This article determines the level of persistence of profits econometrically and the differences in such a level, for different Latin American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Peru) and for the USA. Furthermore, ...

This paper aims to offer a definition of excessive profit for cases of exploitation. Most of the literature that aims to identify cases of exploitation focus on determining a fixed price, and suggests that profit is excessive ...

Brazil has by far the largest higher education system in Latin America, with a sizable share of students enrolled in private-sector institutions. Its recently established and fast-growing for-profit sector is one of the ...

We analyze the profit efficiency of the Colombian banking industry during theperiod 2001 - 2013. Unlike previous studies, we estimate revenue and cost efficiencyseparately and then compute profit efficiency ...

This research had as objective to examine the profitability and risk of the production of swine for slaughter in the system by Full Cycle in the main producing region of the country. For this, secondary data were used for ...

Nowadays, internal control and profitability are becoming very important to achieve favorable results in the profits of any economic organization. The objective of this research was to describe the effect of internal control ...