This paper analyses the stochastic behaviour of Private Equity returns (a measure of profitability) applying fractional …

measures of profitability in each sector have changed over time, how these have been correlated at different frequencies, and … profitability across sectors is located at business cycle frequencies, and that there has been a shift in the lead-lag relationship … between financial and nonfinancial profitability: from 1970 to the mid-1990s, profitability in the nonfinancial sector led …

We examine the profitability of cross-ownership in an oligopolistic industry where firms compete as Cournot rivals. We … over to the case of non-renewable resource industries. The profitability of a symmetric cross-ownership can be positive …

We analyze the profitability of FX swaps used by the central bank of Brazil to shed light on the rationale for FX …

We use a state-level panel data set for the period 1969-2005 to analyze the relative importance of profitability (rate … added, investment and employment - we find that profitability is more significant than industrial disputes in explaining the …