discussion in the paper on the customer value gaps in the process of marketing new products and explores the possible situations …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …