Barometer, FORA's Entrepreneurship Index, OECD and Economic Commission's sets of indicators, among others) and several variables …

respect to the tonality on political parties and politicians. On this basis we develop an index sorting the media in the … political left to right spectrum. We apply the index to opinion-leading media in Germany, analysing 7,203,351 reports on … are able to achieve a more direct and reliable measure of media bias. In addition, we apply the index to study whether the …

We try to build a macroeconomic index, that includes some non-market variables, to be compared to the traditional GDP … optimisation to rigorously derive an index that can be used to evaluate small projects and their contribution to well being … "welfare" as compared to GDP. Our work falls in the third category. We start from the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare …

This paper describes a new, industry-adjusted index of state environmental compliance costs from 1977 to 1994. The … index has two principal advantages: it controls for states' industrial compositions, and it can be calculated for 17 years … and 1994. Third, this cost index is negatively correlated with subjective indices of state environmental efforts compiled …

respect to the tonality on political parties and politicians. On this basis we develop an index sorting the media in the … political left to right spectrum. We apply the index to opinion-leading media in Germany, analysing 7,203,351 reports on … are able to achieve a more direct and reliable measure of media bias. In addition, we apply the index to study whether the …

This paper proposes an alternative formulation for the Sen-Shorrocks index of poverty intensity for survey data with … sampling weights, and decomposes the Sen-Shorrocks index into the poverty rate, the average poverty gap ratio among the poor …, and the overall Gini index of poverty gap ratios. This decomposition allows the percentage change in poverty intensity to …