quantitatively large. Our findings suggest that the profitability gap is partly driven by agency costs which arise if value … communication and travel costs over the last decade, the profitability gap is shown to decline over time. Apart from that, our … profitability gap. We discuss various implications of our findings. -- profit distribution ; multinational enterprise ; corporate …

manage to survive submit to market powers and increase their female workforce over time. -- firm survival ; profitability …

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 … cases; however, there are differences in the degree of persistence across regions, the series for Europe being the closest …

We quantify the impacts of droughts in New Zealand on the profitability of dairy, and sheep and beef farms. Using a …

. These findings indicate that profitability concerns, while absent from standard theoretical models of central banking, are …

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 …

allowances on leverage. We show that TDA act as a complement to debt leverage, generating a negative leverage-profitability …

simultaneously risen in most countries. Moreover, the gross profitability of firms seems to be lower in high-tax countries, even …