Reputational herding has been considered as a driving force behind economic and financial forecasts clustered around consensus values. Strategic coordination can consequently explain poor performances of prediction markets as resulting from the distinct incentives that forecasters face. While...

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a crucial role in developing and transition economies. Recently, more attention has been paid to the role of networks and institutions in improving firm performance. By using data from the DANIDA project on SME survey with more than 2,500...

Markowitz (1952) hat gezeigt, dass es für risikoaverse Wirtschaftssubjekte sinnvoll ist, das Vermögen auf verschiedene Anlageinstrumente zu verteilen. Doch erweist sich in der Praxis, dass Wirtschaftssubjekte häufig nicht-optimal diversifizierte Portfolios halten. Es gibt viele mögliche...