This highly practical guide recognizes the problems of doing business in a recession-prone economy and offers battle-tested strategies and tactics for creating growth through reinvention. Using his own successful small business as a case study, David Gewirtz vividly recounts how…
This study empirically compares the performance of risk parity (RP) investment strategy with other common investment strategies, resulting either from mean variance theory (MVT) - tangent and minimum variance portfolios - or naïve investments such as the 60/40 or the homogeneous…
This dissertation examines plot certification that was carried out in Tigray Region, Ethiopia, in the late 1990s. The program was expected to increase smallholders' tenure security and encourage producers to make key investments on plots that would ultimately increase agricultur…
Commodity investment is fundamentally motivated by a desire to improve the performance of portfolios composed of stocks and bonds. Throughout this paper we analyze the out-of-sample performance effects derived from including commodities in a stock-bond portfolio for seven distin…
The criteria for assessing the success or failure of development process in Kuwait reside in determining the extent to which the development outcomes are successful in bringing more economic diversification and preparation for the anticipated non-oil future. The dissertation arg…
In this dissertation, I use economic tools to address pressing issues associated with designing and managing conservation programs and evaluating the effectiveness of those programs. In the first essay, I derive the levels of policy instruments such as lump sum payments and annu…
Practitioners and academics believe holding a diversified portfolio provides investors a higher rate of return and a lower level of risk. Researchers studying portfolio diversification utilize broad market indices of each country to evaluate potential diversification benefits. T…
Two dominant traditional subsistence economies characterize Central Maluku, eastern Indonesia. One is a coastal strand/maritime-based economy in which marine resources play a central role. The other is an arboreal-based terrestrial economy in which forest resources play a domina…
This study investigated diversification activities of media firms and their impacts on financial performance. It adopted a pooled cross-sectional and time-series methodology. Data came from the top 26 media firms over a 12-year time period (1991 to 2002). Although most media stu…
Expectations regarding the contributions of academics to entrepreneurial activity in addition to their primary role of carrying out teaching and research have increased in recent years. Nevertheless, research on academic entrepreneurship has, to date, been carried out mainly in …
It is well established in the financial economics literature that potential gains from international diversification are generated from the imperfect correlation between national stock market returns. This empirical study explores the factors that impede perfect integration amon…
This is a collection of studies on the ecologies of European cities, including Paris, Zurich, and Amsterdam among others. Its discussion includes the natural and historical development of each city, local flora, the environmental impact of city growth, and environmental planning…
The economy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) suffered from major structural problems during the last two decades. Massive subsidies, inefficient industries, and the lack of a fully developed free-market system all hampered the ability of the Kingdom to pull itself out of its…
Phylogenetic trees are key objects for understanding evolutionary history, first used to describe relationships between groups of species. Phylogenies help us to fill out the tree of life and to describe the dynamics that have given rise to the diversity of life on Earth. As we …
Handloom and handicraft are deeply embedded in tradition and rituals of our everyday life.Either in form of utility or artifact it has always made us contented. Being playing these roles, it is also a major source of income generation in Indian economy. It contributes through bo…