We show that public firm profit rates fell by half since 1980. Inferred as the residual from the rise of US corporate … profit rates in aggregate data, private firm profit rates doubled since 1980. Public firm financial returns matched their … fall in profit rates, while public firm representativeness increased from 30% to 60% of the US capital stock. These results …

profit with a possibility to earn enough to repay their debt and with positive balances for all actors. The author will prove … pure credit economy, it remains impossible to gain a monetary profit for all actors. More precisely that the total sum of … monetary profit over all actors is zero. …

monetary profit with the possibility to earn enough to repay their debt, with positive balances for all actors. The author … credit economy, it remains impossible for all actors to gain a monetary profit. …

profit share has been increasing while firm entry has been declining. All else equal, the more back-loaded profits are, the … an increase in the aggregate profit share. Empirically, profits have become more back-loaded. Using a quantitative life …

accounts of profit inflation, wherein U.S. firms' market power allowed them to maintain - and, for some firms, increase - their …

1998-2000 period. Subsequent revisions reveal that the profitability of the nation's corporate sector in the late 1990s was … sectors, firms' inflated statements of profit - may help explain the large downward revisions …

thus a loss in competitiveness. Therefore, theoretically, aggregate demand can be either wage-led or profit-led depending …

The COVID-19 pandemic eventually gave rise to large increases in profits, profit shares and inflation rates. A major … controversy has developed among economists and in the media about whether this was largely caused by profit inflation, that is, by … increases in the percentage mark-ups set by firms. The paper attempts to clear some confusions regarding the issue of profit …