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Rental market regulation over the last 100 years in an international comparison

Cholodilin, Konstantin Arkadʹevič; Weber, Jan Philip; … - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 45, pp. 453-464

-country comparison. Such a comparison shows that Germany-compared to the rest of Europe-has relatively intense rent control which has …

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Comparing hospital and health prices and volumes internationally : results of a EUROSTAT/OECD project

Koechlin, Francette; Konijn, Paul; Lorenzoni, Luca; … - 2014

. The main novel feature is the collection of comparable and output-based prices for hospital services that can then be … of hospital services, instead of prices of inputs such as wages of medical personnel. The new methodology moves away from … the traditional input perspective, thereby relaxing the assumption that hospital productivity is the same across countries... …

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A Comparative Study of Trends in Globalization Using Different Synthetic Indicators

Mishra, Sudhanshu K. - 2014

Using the KOF data at the annual level, we construct ten different composite indices for comparing the extent of globalization of 131 countries for eleven years, 1999-2009. We compare the different indices of globalization among themselves and also with the Dreher-KOF index of globalization and...

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The Measurement of Structural Differences between Economies : An Axiomatic Characterization

Sun, Guang-Zhen; Ng, Yew-Kwang - 2001

How do you measure the structural similarity (difference) between economies? We follow an axiomatic approach in the paper answering this question. Our characterization of the measurement of structural difference between economies leads to some difference (similarity) index which is practically...

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The Measurement of Structural Differences between Economies : An Axiomatic Characterization

Sun, Guang-Zhen; Ng, Yew-Kwang - 2001

In empirical studies concerning comparison of economic structures and/or structural changes of economies, it is quite …

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Determinants of Energy Productivity : A Comparison of 39 Countries

Atalla, Tarek; Bean, Patrick - 2015

This paper uses three types of analysis to investigate the drivers of energy productivity changes occurring in 39 countries during 1995-2009. We find that increases in sectoral energy productivity were the primary driver behind economy-wide energy productivity improvements between 1995 and 2009....

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Inter-Country Comparisons of Poverty Based on a Capability Approach

Reddy, Sanjay G.; Visaria, Sujata; Asali, Muhammad - 2014

We argue that inter-country comparisons of income poverty based on poverty lines uniformly reflecting the costs of the basic requirements of human beings are superior to the existing money-metric approaches. In this exercise, we implement a uniform approach to poverty assessment based on basic...

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Axiomatic and Economic Approaches to International Comparisons

Diewert, W. Erwin - 1998

The paper considers the problem of choosing a multilateral system of index numbers in order to make aggregate price and quantity comparisons between many countries and regions. The problems involved in choosing functional forms in order to make these comparisons are both theoretically and...

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Africa on the Maps of Global Values : Comparative Analyses, Based on Recent World Values Survey Data

Tausch, Arno - 2018

This paper attempts to close a gap in the recent literature on African economic development: the place of Africa on the maps of global economic, political and social values. We develop new comparable indices of global value development from the latest set of World Values Survey data and...

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Aggregation Methods in International Comparisons

Balk, Bert M. - 2006

multilateral in- ternational comparison methods. Fifteen methods are discussed and subjected to a system of ten tests. In addition …

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