, the commonly used chain index derived from the published month-to-month price change of the PPI in some cases dramatically … drift for a wide class of index formulae, and in part on the observations of price movements made by the Fund’s missions …

In this paper, we use index number theory to decompose changes in total interest rate due to changes in the interest … rate component and the weight component. We discuss the optimal calculation of a binary index using axiomatic index number … theory. Based on this theory we compare alternative indexes and as a result, we choose the Marshall-Edgeworth index because …

the same time, poor and deprived. In order to improve deprivation index we substitute EUROSTAT methodology by Fuzzy method … poverty multidimensional index we should take into account that social exclusion variables and indexes have to be analyzed …

Italy, the use of such an index at national level may not be enough to have a clear picture of the human capital conditions … high heterogeneity into consideration, we develop a Human Capital Index for Italy disaggregated at provincial level. The …

We establish nonparametric identification in a class of so-called index models using a novel approach that relies on …