The development of digital finance has significantly changed farmer consumption behavior. This study used data from the China Household Finance Survey 2015, 2017, and 2019 to examine whether can eliminate inequality among farmers in China. In doing so, it provides empirical evidence for strategies balancing social ensuring sustainable economic development. had three main findings. First, allevi...

Current concerns about environmental issues have led to many new trends in technology and financial management. Within this context of digital transformation sustainable finance, Fintech has emerged as an alternative traditional institutions. This paper, through a literature review case study approach, analyzes the relationship between sustainability, different areas collaboration from both the...

Have the euro and accompanying measures of financial integration had a discernable impact on the deree of diversification of European investors? This is an empirical question that this paper tries to answer by exploring four alternative avenues. First we focus on the final outcome: If European investors are indeed better diversified, their consumption should be increasingly correlated. Second w...

This paper argues that research in organization theory has seen a shift in orientation from paradigm-driven work to problem-driven work since the late 1980s. A number of paradigms for the study of organizations were elaborated during the mid-1970s, including transaction cost economics, resource dependence theory, organizational ecology, new institutional theory, and agency theory in financial e...

This paper shows that the diversification choices of individual investors influence stock returns. A zero-cost portfolio that takes a long (short) position in stocks with the least (most) diversified individual investor clientele generates an annual, risk-adjusted return of 5–9%. This spread reflects the combined effects of sentiment-induced mispricing, narrow risk framing, and asymmetric infor...

Poor rural and urban households in developing countries face substantial risks, which they handle with risk-management and risk-coping strategies, including self-insurance through savings and informal insurance mechanisms. Despite these mechanisms, however, vulnerability to poverty linked to risk remains high. This article reviews the literature on poor households’ use of risk-management and ri...

The thesis is based on the following articles and manuscripts, which are referred to in the text by their Roman numerals: II Kontula T & Väinölä R (2003) Molecular and morphological analysis of secondary contact zones of Cottus gobio in Fennoscandia: geographical discord-ance of character transitions. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, in press. III Kontula T & Väinölä R (2003) Comparat...

Two prominent American specialists on the Russian economy present a fundamental analysis of basic economic factors explaining how the global financial crisis has played out in Russia and its implications for the country’s future. More specifically, the authors examine the consequences of Russia’s dependence on and addiction to resource (oil and gas) rents and of the management system put in pla...

This article examines the business choices made by independent family farmers, when confronting the need to diversify away from traditional agricultural activities by starting farm-based tourism businesses. Based on interviews with farmers and drawing upon the concept of authenticity, the article explores the farmer’s conceptions of self and identity. In so doing, it addresses the dilemmas faci...