Corporate managers are actively engaged to take business and financial decisions which results in long term value to their shareholders. Managers pursue this goal through their investment, financing and dividend decisions. Dividend policy refers to the payout the management decides to compensate...

This paper presents results from a first pilot study to measure the consistency of real economy investments with climate change mitigation objectives. The analysis focuses on investments in infrastructure and equipment in the manufacturing industries in Norway between 2010 and 2017, estimated at...

The paper examines the industry characteristics that are related to the shifts in competitiveness, measured as the relative common-currency price ratios between Canadian and US manufacturing prices. We find that relative input costs and relative productivity growth are the two most important...

This paper reports evidence that the aggregate profit of the U.S. manufacturing industry is affected by fluctuations in the real exchange rate of the dollar. Using quarterly data covering the 1975Q1-1993Q4 period, regression of the manufacturing profit on the exchange rate and other key...

During the post-1970 period, Canadian manufacturing prices have alternately increased and fallen relative to U.S. prices - just the reverse of the cycle in the Canada - U.S. exchange rate. But not all manufacturing industries have experienced the same amplitude of relative price changes. This...

The Czech Republic has been a successful recipient of foreign direct investment over recent years. Therefore, it is important to understand the decisions made by foreign investors where to place their investments and how to decide about their location between alternative industries. The aim of...

The purpose of this paper is to study the profitability of the 166 non-financial companies of the BSE 200 index with particular emphasis on a pre- and post-recession analysis for the period 2001-2011 with an attempt to link the profitability with the liquidity of the sample firms. The study...

Results of Polish manufacturing branches performance assessment in 1999 (the section D “Manufacturing"; based on NACE; Nomenclatures des Activities de Communite Europeen; is shown. For the research, a vector of descriptive variables included in the state statistical reports was used. Their...

Unit labour costs (ULCs) are one of the key economic variables considered in the context of globalization, competitiveness and production-location decisions. With the EU accession of eight Central and East European countries and their (almost) full inclusion in the European Single Market, the...

Using time series historical data, the current paper analyzes the impacts of production factors on the intermediate industries in Qatar and their effects on productive efficiency. That done by the assessment of the production levels and total value added, in order to evaluate actual growth rates...