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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"geographic diversification"”.
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The effect of geographic diversification on the returns of real estate investment trusts : an analysis
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1992.
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Empirical Evaluation of the Risk and Cost Effects of Geographic Diversification in Central Illinois Grain Farms
The risk and cost effects of geographic diversification in central Illinois were deterministically simulated in representative grain farms, using tract-level yield data to estimate the relationship between correlation of yield and distance between tracts. The results indicate that the costs …
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Variability in output and reliability of broadly distributed wind farms and solar arrays as a function of the system scale
… resources. This thesis presents a study on the geographic diversification of wind turbines and solar arrays to minimize the variance in the expected renewable output according to the mean variance portfolio theory. The uncorrelatedness in the wind and solar patterns amongst geographically …
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Sequence of return risk in South African post-retirement portfolios: the effectiveness of volatility-focused asset allocation strategies to address sequence and associated risks
… within the first ten years of retirement). The geographic diversification strategy showed clear benefit to reducing SOR whereas the results for the risk parity strategy were not conclusive. The analysis and comparison of the lowrisk, rising equity glidepath, and dynamic cash buffer strategies …
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Essays on market structure, competition and consumer behavior
… and respond positively to the staffing and geographic density of branches, age, size and geographic diversification of banks. In Chapter 2 I study banking market structure and examine the effects of the passage of the Riegle-Neal Act in 1994, which allowed for nationwide branching in the …
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Three Essays on the Financial Advisory Industry: Diversification, Competition, and Misconduct
The first chapter examines how the geographic diversification of financial advisory firms influences adviser misconduct. We find that diversification significantly increases both misconduct and customer complaints. This effect is robust to alternative diversification measures and persists after …
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Three Essays on the Financial Advisory Industry: Diversification, Competition, and Misconduct
The first chapter examines how the geographic diversification of financial advisory firms influences adviser misconduct. We find that diversification significantly increases both misconduct and customer complaints. This effect is robust to alternative diversification measures and persists after …
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The Effects of Mergers and Acquisitions on Bank Risks
… The results also show that not all forms of diversification exert an equal effect on the reduction of bidders' default risk. Product diversification is found to reduce bidding banks' default risk meanwhile geographic diversification does not have a statistically significant relationship to …
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The Impact of Globalization on Inventory and Financial Performance: A Firm-Level and Industry-Level Analysis
… classic inventory models, transaction costs, geographic economics, and international business and strategy literatures, this dissertation aims to contribute to the construction of a theory of global supply chain management through an empirical testing of hypotheses on the effects of global …