We establish nonparametric identification in a class of so-called index models using a novel approach that relies on …

We develop a programming algorithm that predicts a balanced-panel mix-adjusted house price index for arbitrary spatial …

important gap by developing a new Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index that focuses on the smallest of small businesses with … at most 9 workers in the US and the UK and at most 19 workers in Canada. The Index aggregates a sample of anonymous … the estimated model and the QBO Payroll sample data to generate a near real-time index of economic activity. We show that …

This paper describes a new, industry-adjusted index of state environmental compliance costs from 1977 to 1994. The … index has two principal advantages: it controls for states' industrial compositions, and it can be calculated for 17 years … and 1994. Third, this cost index is negatively correlated with subjective indices of state environmental efforts compiled …

In this paper an index of financial competitiveness is calculated that corresponds to the market-to-book ratio of … inflation rates and registered patents have a positive impact on the index. Institutional factors like EMU membership or Anglo …

elderly? What is the nature of a fiscal incidence index on a budgetary basis versus a theoretically more satisfactory index …