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Profitability, as measured by gross profits-to-assets, has roughly the same power as book-to-market predicting the cross-section of average returns. Profitable firms generate significantly higher average returns than unprofitable firms, despite having, on average, lower book-to-markets and...
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In principle, a multiproduct firm can set separate prices for all possible bundled combinations of its products (i.e., "mixed bundling"). However, this is impractical for firms with more than a few products, because the number of prices increases exponentially with the number of products. In...
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This paper develops a framework to analyze the relationship between the diffusion of new technologies and the decentralization decisions of firms. Centralized control relies on the information of the principal, which we equate with publicly available information. However, the manager can use her...
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Die Digitalisierung ist die gröt︢e gesellschaftsweite Transformation unserer Zeit. Ihre technologische Entwicklung verläuft exponentiell und macht dadurch Innovationssprünge und deren Nebenfolgen zunehmend unabsehbar. Trotzdem betonen Politik und Wirtschaft die Notwendigkeit, die...
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Der Professor für Mathematik und Physik verknüpft die globalen Probleme schwindender Ressourcen, sozialer Ungleichheit und gewaltiger Schuldenberge mit einer Kritik am weltweiten Geldsystem, das auf ungebremstes Wachstum auf einem endlichen Planeten eingerichtet ist. Er sieht grosse Krisen...
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The relationship between economic growth and the environment is not well understood: we have only limited understanding of the basic science involved and very limited data. Because of these difficulties it is especially important to develop a series of relatively simple theoretical models that...
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Die 100 kurz erläuterten, in Schwarz gehaltenen Grafiken veranschaulichen wesentliche weltweite Umweltprobleme von der Luftverschmutzung durch Braunkohleförderung über Klima, Verkehr und industrielle Landwirtschaft bis zur Abnahme der Biodiversität. (2S)
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