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potential loss of profit. By enabling firms to retain only a very small fraction of these potential revenues, the government can …
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This paper examines the impact of capital gains taxes on equity pricing. Examining three-day cumulative abnormal returns for quarterly earning announcements from 1983-1997, we present evidence consistent with shareholders' capital gains taxes affecting stock price responses. To our knowledge,...
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Why are higher quality niches seen as intrinsically more profitable in business circles? Why do high quality products sometimes have a low real price, while it is unusual to see low quality products with high real prices? Can markets have quality differentiation as well as quality bunching? In...
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This paper evaluates the effects of fiscal policy on investment using a panel of OECD countries. In particular, we investigate how different types of fiscal policy affect profits and , as a result, investment. We find a sizable negative effect of public spending -- and in particular of its...
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This paper evaluates various explanations for the profitability of momentum strategies documented in Jegadeesh and Titman (1993). The evidence indicates that momentum profits have continued in the 1990's suggesting that the original results were not a product of data snooping bias. The paper...
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Profit on proprietary research tools is determined partly by the remedies for infringement, such as damages and …, called lost profit or reasonable royalty, suffers from a logical circularity which leads to an indeterminacy in permissible …
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This paper examines available industry data on two profitability measures, the price-cost margin and the ratio of quasi-rents to capital, for the purpose of determining the effect of unionism on profits. It finds that unionism reduces profitability and that this effect occurs in highly...
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risk and return, explains the fundamentals of portfolio and asset pricing theory, and then goes on to take a new look at … agreement among security analysts. It is possible to interpret this result as contradicting modern asset pricing theory, which …
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future spot exchange rates. This result implies that there have been opportunities for speculative profit during the post … existence of opportunities for speculative profit is explored. The question answered in the paper is the following: if there … were no opportunities for speculative profit, would exchange rates have been more stable? The answer is yes. This answer …
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The farm household model, in which decisions about production and consumption are made simultaneously, lies at the heart of many models of development. Empirically modelling these simultaneous choices is not straightforward. The vast majority of empirical studies assume that farm households...
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