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This research paper examines the market efficiency of loss earned listed manufacturing companies to assets write down announcement and test whether there was semi-strong form of market efficiency available in Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) under the circumstances. This study attempts to answer the...
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work has focused on the identification of trends and shifts in profit rates not caused by cyclical fluctuations, and … include capital deepening stimulated by a reduction in the cost of capital funds; profit squeezes caused by some combination …
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Many factors contribute to a firm's level of exportactivity. This study focuses on the impact of firm size, age, and profitabilityon export activity. The data, obtained from the Financial Analyses Made Easy(FAME) database and compiled for 1999 on firms of all sizes and ages,weredisaggregated to...
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This paper uses industry and firm data to look at price cost mark-ups and firm profit margins in U.K. manufacturing and … average mark-ups and the profit margin results both suggest that there is imperfect competition in manufacturing and services …. Second, mark-ups are pro-cyclical, as are profit margins even after allowing for movements in their standard determinants …
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This paper focuses on the determinants of aggregate investment spending in the UK for the industrial and commercial companies (ICC) sector. It complements recent work by Cuthbertson and Gasparro, who study an augmented Tobin's q model of investment in the manufacturing sector. Important focal...
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-based discrimination increases equilibrium profit, as long as precontract customization is at least modestly important in competitive …
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