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International Variation in Return on Equity in the Food and Beverage Industries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Yvonne J. Acheampong
Yvonne J. Acheampong*
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-7509
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Abstract

The objective is to analyze the effects of country- and firm-specific factors on the return on equity in the beverage and tobacco and food and consumer-products industries for 11 industrialized nations. The results indicate that country- and firm-specific factors are important in explaining variation in return on equity within countries but not generally across countries or time.

Keywords

beverage and tobacco industrycountry- and firm-specific factorsfood and consumer-products industryglobalizationunbalanced panel datavariation in return on equity
Type
Invited Paper Sessions
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , August 2000 , pp. 383 - 392
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 2000

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