This paper presents an empirical analysis of the distributional and dynamic properties of firm profit rates, measured … key parameters ruling over the distributional outcome and stochastic motion of firm profit rates: a system-wide aver- age … rate of profit, a system-wide dispersion measure of profit rates, and an idiosyncratic noise factor reecting individual …

Prior literature documents the usefulness of the DuPont disaggregation for predicting firms future profitability …. However, there is a lack of research examining how earnings quality affects forecasts of profitability. This paper explores … whether different earnings quality factors moderate the accuracy of profitability forecasts. This study contributes to the …

change much of the banks’ behavior and incentives. In particular, banking regulation did not face the nexus profitability …-riskiness. Based on Minsky’s financial instability hypothesis, we discuss the literature on banks’ profitability and its relation to … the originate-to-distribute model. We also propose a different strategy for banking regulation, based on a profitability …