The meetings, incentive travel, conventions, and exhibitions (MICE) industry is comparatively young and diverse. As a result, there has been limited research conducted in this field, especially from the financial performance and capacity management perspective. The purpose of this study is to...

Idaho increases silver output. - Coeur d'Alenes production almost third of entire united states. - The 1929 silver production in Shoshone county was 8,786,525.25 ounces valued at $4,656,243.33 as compared with 8,427,560 ounces valued at $4,928,996.51 in 1928.

Idaho second lead producer. - Yields fourth of nation's output in 1931 -- shoshone's part is 98 per cent of state. - J. Waite's rank high. - Bunker hill first, federal second, Hecla third -- golconda, sherman outgo important. - The production of lead in Idaho, in 1931, decreased from 263,599,300...

During the question and answer session, Peter Drucker addresses the following: the aftermath of German inflation, age structure and savings rate, and placing people where their strengths can produce results. Irving Friedman adds that we have very little information and knowledge for making...

Is inflation targeting an appropriate framework for monetary policy? Experience from the inflation-targeting countries countries are optimistic about inflation targeting as a monetary-policy framework. South Africa is also following this trend.The international literature review of the topic...

In this paper we embed the Taylor interest rate rule in a simple macroeconomic model with Calvo contracts. We contrast this with the case in which the interest rate is determined by the conventional LM curve along with a fixed value for the monetary aggregate. We derive conditions under which...

Inflation expectations have been of great interest to economists because they predict how agents in an economy set prices and react to changes in various macroeconomic variables. The existence of Keynesian liquidity traps in Japan and the United States have helped emphasize the importance of...

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As in Caporale and Pittis, this paper finds significant evidence supporting the hypothesis of long-run equilibrium relationships between inflation rates in countries which participate in the ERM. However, the results differ in several important respects. First, the evidence rejects a dynamic...

The article explores Ireland's participation in the exchange rate mechanism (ERM) of the European Monetary System since mid-1986. It has been found that membership of the ERM per se did not have the expected moderating influence on interest rates. Ireland's participation in the ERM was intended...