As climate change intensifies, countries experience varying degrees of vulnerability and resilience that influence their capacity to withstand and recover from environmental, economic, and social shocks. This study introduces the Multidimensional Vulnerability and Lack of Resilience Index...

Forecasting stock markets is challenging due to the influence of various internal and external factors compounded by the effects of globalization. This study introduces a data-driven approach to forecast S&P 500 returns by incorporating macroeconomic indicators including gold and oil prices, the...

We propose a sentiment-based financial stress index (S-FSI) for Russia from January 2018 to June 2024. The index is based on the intensity of internet searches in Russian via Google and Yandex for terms with negative connotations about financial stability. The terms in our index form a unique...

This paper aims to reassess multidimensional poverty measurement including the ease of doing business as an additional indicator with the existing measurements for 81 countries by human development, and identify how multidimensional poverty has changed during a very short period from 2014 to...

Mit dem Berichtsmonat Januar 2024 erfolgte die Umstellung des Produktionsindex für das Produzierende Gewerbe, des Umsatzindex für den Bergbau und das Verarbeitende Gewerbe sowie der Auftragseingangs- und Auftragsbestandsindizes im Verarbeitenden Gewerbe auf das neue Basisjahr 2021. Dabei...

This study provides the results of the 2024 edition of the Eco-Innovation Index. Defined as innovation that reduces environmental impacts, increases resilience to environmental pressures or uses natural resources efficiently, eco-innovation is critical for achieving EU targets linked to the...

The 2024 Commitment to Reducing Inequality (CRI) Index is a multidimensional index which ranks 164 countries for their policy performance across three pillars covering public services, progressive taxation and labour rights.

The main aim of INFORM Risk is to provide information on the risk of countries to humanitarian crises caused by hazards and people's exposure to them including all main type of natural and human hazards, vulnerability and resources available to help people cope. The Competence Centre on...

Housing rents are one of the most important and difficult elements of spatial cost of living comparisons. Difficulties arise from the lack of sufficiently detailed and harmonized data, especially at the international level. The emergence of Airbnb has created a valuable new source of...

The Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) co-exists with the national Consumer Price Index (CPI) as a key measure of inflation in Germany. Both indices are based on the same granular price data and uniform compilation methods at the lower levels of aggregation. However, differences arise at...

The SDG Gender Index of Equal Measures 2030 is a multidimensional index that aligns to the normative framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and covers 56 gender issues in 14 of the 17 global goals in 139 countries across five regions of the world. The developers invited the...

The HICP Methodological Manual represents a comprehensive overview of methods that are used in the compilation process for the harmonised index of consumer prices (HICP). The manual intends to be a practical guide to all steps necessary to produce an HICP and is thus useful for statisticians who...

The European Skills Index (ESI) is a multidimensional index that ranks the skills systems of 31 countries (the EU27 countries, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom) based on their performance on the three dimensions of skills development, skills activation and skills matching....

The Global Malmquist Productivity Index (GMPI) stands as an evolution of the Malmquist Productivity Index (MPI), emphasizing global technology to incorporate all-time versions of Decision-Making Units (DMUs). This paper introduces a novel approach, integrating the Nash Bargaining Game model with...

The number of journals, and consequently the number of papers, has grown significantly, which makes it necessary to use suitable tools in systematic literature reviews. Several methodologies have been proposed for this purpose, and one of these methods is the index calculation used to rank the...

Background In today's rapidly changing business landscape, innovation is recognized as a critical driver of growth and competitiveness for organizations. As businesses strive to remain agile and respond to evolving customer demands, the need for effective tools to assess innovation performance...

This paper introduces a new Financial Stress Indicator (FSI) named Composite Indicator Based on Ratios (CIBOR). This paper discusses the importance of monitoring the quality of loans and capital, operational performance, profitability, and liquidity of financial institutions to prevent systemic...

In this paper, the autoregressive distributive lag (ARDL) model is used to examine the impact of global crude oil price on manufacturing output in India and the behaviour of consumer price index. Error correction model, co-integration and multivariate GARCH model models are used for the...