Enhancing non-compensatory composite indicators: A directional proposal

Elisa Fusco

European Journal of Operational Research, 2015, vol. 242, issue 2, 620-630

Abstract: The construction of composite indicators (CI) is useful to synthesize complex social and economic phenomena, but some underlying assumptions in “classical methods”, as in particular the compensability among indicators, are very strictly. The aim of this paper is to propose an original approach that enhance non-compensatory issue by introducing “directional” penalties in a Benefit of the Doubt model in order to consider the preference structure among simple indicators. Principal component analysis on simple indicators hyperplane allows to estimate both the direction and the intensity of the average rates of substitution. Under an empirical point of view, our method has been tested on both simulated data and on infrastructural endowment data in European regions.

Keywords: Composite indicators; Non-compensatory; Directional efficiency, (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2014.10.017

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