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theory and focuses on the tangency portfolio, the portfolio that weights index constituents so as to obtain the highest …-weighted counterparts, offer an efficient risk/return trade-off. The index construction method goes back to the roots of modern portfolio …
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Financial indices, like the S&P 500 or the Consumer Price Index, have become a ubiquitous feature of our financial … markets. One index, the London InterBank Offered Rate (“Libor”), may be the world's most important number, an interest rate … dollars potentially misappropriated. This index disruption has attracted tremendous interest from regulators, private …
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The paper deals with some new indices for ordinal data that arise from sample surveys. Their aim is to measure the degree of concentration to the quot;positivequot; or quot;negativequot; answers in a given question. The properties of these indices are examined. Moreover, methods for constructing...
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The empirical measurement of productivity change (or difference) by means of indices and indicators starts with the ex post profit/loss accounts of a production unit. Key concepts are profit, leading to indicators, and profitability, leading to indices. The main task for the productivity analyst...
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Energy poverty, long considered a problem limited to developing countries only, is now widely acknowledged as a challenge for advanced OECD countries as well. How energy poverty is perceived depends on the conceptualization and assessment of the underlying phenomena: inappropriately high costs...
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In the paper, we present some modifications of the Hoede-Bakker index defined in a social network in which players may … probability distributions over all inclination vectors, we construct modifications of the Hoede-Bakker index that coincide with … the Shapley-Shubik index and with the Holler-Packel index, respectively …
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High dimensional composite index makes experts' preferences in setting weights a hard task. In the literature, one of … motivates theoretical reasons to derive the weights of the elementary indicators in a composite index when multiple components …
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