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According to Becker's (1957) famous theory on discrimination, entrepreneurs with a strong prejudice against female workers forgo profits by submitting to their tastes. In a competitive market their firms lack efficiency and are therefore forced to leave. We present new empirical evidence for...
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taken place since the early 2000s are driven more by profitability considerations and private entrepreneurship than by …
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about the pass-through of monetary policy. On the one hand, negative rates could lead to declining bank profitability making …
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We examine the profitability of cross-ownership in an oligopolistic industry where firms compete as Cournot rivals. We … over to the case of non-renewable resource industries. The profitability of a symmetric cross-ownership can be positive …
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How can tax policy improve financial stability? Recent studies suggest large stability gains from eliminating the debt bias in corporate taxation. It is well known that this reform reduces bank leverage. This paper analyzes a novel, complementary channel: risk taking. We model banks’ portfolio...
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We consider a non-durable good monopoly that collects data on its customers in order to profile them and subsequently practice price discrimination on returning customers. The monopolist’s price discrimination scheme is leaky, in the sense that an endogenous fraction of consumers choose to...
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optimal dynamic control problem is characterized by two stochastic state variables: the equity value, and profitability (ROA …) of the _rm. According to the empirical evidence, we let profitability follow a mean reverting process. The problem is …
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correlation between the home country tax rate of a parent and the net of tax profitability of its German affiliate that is … increase in the profitability of the German affiliate. On the outbound side of German FDI, the data provides some evidence that … tax rate changes in the host country lead to a stronger change in after-tax profitability for affiliates that are wholly …
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Reward systems based on balanced scorecards typically connect pay to an index, i.e. a weighted sum of multiple performance measures. We show that such an index contract may indeed be optimal if performance measures are non-verifiable so that the contracting parties must rely on self-enforcement....
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This paper investigates (i) whether growth and profitability persist in banking firms, (ii) whether the level and … volatility of growth and profitability are bank-size dependent, and (iii) the relationship between growth and profitability of a … evidence of persistence in bank growth. However, our findings suggest significant persistence in bank profitability. Moreover …
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