This study examines optimal environmental regulations and firms' responses under three production scenarios. The government's objective is to maximize social welfare by selecting the type and intensity of regulatory instruments, while firms seek to optimize profits by adjusting their optimal production ...
•Stockpricesareareflectionofacompany‟sprofitability.Ifmanagersdonotseektomaximizeprofits,stockpricesfallandfirmsaresubjecttotakeoverbidsandproxyfights.•Thecompensationofmanyexecutivesistiedtostockprice.TheGoaloftheFirm •Othergoalsthatthefirmmightpursue:•Thesizeofthefirm•customersatisfaction•workplace...
The firm's objective is to maximize profits by choosing both the scale and scope of production, as well as choosing how much to invest in enhancing the quality of individual varieties and of its overall brand. We begin by abstracting from the quality dimension in this sub-section, and ...
Specifically, when confronted with an exogenous shock in a particular market, capacity-constrained firms will reallocate shares across different markets to maximize the profits of the market portfolio (Vannoorenberghe, 2012; Berman et al., 2015; De Sousa et al., 2020; Almunia et al., 2021). ...
Act or Clayton Act. The FTC has thus tried to maximize its discretion and flexibility to bring Section 5 cases, regardless of whether there is an underlying antitrust violation. Injunctive Relief Under Section 13(b) of the FTC Act.Private equity sponsors that hold controlling inter...
70% employ a cross-functional knowledge management system to maximize reuse in some cases on a global scale. Leaders in modularization were better at shortening the duration of a development process by 15-20%. Leaders use modularization with standardized interfaces across the full range of product ...
The FTC has thus tried to maximize its discretion and flexibility to bring Section 5 cases, regardless of whether there is an underlying antitrust violation. Injunctive Relief Under Section 13(b) of the FTC Act. Private equity sponsors that hold controlling interests in, or have substantial ...
2.1 Strategic Patenting: Motivations for firms' use of the Continuation Application Because I argue that the strategic use of secrecy in the patenting process is an important determinant of continuation applications, and that one motivation for using this strategy is to maximize rents from valuable ...
There are a number of different theories that seek to explain the debt-equity decision. However, as stated above, none of them are able to fully explain the apparent under-use of the benefits of debt. The trade-off theory of capital structure states that firms should pursue a given debt ...
In the short run, a reduction in inflation tends to cause a reduction in unemployment. An increase in the market supply of clerks leads to an increase in the market wage rate for clerks. A) True B) False True or false? In the short run, firms that seek...