Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a critical role in rejuvenating and sustaining the modern economy, generating substantial employment and serving as important innovation engines for the global economy. This book aims to spread research conducted on SMEs internationally and place it...

"This book fosters a scientific understanding of mobile services, providing a timely publication of current research efforts, and forecasts future trends in the mobile services industry"--Provided by publisher.

The existing literature on the stabilizing properties of interest-rate feedback rules has stressed the perils of linking interest rates to forecasts of future inflation. Such rules have been found to give rise to aggregate fluctuations due to self-fulfilling expectations. In response to this...