This Policy Brief introduces the Gini Trade Index (GTI) as a new trade synthetic key performance indicator capable of … replicates the well-known features of the traditional Gini Index, a widely used metric for the skewness of several socioeconomic … indicators, in particular income inequality. The Policy Brief calculates the Gini Trade Index for all EU member states and …

management index in addition to the general time index of Baltagi and Griffin (1988) and use them as arguments in the translog …

Diffusion index models have received considerable attention from both theoreticians and empirical econometricians in … macroeconomic variables. In this paper we review some recent results in the study of diffusion index models, focusing primarily on … using diffusion index methodology and approaches that are useful for assessing whether there are observable variables that …

factor proxies selected from amongst 132 macroeconomic and financial time series, using the diffusion index methodology of …

This paper describes a weekly economic index (WEI) developed to track the rapid economic developments associated with … the onset of and policy response to the novel coronavirus in the United States. The WEI is a weekly composite index of … being a weekly real activity index, the WEI has strong predictive power for output measures and provided an accurate nowcast …