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-homothetic case, these indexes are superior both to Fisher s ideal index and to the consumer surplus approximation. …
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We develop a programming algorithm that predicts a balanced-panel mix-adjusted house price index for arbitrary spatial …
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We introduce the revised version of the KOF Globalisation Index, a composite index measuring globalization for every … country in the world along the economic, social and political dimension. The original index was introduced by Dreher (2006 …) and updated in Dreher et al. (2008). This second revision of the index distinguishes between de facto and de jure measures …
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The availability of copious amounts of data produced by the increasing datification of our society is nowadays deemed an opportunity to produce timely and convenient statistical information. This paper shows the building of economic sentiment indexes from the texts of the most read economic...
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In this paper, we propose a novel index for measuring intra-generational redistribution in pay-as-you-go pension … schemes. Our index solely requires information on contributions and pension benefits of retirees, enabling us to measure intra … predictions of our index. The reform introduced additional benefits for a subgroup of substantial size of German mothers, due to …
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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 …
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The current literature on optimal forest rotation makes the assumption of constant interest rate. However, the irreversible harvesting decisions of forest stands are typically subject to relatively long time horizons over which interest rates do fluctuate considerably. In this paper we apply the...
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This paper adopts an instrumental variable approach to uncover the impact of variations in minimum temperature on emergence and severity of actual violence through the effect on food availability, captured by rice crops per capita. The link between increase in minimum temperature and rice crops...
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This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...
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This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically that geographical variations in the natural return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on the distribution of time preference...
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