within less than five years. We examine whether the privatization authority followed its mandate to privatize competitive … investors, and are more likely to remain in business even 20 years after leaving public ownership. The privatization agency …

This paper investigates a unique policy designed to maintain employment during the privatization of East German firms …

empirically that both mechanisms perform poorly with regard to two key desiderata such as efficiency and equality, even in large …

of workplace performance i.e. productivity, efficiency, quality of service and profitability. It uses a new panel dataset … lower absence is associated with higher efficiency, productivity, quality of the service and profitability of the firm …. Finally, the authors suggest that the link between workers’ absence and this firm's profitability runs through the increased …

Prior literature documents the usefulness of the DuPont disaggregation for predicting firms future profitability …. However, there is a lack of research examining how earnings quality affects forecasts of profitability. This paper explores … whether different earnings quality factors moderate the accuracy of profitability forecasts. This study contributes to the …