Conceptual ambiguities and statistical weaknesses hamper the assessment of external competitiveness. The term … competitiveness, while applied extensively, is often imprecisely defined, which can result in analytical errors and mistaken policy … advice. Furthermore, aggregate statistical measures of competitiveness in terms of exchange rate misalignment can be biased …

This paper analyzes competitiveness in the Baltics in the run-up to European Union accession. Several factors appear to …

It is widely perceived that competition in the Indian banking sector has increased since the inception of the financial … competitive conditions and earns revenues as if under monopolistic competition …

other countries, such as France, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The paper finds competition in …The paper assesses the degree of banking competition and efficiency in Italy?over time as well as compared to that in …. The degree of competition falls within the range of estimates for a set of comparator countries. Greater contestability …

competition in the banking sector. In spite of significant gains in efficiency made in recent years, operational costs and …

This Selected Issues paper on Sri Lanka underlies the dynamics of growth and external competitiveness. The slowdown in …

-setting mechanism. It also examines the trends and developments in the external competitiveness of Cyprus …