Studies in Economics and Finance: Volume 18 Issue 2

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Table of contents

CAPITAL INVESTMENT AND THE PROFITABILITY OF FORTUNE 500 INDUSTRIALS: 1971–1990

David P. Echevarria

US Companies were widely reported to be investing millions of dollars over the last two decades to upgrade manufacturing and operating facilities to increase competitiveness in…

ON THE ROLE OF FISCAL POLICY IN THE U.S. ECONOMY

Ali F. Darrat, Anas H. Hamed

Contrary to the restrictive bivariate results of Saunders (1995), our findings from open‐economy multivariate models accord with the conventional IS/LM apparatus and decisively…

HISTORICAL PRE AND POST SPECIAL CLOSING EFFECTS

Michael J. Seiler

This study examines the historical return behavior surrounding foreseeable or expected special closings of the New York Stock Exchange. Pre and Post special closing return…

FORTUNE'S MOST ADMIRED FIRMS: AN INVESTOR'S PERSPECTIVE

Greg Filbeck, Raymond Gorman, Dianna Preece

Each year since 1983, Fortune magazine has published a survey featuring “America's most admired” corporations. Although the most admired corporations are certainly worthy of some…

PERFORMANCE PAY AS A SCREENING DEVICE

Marc C. Chopin, Craig T. Schulman

Analysis of management compensation has focused on the principal — agent problem. We address the problem confronting owners who must choose a manager without knowing the…

Cover of Studies in Economics and Finance

ISSN:

1086-7376

Online date, start – end:

1977

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof Niklas Wagner