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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 … 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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Measuring the spillovers of venture capital
Schnitzer, Monika; Watzinger, Martin - 2017
We provide the first measurement of knowledge spillovers from venture capital-financed companies onto the patenting activities of other companies. On average, these spillovers are nine times larger than those generated by the R&D investment of established companies. Spillover effects are larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011718181
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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
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The crisis in the foreign exchange market
Melvin, Michael; Taylor, Mark P. - 2009
terms of foreign exchange market dynamics. An implementable financial stress index (FSI) is created and then used to … currencies) and we show that such an index has potential value in protecting a portfolio against loss during periods of stress …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861767
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Banking crises and crisis dating : theory and evidence
Boyd, John H.; De Nicolò, Gianni; Loukoianova, Elena - 2010
We formulate a simple theoretical model of a banking industry that we use to identify and construct theory-based measures of systemic bank shocks (SBS). These measures differ from "banking crisis" (BC) indicators employed in many empirical studies, which are constructed using primarily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003994497
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Time series properties of the German monthly production index
Flaig, Gebhard - 2003
The production index is an important indicator for assessing the cyclical state of the economy. Unfortunately, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514105
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Ethnic geography : measurement and evidence
Hodler, Roland; Valsecchi, Michele; Vesperoni, Alberto - 2017
social outcomes are not well understood. We develop a novel index of ethnic segregation that takes both ethnic and spatial … distances between individuals into account. Importantly, we can decompose this index into indices of spatial dispersion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011747456
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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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Common ownership of competing firms : evidence from Australia
Leigh, Andrew; Triggs, Adam - 2021
We provide the first estimates of the extent of common ownership of competing firms in Australia. Combining data on market shares and substantial shareholdings, we calculate the impact of common ownership on effective market concentration. Among firms where we can identify at least one owner, 31...
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