Industry Effects on Firm and Segment Profitability Forecasting: Do Aggregation and Diversity Matter?
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Keywords
Segment profitability; Earnings predictability; Earnings persistence; Aggregation; Diversity; Industry membership;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L25 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Performance
- M41 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Accounting - - - Accounting
- G00 - Financial Economics - - General - - - General
- M21 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Economics - - - Business Economics
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2012-06-13 (Business Economics)
- NEP-FOR-2012-06-13 (Forecasting)
- NEP-IND-2012-06-13 (Industrial Organization)
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