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 …

In this paper, we investigate the relation between business profit and the demand price-elasticity of consumers …. Business profit increases with a decrease in customer price-sensitivity only when the relation between a firm's net operating … margin (after fixed-costs) and its price-cost margin (before fixed-costs) exceeds unity. We find this result empirically for …

corporate profitability, namely, net profit, economic value added and return on assets. Through dynamic panel estimation, we …We examine the determinants of corporate profitability for publicly listed Australian firms by using three measures of … test the determinants of corporate profitability. Using panel least squares and median regression, we control for sectoral …

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the distributional and dynamic properties of firm profit rates, measured … key parameters ruling over the distributional outcome and stochastic motion of firm profit rates: a system-wide aver- age … rate of profit, a system-wide dispersion measure of profit rates, and an idiosyncratic noise factor reecting individual …

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 …

mere efficiency. Higher efficiency leads to huge profit of a perfectly competitive firm. Another consistent model for …

Profitability of the specialist beef production in the Australian Beef Industry is undertaken using a break-even model … profitability. Although the findings provide a view of financial profitability of the specialist beef production in general, the …

We analyze the profit efficiency of the Colombian banking industry during the period 2001 - 2013. Unlike previous … studies, we estimate revenue and cost efficiency separately and then compute profit efficiency as a composite measure of both … cost and revenue efficiency. This approach overcomes the mis-specification problems of the traditional nonstandard profit …