Theoretical preliminaries : cross-cultural genre analysis -- Methodology : cross-cultural genre analysis -- Investigating genre context -- Approaching genre complexity -- Exploring genre nature : cross-cultural universality -- Exploring culture specificity : a trilingual perspective -- Focusing...

Theoretical preliminaries : cross-cultural genre analysis -- Methodology : cross-cultural genre analysis -- Investigating genre context -- Approaching genre complexity -- Exploring genre nature : cross-cultural universality -- Exploring culture specificity : a trilingual perspective -- Focusing...

The most popular general univariate polarization indices for discrete (Esteban and Ray 1994), and continuous (Duclos, Esteban and Ray 2004) variables are combined and extended to describe the extent of polarization between agents in a distribution defined over a collection of many discrete and...

This paper proposes a framework to construct indexes of activity which links two strands of the index literature – the traditional business cycle analysis and the latent variable approach. To illustrate the method, we apply the framework to Australian regional data, namely to two resource-rich...