I discuss the measurement of world poverty and inequality, with particular attention to the role of purchasing power parity (PPP) price indexes from the International Comparison Project. Global inequality increased with the latest revision of the ICP, and this reduced the global poverty line...

Questionnaires exploring the relativist vs absolutist perception of wellbeing are administered to 3,883 respondents in eight different countries, four low-income countries (Bolivia, Brazil, Kenya and Laos, 1,924 respondents) and four high-income countries (Italy, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK,...

En este artículo se cuantifican las respuestas cualitativas de la "Encuesta Mensual de Expectativas Económicas (EEME)" a través de métodos de conversión tradicionales como la estadística del balance de Bachellier (1986), el método probabilístico propuesto por Carlson-Parkin (1975) y la...

One of the most frequently examined statistical relationships in energy economics has been the price elasticity of gasoline demand. We conduct a quantitative survey of the estimates of elasticity reported for various countries around the world. Our meta-analysis indicates that the literature...

This survey analyses two types of models: 1. Models based on assumptions of monetary and financial market equilibrium disturbance, in line with mainstream thinking according to which if there is a self-regulating market the units would have rational expectations, and the crisis would be a...

The paper explores a suitability of higher education quality measurement from student’s point of view, and analyses results of interviewing of students from engineering specialties in Perm universities. Nonlinear Principal Components Analysis (NLPCA) in interpretation of Gifi system was used...

A growing body of literature reports evidence of social interaction effects in survey expectations. In this note, we argue that evidence in favor of social interaction effects should be treated with caution, or could even be spurious. Utilizing a parsimonious stochastic model of expectation...

The aim of this study is to determine the level of teaching competence of the senior students at Çukurova University, Faculty of Education, German Teaching Department. The named students go to secondary or high schools to transfer their teaching abilities into practice during the eighth term of...

In their paper Frank F., Gencay R., and Stengos T., (1988) analyze the quarterly macroeconomic data from 1960 to 1988 for West Germany, Italy, Japan and England. The goal was to check for the presence of deterministic chaos. To ensure that the data analysed was stationary they used a first...

In the marketing surveys and applied sociology quantitative estimates are typically based on asymptotic characteristics of sample frequencies. To overcome the problem of heterogeneity of population «quota sampling» method that reflects the main categories of the population structure is...