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The paper is an industry study of the audiovisual services sector, specially the film and television industry in the Philippines. It discusses the importance of the sector in the economy and employment, its strengths and weaknesses, regulations that affect it, and the competitive forces that...
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We study the location of various film-related services (such as camera rental, casting agencies or pyrotechnic services), the main determinant of interest being the human capital specificity. We show that firms which supply services with a lower firm specificity locate farther away from one...
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Opaque products enable service providers to hide specific characteristics of their service fulfillment from the customer until after purchase. Prominent examples include internet-based service providers selling airline tickets without defining details, such as departure time or operating...
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This paper examines the common factors that drive the returns of U.S. bank holding companies from 1997 to 2005. We compare a range of market models from a basic one-factor model to a nine-factor model that includes the standard Fama-French factors and additional factors thought to be...
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This paper considers a simple model of credit risk and derives the limit distribution of losses under different assumptions regarding the structure of systematic and idiosyncratic risks and the nature of firm heterogeneity. The theoretical results obtained indicate that if firm-specific risk...
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The paper studies the persistence of profit and its determinants in emerging markets. We apply Markov chain analysis … empirical results show a moderate level of profit persistence, as well as a relatively low speed of adjustment to the steady …-state profit level, thus providing no support for the hypothesis that there is a lower persistence of profits in emerging markets …
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Gewinn erklärt und behandelt wird, um daraus eine Arbeitsdefinition der Gewinnkomponenten abzuleiten. Andererseits wird … darauf basierend die Distribution von Gewinnen diskutiert und behauptet, dass der Gewinn zunächst einmal der Unternehmung …The paper deals with the profit of the firm and its theoretical explanations. Starting with the usual understanding of …
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) that profit signals and rewards successful value creation, since it expresses that the customers' voluntary willingness to …
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has a negative or no effect. Education, age, being male, and firm size are all positively related to profit, while young …
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