This paper addresses an important methodological issue concerning the construction of a composite indicator, and in particular composite indicators of national competitiveness; these indicators often serve as a benchmark for policymakers and others to judge the relative success of their country....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine how the ranking of countries based on the World Economic Forum's (WEF') competitiveness index is changed when the underlying primitive data dimensions of this composite index are aggregated using weights that are endogenously determined for...