Balakrishnan, Ramji; Labro, Eva; Soderstrom, Naomi S. - 2014
decisions on cost structure, which determine the magnitude of costs controllable in the short-term, induce non-stationarity in … specification used in the literature. We develop suggestions for how future research might control for the effects of cost structure …. Empirically, we find that cost structure confounds results usually interpreted as cost stickiness reflecting short-run managerial …