These lectures aim to help readers understand the logics and nature of the main indicators of inequality and poverty, with special attention to their social welfare underpinnings. The key approach consists in linking inequality and poverty measurement with welfare evaluation. As concern for...

In diesem Buch wird die langfristige historische Entwicklung deutscher längstlaufender Staatsanleihen im Zeitraum 1870 bis 1959 untersucht. Durch Verknüpfung der ermittelten Performance mit der bereits existierenden Zeitreihe gleicher Konzeption sowie der anschließenden Fortentwicklung bis...

Indizes im Wirtschafts- und Sozialleben sowie am Kapitalmarkt -- Anwendung von Aktienindizes -- Anlage in Indexprodukten -- Fehlinterpretationen von Indizes im Anlagealltag -- Konstruktion von Indizes.

Der bei der Umstellung von Aktienindizes zu beobachtende Indexeffekt ist ein in der Finanzierungstheorie und in der Kapitalmarktpraxis viel beachtetes Phänomen, das in der Kapitalmarktforschung auf großes Interesse stößt. Welche Ursachen hat der auf vollkommenen Kapitalmärkten nicht zu...

Softcover version of the second edition Hardcover.Incorporates a new author, Dr. Chris O'Donnell, who brings considerable expertise to the project in the area of performance measurement. Numerous topics are being added and more applications using real data, as well as exercises at the end of the...

Investor sentiment and behavior play an important role in financial markets. Using a unique data set consisting of more than 36.5 million submitted retail investor orders over the course of five years, Matthias Burghardt constructs an innovative retail investor sentiment index. He shows that...

Arthur Vogt has devoted a great deal of his scientific efforts to both person and work of Irving Fisher. This book, written with Jànos Barta, gives an excellent impression of Fisher's great contributions to the theory of the price index on the one hand. On the other hand, it continues Fisher's...

This book provides a coherent description of the main concepts and statistical methods used to analyse economic performance. The focus is on measures of performance that are of practical relevance to policy makers. Most, if not all, of these measures can be viewed as measures of productivity...

“Drawing upon decades of her own research, Dr. Hughes provides human resource professionals with yet another useful lens to consider when designing interventions to support diversity and inclusion. Both practitioners and academics will find new ways to understand, describe and lead inclusive...