derived using any index or linear combination of the proxies that is created prior to the regression. To use an index created …. This procedure is also much more robust than ad hoc index construction to departures from the assumption of an underlying …

and services comparable across areas, is a difficult task. In this paper we attempt to construct a cost-of-living index …

In this paper we develop an index for comparing the cost of doing business across several metropolitan areas in the U ….S. Such indices can be used as leading indicators of metropolitan economic growth. To create the index, we first identify …-based and pooled techniques to derive such an index. The index's variance decreases as the time horizon for which it is used …

index. The governance index is computed as the weighted average of principal components of the standardized governance … therefore estimate the governance index on the basis of five indicators, such as crime rates, riots, industrial disputes and … strikes, Gini index, and debt-income ratio. Then we propose to explore whether the quality of governance determines …

for both groups of children in Pakistan, our study compares the determinants of the two groups to check whether they have …

series index to identify banking crisis episodes is highly difficult, particularly because of the lack of reliable data on … paper, however, proposes a weighted banking sector fragility index to measure changes in banks' vulnerability to crisis …. Using monthly sectoral data for selected 22 countries, it is argued that this type of a fragility index seems to be highly …