This paper analyzes the interaction between R&D and merger profitability. The industry is composed of symmetric firms …&D investments to the new market structure. It is found that in most cases R&D has a negligible impact on merger profitability, and … toward a merger in the absence of R&D, R&D has an effect on merger profitability. Noncooperative R&D makes such mergers …

We explore firm-level markup and profit rates during the COVID-19 pandemic for a panel of 3,548 publicly-traded firms … and profitability. Furthermore, focusing on the average firm masks large heterogeneity in the disruption caused by the …-exchange tenure, employment, profitability, and market share. We find that firms that have lower profitability than what we could …

windfall profits and provide an impulse for further price hikes. (2) To protect profit margins from rising costs, downstream …

affects overall consumer charges and firms' profit. In a theoretical model, well suited for econometric implementation, we … impact on retail prices and firms' profit. We use a panel data set from saturated European markets and find that an identical … change in MTRs does not have a significant impact on firms' profit …

entrepreneurial reward (remuneration) and uses it as a variable in order to estimate its effect on bank profitability (in the … profitability. Each country is regarded as a commercial banking sector. All variables of the model refer to an annual average …

and profitability of Canadian property and casualty insurers. We find that the need to use retained earnings that have … been accumulated in soft markets forces insurers to increase their profitability to withstand upcoming hard market … decrease but so do profitability and solvency. Our observations, while suggesting the need for greater regulatory vigilance in …

In the present paper author attempts to point out that in EU selling through internet increases firm profitability …