• closedAccess   Exploiting ergodicity in forecasts of corporate profitability 

      Mundt, Philipp; Alfarano, Simone; Milakovic, Mishael Elsevier (2019-12-13)
      Theory suggests that competition tends to equalize profit rates through the process of capital reallocation, and numerous studies have confirmed that profit rates are indeed persistent and mean-reverting. Recent empirical ...
    • closedAccess   Gibrat's Law Redux: think profitability instead of growth 

      Mundt, Philipp; Alfarano, Simone; Milakovic, Mishael Oxford University Press (OUP) (2015)
      We argue that firm profitability can be conveniently characterized by one and the same diffusion process for all firms, akin to Gibrat’s seminal idea of a common stochastic description for the dynamics of firm growth. Here ...
    • openAccess   The Real Versus the Financial Economy: A Global Tale of Stability Versus Volatility 

      Mundt, Philipp; Förster, Niels; Alfarano, Simone; Milakovic, Mishael Dennis J. Snower (2014)
      The question how the real and the financial side of a capitalist economy relate to each other has been a frequently recurring topic in the history of economic thought. Our paper addresses this question from the viewpoint ...