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Roscher’s Victorian views on financial development

Hudson, Michael - In: Journal of Economic Studies 22 (1995) 3/4/5, pp. 187-208

Focuses on Roscher′s generalities in the financial realm. Roscher postulated a secular decline in interest rates and an evolution of credit towards increasingly productive applications. Although Roscher′s theories were plausible, questions whether he got his causes and effects right. If not,...

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What is normal profit for power generation?

Simshauser, Paul; Ariyaratnam, Jude - In: Journal of Financial Economic Policy 6 (2014) 2, pp. 152-178

estimates of benchmark wholesale power prices based on the principles of normal profit. This, in turn, can guide policymakers as … abuse is present on the supply side. It should not be this way. If a theoretically robust measure of normal profit exists … project model, the authors produce pragmatic and theoretically robust measures of normal profit for project financed plant and …

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Intra‐firm organization and profitability

Georgopoulos, Antonios; Koumanakos, Evangelos Pet. - In: Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change 3 (2007) 1, pp. 44-67

Purpose – By conducting a field research in affiliates of foreign transnational corporations (TNCs) established in Greece, this paper aims to investigate whether a different tendency of intra‐firm organization has a different impact on their profitability and earnings management policy....

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Low‐energy versus conventional residential buildings: cost and profit

Zalejska‐Jonsson, Agnieszka; Lind, Hans; Hintze, Staffan - In: Journal of European Real Estate Research 5 (2012) 3, pp. 211-228

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the commercial aspect of “green” building construction and whether increased investment costs are profitable taking the reduction in operating costs into account. The investment viability is approached by comparing investment in...

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Corporate social reporting: empirical evidence from Indonesia Stock Exchange

Veronica Siregar, Sylvia; Bachtiar, Yanivi - In: International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern … 3 (2010) 3, pp. 241-252

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of board size, foreign ownership, firm size, profitability, and leverage on corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting and the possible effect of CSR reporting on a firm's future performance. Design/methodology/approach –...

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Modeling Islamic banks' efficiency: a non‐parametric frontier approach

Mostafa, Mohamed M. - In: International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern … 4 (2011) 1, pp. 7-29

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to measure the relative efficiency of the top 100 Islamic banks. The sensitivity of the results is also investigated. Design/methodology/approach – Data envelopment analysis (DEA) method was applied to evaluate the relative efficiency of Islamic banks...

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The Regulation of Private Schools Serving Low-Income Families in Andhra Pradesh, India

Dixon, Pauline; Tooley, James - In: The Review of Austrian Economics 18 (2005) 1, pp. 29-54

This paper sets out some findings of a research project carried out in private unaided schools in low-income areas of Hyderabad, India. The part of the research project documented here was designed to examine the question: ‘Is the regulatory regime conducive to entrepreneurial action and...

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Persistence of Profits and Competitiveness in Dutch Manufacturing.

Kleijweg, A. - NEUHUYS - RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM - 1993

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Retail Profit Margins in Japan.

Potjes, J.C.A.; Thurik, A.R. - NEUHUYS - RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM - 1992

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Good News, Bad news and CEO turnover.

Morrill, C. - Faculté des sciences de l'administration, Université Laval - 1996

This paper presents evidence on the association among chief executive officer (CEO) turnover, discretionary accounting choice and investor evaluations of those accounting choices. This paper presents the results of an analysis of unexpected earnings and abnormal security returns. The results...

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