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 …

'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 …

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 …

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 …

The paper considers profit shifting behavior using data on German inbound and outbound FDI. It finds an empirical … correlation between the home country tax rate of a parent and the net of tax profitability of its German affiliate that is … consistent with profit shifting behavior. For profitable affiliates that are directly owned by a foreign investor the evidence …