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Charting the Path to Increased Oil Palm Output in Ghana Beyond Area Expansion: Technology or Managerial Capacity — Which Leads the Way?

open access: yesAgribusiness, 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
wiley   +1 more source

On the out-of-sample predictability of stock market returns [PDF]

open access: yes
In this paper, we provide new evidence of the out-of-sample predictability of stock returns. In particular, we find that the consumption-wealth ratio in conjunction with a measure of aggregate stock market volatility exhibits substantial out-of-sample ...
Hui Guo
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Stock price fragility in an emerging market [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Includes bibliographical references.This research project examines stock price fragility, a measure developed by Greenwood and Thesmar (2011), which serves as a proxy for non-fundamental risk i.e.
Nairac, Jean-Michel
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Is Youth's Engagement in Agribusiness an Opportunity or a Necessity? A Closer Look at the Situation in South Kivu, Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the broad focus on necessity‐ and opportunity‐driven entrepreneurship in research and policy, the entrepreneurial dichotomy within the agribusiness context has not been adequately addressed. This study contributes to closing this knowledge gap by examining youth's perceptions of agribusiness through the lens of the push‐pull motivation
Cool Dady Mangole   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Analysis of Seasonal Return Anomalies in the Portuguese Stock Market [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper assesses the existence of persistent seasonal effects in the daily returns of the Portuguese stock market. We use daily data on the stock market index to study long-lasting differences in returns across the days of the week, within months and ...
Nuno C. Martins, Miguel Balbina
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Return and Volatility Spillovers Among Major Cotton Markets

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores return and volatility transmission among major cotton markets. Several events have disrupted cotton supply and demand in recent years, leading to heightened price volatility and significant shifts in market interconnections.
Susmitha Kalli   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

TESTING THE EFFICIENCY MARKET HYPOTHESIS FOR THE ROMANIAN STOCK MARKET [PDF]

open access: yes
Efficient Market Hypothesis has dominated the field of research on capital markettheory. It states that asset prices are rationally connected to economic realities and alwaysincorporate all the information available to the market. In this way, securities
Bogdan Dima, Laura Raisa Milos
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Does a Specialized Niche Market Vegetable Processor Enjoy Bargaining Power?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Agribusiness companies may achieve competitive advantage through specialization within niche markets. One such niche is the fresh‐cut fruit and vegetable market, which has been steadily growing in Germany. This study examines whether the specialization of a German fresh‐cut producer grants it with market power within this niche market.
Nikolas Bublik   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Predictability in Stock Returns in an Emerging Market: Evidence from KSE 100 Stock Price Index [PDF]

open access: yes
We investigate the persistence in monthly KSE100 excess stock returns over the Treasury bills rates using non-Gaussian state space or unobservable component model with stable distributions and volatility persistence.
Khurshid M. Kiani
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