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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
What promotes biological diversity? Accurately recognising and describing patterns of diversity is fundamental to understanding the evolutionary and ecological processes underpinning diversification. The history of living organisms is expressed at multiple dimensions, ranging fr…
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…
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…
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 …
Diversification is primarily a function of two processes—speciation and adaptation—that shape the history and trajectory of evolutionary lineages. These processes are often interdependent and are shaped by biotic and abiotic factors including existing and evolvable genetic varia…
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 …