Abstract In the past few years, diversification has turned into a highly controversial issue amongst numerous managers in almost each and every business. It is contended by many that diversification is vitally important and highly effective especially when it comes to evaluating the financial performance. There are several studies about the relationship between diversification and financial per...

the studies performed regarding the reasons for villagers’ migration to cities confirm the fact that the motivation for migrants to migrate is to attain higher incomes. the proposed method in this research to recuce migration is to transform the farmer into portfolio entrepreneurs. the applicability of this method to increase farmers' income to reduce their migration is tested throughout t...

In one-good international macro models with non-diversifiable labor income risk country portfolios are heavily biased toward foreign assets. The fact that the opposite pattern of diversification is observed empirically constitutes the international diversification puzzle. This paper embeds a portfolio choice decision in a two-country, two-good version of the stochastic growth model. In this env...

On-farm diversification in non-agricultural activities has been increasingly recognized as a rewarding farm strategy through which farmers produce on-farm goods and services. The main objective of this paper is to explore what extent the condition peri-urbanity affects income Italy by looking at push pull factors that allow peri-urban re-organize their business developing strategies are tightly...