Consumers cannot fully evaluate the product quality before purchase. To reduce consumer risk, some manufacturers offer … consumer warranty. Up to now, there are many studies investigating this role, but they seldom consider from the perspective of … consumer utility. Consumers view remanufactured products as being of lower quality and are less willing to pay for them. It is …

Consumers cannot fully evaluate the product quality before purchase. To reduce consumer risk, some manufacturers offer … consumer warranty. Up to now, there are many studies investigating this role, but they seldom consider from the perspective of … consumer utility. Consumers view remanufactured products as being of lower quality and are less willing to pay for them. It is …

additional information contained in profits, which complements the information from wages and transitions typically used in … previous work. We identify the strength of sorting solely from a ranking of firms by profits. To discern the sign of sorting …

, operating surplus and profits as performance indicators are estimated. Heterogeneity and robustness are investigated by a … operating surplus of IV panel estimates. However, on average, we find a tendency towards negative effects on profits. This …

This paper conducts the first general equilibrium analysis of the role of entry, exit and profits in industry dynamics … simultaneous equilibrium model of profits, entry and exit. We find that indeed entrants play an entrepreneurial function causing …

We propose a simple test that uses information on workers' mobility, wages and firms' profits to identify the sign and … types and firm profits to rank firms. We use a panel data set that combines social security earnings records for workers in …

resulted, again, from the dramatic deterioration of profits (capital income). Nokia is by far the biggest player in the … industry (more than half of the value added), and the decline of profits is mainly due to Nokia. Since 80-90 per cent of Nokia …, when the values added and profits grew in the early 2000s, the contribution to GDP growth was overestimated. The reason is …

This paper explores the behavior of profits in the four largest euro area countries (Germany, France, Italy and Spain … a vector autoregressive modeling framework, discusses the sensitivity of profits to four distinctive structural shocks … of historical developments in profits across countries and sectors. …

competitiveness (i.e. productivity, wages and profits) while controlling for key econometric issues such as time-invariant unobserved … competitiveness vary across sectors: while temporary employment is found to enhance productivity and profits in (labour …

the mean value - raises profits on average by somewhat less than half a percentage point, reduces average labour costs by … about 0.1 percent and has no effect on TFP. The positive effects on profits are larger for small firms operating in low tech …