We construct a novel dataset to explore the returns of private equity in international markets (i.e., other than North America). We investigate fund performance and persistence and compare the findings to the extensive evidence on North American funds. We find that both investment strategy and investment geography characterize the performance and r...
In the field of international trade, floriculture is considered one of the most outstanding agricultural activities in the production of high-value crops, so that it contributes significantly to the generation of employment and income, which is why rose exports meet an important role in the economy of the countries, being feasible for the income of...
The article entitled "Analysis of the evolution of blueberry exports from Ecuador-Peru and their Ecuador-Peru blueberry exports and their participation in international markets in the years 2020-2023. 2020-2023" focused on examining the growth and share of Ecuador's blueberry exports. of blueberry exports from Ecuador. The objective of the The obje...
We construct a novel and comprehensive dataset to formally explore the returns of private equity funds in non-North American focused markets. We investigate a range of stylized facts on private equity performance and persistence, and compare the findings to the extensive evidence on North American funds. We find that European private equity funds h...
Key Points After a relatively short period when the agricultural sector experienced close-to-average farm incomes, net farm incomes increased well above their 20-year inflation-adjusted averages in 2020 and 2021 because of federal emergency relief payments and relatively high agricultural commodity prices. Farm incomes are forecasted to remain well...
Volatility-managed portfolios offer mixed returns in an international setting based on ex-ante information. The results of this paper further strengthen the theory that the variability of excess returns from volatility-management are more dependent on underlying investor strategy rather than differences of global markets. We find that momentum stra...
Over the past several years destination loyalty has begun to take up an increasing amount of focus within the tourism research field. While there are still a number of question marks of its different aspects and true value to the destination, the subject has been described as prioritized. On that account, the purpose of this study has been to seek ...
In order for corporations to develop their business, they could apply an approach of exchanging ideas and knowledge with other corporations could contribute to new significant innovations. The international approach is called Open Innovation and could be implemented both externally and internally within firms. The purpose of this thesis was to exam...
Purpose â The purpose of this thesis is to examine service consumers in developed and emerging markets in order to (1) understand how differences in country-specific factors impact evaluations of services, (2) determine the differences in their service-evaluative behaviour and the implications of the findings for international services marketing ...
The authors study the performance of mean-variance optimized (MVO) equity portfolios for retail investors in various markets in the U.S. and around the world. Actively managed equity mutual funds have relatively high fees and tend to underperform their benchmark. Index funds such as exchange traded funds still charge appreciable fees, and only deli...
