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We quantify the impacts of droughts in New Zealand on the profitability of dairy, and sheep and beef farms. Using a …
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We estimate the effects of monetary policy on price-setting behavior in administrative micro data underlying the German producer price index. We find a strong degree of monetary non-neutrality. After expansionary monetary policy, the mass of additional price adjustments is economically small and...
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This study finds that even small unexpected supply shocks propagate downstream through production networks and are amplified by firms with short-term financial constraints. The unexpected 2011 increase in the tax on imports purchased with foreign-sourced trade credit is examined using data...
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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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about the pass-through of monetary policy. On the one hand, negative rates could lead to declining bank profitability making …
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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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's economy-wide investment patterns—with investment embodying technological progress—are largely divorced from industrial … policies, and, if anything, predate them. The significant shifts in investment across sectors and ownership forms that have … taken place since the early 2000s are driven more by profitability considerations and private entrepreneurship than by …
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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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We study how the introduction of private-label brands (PLs) affects retailers’ prices, demand, and profits, explicitly accounting for assortment adjustments of national brands (NBs) in retail stores. Using a detailed dataset on the U.S. beef market, we find that, when PLs are added to the...
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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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