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Profitability of the Australian Beef Industry : A Break-Even Analysis
Arjunan, Kannapiran - 2017
Profitability of the specialist beef production in the Australian Beef Industry is undertaken using a break-even model. The results reveal that during the financial years 1991-1996, the specialist beef producers were operating above the break-even level in the states of South Australia and to...
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Forecasting Profitability
Rosenzweig, Mark R. - 2013
We use newly-available Indian panel data to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. We show that the forecasts significantly affect farmer investment decisions and that these responses account for a substantial fraction of the inter-annual...
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Do Profit Margins Expand for High Growth Firms?
Ertan, Aytekin - 2020
It is common in business analyses to invoke different efficiencies generated by scale. Growth is associated with declining average costs/sales and rising profit margins. Factors cited include the relatively fixed nature of some costs, increased bargaining power, and network effects. We...
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Cost Behavior and Profitability of Family Firms
Abudy, Menachem (Meni); Shust, Efrat - 2022
This paper investigates whether family ownership affects a firm’s cost behavior and profitability. We find that in response to changes in business activity level, family firms adjust their costs differently than non-family firms. That is, family firms decrease costs more sharply upon a sales...
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The impact of cost stickiness on financial reporting : evidence from income smoothing
Hartlieb, Sven; Loy, Thomas - In: Accounting and finance 62 (2022) 3, pp. 3913-3950
This study investigates the impact of cost stickiness on income smoothing. Prior literature at the intersection between management and financial accounting has understood changes in cost behaviour as mere consequences of short-term earnings management incentives. By considering income smoothing...
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Self-selection into credit markets: Evidence from agriculture in Mali
Beaman, Lori; Karlan, Dean; Thuysbaert, Bram; Udry, … - 2014
We partnered with a micro-lender in Mali to randomize credit offers at the village level. Then, in no-loan control villages, we gave cash grants to randomly selected households. These grants led to higher agricultural investments and profits, thus showing that liquidity constraints bind with...
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Self-selection into credit markets : evidence from agriculture in Mali
Beaman, Lori; Karlan, Dean; Thuysbaert, Bram; Udry, … - 2014
We partnered with a micro-lender in Mali to randomize credit offers at the village level. Then, in no-loan control villages, we gave cash grants to randomly selected households. These grants led to higher agricultural investments and profits, thus showing that liquidity constraints bind with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010385235
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Self‐Selection into Credit Markets : Evidence from Agriculture in Mali
Beaman, Lori A. - 2015
We partnered with a micro-lender in Mali to randomize credit offers at the village level. Then, in no-loan control villages, we gave cash grants to randomly selected households. These grants led to higher agricultural investments and profits, thus showing that liquidity constraints bind with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020442
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The impact of energy crisis on the meat production profitability
Chetroiu, Rodica; Iurchevici, Lidia - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : trends and …, (pp. 60-65). 2023
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact that energy crisis which has debuted in 2022, had on the level of beef, pork and poultry meat production profitability. The methods used in the study are comparative analyzes of the evolution of some technical-economic and profitability...
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Inter-relationship between profitability, growth and size : a case of non-financial companies from Pakistan
Kouser, Rehana; Bano, Tahira; Azeem, Muhammad; Ul … - In: Pakistan journal of commerce and social sciences 6 (2012) 2, pp. 405-419
The purpose of this paper is to provide an in-depth description of the inter-relationship between firm size, growth … capitalization. Panel data techniques were employed using 700 observations of each of the variables of study; size (log natural of … relationship with the growth of the firm; however size has less significant and negative impact on the profitability. One …
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