developing nation today. We construct a "corruption and fraud index" using word counts from a large number of newspapers for 1815 … to 1975, supplemented with other historical facts. The index reveals that America experienced a substantial decrease in … the "corruption and fraud index" is about five times its level from the end of the Progressive Era to the 1970s. If the …

We describe a new index of the current and historical returns to venture-type capital. The conceptual basis for the … index is the value of a continuously reinvested value-weighted portfolio of all venture-backed and similar pre …-public companies. It provides a metric for private equity comparable to the S&P 500 for public equity. We build the index from …

In this paper we derive the standard error of a price index when both prices and tastes or technology are treated as … stochastic. Changing tastes or technology are a reason for the weights in the price index to be treated as stochastic, which can … function (with Sato-Vartia price index), and also the translog function (with Törnqvist price index), which proves to be more …

widely used techniques: (a) index numbers, (b) data envelopment analysis, and three parametric methods, (c) instrumental …

The standard source for pre-WWII global freight rate trends is the Isserlis British tramp shipping index. We think it … transported. Previous scholars have deflated their nominal freight rate indices by a price index that includes tradables not …

Building on Baker, Bloom and Davis (2016), I construct a monthly index of Global Economic Policy Uncertainty (GEPU …) from January 1997. The GEPU Index is a GDP-weighted average of national EPU indices for 16 countries that account for two …-thirds of global output. Each national EPU index reflects the relative frequency of own-country newspaper articles that contain …