tremendous increase in poverty and income inequality in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Much of the literature argues that the …’s economic empowerment: the labour market, education and poverty. Large and complex data sets on peoples’ attitudes and … greater in transition than in OECD countries.On the other hand, once the feminisation of poverty is concerned data on …

choice of viewpoint from which to assess outcomes, time horizon, choice of normative system, measurement properties of the …

-indices DAX, MDAX and HDAX. Usually financial theory suggests that the fact of an index replacement contains no new valuation …The main aim of this thesis is to analyse the reactions caused by index replacements in the German benchmark stock …-relevant evidence. However the financial press frequently speculates about index replacements and the consequences on the underlying …

individualscores to study school efficiency. My final essay applies a standard DEA model and theMalmquist productivity index to …

This paper presents a new axiomatic decision theory for choice under uncertainty. Unlike Bayesian decision theory where … uncertainty is represented by a probability function, in our theory, uncertainty is given in the form of a likelihood function … statistical inference problem, our theory suggests a novel solution. The results in this paper could be useful for probabilistic …

in TFP growth. This paper computes an index of labour quality in Spain between 1988 and 2006 using microdata from the … observable characteristics, the index still shows a notable growth at an average annual rate of 0.42 pp. After a period of slight … decline (between 1988 and 1992) the index grows continuously until 2006 when it fell again. This is the case because education …

This study reports new findings on the behavior of index futures (FKLI: code name of Kuala Lumpur Index Futures …

instruments. Based upon the price index methodology, a selected sample of ten agribusiness stocks chosen by decreasing liquidity … profiles in BOVESPA composes the theoretical portfolio of the index. It will allow comparative analysis with other financial …