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 …

We try to build a macroeconomic index, that includes some non-market variables, to be compared to the traditional GDP … optimisation to rigorously derive an index that can be used to evaluate small projects and their contribution to well being … "welfare" as compared to GDP. Our work falls in the third category. We start from the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare …

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 …