aims to examine the profitability of enterprises in Poland which is regarded in the context of absorption of EU funds in … profitability rates. In spite of limitations which relate to the adopted definition of competitiveness and the short period of the …

paper, we show that frictions in the labour market leading to monitoring costs tend to reduce the growth of the firm via two … to both frictions in the credit and labour markets. -- entrepreneurship ; monitoring costs ; credit constraint …

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 …

businesses, we find an inverted U-shaped relation between risk tolerance and profitability. This relationship holds in a simple … while moderately risk tolerant entrepreneurs survive more often. Second, the high risk-low profit part of the U …-shaped relation seems to disappear among businesses being four years and older, indicating that such inferior risk-profit combinations …

windfall profits and provide an impulse for further price hikes. (2) To protect profit margins from rising costs, downstream …

one where production per unit of profit of non-financial corporations is lower than in competitive mass production and … profit share is not an increasing function of capacity utilisation. Rather the desired excess capacity is higher compared … since the break-even point where total costs and revenues equalize tends to be lower. The argument is supported with …

. Instead, we require observation of profits or other optimizing-values such as costs or revenues, and either prices or price …

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 …

The main objective of this paper is to present the results of empirical studies on net profit distribution in companies … Province, which concluded privatisation agreements with the State Treasury in years 2000-2005. The analysis of net profit … profit distribution policy in companies using state-owned enterprises against payment. Finally, it is concluded that over the …

This article aims to expand existing empirical knowledge on the impact of debt level on profitability of companies. We … 2006. By using the generalized method of moments (GMM), we show that the debt affects negatively the profitability, not … small and medium-sized enterprises (SME). -- Debt ; GMM ; Panel data ; Profitability …