Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) recently put forward by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). The MPI suffers from … several unattractive features that need to be better understood (given the prominence of the index). The MPI fails in …

Index number theory informs us that if data on matched prices and quantities are available, a superlative index number … formula is best to aggregate heterogeneous items, and a unit value index to aggregate homogeneous ones. The formulas can give … as to why such formulas differ and proposes a solution to this index number problem …

whose target value is not located at the midpoint of the specification area. In this article, a new index that is a variant … of Cpm, is introduced and shown to overcome this deficiency. In particular, the proposed index performs satisfactorily … for processes with symmetric or asymmetric specifications. Moreover, the article compares the suggested index with the …

This study sheds light on the entanglement of index weighting schemes. We show that a high degree of absolute holdings … concentration and market contagion, and monitor a pattern where index weighting schemes experience highly correlated returns after … largely consistent across alternative index weighting schemes …

hedge territory, an underrepresented segment globally. The idea of a short index does not exist while the short ETFs are in …

Final estimate given by the Index of Adaptability for Q3 2016 has confirmed the increased level of Russian industry … of growth of the Index of Adaptability …

Index, even more clearly measures vote shifting needed to produce tied, then changed outcomes, with weighting by the …'s Index of Fractionalization – are highly correlated. Methods of expanding these measures to include non-voters or no …