This study conducts an international comparison of productivity and profitability. First, the level and growth of … has been the ICT revolution. Second, the profitability of industries is calculated for 2007. Profitability is divided into … productivity, prices and labour compensation. The results show that profitability in Finnish manu-facturing is competitive because …

shares. In addition, banks with greater reliance on fee income generating activities exhibit higher profitability. On the … contrary, the impact of non-deposit funding share on bank profitability is weak. In terms of bank riskiness, the evidence is … consistent with the conjecture that big, cost efficient and capitalized banks are less risky. As in case of bank profitability …

variable. We find that markets give more importance to profitability of a bank than its size when pricing the riskiness of the …

as disintermediation, internationalization and privatization, on the profitability of banks. Several proxies based on …) and higher market concentration in the banking sector had a positive effect on bank profitability, while, surprisingly …

-term liabilities. We develop a structural model of a firm's value maximization problem that predicts that profitability of the firm …

firm's ability to improve its productivity growth and profitability. The case study reported here concerns the … in which the dependent variable is alternatively (labor) productivity growth and profitability. Our findings show that … growth and profitability. This suggests that firms pursue different strategies when patenting with the USPTO and the EPO, and …

Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It … documents that the positive profitability differential of exporters compared to non-exporters is statistically significant …. Instead, we use a newly developed continuous treatment approach and show that exporting improves the profitability almost over …