might be infrastructure investment. This paper provides a dual profit theoretical framework of measuring the effects of … infrastructure on economic performance in terms of gains in profits, cost savings, as well as in terms of productivity growth … productivity growth reveals that the economic performance could be enhanced by investing in infrastructure capital …

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 …

price shocks. Following a migrant inflow, labor costs decline and employment expands. Labor productivity decreases sharply … migration mostly benefits low- productivity firms within locations. As migrants select into high-productivity destinations …, migration however strongly contributes to the equalization of factor productivity across locations …

firms position themselves in global production lines and how this evolves with productivity and performance over the firm … profit margins. We rationalize these patterns with a stylized model of the firm lifecycle with complementarity between the …

We adopt a spatial econometric approach to estimate intra- and inter-industry productivity spillovers in total factor … productivity transmitted through input-output relations in a sample of 13 OECD countries and 15 manufacturing industries. Both R …

taken place since the early 2000s are driven more by profitability considerations and private entrepreneurship than by …

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

on profits, we find that the monopolist’s aggregate profit is a U-shaped function of the privacy cost whatever the degree … of the monopolist’s information accuracy. Still, the profit effects of consumers’ identity management choices are shown … monopoly equilibrium profit is globally an increasing function of the privacy cost while in the PHI case, it is almost always a …