This paper deals with how to quantitatively monitor and compare regional integration processes using composite indices. In depth-studies of qualitative monitoring and the  interaction between (regional) monitoring and (regional) policy-making in different  regions in the world have been presented elsewhere.

Philippe De Lombaerde (UNU-CRIS), Ettore Dorrucci (ECB),
Gaspare Genna (University of Texas), and Francesco Paolo Mongelli (ECB)