estimated profit efficiency. However, compared with cost inefficiency, revenue inefficiency affects more overall profitability …This paper presents new evidence regarding the relation between profit, revenue, and cost efficiencies of U ….S. commercial banks. Building on the widely used nonstandard profit function (NSPF) approach, we show (i) why estimation of NSPF …

We examine whether customer-base concentration has a differential impact on profitability for firms contracting with … major government customers versus firms contracting with major corporate customers. We document that firm profitability …

profitability toward maximizing shareholders' wealth. Little attention seems to have been paid so far to an inter-country comparison … of corporate profitability between firms in an advanced market and in an emerging market. Data from firms listed on the … determining the market-value and the book-value based profitability indices. As described, a majority of total explanatory …

impact of income, asset, and funding diversifications on the cost and profit efficiency of the US commercial banks over the …) effect on profit efficiency. Our findings reveal that during the global financial crisis asset diversification is not … beneficial for the banks, whereas funding ‎diversification has a positive effect on cost and profit efficiency.‎ Our results …

This paper examines the influence of a firm’s business model on the relative persistence of profit margins in the U … persistence of profit margins will be influenced by firms’ choices of business model. Further, we hypothesize that this choice of … business model influences the relative persistence of the individual revenue and expense components of current profit margins …