This paper introduces a new approach for measuring vulnerability to poverty, using the standard downside mean-semideviation as a risk parameter. We identify vulnerability by comparing the uncertain outcomes of household well-being with poverty line in a mean-risk behavior framework.

Purpose – With the help of Slavoj Žižek's concept of interpassivity, this paper seeks to illustrate the frantic activities performed by employees to maintain a separation between the idea of an authentic self and the idea of a corporate self. Furthermore, this paper aims to illustrate these...

Real-time data are analysed for information on the Chilean monthly economic activity indicator IMACEC and what it indicates of the final GDP, defined as the growth rate that has been subject to at least two annual revisions. Data are presented and revisions analysed briefly. Mincer-Zarnowitz...