Maximizing profit is a common long-term goal for new business owners or managers. However, you often have to work through a number of constraints, some that you have control over and others that you ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

This empirical application investigates the eventual presence of credit constraints using a panel of French farmers. The credit-constrained profit maximization model proposed by Färe, Grosskopf, and ...

I asked Prof. Bainbridge whether I could cross-post this from Corporate Finance Lab, and he kindly agreed: What is the purpose of a corporation? Is it, as Nobel Economics laureate Milton Friedman ...

The Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring, 1970), pp. 129-142 (14 pages) This paper extends a simple economic model of the regulated firm to include a wider range of ...

In justifying his attacks on Bain Capital, President Obama argues that "profit maximization" might be an appropriate goal for a private-equity firm, but not for more general public policy. This ...

ANZ has made a record annual profit despite what it calls "a constrained environment" and higher bad debts. But figures showed little growth with after tax profit for the 2015 financial year up 3 per ...