A comprehensive analysis of price and cost competitiveness warrants an assessment of a range of alternately deflated nominal effective exchange rates. Here, we focus solely on the price-competitiveness indicator currently published by the Bank of Italy (Felettigh et al., 2015), which is based on...

Exploiting several highly granular datasets, we compute Italy's goods export market shares at a 5-digit sector of economic activity level over 2010–19 to identify the "market-share gainer" and "loser" sectors in world markets over the past decade, and "stable" sectors, identified residually....

This paper provides new Bank of Italy indicators of price competitiveness for 62 countries. We refreshed the approach adopted by the Bank in the 1990s but later discontinued in 2005 due to the cumbersome statistical requirements in order to accommodate the significant extension of the original...