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Stock Market Literacy, Trust, and Participation [PDF]

open access: yesReview of Finance, 2014
Abstract This article studies the importance of stock market literacy and trust for stock ownership decisions. We find that these two distinct channels simultaneously explain not only the probability of participation, but, conditional on participation, also explain the share of investment in stocks.
Balloch, A., Nicolae, A., Philip, D.
openaire   +2 more sources

Commercialization of Moringa: Evidence from Southern Ethiopia

open access: yesCogent Economics & Finance, 2020
The policies in Ethiopia to advance the commercial orientation of farmers need identification of challenges at farmer level and exhaustive actions to shift the farm sector.
Alula Tafesse   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Decentralized Bribery and Market Participation [PDF]

open access: yesThe Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2014
AbstractI propose a bribery model that examines decentralized bureaucratic decision‐making. There are multiple stable equilibria. High levels of bribery reduce an economy's productivity because corruption suppresses small business, and reduces the total graft, even though the size of an individual bribe might increase.
openaire   +4 more sources

Labor Force Participation Dynamics in the Romanian Labor Market [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
We use micro data from the Romanian Labor Force Survey to analyze the effect of the restructuring process on the Romanian labor market. We identify the reallocation mechanisms at work in the Romanian labor market, and we analyze the way personal ...
Voicu, Alexandru
core   +3 more sources

Smallholder Commercialization and Urban-Rural Linkages: Effect of Interest-Free Agriculture Credit on Market Participation of Rice Growers in Pakistan

open access: yesLand, 2020
This study estimates the effect of interest-free agriculture credit on the market participation and urban-rural linkages of rice growers in Pakistan. A survey was conducted to collect primary data using purposive and simple random sampling techniques ...
Ali Sher   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Increasing smallholder farmers’ market participation through technology adoption in rural Timor‐Leste

open access: yesAsia & the Pacific Policy Studies, 2021
This study examines the role of high‐yielding maize varieties as one of the key drivers of smallholder farmers’ market participation in a highly subsistence rural economy.
Sonia Akter   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of Market Participation on Household Food Security among Smallholder Irrigators in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

open access: yesAgriculture, 2022
Food insecurity is a global challenge. The reduction of hunger is a Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) target widely seen as a measure for evaluating the progress of the well-being of rural people.
Thobani Cele, Maxwell Mudhara
doaj   +1 more source

Liquidity and market participation

open access: yesJournal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 1994
zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
openaire   +5 more sources

A methionine‐lined active site governs carbocation stabilization and product specificity in a bacterial terpene synthase

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
This study reveals a unique active site enriched in methionine residues and demonstrates that these residues play a critical role by stabilizing carbocation intermediates through novel sulfur–cation interactions. Structure‐guided mutagenesis further revealed variants with significantly altered product profiles, enhancing pseudopterosin formation. These
Marion Ringel   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Innovation platform for improving rice marketing decisions among smallholder farmers in Homa-Bay County, Kenya

open access: yesCogent Food & Agriculture, 2020
Smallholder farmers are normally faced with making a decision on market participation and consequently choosing the appropriate marketing channel for their agricultural produce.
Matilda A. Ouma   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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