Measuring Economic Insecurity

We provide an axiomatic treatment of the measurement of economic insecurity, assuming that individual insecurity depends on the current wealth level and its variations experienced in the past. The first component plays the role of a buffer stock to rely o

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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	Bossert, Walter ; D'Ambrosio, Conchita
Institutions:	World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU/WIDER), United Nations University
Subject:	insecurity \| wealth streams \| economic index numbers

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Series:	Working Paper Series.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Number UNU-WIDER Research Paper WP2013/008 1 pages long
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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