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Recent revisions to corporate profits: what we know and when we knew it

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  • April Bang
  • Brian Chernoff
  • Charles P. Himmelberg
  • James M. Mahoney

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Initial estimates in the National Income and Product Accounts significantly overstated U.S. corporate profits for the 1998-2000 period. Subsequent revisions reveal that the profitability of the nation's corporate sector in the late 1990s was substantially weaker than \\"real-time\\" data indicated. An unexpected surge in employee stock options exercised-and perhaps, in some sectors, firms' inflated statements of profit-may help explain the large downward revisions.

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  • April Bang & Brian Chernoff & Charles P. Himmelberg & James M. Mahoney, 2004. "Recent revisions to corporate profits: what we know and when we knew it," Current Issues in Economics and Finance, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, vol. 10(Mar).
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    1. Mihir A. Desai, 2002. "The Corporate Profit Base, Tax Sheltering Activity, and the Changing Nature of Employee Compensation," NBER Working Papers 8866, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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