acquisition target based on its productivity level, profitability and other characteristics and whether the performance of … acquisitions improved target firms%u2019 productivity and profitability significantly more and quicker than acquisitions by … domestic firms.Moreover, we find that there is no positive impact on target firms%u2019 profitability in the case of both …

answering one of three questions: 1) How are board characteristics such as composition or size related to profitability? 2) How …

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 …

Profitability, as measured by gross profits-to-assets, has roughly the same power as book-to-market predicting the …, despite having, on average, lower book-to-markets and higher market capitalizations. Controlling for profitability also … profitability explains most earnings related anomalies, as well as a wide range of seemingly unrelated profitable trading strategies …