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Article on the use of system analysis methodology for modeling socio-economic processes. The author justifies the methodological approach, based on dynamic analysis of exogenous processes in economic and social management practices. Particular attention is paid to the use of index indicators...
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in income when controlling for population effects. I find positive effects of GDP on light in both USA and Brazil, though … light is less responsive to changes in GDP in Brazil than in the USA. Consistent with the literature, I discover … shown for the combined USA and Brazil samples, as well as the dis-aggregated samples. Finally, I use a between …
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in income when controlling for population effects. I find positive effects of GDP on light in both USA and Brazil, though … light is less responsive to changes in GDP in Brazil than in the USA. Consistent with the literature, I discover … shown for the combined USA and Brazil samples, as well as the dis-aggregated samples. Finally, I use a between …
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, productivity, international competitiveness, real wages, per-capita consumption and poverty, other than inflation. Hedonic methods …
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(transitive, or "drift free") international comparisons of price indices (parities), into the intertemporal framework. It shows …
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The New Stochastic Approach (NSA) – unjustly – pretends to promote a better understanding of price index (PI) formulas by viewing them as regression coefficients. As prices in the NSA are assumed to be collected in a random sample (what is particularly at odds with official price...
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Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz has criticized chain indices and Irving Fisher's time and factor reversal tests. However, his arguments (published in German articles) though well ahead of his time and still relevant today are widely fallen in oblivion. He was not the only German statistician who...
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The theory of (increasingly more generalized types of) statistical means can be used to create a plethora of index formulas. Some of them are new and some were indeed discussed in the past but fallen into oblivion, because their rationale was not well understood. Surprisingly many possess...
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In this paper we compute performance indices like those from Mereuta et all. (2007) using the eigenvalues and the eigenvectors of the variance-covariance matrix of these indices. The eigenvalues are used in this paper to give natural weights to the performance indices in order to compute the...
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The author shows that different approaches to income comparisons both on country and regional levels may lead to conflicting conclusions concerning the catching-up. It is argued that current PPPs (Instead of constant PPPs) give more reliable picture of per capita GDP convergence process on...
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