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In this paper we present and describe the revised version of the KOF Globalisation Index, a composite index measuring … globalisation for every country in the world along the economic, social and political dimension. The original index was introduced … by Dreher (2006) and updated in Dreher et al. (2008). This second revision of the index introduces the differentiation …
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We introduce the revised version of the KOF Globalisation Index, a composite index measuring globalization for every … country in the world along the economic, social and political dimension. The original index was introduced by Dreher (2006 …) and updated in Dreher et al. (2008). This second revision of the index distinguishes between de facto and de jure measures …
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Financial indices, like the S&P 500 or the Consumer Price Index, have become a ubiquitous feature of our financial … markets. One index, the London InterBank Offered Rate (“Libor”), may be the world's most important number, an interest rate … dollars potentially misappropriated. This index disruption has attracted tremendous interest from regulators, private …
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The paper deals with some new indices for ordinal data that arise from sample surveys. Their aim is to measure the degree of concentration to the quot;positivequot; or quot;negativequot; answers in a given question. The properties of these indices are examined. Moreover, methods for constructing...
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relation between total and partial productivity measures; and aggregation issues. The approach advocated here is able to …
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This document offers an overview of analytical properties of volatility control indices,including the statistical bias, comparing various volatility estimators and the impact of stochastic interest rates on long-dated volatility target indices
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Energy poverty, long considered a problem limited to developing countries only, is now widely acknowledged as a challenge for advanced OECD countries as well. How energy poverty is perceived depends on the conceptualization and assessment of the underlying phenomena: inappropriately high costs...
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In the paper, we present some modifications of the Hoede-Bakker index defined in a social network in which players may … probability distributions over all inclination vectors, we construct modifications of the Hoede-Bakker index that coincide with … the Shapley-Shubik index and with the Holler-Packel index, respectively …
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High dimensional composite index makes experts' preferences in setting weights a hard task. In the literature, one of … motivates theoretical reasons to derive the weights of the elementary indicators in a composite index when multiple components …
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