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Economics: Agents, Pilgrims, and Profits [PDF]
, 2016 In the nineteenth century, the ancient muslim pilgrimage economy, based on the caravan system, was rocked by technology and administrative rationality. At the same time, with colonization, the pilgrimage wich had hitherto remained a strictly muslim affair, become a common concern of the colonial powers which subsequently had to manage it from an ...
Sylvia Chiffoleau
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Bank Profitability and Economic Growth [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018 This paper analyses the effect of bank profitability on economic growth. While policymakers have shown major concerns for low levels of bank profitability, there are no empirical studies on the growth effects of bank profitability. To fill this gap, we investigate the impact of bank profitability on economic growth using a sample of 133 countries ...
Klein, Paul-Olivier, Weill, Laurent
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Economic Profitability Versus Ecological Entropy* [PDF]
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2000 zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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The rhetoric of failure: a hyper-dialog about method in economics and how to get things going [PDF]
, 2012 All are agreed that orthodox economics is unsatisfactory but there is wide disagreement, especially among heterodox critics, whether the problems lie at the level of substantive theory or at the level of methodology. This paper gives first an overview of
Kakarot-Handtke, Egmont
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Economic activity and momentum profits: Further evidence [PDF]
Journal of Banking & Finance, 2018 We show that economic activity plays an important role in explaining momentum-based anomalies. A simple two-factor model containing the market and alternative indicators of economic activity as risk factors—industrial production, capacity utilization rate, retail sales, and a broad economic index—offers considerable explanatory power for the cross ...
Maio, P., Philip, D.
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Profit-Sharing Regulation: An Economic Appraisal. [PDF]
Fiscal Studies, 1996 The stock market, take-over bidders, executive pay setters, perhaps Stephen Littlechild himself, even last summer’s weather, all seem to have been undermining RPI-X price-cap regulation. Until recently, price-cap regulation was regarded as demonstrably superior to US-style rate-of-return regulation, and regulatory reform in several countries has ...
Colin Mayer, John Vickers
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Energy Efficiency – Ecological and Economic Profitability [PDF]
Architecture, Civil Engineering, Environment, 2020 Abstract The aim of the paper is to draw attention to both the average annual savings in the costs of consumed fuels and energy, as well as the possibility of obtaining additional funds in the case of implementing projects aimed at improving energy efficiency.
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Behavioral economics as applied to firms: a primer [PDF]
We discuss the literatures on behavioral economics, bounded rationality and experimental economics as they apply to firm behavior in markets. Topics discussed include the impact of imitative and satisficing behavior by firms, outcomes when managers care ...
Armstrong, Mark, Huck, Steffen
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Profit distribution and managers’ behaviour in vertical integrated medical delivery systems – An experimental economics study [PDF]
, 2020 Yunque Bo +4 more
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Business and Economic Research, 2012 Many facts attest to the existence of close ties between producer profits and economic growth. In the first place, in periods of economic growth, an overwhelming number of enterprises have fairly high profits. The markets are dominated by general confidence and optimism. A wholly different picture can be seen when economic growth is absent.
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