SELECTED READINGS Focus on: Composite indicators December 2010 Selected Readings –December 2010 1 INDEX INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................. 7 1 WORKING PAPERS AND ARTICLES ................................................................ 8 1.1 Castillo C. and Lorenzana T., 2010, “Evaluation of Business Scenarios By Means Of Composite Indicators”, International Association for Fuzzy-set Management and Economy (SIGEF), Fuzzy economic review, Volume XV, Issue 1, Pages: 3-20. ................................................8 1.2 Jürgen Bierbaumer-Polly, 2010, “Composite Leading Indicator for the Austrian Economy. Methodology and "Real-time" Performance”, WIFO Working Papers No. 369..............................8 1.3 Heike Belitz, Marius Clemens, Astrid Cullmann, Christian von Hirschhausen, Jens Schmidt-Ehmcke, Doreen Triebe and Petra Zloczysti, 2010, “Innovation Indicator 2009: Germany Has Still Some Catching Up to Do”, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research, journal Weekly Report, 2010,Issue 3,Pages: 13-19. ...........................................................9 1.4 Grupp Hariolf and Schubert Torben, 2010, “Review and new evidence on composite innovation indicators for evaluating national performance”, Elsevier Research Policy, Volume 39, Issue 1, Pages: 67-78.......................................................................................................................10 1.5 Laura Trinchera and Giorgio Russolillo, 2010, “On the use of Structural Equation Models and PLS Path Modeling to build composite indicators”, Macerata University, Department of Studies on Economic Development (DiSSE) Working Papers No. 30-2010.....................................11 1.6 Mohamed Daly Sfia, 2010, “A Composite Leading Indicator of Tunisian Inflation”, William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan, William Davidson Institute Working Papers Series No. wp980..............................................................................................................................................11 1.7 Gómez-Limón José A. and Sanchez-Fernandez Gabriela, 2010, “Empirical evaluation of agricultural sustainability using composite indicators”, Elsevier, Ecological Economics, Volume 69, Issue 5, Pages: 1062-1075. ..............................................................................................................12 1.8 Hiroshi Yamada, Syuichi Nagata and Yuzo Honda, 2010, “A comparison of two alternative composite leading indicators for detecting Japanese business cycle turning points”, Taylor and Francis Journals, Applied Economics Letters, Volume 17, Issue 9, Pages: 875-879. .....................13 1.9 Michael Graff, 2010, “Does a multi-sectoral design improve indicator-based forecasts of the GDP growth rate? Evidence from Switzerland”, Taylor and Francis Journals, Applied Economics, Volume 42, Issue 21, Pages: 2759-2781...........................................................................13 1.10 Ferdinand Fichtner, Rasmus Rüffer and Bernd Schnatz, 2009, “Leading indicators in a globalised world”, European Central Bank, Working Paper Series No. 1125................................14 1.11 Salvati Luca and Zitti Marco, 2009, “Substitutability and weighting of ecological and economic indicators: Exploring the importance of various components of a synthetic index”, Elsevier in its journal Ecological Economics, Volume 68, Issue 4, Pages: 1093-1099.....................14 1.12 James E. Foster, Mark McGillivray and Suman Seth, 2009, “Rank Robustness of Composite Indices”, Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, OPHI Working Papers No. ophiwp26. ..............................................................................................................................................15 1.13 Giuseppe Munda and Michela Nardo, 2009, “Noncompensatory/nonlinear composite indicators for ranking countries: a defensible setting”, Taylor and Francis, journal Applied Economics, Volume 41, Issue 12, Pages: 1513-1523...........................................................................16 Selected Readings –December 2010 2 1.14 L. Clavel and C. Minodier, 2009, “A Monthly Indicator of the French Business Climate”, Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques, , Documents de Travail de la DESE - Working Papers of the DESE No. g2009-02. ........................................................................17 1.15 Laurens Cherchye, Willem Moesen, Nicky Rogge and Tom Van Puyenbroeck, 2009, “Constructing a knowledge economy composite indicator with imprecise data”, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Center for Economic Studies, Discussion papers No. ces09.15. ....................17 1.16 Luciana Crosilla, Solange Leproux, Marco Malgarini and Francesca Spinelli, 2009, “Factor based Composite Indicators for the Italian Economy”, ISAE Working Papers No. 116. ..............18 1.17 Harry P. Bowen and Wim Moesen, 2009, “Composite Competitiveness Indicators With Endogenous Versus Predetermined Weights: An Application to the World Economic Forum”, McColl School of Business, Queens University of Charlotte Discussion Paper Series No. 2009-02. 19 1.18 Daniele Archibugi, Francesco Crespi, Mario Denni and Andrea Filippetti, 2009, “The Technological Capabilities of Nations: A Survey of Composite Indicators”, Associazione Rossi Doria, QA, Volume 2009, Issue 2 (May). ............................................................................................20 1.19 Ard H.J. den Reijer, 2009, “The Dutch business cycle - A finite sample approximation of selected leading indicators”, OECD, CERIT, Journal of Business Cycle Measurement and Analysis JBCMA, Volume 5, Issue 2, Pages: 89-110. ........................................................................20 1.20 Osama A. B. Hassan, 2008, “Assessing The Sustainability Of A Region In The Light Of Composite Indicators”, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management, Volume 10, Issue 01, Pages: 51-65. ......................................21 1.21 Jonas Dovern and Christina Ziegler, 2008, “Predicting Growth Rates and Recessions. Assessing U.S. Leading Indicators under Real-Time Condition”, Kiel Working Paper No. 1397.22 1.22 Miroslav Klúcik and Ján Haluška, 2008, “Construction of composite leading indicator for the Slovak economy”, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Analele Stiintifice ale Universitatii "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" din Iasi, Volume 55, November, Pages: 363-370...................................................................................................................22 1.23 Gomez-Limon Jose A. and Riesgo Laura, 2008, “Alternative Approaches On Constructing A Composite Indicator To Measure Agricultural Sustainability”, European Association of Agricultural Economists, 107th Seminar, January 30-February 1, 2008, Sevilla, Spain No. 6489. 23 1.24 Albu Lucian Liviu, 2008, “A Model to Estimate the Composite Index of Economic Activity in Romania – IEF-RO”, Institute for Economic Forecasting in its journal Romanian Journal for Economic Forecasting, Volume 5, Issue 2, Pages: 44-50. ..................................................................23 1.25 Ronny Nilsson and Emmanuelle Guidetti, 2007, “Current Period Performance of OECD Composite Leading Indicators (CLIs): Revision analysis of CLIs for OECD Member countries”, OECD Statistics Working Papers No. 2007/1. ...................................................................................24 1.26 Panizza Andrea, 2007, “Composite and decomposable indicators for evaluating RIA systems in practice: proposals for discussion and testing”, University Library of Munich, Germany, MPRA Paper No. 13069.....................................................................................................25 1.27 Hiroshi Yamada, Yuzo Honda and Yasuyoshi Tokutsu, 2007, “Report - An Evaluation of Japanese Leading Indicators”, OECD, CERIT, Journal of Business Cycle Measurement and Analysis, Volume 3, Issue 2, Pages: 217-234.......................................................................................26 1.28 Andrew Sharpe and Anne-Marie Shaker, 2007, “Indicators of Labour Market Conditions in Canada”, Centre for the Study of Living Standards, CSLS Research Reports No. 2007-03.....26 Selected Readings –December 2010 3 1.29 Frédéric Gonand, Isabelle Joumard and Robert Price, 2007, “Public Spending Efficiency: Institutional Indicators in Primary and Secondary Education”, OECD, OECD Economics Department Working Papers No. 543.................................................................................................27 1.30 A. Saltelli, G. Munda and M. Nardo, 2006, “From Complexity to Multidimensionality. The Role of Composite Indicators for Advocacy of EU Reform”, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Review of Business and Economics, Volume LI, Issue 3, Pages: 221-235........................................28 1.31 Mehdi Mostaghimi, 2006, “Predicting Us 2001 Recession, Composite Leading Economic Indicators, Structural Change And Monetary Policy”, World Scientific Publishing, The Singapore Economic Review, Volume 51, Issue 03, Pages: 343-363.................................................28 1.32 Ronny Nilsson and Olivier Brunet, 2006, “Composite Leading Indicators for Major OECD Non-Member Economies: Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russian Federation, South Africa”, OECD Statistics Working Papers No. 2006/1. ...................................................................................29