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Jurnal Akuntansi, 2020 Stocks as an investment instrument that categorized as a high risk dan high return instrument. Therefore, investors should distributed their invesment funds in a number of shares by forming an optimal portfolio where the highest return is obtain at a ...
Dini Iskandar +2 more
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Why Didn't I Get a Payout? Understanding Farmer Choices, Index Insurance, and Basis Risk
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Index insurance, while heralded as a potential solution to alleviate poverty and food insecurity among agricultural households, has its own set of challenges, notably basis risk. Basis risk is the discrepancy between the insurance payout and losses incurred, posing a significant deterrent to the adoption of index insurance.
S. Lucille Blakeley +4 more
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Increased frequency of extreme weather events, particularly droughts, threatens grassland farming by destabilizing yields and farms' economic viability. We examine, theoretically and through numerical simulations, how sown plant diversity (natural insurance) influences the attractiveness of indemnity and drought index insurance (formal ...
Nicolas Alou +3 more
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Modeling asset allocations and a new portfolio performance score. [PDF]
Digit Finance, 2021 Chalkis A +3 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 had profound consequences for the global economy. As both countries are major commodity exporters, the food value chain was also affected. This study investigates the impact of the invasion on stock prices, profitability and sentiments of agribusinesses along the food supply chain by using an ...
Julia Höhler +2 more
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Alternative measures and decomposition of mutual funds portfolio performance [PDF]
Bankarstvo, 2018 In addition to the well-established and most commonly used portfolio performance measures, both in theory and practice - the Sharpe ratio, the Treynor ratio and the Jensen's or alpha index, the financial literature also includes other alternative ...
Leković Miljan
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The diversifying role of socially responsible investments during the COVID-19 crisis: A risk management and portfolio performance analysis. [PDF]
Econ Anal Policy, 2022 Díaz A, Esparcia C, López R.
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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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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor +3 more
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From Ratings to Returns: Exploring the Impact of ESG Ratings on Portfolio Returns in Egypt [PDF]
MSA-Management Sciences JournalThis paper aims at investigating the impact of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) scores on portfolio performance within the Egyptian market in the period from January 2020 to December 2022.
Dalia El Mosallamy, Ayat Saleh Mansoury
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