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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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operating profit of capital, I extend the model to include measurement error and analyze the cash-flow coefficient in …
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This paper evaluates various explanations for the profitability of momentum strategies documented in Jegadeesh and …
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The farm household model, in which decisions about production and consumption are made simultaneously, lies at the heart of many models of development. Empirically modelling these simultaneous choices is not straightforward. The vast majority of empirical studies assume that farm households...
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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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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 …
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Population growth has declined markedly in almost all major economies since the 1970s. We argue this trend has important consequences for the process of firm dynamics and aggregate growth. We study a rich semi-endogenous growth model of firm dynamics, and show analytically that a decline in...
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Capital income tax policy affects investment by the parent and affiliates of multinational corporations (MNCs). In a model in which technical advances are embodied in new capital, investment will translate directly into productivity gains. In this paper, I use this framework to guide the growth...
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We develop a quantifiable multi-country sourcing model in which firms self-select into importing based on their productivity and country-specific variables. In contrast to canonical export models where firm profits are additively separable across destination markets, global sourcing decisions...
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This paper examines available industry data on two profitability measures, the price-cost margin and the ratio of quasi … profitability and that this effect occurs in highly concentrated industries. The effect of unionism is quite substantial in most … calculations, suggesting that the fraction organized in a sector be included in standard Industrial Organization profitability …
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