infonet-economy

Drawing on recent work concerning the statistical robustness of inequality statistics we examine the sensitivity of poverty indices to data contamination using the concept of the influence function. We show that poverty and inequality indices have fundamentally different robustness properties, and demonstrate that an important commonly used subclass of poverty measures will be robust...

In vielen Unternehmungen und Banken ist man sich bewusst, wie sich die inhaltliche Bedeutung des "Risikomanagements" gewandelt hat, und welcher Stellenwert dem modernen Risikomanagement beizumessen ist. In diesem einführenden Abschnitt sollen zunächst Währungsrisiken neben andere finanzwirtschaftliche Risiken gestellt werden (Abschnitt 1.1). Sodann wird betont, dass gewisse...

Les identités nationales sont à la fois des identités closes, nécessairement closes, et appelées à s'ouvrir à leur autre, à tout ce qui n'est pas elles. Elles sont le berceau nécessaire à l'épanouissement de l'individu comme elles peuvent être sa cage, sa prison ou sa tombe. Cette dialectique, inhérente aux identités tant psychiques que sociales et politiques, est...

The study introduces a distinction between two types of labor mobility: direct job to job changes (which are assumed to be voluntary) and job changes after experiencing an unemployment spell (assumed to be involuntary). Exploiting the close relationship between those two phenomena we adopt a bivariate regression framework for our empirical analysis of data on male individuals in the...

Environmental accidents such as extensive radioactive or chemical contamination can have more serious consequences for a population than any other kind of accidents known before. Owing to the serious consequences and the high number of people who may be affected, the selection of the best countermeasures to ameliorate the imminent impact is very difficult and the political...