Diversification - Science topic

Among fiscal deficit, inflation differential, productivity growth, and reserve diversification, which factor exerts the most persistent impact on US dollar valuation based on recent empirical studies?

Address the trends of diversification in education and why is it an important tool in educating students of various backgrounds.

What is your opinion on this text? Would you have anything to add or disagree with?

In recent, I haven't seen topics related to energy efficiency. I would love to have nice topics with good gap and theoretical support in this area. It should be related to energy economics

I recently added an AI-generated summary to my article "Intra-industry diversification effects under firm-specific contingencies on the demand side" (2020, Florian Smeritschnig, Jakob Muellner, Phillip C. Nell, Martin Weiss) by including it as a supplementary resources. I did this to give those who do not have open access to the full text a brief understanding of the main points of my article.

The problem is that the title is still reflected on the article's subpage under "Linked data", but there is actually no file available and no bottom to delete it. Could you please delete the title?

The second question is whether it's possible to upload an additional file - e.g. the AI-generated summary of the article, but not the public or private full text - to the same article page, but without it appearing as a completely separate entry in the list of my other research items? For example, I have the paper "Electoral uncertainty and the multinational corporation a conceptualization, firm-level effects and strategies" (2024) by Puck, Muellner & Reinprecht. I added an AI-generated summary to this publication as a supplementary resources, and this summary is now among my other research items, along with the original article itself. I don't want to have two entries with the same title, it creates unnecessary confusion, but I do want the AI-generated summary to appear only in the research item entry. Is there a way to do this?

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Jakob

Is dragon fruit cultivation in arid and semi-arid regions of India the best option for crop diversification?

How can organic farming practices benefit crop diversification efforts in the arid regions of Punjab?

What are the most economically viable alternative crops that farmers in the arid regions of Punjab can consider for diversification?

crop diversification ensures varieties of proven benefit in food security, climate change, soil rejuvenation. does any outcome of crop diversification undermines benefits?

Pollinators play a vital role for successful crop production and diversification. Their population is in decreasing trends. some farms using alternative of natural pollinators. Is artificial pollination reduce crops quality? How natural pollinators are influencing the quality of crops?

Modern technology and synchronized cultivation creating narrow genetic base foster biodiversity loss. Could crop diversification promote regenerative agriculture and reduce climate change risk?

Due to their low rainfall and high evaporation rates, districts like Fazilka, Ferozepur, Muktsar, Bathinda, Mansa, Sangrur, and parts of Ludhiana in Punjab are categorized as arid and semi-arid zones. Therefore, considering these conditions, how could dragon fruit cultivation serve as a viable option for boosting income in these areas?

Due to their low rainfall and high evaporation rates, districts like Fazilka, Ferozepur, Muktsar, Bathinda, Mansa, Sangrur, and parts of Ludhiana in Punjab are categorized as arid and semi-arid zones. Therefore, considering these conditions, how could dragon fruit cultivation serve as a viable option for boosting income in these areas?

This is for primary data collection.

for me an individual makes his investment decision based on time

risk and diversification but I can't find any documents on this part of the website

What are ways to save energy?

How can electricity and/or heat consumption be reduced?

How can electricity and/or heat be saved during the climate crisis?

An energy crisis is currently developing in many countries. In some countries, energy is still largely based on burning fossil fuels. Fossil fuel and electricity prices are now rising rapidly. Fossil fuels may run out in the coming autumn/winter season. In the country where I operate, the development of renewable energy sources has been slowed down over the past three decades. As a result, three quarters of electricity is still generated by combustion-based power generation based on burning fossil fuels. Therefore, now that an energy crisis has emerged and the scale of the climate crisis is gradually increasing, a problem has arisen. The risk of a deep energy crisis is high because the scale of diversification of energy sources is low, renewable and carbon-free energy sources are hardly developed and fossil fuel prices are rising. In addition, every year the government subsidises many billions of PLN to unprofitable coal mines and supports monopolistically operating power plants where this coal is burned. This is because the largest companies in the mining and energy sectors are government-controlled state-owned companies, and the employees of these businesses are important electorates for the government in parliamentary elections. These monopoly companies in the energy and refining sector have earned extra money from CO2 emissions rights trading, which, according to European Union guidelines, should have been used to support the development of renewable and emission-free energy sources. Unfortunately, the government did not allocate these funds to the development of renewable energy. In addition, the issue of diversification of energy sources has also been neglected by decision-makers, yet the issue of diversification of energy sources is one of the key factors of energy security. For example, plans to build the first nuclear power plant had already been in place for half a century in Poland. Several successive previous government teams planned the construction of the first nuclear power plant and, unfortunately, only these plans ended. At present, there is still not a single nuclear power plant in Poland and the rate of development of renewable and emission-free energy sources is slow due to the laws that have been in place for the last seven years restricting the development of renewable energy. This type of short-sighted, anti-social, anti-environmental, anti-climate, etc. energy policy has led to a situation where there is a high risk of a deep energy crisis. Citizens already know how serious the mistakes were made by the government in previous years in climate policy. Unfortunately, it will not be possible to rectify all these mistakes in a few months, to rectify the omissions made earlier, to build a nuclear power plant and to develop wind, solar, hydro, geothermal and the most modern and zero-emission hydrogen and fusion-based energy technology on a large scale. Consequently, the government offers subsidies to citizens for the purchase of more expensive hard coal and thus continues to support the development of combustion-based energy and also creates another pro-inflationary factor in this way. Citizens have therefore come to the conclusion that they have to deal with the energy crisis themselves. Consequently, one of the key questions that many people are looking for answers to is how can electricity and/or heat be saved during the climate crisis?

What do you think about this?

What is your opinion on this subject?

Please reply,

I invite you all to discuss,

Thank you very much,

Greetings,

Dariusz

Due to strong restrictions, the restaurant business suffers from a large decline in visitors. It is believed that if you apply diversification methods, then he will be able to maintain his main direction. We believe that the restaurant industry will resort to innovative mechanics when robots replace human labor and quadcopters will deliver food.

They are required as part of investment characteristics in portfolio performance measurement.

Hi! everyone. When we do calculate the net diversification rates (NDR) based on the TREE. We must need to have a time tree? Or is there a R-package or method can calculate NDR without a time tree?

Any help will be great appreciate.

Tao

Reasons for low level of market participation and portfolio diversification

Curious to know how Art as an alternative asset can be included in an investor's portfolio to generate significant alpha (if possible); and how & to what extent can this asset be fully maximised as a hedge or diversification tool?

Understand that this is a relatively new area with limited historical prices available for further analysis and research, but I am highly curious as to how Art can potentially be used as an investment tool.

I'm open to further reading on this topic! If anyone has solid research materials to share with me—please do!

What econometric tools would be appropriate to measure the impact of changes in the Fiscal and Monetary policy on trade diversification of a country?

Hello everyone,

I am working on the topic; Impact of Income Diversification on the Livelihood of Small Holder Dairy Farmers. One of my objectives is to evaluate the determinants of income diversification. I have seen related articles on this topic in which the researchers used tobit regression because of the presence of zeros in their dependent variable; SID.

I tried carrying out the regression in STATA but all I got was just the coefficients. The std. Err, t, p values and confidence level are blank.

What do I do please?

What is diversification and how do petroleum companies use it as a means to reduce commercial risk? What pitfalls are associated with this practice?

I want to know about possibility to study on the mentioned title. Also possibility to examine the suitability to invest in gold and bitcoin as a risk diversification technique.

I cordially invite you to join this discussion so that I can get useful information.

Thanks in advance

COVID-19 has emerged globally at unprecedented speed and scale. Experts don’t know how long this virus will take to its end. Various Nations have lock down whole country to prevent spread COVID-19. As a result of the lockdown, the commercial and business activities have been seriously affected and the availability of the business resources such as workmen, material, transport etc. has been troubled. The movement of the shipping lines carrying the material from the affected countries has also halted and quarantine has been imposed on them.

As a result of all above, I can anticipate a new market or new world post COVID-19 crisis.

Dear Colleagues,

Energy communities are facing changing regulatory and technological landscapes, which represent both opportunities for and barriers to their development. On the one hand, the new European clean energy regulation envisages important roles for energy communities in energy systems and provides enabling conditions for their deployment (EU, 2019). Furthermore, new types of interactions among active consumers, prosumers and prosumagers are emerging, often facilitated by decentralized storage, smart grid technologies, distributed energy resources and other small-scale technologies, as well as local exchanges enabled by innovative blockchain-based peer-to-peer trading platforms and local energy markets (Giotitsas et al., 2015; Hahnel et al., 2019; Koirala et al., 2018b, 2019; Parra et al., 2016, 2017). All these evolutions create new opportunities for energy communities to play an active role in transitioning towards more sustainable energy systems (Devine-Wright, 2019; van der Schoor and Scholtens, 2019; Rommel et al., 2018; Karunathilake et al., 2018; Koirala et al., 2016; Bauwens, 2016; Schoor et al., 2016; Dóci et al., 2015). In turn, the integration of electricity, heating and transport sector together with community engagement is expected to contribute to more flexible, cost effective and efficient local energy systems (Koirala et al., 2016; Thellufsen and Lund, 2016). In this regard, energy communities are a modern development to re-organize the energy system to simultaneously integrate distributed energy resources and engage local communities (Bauwens and Devine-Wright, 2018; Koirala et al., 2016).

On the other hand, policies that have boosted the development of local renewable projects are being withdrawn across several European countries, including pioneers like Denmark and Germany, where shifts from feed-in tariffs to more market-based instruments have progressively taken place (Bauwens et al., 2016; Leiren and Reimer, 2018; Lundberg, 2019). This has led energy communities to become increasingly professional and commercial and to search for new business models. This has notably involved a diversification of their revenue streams by proposing other offerings on the top of renewable energy generation, for example electric mobility services, energy efficiency models and demand side management (Funkhouser et al., 2015; Gui and MacGill, 2018; Herbes et al., 2017; Mirzania et al., 2019). Another notable evolution is the emergence of networks, intermediaries, coalitions and collaborative dynamics among initiatives, which help existing and aspiring communities with various aspects of project development and advocacy work (Bauwens et al., 2019; Hargreaves et al., 2013; Huybrechts and Haugh, 2018).

These changes in policies and business models will likely have consequences on the forms of, and motivations behind, participation in energy communities. Until recently, energy communities were driven by environmentally or socially motivated collectives of citizens willing to collaborate, share benefit and challenge incumbent energy systems (Bauwens, 2016; Koirala et al., 2018a; Rogers et al., 2008; Wirth, 2014). It remains to be seen how these policy changes and these evolutions in business models will affect the dynamics of community engagement. Similarly whether, these new networks and intermediary organizations will be able to ensure the inclusion of a broader diversity of communities is an open question.

This special issue in Sustainabilty will focus on the process aspects of the ongoing energy transition by contributing to knowledge acquisition on how these changing policy and technological landscapes affect energy communities in terms of conditions for emergence and development, motivations and social dynamics of collective action and participation business models, energy system integration options, local energy market design, policy and regulatory issues, socio-technical configurations and community engagement. In this context, this special issue invites interdisciplinary contributions on technological, socio-economic and institutional aspects of energy communities as well as their roles on the ongoing energy transition.

We invite manuscripts on following (not limited) topics:

- Local, virtual and hybrid energy communities

- Positive energy districts and neighborhoods

- Energy communities as commons

- Opportunities for and challenges to energy communities

- Enabling technologies and digitalization

- Techno-economic and socio-institutional assessments of energy communities

- (Self-) governance, ownership, business models, cost-benefit allocations

- Polycentricity, meta-governance, and policy-mix approach for energy communities

- Design of local energy markets

- Demand response and flexibility in energy communities

- Intrinsic motivations and drivers for energy communities

- Energy system integration and role of multi-energy carriers (electricity, hydrogen, heat)

- Socio-technical innovations and alignments

- Citizens and community engagement

- Regulation and legal frameworks for energy communities

- Changing roles and responsibilities

- Multi-actor perspectives on energy communities

- Energy communities and local/regional energy transition

- Energy Citizenship

- Digital twins of energy communities

Keywords: Community energy, community engagement, renewable energy, energy transition, peer-peer energy exchange, business models, institutional design, energy citizenship, (self-) governance, socio-technical innovation

Guest editors:

Binod Koirala

David Parra

Thomas Bauwens

A student of mine wishes to use Poisson Regression Model for the analysis of livelihood diversification on poverty status of farmers. How suitable is Poisson regression? If not, why?

I need some information to identify gaps within this area for further research.

Over time, it looks confusing if there is any shortcoming in the choice of publishing continually in one journal, rather than choosing different journals for different paper submissions... I wish to know, also, any benefit attached with choosing different journals for different papers.

For my research work I need some Research paper on livelihood diversification of muga rearers.

Hello people, I am currently writting my dissertation and I want to measure the impact of Strategic Capabilities in Tacit Knowledge Transfer during a Succession Process. At present, I am deciding which strategic capabilities a successor must have, In the incumbent's point of view, that will help the transfer of Tacit knowledge Transfer.

At this stage, I have:

My advisor and I want to add Cost Advantage Strategy and Product Differentiation Strategy as only one Strategic Capability. But we are not quite sure what would be the term associated to the combination of this two strategies.

Is there someone who can give me some advises or ideas that might help me?

I would really appreciate your help!

Have a great day!

Document can be Crop diversification and nutrition, Impact of crop diversification on household nutritional status, and etc.

Hi,

I would like to create a single geographical map of two variables to visualize how they vary across the study area/country. Basically, in my analysis i look at the impact of CDI (this is an index ranging from 0 to 1), on TE (this is also an index ranging from 0 to 1). What i want is a map of the study area showing CDI and TE distribution by geographical units (in my case districts) to visual the variation of CDI and TE across the study area. So far: I have the district-level administrative boundary GIS data and was able to generate map of CD and TE separately using spmap in stata, so far now i pasted these maps on top of each other.

Is there another better way around this? Thanks a lot.

Want to identify when an organization can decide to go for business diversification? I think this issue is quite important as we see some very successful organization when go for business diversification often don't succeed and some even collapse.

Hi everyone,

I am doing my thesis right now, and I would like to run cross-sectional regression on top European banks, I would like to collect the data for all the top european banks' level of capital, level of asset diversification and revenue diversification.

Could anyone advice me where can I find these datas please? I am running out of time actually.

Thank you in advance,

Regards,

Li

The best theoretical framework that will suit corporate diversification and banks performance

Livelihood diversification among fish farmers in ondo state, Nigeria

can anyone recommend some recent literature on gas supply diversification in the EU (most importantly on new infrastructure)?

Hi all, for my graduation thesis, I am assessing the project- specific risks of wind farms, and how these should be translated to the return on equity for investors. There are many models such as the CAPM describing the risk-return relation, but these assume portfolio diversification. Many investors in wind projects do not diversify, so these theories do not hold. With which model can I translate project specific risks (such as wind input etc) into the return? Thank you!

For more than 300 years we have used the same formula for calculating the cost of risk: Risk = Probability x Consequence. In research done in the last 10 years, we have shown that this is an insufficient formula. We have shown that when an outcome in the future is a high (relatively) negative value (cost) the formula is consistently under valuating the cost of risk (link to references).

Most people will immediately discard the idea, that the formula of risk, being the foundation of the theory on capital, insurance, diversifications and much more can ever be changed. But I ask that you give it some consideration.

In experimental research we have shown that when an agent suffers a large negative cost, that same agents long term investments may end up suffering, as financing intended for the long term investments is used to cover the unexpected cost. This is highly problematic as long term investments often has no market value, or a poorly established market value. An example is an investment into an education. The half-completed education cannot be sold, as the knowledge is in the brain of the investor (student). Same goes for many other long term investments - there are poor, or no markets for these investments. Even if such investments have no market value, it does not mean they have no value for society.

Large future cost items (items exceeding the capital of the investor) can result in a cost cascade, whereby value is lost on long term investments, and such loss is characterized by:

-          Not being visible to the surroundings

-          Equilibrium in market cannot be established

-          Is a value destructive cost mechanism

-          The cost item (impaired long term investments) can be of any size, and can even exceed the direct cost suffered

To account for such as loss we would need to modify the formula for the cost of risk. We propose using Risk = (Probability x Consequence) + Structural Risk Cost

If we accept this fundamental change to risk literature we will have a risk theory where:

-          Capital reserves has an economic value higher than that of savings

-          Risk theory becomes more logical to laymen and experts (today the cost of a bet where an outcome (of many) is to lose 50.000 Euro has the same economic value when presented to a poor student and a millionaire, which is counterintuitive

-          Some of the behavioral economy literature will need be rewritten, as what was previously irrational behavior now becomes logical (Keynes Saving Paradox/ Paradox of Thrift is no longer a paradox, but a logical behavior).

So there is much to gain by changing this ancient definition of risk – but is it at all possible to change such an ancient set in stone definition and should we try to do it, or should we just ignore this as it is too complicated and move on fixing the economic theory with the "duct tape" of behavioral economics