Fukui, Yoshitaka; Ushijima, Tatsuo - In: Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 25 (2011) 2, pp. 1-11
This article decomposes the business-level profit rate of Japanese multi-business corporations by performing a variance components analysis on a large sample of publicly traded non-financial firms in 1998-2003. Consistent with US evidence, estimation results demonstrate that profitability is...