Employment growth is strongly predicted by smaller average establishment size, both across cities and across industries …

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 … utilization and productivity growth within an integrated structural model, and to assess their interactions empirically using … run profit potential from markup behavior. As a result, on average economic profits are normal, but declining …

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 …

standard deviation above the long-run historical market share growth and persists for years following the financial crisis … deposits growth, and lower entrepreneurial activity through 2015 …

recession. Consistent with the theory, the increase in bank credit in 2020Q1 and 2020Q2 came almost entirely from drawdowns by …-level measures of exposure to the COVID recession. Finally, we match the bank data to a list of participants in the Paycheck … Protection Program (PPP) and show that SME recipients of PPP loans reduced their non-PPP bank borrowing in 2020Q2 by between 53 …