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strongly predicts higher, more persistent, and less volatile profitability; and higher abnormal stock returns—findings that are …, lower investor attention, and greater sensitivity of future profitability to InnOrig. This evidence suggests that innovative …
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We construct a price, dividend, and earnings series for the Industrials sector, the Utilities sector, and the Railroads sector from the beginning of the 1870s until the beginning of the year 2013 from primary sources. To infer about mispricings in the sector markets over more than a century, we...
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This paper studies the impact of public audit oversight on financial reporting credibility. We analyze changes in market responses to earnings news after public audit oversight is introduced, exploiting that the regime onset depends on fiscal year-ends, auditors, and the rollout of auditor...
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Some of the leading theories of momentum have different empirical predictions about its profitability conditional on …
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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 …
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American corporations earn a large and growing share of their profits from their foreign operations. This paper evaluates the effect of foreign earnings on dividend payments by American corporations. The results suggest that the effect may be rather dramatic: that, all other things equal, U.S....
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future spot exchange rates. This result implies that there have been opportunities for speculative profit during the post … existence of opportunities for speculative profit is explored. The question answered in the paper is the following: if there … were no opportunities for speculative profit, would exchange rates have been more stable? The answer is yes. This answer …
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, surprisingly,due more to variations in the cost of capital than to variations in marginal profit. We also find that the present …
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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 …
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' 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 …
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