We explore the link between portfolio home bias and consumption risk sharing among Italian regions using aggregated household level information on consumption, income and portfolio holdings. We propose to use data on equity fund ownership to proxy for regional home bias: equity funds are typically diversified at the national or international level and will therefore provide interregional divers...

Livelihood diversification is an integral component of household income. Diversification determinants were estimated. Multistage sampling was adopted, and primary data analyzed using descriptive statistics Logit regression. Socioeconomic factors affected livelihoods. Several activities derivable benefits are indicated. Variations in decisions attributable to the regression variables. Policy mod...

As farm income from tobacco production has declined in recent years, there has been increasing interest in identifying alternative sources of income for tobacco farmers in the southern United States The recent termination of the tobacco quota program has accelerated the exit of tobacco farmers and has heightened concern regarding the availability of substitutes for tobacco production. In this s...

Firms pursue diversification for sake enhancing financial performance. Some theories state positive relationship between diversification and financial performance. However, there are some theories for negative relationship about the issue. The study has filled the gap that most studies done in developed countries and there are fewer studies in developing country like Malaysia. In this study, re...

Commercial crop diversity is currently an important approach for increasing agricultural profitability and reducing the risk of failure. Diversification can also be used to aid in poverty reduction, employment planning environmental conservation. Growing a variety crops does not guarantee increased returns, though it may help stabilise them. leads profit maximisation by taking use complementary...

Abstract Climate change and soil degradation are the issues depleting soil's ability to promote good yield. One of ways combat this is practice conservation agriculture (CA). This study was carried out explore investigate impact CA. Multinomial endogenous switching regression model cross-sectional data were used determinants adoption CA on income smallholder maize farmers in Mpumalanga Province...

The purpose of this research was to determine the effect credit risk and income diversification on commercial bank performance in Kenya. Impaired loans total were used measure risk. Net interest net non-interest diversification. study's population consisted thirty-nine Kenyan banks. study, which spanned eight years from 2013 2020, relied secondary data audited annual financial statements. colle...

We established the factors influencing income diversification, and linkage between diversification economic welfare of rural households, in Volta Region Ghana, using data from 894 randomly-selected obtained through latest round Ghana Living Standards Survey undertaken by Statistical Service October 2016 to 2017. The overall household measured Simpson Index was positively influenced age head, re...