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Are social exclusion and poverty measures interrelated? : a study with Spanish data

Sánchez, Cristina; Cortiñas, Pedro; Calvo, José Luís - 2012

the same time, poor and deprived. In order to improve deprivation index we substitute EUROSTAT methodology by Fuzzy method … poverty multidimensional index we should take into account that social exclusion variables and indexes have to be analyzed …

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Regional measures of human capital in the European Union

Dreger, Christian; Erber, Georg; Glocker, Daniela - 2009

The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the macroeconomic performance across regions. However, despite the strong theoretical support for this claim, empirical evidence has been not very convincing, probably because of the low quality of the data. This paper...

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Can we really trust offshoring indices?

Castellani, Davide; De Benedictis, Luca; Horgos, Daniel - 2011

This paper argues that indices of (business) service and material offshoring built on sectoral input-output data may actually measure something different than what we think they should. Applying shift-share analysis we decompose the variation over time of a commonly used class of such indices...

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Voting power derives from the poll distribution: Shedding light on contentious issues of weighted votes and the constitutional treaty

Paterson, Iain - 2006

Analysis of the Constitutional Treaty of the European Union shows that there is a serious discrepancy between the voting power gradient of Member States computed by the Shapley-Shubik and Banzhaf indices. Given the lack of compelling arguments to choose between these indices on purely axiomatic...

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Indicadores de competitividad: Proyecto Andino de Competitividad

Aparicio, Marcela - 2001

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A rental-equivalence index for owner-occupied housing in West Germany 1985 to 1998

Kurz, Claudia; Hoffmann, Johannes - 2004

In this paper, we review the German practice of imputing the costs of owner-occupied housing by increasing the relative weight of actual rents in the CPI. As the structure of owner-occupied housing differs substantially from that of rental housing, this variant of the imputation method may cause...

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Rent indices for housing in West Germany 1985 to 1998

Hoffmann, Johannes; Kurz, Claudia - 2002

is some evidence of an understatement of rent inflation in the official rent index for West Germany at the beginning of …

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Time Variation in the Tail Behaviour of Bund Futures Returns

Upper, Christian; Werner, Thomas - 2002

constant over time? (iii) If it is not, can we use the tail index as an indicator for financial market risk and does it add … significant heaviness of the tails of the Bund future returns. The tail index is on average around 3, implying the nonexistence of … Zeitablauf konstant? (iii) Kann ein Tail-Index Informationen Äuber den Grad von Marktunsicherheit liefern, die klassische …

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GPD-linked Bonds as a Financing Tool for Developing Countries and Emerging Markets

Schröder, Michael; Heinemann, Friedrich; Kruse, Susanne; … - 2004

The paper examines the applicability of GDP-linked bonds for the financing of developing countries and emerging markets. GDP-linked bonds are bonds of which the coupon and/or redemption payments are tied to the GDP of the issuing country. The study encompasses a detailed empirical analysis of...

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Price indices for information and communication technology industries: an application to the German PC market

Moch, Dietmar - 2001

index. The estimation confirms the importance of quality adjustment since the decline of average prices at 7 percent p.a. is … substantially lower, thus overestimating computer prices and inflation. When the hedonic index for German computer prices is … Software läßt vermuten, daß auch bei anderen Gütern, die einen raschen technologischen Fortschritt aufweisen, der Index der …

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