VOLUME 6 • 2007
ASSET PRICES, GLOBAL INFLATION, AND OPTIMAL MONETARY POLICY
ABSTRACT. With respect to monetary policy, Yellen finds nothing either in theory or the existing empirical evidence to overturn the conclusion that a country like the United States, operating under a flexible exchange rate regime, can ultimately achieve the inflation target of its choice. Berger et ..
EFFECTIVENESS OF INTERNAL CONTROL AND FINANCIAL REPORTING
ABSTRACT. According to INTOSAI, internal control in public sector organizations should be understood within the context of the specific characteristics of these organizations. INTOSAI claims that no matter how well designed and operated, internal control cannot provide management absolute assurance ..
HOW DOES GLOBALIZATION AFFECT INFLATION?
ABSTRACT. Wagner remarks that inflation is regarded by the public as a signal of bad policy and political and economic instability; inflation works like taxation: the real effective capital income tax rate rises as inflation increases (the effects on capital income taxes are a main mechanism by whic..
DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT AND THE MUSIC INDUSTRY
ABSTRACT. CDT describes some ways in which DRM is already having a major impact on how the public accesses and interacts with digital content, and suggests specific questions that consumers and reviewers should be asking about media devices and services incorporating DRM. Chorianopoulos et al. remar..
INFLATION AND MONETARY POLICY DECISIONS
ABSTRACT. According to Rogoff, central banks would like to be able to forecast terms of trade changes, and a high level of global excess capacity relative to domestic excess capacity implies that short-run favorable terms of trade gains. Gnan and Valderrama hold that the notion that central banks wo..
MUSICAL STRUCTURES AND PERFORMANCE EXPRESSION
ABSTRACT. Palmer points out that musical experience enhances both performer's use of expression to emphasize interpretations and listeners' ability to identify interpretations and expressive aspects of performance. Clarke notes that perception must be understood as a relationship between environment..
RHETORICAL-COMPOSITIONAL DEVICES IN ROMANIAN EPIC SONGS
ABSTRACT. Zlateva contends that folk music gained its real importance in Enescu's work when he began to develop his own Western musical language. Beissinger holds that oral composition in Romanian epic is characterized by a congruity between textual and musical ideas (singers clearly sense a relatio..
THE STRUCTURE OF MUSICAL DISCOURSE
ABSTRACT. Ockelford claims that "structure" refers solely to implicative relationships through which one perceived sonic event or feature is deemed to derive through imitation of another. Storr observes that music can be regarded as a form of communication between people, but what it communicates is..
ORAL COMPOSITION IN ROMANIAN EPIC POETRY
ABSTRACT. Beissinger holds that the fundamental unit of narrative content in epic poetry is the complete thought (which is expressed as a complete sentence, with a subject and a predicate). Zlateva reasons that unlike the vocal doinas, the instrumental ones have more developed forms, with wide compa..
AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL UNDERSTANDING OF CONTEMPORARY JOURNALISM
ABSTRACT. Eide argues that an adequate understanding of society and a relevant theory of power should be able to account for the role of journalism. Martin remarks that the mass media frequently create unrealistic fears about criminals, foreign peoples and mass protest. Sigal states that reporters m..
FACTUALITY AND THE LANGUAGE OF THE MEDIA
ABSTRACT. Sousa contends that journalism media would act especially through the act of informing citizens, in the assumption that they are responsible players in a social system they belong and on which they have to intervene. Nerone and Barnhurst state that newspaper workers, owners and readers ali..
WITTGENSTEIN ON MUSIC
ABSTRACT. Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was one of the most original thinkers of the first half of the twentieth century. His views on philosophy and language have significantly shaped the present-day discipline of philosophy. Of interest to musicians is the fact that Wittgenstein refers to music ..