answering one of three questions: 1) How are board characteristics such as composition or size related to profitability? 2) How …

negative union effects on profitability, but growth, productivity and the capital-labor ratio appear to be little affected by … may have longer term implications for efficiency since the impact on profitability appears to fall most heavily on firms …

Profitability, as measured by gross profits-to-assets, has roughly the same power as book-to-market predicting the …, despite having, on average, lower book-to-markets and higher market capitalizations. Controlling for profitability also … profitability explains most earnings related anomalies, as well as a wide range of seemingly unrelated profitable trading strategies …

Moreover, we find that there is no positive impact on target firms' profitability in the case of both within-group in …-in acquisitions, parent firms may be trying to quickly restructure acquired firms even at the cost of deteriorating profitability … acquisition target based on its productivity level, profitability and other characteristics and whether the performance of …