IFC as the debt bias would fall. However, when other considerations eclipse competence and give the incumbent a strong … electoral advantage or disadvantage, setting up an IFC may be counterproductive as the debt bias would increase. If the … bias if voters care sufficiently about policymakers' competence; (ii) not all political environments are conducive to the …

compared with the Fisher Ideal index to quantify elementary index bias. Across product categories, mean levels of annual … elementary index bias vary between -0.53 percentage points and 0.55 percentage points depending on the index, while the standard … average effect of elementary index bias on national inflation ranges from -0.45 to 0.45 percentage points depending on the …

This article aims at linking the household wealth and income distributions for 15 European countries using the … Household Finance and Consumption Survey. We study the role played by the household's location in the income distributions in … the position in the income distribution and by intergenerational transfers on the probability to be in a given wealth …

Many factors inhibiting and facilitating economic growth have been suggested. Will international income data tell which … averaging and classical model selection procedures are sensitive to income differences across datasets. For example, many of the … 1975-1996 growth determinants according to World Bank income data turn out to be irrelevant when using Penn World Table …