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1. Theory of Profit -- 2. Profit Impact in Business Vision -- 3. Smoothing and Earnings Management Policies -- 4. Toward a Definition of Profit Smoothing -- 5. Why China? -- 6. Empirical Analysis of Profit Smoothing.-7. Management Behavior and Profit Smoothing: Implications of the Study

In this paper we analyze the economic effects of implementing EPA's newly proposed regulations for carbon dioxide (CO2) on existing U.S. coal-fired power plants using nonparametric methods on a sample of 144 electricity generating units. Moreover, we develop an approach for evaluating the...

This paper provides an introduction to the field of evolutionary economics with emphasis on the evolutionary theory of household behavior. It shows that the goal of evolutionary economics is to improve upon neoclassical economics by incorporating more realistic and empirically grounded...

We study the choice of strategic variables by firms in a duopoly in which two firms produce differentiated substitutable goods and each firm maximizes its relative profit that is the difference between its profit and the profit of the rival firm. We consider a two stage game such that in the...