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 …

fundamentals with firm-quarter fixed effects; thus, identification comes from a firm's choice to default against one bank versus … bank relationships comes into doubt …

The effects of inflation adjustments of corporate earnings on market prices were tested by cross section regressions of … negligible. The implication of the results is that market investors use a range of adjustments for the effects of inflation which … the later period 1972-76 than in the earlier period 1966-71. This seemed inconsistent with the higher inflation rates in …

Amidst the recent resurgence of inflation, this paper investigates the interplay of corporate profits and income … distribution in shaping inflation and aggregate demand within the New Keynesian framework. We derive a novel analytical condition …-demand fluctuations and inflation to be amplified by heterogeneity, profits have to be countercyclical--an implication that is at odds …