This study investigates the cross-industry determinants of capital structure. Sample consists of firms from three main industries (textile, cement and power industry) of Pakistan. Five year data from 2005 to 2009 is collected for 199 firms out of which 149 firms from textile industry, 23 from cement industry and 27 from power industry. Leverage is taken as a dependent variable and Profitability...

Not only in Iran, but throughout the world, banks and banking industry are considered as very important parts of the economy. This study seeks to investigate the impact of the internal characteristics of banks, the structure of the banking industry and the economic situation of Iran on the profitability of the banking system of Iran by exploring the theory of the Structuralism school concerning...

the impact of information & communication technology to increase financial transactions in different fields shows the positive developments of this industry in iran. but, is the ict industry also can be effective in the economic capital of the country? it occurs when the ict industry has a good performance in the capital markets. in this study, the ict industry in the tehran stock exchange was ...

I the electronics industry and others, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are selling their production facilities to contract manufacturers (CMs). The CMs achieve high capacity utilization through pooling (supplying many different OEMs). Meanwhile, the OEMs focus on innovation: research and development, product design, and marketing. We examine how this change in industry structure affects...

this study analyses the relationship of intellectual capital with financial performance measures of indian textile sector for a period of 10 years ranging from 2002 to 2012. for the study, corporate annual reports, especially the profit and loss accounts and balance sheets of the selected companies for the relevant years have been used from cmie prowess database. value added intellectual coeffi...

This article investigates the relationship between firm specific factors and macroeconomics on profitability in Taiwanese property-liability insurance industry using the panel data over the1999 through 2009 time period. Using operating ratio and return on assets (ROA) for the two kinds of profitability indicators to measure insurers’ profitability. The results show that underwriting risk, reins...

In this paper, we examine the importance of year, industry, corporate-parent, and businessspecific effects on the profitability of U.S. public corporations within specific 4-digit SIC categories. Our results indicate that year, industry, corporate-parent, and business-specific effects account for 2 percent, 19 percent, 4 percent, and 32 percent, respectively, of the aggregate variance in profit...

This papers examines the structural implications of demand shifts in free-entry oligopoly equilibria. The model generalizes the conjectural variations framework to consider asymmetric firm conjectures, allows for the possibility of cost differences across firms, and endogenizes conditions of entry and exit in the industry. In non-competitive environments, changes in incumbent output and industr...