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Creating Composite Indicators with DEA and Robustness Analysis: the case of the Technology Achievement Index
Cherchye, Laurens; Moesen, Wim; Rogge, Nicky; … - Centrum voor Economische Studiën, Faculteit Economie … - 2006
Technology Achievement Index as an illustration.factor is more important in explaining the observed progress. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005770846
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One Market, One Number? A Composite Indicator Assessment of EU Internal Market Dynamics
Cherchye, Laurens; Lovell, Knox; Moesen, Wim; … - Centrum voor Economische Studiën, Faculteit Economie … - 2005
aggregation of the raw data. The two are related: index theory offers some valuable guidelines about their connection. Yet these … do not fully solve the basic problem of expert disagreement. We embed such (residual) disagreement in the aggregation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005770850
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Composite Competitiveness Indicators With Endogenous Versus Predetermined Weights : An Application to the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Index
Bowen, Harry P.; Moesen, Wim - McColl School of Business, Queens University of Charlotte - 2009
, the credibility of any particular index is weakened. To address this issue, this paper proposes a procedure that allows … Competitiveness Index developed by the World Economic Forum. Our resulting Revealed Competitiveness Index uses weights that allow that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068623
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Tourism Destination Competitiveness: Measurement Issues
Daria, Mendola; Volo, Serena - Facoltà di Economia / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche … - 2015
Composite indicators are a useful tool to synthetize and monitor multidimensional phenomena and in the last decade they are pervading several domains of tourism studies. This study includes a systematic review of destination competitiveness definitions, concepts and measures and the evaluation...
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An automatic-democratic approach to weight setting for the new human development index
Tofallis, Chris - In: Journal of Population Economics 26 (2013) 4, pp. 1325-1345
Perhaps the most difficult aspect of constructing a multi-dimensional index is that of choosing weights for the … components. This problem is often bypassed by adopting the ‘agnostic’ option of equal weights, as in the human development index …
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Reconsideration of Weighting and Updating Procedures in the US CPI
Greenlees, John S.; Williams, Elliot - Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor - 2009
understanding output and productivity growth of the U.S. economy but are unobserved at this level of aggregation and must be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008603125
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Institutionalized Social Technologies Index: A Global Perspective
Siddiqui, Danish Ahmed; Ahmed, Qazi Masood - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper presents an index of institutionalized social technologies covering its two main dimensions namely Risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008476377
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Does Institutions effect growth in Pakistan? An Empirical investigation
Siddiqui, Danish Ahmed; Ahmed, Qazi Masood - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper presents an index of institutionalized social technologies for Pakistan, covering its two main dimensions …, political and economic aspects. It is also analyzed empirically whether the overall index as well as sub-indexes constructed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008567670
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“Measuring Sustainability”: A Multi-Criterion Framework
Munda, Giuseppe - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 7 (2005) 1, pp. 117-134
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Application of the “Benefit-Of-the-Doubt” Approach for the Construction of a Digital Access Indicator: A Revaluation of the “Digital Access Index”
Gaaloul, Hassen; Khalfallah, Soulef - In: Social Indicators Research 118 (2014) 1, pp. 45-56
Index given that Information technology is the most important factor driving improvement in a wide array of areas critical …
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