This paper investigates labor and profit share trends across Advanced Economies. It shows that Real Estate is the … primary driver of declining labor shares outside the US. Excluding Real Estate, non-US labor and profit shares have remained … relatively stable since the 1970s. By contrast, the US labor share declined and the profit share increased across virtually all …

We examine the joint distribution of value and profitability in international markets. Over the 1990-2020 sample period …, portfolios formed at the intersection of value and profitability generate systematic return patterns: value and high-profitability … portfolios substantially outperform growth and low- profitability portfolios. The return differences are present in developed …

This paper analyses the effect of bank profitability on economic growth. While policymakers have shown major concerns … for low levels of bank profitability, there are no empirical studies on the growth effects of bank profitability. To fill … this gap, we investigate the impact of bank profitability on economic growth using a sample of 133 countries during the …