The effect of the United States (US) sugar program on sugar-using firm profitability from 2000 to 2017 is examined using firm financial data and the relative US-to-world sugar price ratio. Return on assets and market-to-book ratio proxy for firm financial performance. The regression results...

Univariate normality tests are typically classified into tests based on empirical distribution, moments, regression and correlation, and other. In this paper, power comparisons of nine normality tests based on measures of moments via the Monte Carlo simulations is extensively examined. The...