profitability of the corporate sector and exporting firms. Exporting firms with fast-growing exports had larger profits and they …

continuities in household composition. In particular, households in the pre-industrial era were no more likely than present … resulted in a household composition which resembles that produced by early widowhood in the seventeenth century. Nor has the … to illustrate household types. The paper concludes by suggesting that a standard set of tables should be agreed upon and …

confidence. Long-term interest rates, as a measure of confidence in the sovereign, tend to fall around spending …, spending-based measures seem preferable. Slump periods are not necessarily bad moments for such measures, while strengthening …

, spending and taxes are higher inside currency unions. This effect is especially pronounced for dollarized countries that …

We develop a theoretical framework for comparing the style of work in public and private enterprises. We incorporate …

effects upon profitability. We test for weak instruments and check sub-sample robustness. Our findings seem to lend support to …

This Paper examines the effect of price competition on innovation, market structure and profitability in R … counts and profitability over 1952-77. The econometric results suggest that the introduction of restrictive practices …&D-intensive manufacturing industries, while it caused a significant rise in concentration in these industries. In the short run profitability …

We develop a simple approach to valuing stocks in the presence of learning about average profitability. The market …-to-book ratio (M/B) increases with uncertainty about average profitability, especially for firms that pay no dividends. M/B is … returns. Firm profitability has become more volatile recently, helping explain the puzzling increase in average idiosyncratic …

other aspects of firm behaviour. In this paper we consider the impact of minimum wages on firm profitability by exploiting … firm profitability was significantly reduced (and wages significantly raised) by the minimum wage introduction. This … residential care homes, and a second on firms across all sectors). Interestingly, we find no evidence that the profitability …