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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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The paper presents a general theory of the aggregation of prices and quantities that unifies the field and relates … topics that in the past have been treated separately and unsatisfactorily, or not at all. The theory does without the common … the theory lead to Törnqvist indexes defined on the appropriate data set. A numerical example confirms that in the non …
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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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We extend the trade restrictiveness index approach to the case of market imperfections and domestic regulations … demand by reducing negative externalities. We apply the framework to the database of Kee et al. (2009) and derive ad valorem …
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index numbers and demand for characteristics to develop a new method for incorporating changes on the extensive …
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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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The production index is an important indicator for assessing the cyclical state of the economy. Unfortunately, the …
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Socio-economic differences in longevity have fuelled a debate whether pension systems have a regressive bias favouring groups with a high life expectancy. We show that the distributional implications of such pooling depend critically on the benefit profile across age/time, which in turn is...
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This paper uses a seasonal long-memory model to capture the behaviour of the US Industrial Production Index (IPI) over …
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