We develop a programming algorithm that predicts a balanced-panel mix-adjusted house price index for arbitrary spatial units from repeated cross-sections of geocoded micro data. The algorithm combines parametric and non-parametric estimation techniques to provide a tight local fit where the...

Der Länderindex erstellt vom ZEW in Mannheim untersucht die Standortbedingungen für Familienunternehmen in 21 Industriestaaten. Dies geschieht seit 2006 mittlerweile zum neunten Mal. Seitdem ist Deutschland um sechs Rangplätze abgerutscht. Bei den Indikatoren Steuern, Regulierung und...

Der Digitalisierungsdruck im Handwerk steigt mit zunehmender Verbreitung technologischer Innovationen in Produkten und Prozessen. Gleichzeitig besteht eine Diskrepanz zwischen empfundener Relevanz von Digitalisierungsmaßnahmen und deren tatsächlicher Umsetzung, was sich in ein hohes...

Green technology innovation and effective use of green financing tools are very important in order to ensure sustainable economic and environmental development without environmental degradation, and to decarbonize all sectors, Evaluating the green investment process together with the inputs,...

Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar firms start their business life small and then grow over time. Small firms have less internal resources, which makes them more fragile and sensitive to macroeconomic conditions....

Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar firms start their business life small and then grow over time. Small firms have less internal resources, which makes them more fragile and sensitive to macroeconomic conditions....

Good health conditions and high quality education are crucial for children development and for their future contribution to the society. Human capital has been recognized as one of the crucial engines of economic growth. Nonetheless, it is often hard to establish a metric that allows to monitor...

Der erstmals vorgelegte Bundesländerindex der Stiftung Familienunternehmen untersucht die Standortqualitäten der deutschen Bundesländer. Das ZEW Mannheim hat unter Leitung von Professor Friedrich Heinemann eine Vielzahl von Einzelindikatoren betrachtet und gewichtet. Damit können die...

This paper aims to construct a bi-directional, financial liberalization index for Pakistan by considering various financial policy indicators (reforms). This study, by employing the principal component analysis method over a period of 1980-2018 (39 years), aims to determine the composite outcome...

This study aimed to predict the JKII (Jakarta Islamic Index) price as a price index of sharia stocks and predict the loss risk. This study uses geometric Brownian motion (GBM) and Value at Risk (VaR; with the Monte Carlo Simulation approach) on the daily closing price of JKII from 1 August...

This note explains the equivalence between approximate rationalizability and approximate cost-rationalizability within the context of consumer demand. In connection with these results, we interpret Afriat’s (1973) critical cost efficiency index (CCEI) as a measure of cost (in)efficiency, in...

Due to outdated weighting information, a Laspeyres-based Consumer Price Index (CPI) is prone to accumulating upward bias. Therefore, the present study introduces and examines simple and transparent revision approaches that retrospectively address the source of the bias. They provide a consistent...

Purpose: The purposes of this research are to study the theory and method of multi-attribute index system design and establish a set of systematic, standardized, scientific index systems for the design optimization and inspection process. The research may form the basis for a rational,...

The development of Information and Communications Technology and digital economies has contributed to changes in the consumption of goods and services in various areas of life, affecting the growing expectations of users in relation to price statistics. Therefore, it is important to provide...

We use the non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and the parametric Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) to workout efficiency and productivity of the ICT sector across 50 countries for the time period 2016 and 2020. By considering OECD -DSTRI index as bad output, the study intends to...

This paper introduces in statistics the notion of the barycenter of the distribution of a non-negative random variable Y with a positive finite mean μY and the quantile function Q(x). The barycenter is denoted by μX and defined as the expected value of the random variable X having the...

The purpose of this study is to find the influence of various macroeconomic factors on the volatility index, as macroeconomic factors affect stock market volatility, resulting in an impact on the VIX Index, representing the risk in the stock market. To estimate the significance and importance of...

Despite their significant growth, Islamic banks only consider about avoiding riba, gharar, and maysir at the expense of maqasid al-Shariah. The banks are somewhat converged with their conventional peers. Consumers believed that the banks imitate their peers pertinent to the pricing calculations...

The availability of copious amounts of data produced by the increasing datification of our society is nowadays deemed an opportunity to produce timely and convenient statistical information. This paper shows the building of economic sentiment indexes from the texts of the most read economic...

This study aims to analyze the factors that determine rural tourism competitiveness in Indonesia, measure the tourism competitiveness in each rural tourism, and discover the gap between rural tourism in four provinces. This study adopts the Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report (TTCR) Model...

The study examines the spillover between Twitter Uncertainty Indexes (TUI) and 10 US sectors. Our methodology is twofold: a time-varying parameter vector autoregression (TVP-VAR) to explore the dynamic connectedness among sectoral returns and a regression, mainly ordinary least squares (OLS) and...