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A tale of two debt crises : a stochastic optimal control analysis
Stein, Jerome L. (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003641668
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Embedding as a pitfall for survey-based welfare indicators : evidence from an experiment
Hetschko, Clemens; Reumont, Louisa von; Schöb, Ronnie - 2017 - This version: March, 2017
interventions? One way is to use survey-based welfare indicators such as the OECD Better Life Index. It invites people to weight a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011638276
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Ageing and fiscal imbalances across generations : concepts of measurement
Fenge, Robert; Werding, Martin - 2003
In the literature, several approaches have been taken to measure the impact of demographic ageing on public pension schemes, with particular attention being paid to potential fiscal imbalances across the generations involved in demographic transition. In this paper, we review three of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514130
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National happiness and genetic distance : a cautious exploration
Proto, Eugenio; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2015 - Revised
This paper studies a famous unsolved puzzle in quantitative social science. Why do some nations report such high levels of mental well-being? Denmark, for instance, regularly tops the league table of rich countries' happiness; Britain and the US enter further down; some nations do unexpectedly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405676
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Fiscal incidence when both individual welfare and family structure matter : the case of subsidization of home-care for the elderly
Mou, Haizhen; Winer, Stanley L. - 2012
elderly? What is the nature of a fiscal incidence index on a budgetary basis versus a theoretically more satisfactory index … incidence, the comparison of welfare-based incidence with budgetary incidence for non-cooperative and cooperative families, and … on the fiscal incidence of home care programs. -- home care of the elderly ; price-subsidy ; fiscal incidence index ; non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488846
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A general theory of price and quantity aggregation and welfare measurement
Hillinger, Claude - 2002
-homothetic case, these indexes are superior both to Fisher s ideal index and to the consumer surplus approximation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514055
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Multidimensional equality of opportunity in the United States
Hufe, Paul; Kobus, Martyna; Peichl, Andreas; Schüle, Paul - 2022
measurement approach that allows us to target the joint distribution of income and wealth. We show that inequality of opportunity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013093036
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What forces dictate the design of pollution monitoring networks?
Muller, Nicholas Z.; Ruud, Paul Arthur - 2016
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) maintains networks of pollution monitors for two basic purposes: to check and enforce the attainment of national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS) and to provide useful data for studying pollution and its effects. These purposes imply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421576
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Long memory in US real output per capita
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A. - 2009
This paper analyses the long memory properties of quarterly real output per capita in the US (1948Q1 - 2008Q3) using non-parametric, semi-parametric and parametric techniques. The results vary substantially depending on the methodology employed. Evidence of mean reversion is obtained in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850276
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Micro-geographic property price and rent indices
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Heblich, Stephan; Seidel, Tobias - 2021
We develop a programming algorithm that predicts a balanced-panel mix-adjusted house price index for arbitrary spatial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597680