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Employment stickiness in small manufacturing firms [PDF]
Small firms often do not change their number of employees from year to year. This paper investigates the role of adjustment costs and indivisibility of labor in the employment stickiness of manufacturing firms with less than 75 employees.
Vermeulen, Philip
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RisksPurpose: This study investigates the relationship between product diversification strategy and cost stickiness, focusing on managerial overconfidence as a moderating factor.
Mona Parsaei +3 more
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Why Are Prices Sticky? The Dynamics of Wholesale Gasoline Prices [PDF]
The menu-cost interpretation of sticky prices implies that the probability of a price change should depend on the past history of prices and fundamentals only through the gap between the current price and the frictionless price.
James D. Hamilton, Michael C. Davis
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Competitiveness, market power and price stickiness: A paradox and a resolution [PDF]
Are prices less sticky when markets are more competitive? Our intuition would naturally lead us to give an affirmative answer to that question. But we first show that DSGE models with staggered price or wage contracts have actually the opposite and ...
Jean-Pascal Bénassy
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Asymmetric cost behavior and earnings forecast precision: A cross-country study of Iraq and Jordan
Heritage and Sustainable DevelopmentThis study explores the impact of cost stickiness and its signaling effect on the accuracy of earnings per share (EPS) forecasts in the capital markets of developing countries, with a focus on Iraq and Jordan.
Ali Shaker Dakhel +2 more
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Are Prices ‘Sticky’ Online? Market Structure Effects and Asymmetric Responses to Cost Shocks in Online Mortgage Markets [PDF]
We analyze daily mortgage rates posted by online lenders at the price comparison site, Microsurf. While cost shocks occurred almost daily in our sample, quoted mortgage rates are surprisingly rigid: Only 16 percent of the posted rates represent changes ...
Maria Arbatskaya, Michael R. Baye
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Future Business JournalThe main aim of this study is to empirically investigate the mediating contribution of corporate sustainability management on the association between cost stickiness and earnings management.
Dr Marwa Rabe Mohamed El Kamash
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The Stickiness of Selling, General, and Administrative Costs in the Indonesian Companies
International Research Journal of Business Studies, 2014 Selling, general and administration costs are the main components in the Income Statement. A large number of permanent staff in sales and marketing department will make the company dominated by the fixed costs.
Benny Armanto +2 more
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Why are some prices stickier than others? Firm-data evidence on price adjustment lags [PDF]
Infrequent price changes at the firm level are now well documented in the literature. However, a number of issues remain partly unaddressed. This paper contributes to the literature on price stickiness by investigating the lags of price adjustments to ...
Dias, Daniel +3 more
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Confucian culture and cost stickiness
Accounting & FinanceAbstractCultural features may exert significant impact on firm behaviour. Through a sample of listed A‐share firms on the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges, we find that Confucian culture may significantly lower firms' cost stickiness. Our mechanism tests suggest that ideologies of self‐discipline and prudence embedded in Confucian culture may ...
Ailing Pan, Hui Wang, Lei Xu
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