Market Power, Technology Shocks, and the Profitability Premium

This paper examines how market power affects the well-documented positive relation between firms' profitability and future stock returns. We find that this relation is significantly stronger among high-markup firms. A long-short portfolio sorted on profitability earns an average monthly return of 0.57% among high-markup firms, compared with 0.05% among low-markup firms.

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