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Unionization and Firm Performance : The Impact on Profits, Growth and Productivity
Clark, Kim B. - 1982
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478115
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Product Quality and Worker Quality
Abowd, John M. - 1995
We study the relation between product quality and worker quality using an economic model that, under certain conditions, provides a direct link between product price, product quality and work force quality. Our measures of product quality are the evolution in the detailed product price relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473810
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EU Accession and Foreign Owned Firms in Bulgaria
Feliciano, Zadia M. - 2016
Bulgaria signed the Europe Association Agreement (EAA) in 1995 and the European Union accession treaty in 2005 …. Accession had the effect of increasing FDI in Bulgaria. We analyze World Bank BEEPS firm level data for 2007 to better … understand characteristics and performance of foreign firms in Bulgaria. We estimate linear probability and logit models to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456812
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Supply responses to digital distribution : recorded music and live performances
Mortimer, Julie Holland; Nosko, Chris; Sorensen, Alan T. - 2010
dramatically affected profitability of these goods, and raised concerns for future development of socially valuable digital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008738354
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Does Product Market Competition Reduce Agency Costs?
Jagannathan, Ravi - 2000
The folk wisdom is that competition reduces agency costs. We provide indirect empirical support for this view. We argue that the temptation to retain cash and engage in less productive activities is more severe for firms in less competitive industries. Hence an unanticipated increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471296
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Profitability of Momentum Strategies : An Evaluation of Alternative Explanations
Jegadeesh, Narasimhan - 1999
This paper evaluates various explanations for the profitability of momentum strategies documented in Jegadeesh and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471628
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Organizational Capacity and Profit Shifting
Bilicka, Katarzyna A.; Scur, Daniela - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper analyses the effect of a firm's organizational capacity on the reported profitability of multinational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012629445
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Large Firms, Consumer Heterogeneity and the Rising Share of Profits
Feenstra, Robert C.; Macedoni, Luca; Xu, Mingzhi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We examine the relationship between large firms and the rising profit share in a model that features oligopolistic competition and consumer heterogeneity. Conditional on the sales distribution, the presence of consumer heterogeneity increases the profit share because it increases firm-level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814421
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The Profitability of Currency Speculation
Bilson, John F. O. - 1983
This paper presents the results of a post-sample simulation of a speculative strategy using a portfolio of foreign currency forward contracts.The main new features of the speculative strategy are (a)the use of Kalman filters to update the forecasting equation, (b) the allowance for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477902
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Farm Profits, Prices and Household Behavior
LaFave, Daniel R. - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479160