One market, one number? A composite indicator assessment of EU internal market dynamics

European Economic Review

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 749-779

  Cherchye, Laurens ^a   Knox Lovell, C A ^b   Moesen, Wim ^a   Van Puyenbroeck, Tom ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c Campus Parnas   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Composite indicators; Internal market; Weighting

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN UNION; INDEX METHOD; MARKET CONDITIONS; MARKETING; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REGIONAL TRADE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 33947274656     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2006.03.011     Document Type: Article

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