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A note on a profit maximizing location model

Zhang, Shuzhong - 1997

In this paper we discuss a locational model with a profit-maximizing objective. The model can be illustrated by the … its total profit, the firm has to decide:1) where to locate its distribution warehouse to serve the customers;2) the price … profit. We show that this problem can besolved in polynomial time. …

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Data sparseness and variance in accounting profitability

Stavropoulos, Spyridon; Burger, Martijn J.; Skuras, … - 2015

A central question in strategic management is why some firms perform better than others. One approach to addressing this question empirically is to decompose the variance in firm-level profitability into firm, industry, location, and year components. Although it is well established that data...

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How informative are the unpredictable components of earnings forecasts?

Bruijn, Bert de; Franses, Philip Hans - 2015

An analysis of about 300000 earnings forecasts, created by 18000 individual forecasters for earnings of over 300 S&P listed firms, shows that these forecasts are predictable to a large extent using a statistical model that includes publicly available information. When we focus on the...

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