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Production factor returns : the role of factor utilisation
Cette, Gilbert; Dromel, Nicolas L.; Lecat, Rémy; … - HAL - 2011
Short-term increasing returns to production factors are usually found in empirical studies. We argue they can be due to omitted variables, particularly the intensity of factor utilisation. Thanks to original French firm-level data (1992-2008), we show how increasing returns to scale disappear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010605337
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Potential output growth in several industrialised countries: a comparison
Cahn, Christophe; Saint-Guilhem, Arthur - HAL - 2008
In this paper, we present international comparisons of potential output growth among several economies -Canada, the euro area, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States- for the period 1991-2004, for which we construct consistent and homogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739141
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Impacto De Las Patentes Sobre El Crecimiento Económico: Un Modelo Panel Cointegrado [Impact of Patents on Economic Growth: A Cointegrated Panel Data Model]
Robledo, Jacobo Campo - HAL - 2012
This article presents an empirical model of non-stationary and cointegrated panel data to explain the impact of industrial property, measured by patents, on the GDP of 10 Latin America countries during the period 1990 to 2010. Apply traditional unit root tests and unit root test of art, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010584081
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A global foresight on food crop needs for livestock
Cotty, Tristan Le; Dorin, Bruno - HAL - 2012
Increasingly more studies are raising concerns about the increasing consumption of meat and the increasing amount of crops (cereals and oilseeds in particular) used to feed animals and that could be used to feed people. The evolution of this amount is very sensitive to human diets and to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820616
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Does debt affect profitability? An empirical study of French trade sector
Kebewar, Mazen - HAL - 2013
This article aims to expand existing empirical knowledge on the impact of debt level on profitability of companies. We … 2006. By using the generalized method of moments (GMM), we show that the debt affects negatively the profitability, not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010755513
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Chartering practices in liner shipping
Cariou, Pierre; Wolff, François-Charles - HAL - 2012
the extent of such chartering practices, the characteristics of vessels chartered and if an impact on liner profitability … whether the chartering rate and the size of these 17 liner companies have had an influence on their observed profitability in … 2007, 2008 and 2009. Our results suggest that those variables impact profitability, but in variable ways over time. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010593615
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La structure du capital et la profitabilité : Une étude empirique sur données de panel françaises
Kebewar, Mazen - HAL - 2012
L'objectif de cet article est d'analyser l'impact de la structure du capital sur la profitabilité. Cet impact peut être expliqué par trois théories essentielles: la théorie du signal, l'influence de la fiscalité et la théorie de l'agence. Nous montrons, à partir d'un échantillon de 9136...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010618158
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La structure du capital et la profitabilité : Une étude empirique sur données de panel françaises
Kebewar, Mazen - HAL - 2013
The objective of this article is to analyze the impact of capital structure on profitability. This impact can be … structure on profitability. The empirical analysis allowed us to distinguish three different groups of sectors: for the first … group (industry, energy and service), the capital structure has no impact on profitability. The second group, containing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821251
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The effect of debt on corporate profitability : Evidence from French service sector
Kebewar, Mazen - HAL - 2012
Current study aims to provide new empirical evidence on the impact of debt on corporate profitability. This impact can … (GMM) econometric technique on three measures of profitability ratio (PROF1, PROF2 and ROA), we show that debt ratio has no … effect on corporate profitability, regardless of the size of company (VSEs, SMEs or LEs). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821293
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Infrastructure Funding and Public-Private Partnerships
Bonnafous, Alain - HAL - 2005
the issue of infrastructure funding. For instance the financial profitability is more important than the socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008790453