This paper evaluates various explanations for the profitability of momentum strategies documented in Jegadeesh and …

This paper examines the impact of unionization on profit- ability, growth and productivity using time series data on … negative union effects on profitability, but growth, productivity and the capital-labor ratio appear to be little affected by … may have longer term implications for efficiency since the impact on profitability appears to fall most heavily on firms …

The purpose of this paper is to treat scale economies, profit-maximizing markups, economic profitability, capacity … run profit potential from markup behavior. As a result, on average economic profits are normal, but declining … profitability is prevalent in most industries since the early 1970s. Also, although cost and revenue shares tend to be approximately …

areas of India, and that farmers respond more strongly to the forecast where there is more forecast skill and not at all … estimated. Using the full rainfall distribution and our profit function estimates, we find that Indian farmers on average under … expected profits. Farmers who use skilled forecasts have increased average profit levels but also have more variable profits …

This paper analyses the effect of a firm's organizational capacity on the reported profitability of multinational … these results are driven by patterns consistent with profit-shifting behavior. Further, using an event study design, we find …

We examine the relationship between large firms and the rising profit share in a model that features oligopolistic … the profit share because it increases firm-level markups. Using data on purchases at the household-barcode level from … Nielsen, we quantify the role of consumer heterogeneity, finding that the aggregate markup and the profit share are 8 and 3 …

leveraging of the portfolio. While the forecasting model tended to overestimate profit and underestimate risk, the strategy was …