Appraising Performance of Investment Portfolios

The Journal of Finance, 1970
SEVERAL ARTICLES have been written concerning the appraisal and performance of investment portfolios. This evaluation generally has centered around the performance of mutual funds in comparison to a portfolio composed of stocks from a market index, or on other occasions, portfolios selected at random.' Many of these studies compare portfolio returns ...
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Post-Investment Performance Appraisal

The Journal of Private Equity, 2003
This article reports on the post-investment performance of a group of U.K. companies in which venture capital was invested. Base period field work data are combined with FAME database evidence to track performance, in the light of initial investor-investee relations.
Reid, Gavin C., Smith, Julia A.
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Evaluation of Prospective Investment Performance

The Journal of Finance, 1968
THERE IS CONSIDERABLE PUBLIC INTEREST in the evaluation of investment portfolio performance because of several relatively recent developments. First, a larger proportion of the funds of investment institutions, such as pension funds, investment companies, trust institutions, insurance companies, and endowment funds are held in common stocks.' Also, a ...
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