The Grand Rapids industrial market started slow and steady in the first quarter of 2008 but made up for lost time during the remainder of the year. The vacancy rate decreased from 9.4 percent during the first quarter of 2008 to 7.5 percent at year-end. The consolidation, relocation, and...

In this study, the authors examine the worry and discomfort experienced by direct care health professionals in treating AIDS patients and how their profession, attitudes, knowledge, experience and demographic characteristics influence their emotional reaction to those patients. The research...

A security's eventual purchasing power will be enhanced or eroded due to unanticipated inflation. This paper develops a model to show that the fluctuations in future purchasing power due to unanticipated inflation are minimized by investing in short-term bonds and rolling them over as opposed to...

One of the most common features of regional econometric models is the specification of national variables as exogenous to the regional model. Often these variables appear as distributed lags in the structural equations. Concepts and tests for statistical causality can be used to determine...