We contribute to the study of the conceptualization and measurement of the rate of profit of the financial and … nonfinancial sectors. We assemble a new data set for the US economy to construct measures of the profit rate for each sector: the … return on equity, the return on assets, and the shareholder's dividend yield. We study how the periodic components of the …

The tourism and hospitality industry currently faces one of its most serious operational, commercial, and financial … comprehensively highlight in an initial assessment economic impacts and operational challenges for the tourism and hospitality …

tourism industry as part of their regional development policies. The main objective of these programs is to increase local … investment and employment, as tourism activities are labor intensive. Little evidence is available, however, to assess the effect … introduced in 2002 to develop the tourism industry in the undeveloped region of Northeast Brazil. It provides evidence that …