' 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 …

aggregate ownership transfers improve profitability, though not in cases where the transfers themselves were corrupted …

We examine the effect of negative nominal interest rates on bank profitability and behavior using a cross-country panel …

bank franchise value or profitability. In this paper we argue that banks' market-to-book ratio is the sum of two components …

taking place for retail banking. Data on cross-border retail bank flows, cross-border bank mergers and the law of one price … reveal no evidence of integration in retail banking. This paper shows that the previous tests of bank integration are weak in … that they are not based on an equilibrium concept and are neither necessary nor sufficient statistics for bank integration …