We contribute to the study of the conceptualization and measurement of the rate of profit of the financial and … nonfinancial sectors. We assemble a new data set for the US economy to construct measures of the profit rate for each sector: the … measures of profitability in each sector have changed over time, how these have been correlated at different frequencies, and …

three fundamental goals of business: growth, profitability, and safety. Insurers balance on premium and underwriting … simultaneous equation models, we show that moderate firm growth increases profitability; however, extremely high growth reduces … profitability. In addition, less profitable insurers are more willing to take risks. Our results emphasize the need to jointly …

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 …

We take a closer look at the links between corporate capital structure and productivity, profitability and access to … capital structure has no significant impact on the firms' profitability or productivity. However, the capital structure is …

the reform of SOEs in Viet Nam. It finds that the net revenue positively affects the profit before taxes of SOEs, while … sales expenses exert a negative impact on the profit before taxes. The article recommends policies to the government and …