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Droughts and Farms' Financial Performance in New Zealand : A Micro Farm-Level Study

Pourzand, Farnaz - 2019

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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Monetary Policy, Price Setting, and Credit Constraints

Balleer, Almut - 2019

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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Financial Constraints and Propagation of Shocks in Production Networks

Demir, Banu; Javorcik, Beata K. Smarzynska; Michalski, … - 2021

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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Competition and gender prejudice : are discriminatory employers doomed to fail?

Weber, Andrea Maria; Zulehner, Christine - 2009

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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Modelling Profitability of Private Equity : A Fractional Integration Approach

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; … - 2022

This paper analyses the stochastic behaviour of Private Equity returns (a measure of profitability) applying fractional … (US, Europe, Asia/Pacific, the Rest of the World and the Total) and investment types (Buyout & Growth Equity, Venture …

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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly : Impact of Negative Interest Rates and QE on the Profitability and Risk-Taking of 1600 German Banks

Florian, Urbschat - 2019

about the pass-through of monetary policy. On the one hand, negative rates could lead to declining bank profitability making …

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Organizational Capacity and Profit Shifting

Bilicka, Katarzyna Anna; Scur, Daniela - 2021

This paper analyses the effect of a firm’s organizational capacity on the reported profitability of multinational …

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The Impact of Private Label Introduction on Assortment, Prices, and Profits of Retailers

Ma, Meilin; Siebert, Ralph - 2021

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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PRC Industrial Policies Postdate Rather than Lead Economic Activity

Holz, Carsten A. - 2020

'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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On the Profitability of Cross-Ownership in Cournot Oligopolies : Stock Sizes Matter

Benchekroun, Hassan - 2020

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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