' future returns. Becoming more skilled, however, can reduce a manager's expected profit if enough other managers also become … more skilled. The greater skill allows those managers to identify profit opportunities more accurately, but active …

This paper examines the impact of unionization on profit- ability, growth and productivity using time series data on … negative union effects on profitability, but growth, productivity and the capital-labor ratio appear to be little affected by … may have longer term implications for efficiency since the impact on profitability appears to fall most heavily on firms …

The purpose of this paper is to treat scale economies, profit-maximizing markups, economic profitability, capacity … run profit potential from markup behavior. As a result, on average economic profits are normal, but declining … profitability is prevalent in most industries since the early 1970s. Also, although cost and revenue shares tend to be approximately …

estimated. Using the full rainfall distribution and our profit function estimates, we find that Indian farmers on average under … expected profits. Farmers who use skilled forecasts have increased average profit levels but also have more variable profits …

loan applicants from different groups at the margin if loan examiners are unbiased. We identify the profitability of … based on machine learning predictions of long-run profitability can simultaneously increase profits and eliminate bias …

profitability of authorship. Empirical evidence, however, is scarce, because data on the profitability of authorship is typically … extensions may not have any effects on the profitability of authorship. To investigate effects of copyright at lower pre … copyright terms may, in fact, increase the profitability of authorship.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper …