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Trade in Value Added : Do We Need New Measures of Competitiveness?
Lommatzsch, Kirsten - 2016
It has been argued that the increasing importance of global value chains necessitates a modification of conventional competitiveness measures. We compile a broad dataset including value added trade, gross exports and conventional and value added based real exchange rates. To sharply focus on...
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Payment Scale Economies, Competition, and Pricing
Humphrey, David B. - 2010
Payment scale economies affect banking costs, competition in payment services, and pricing. Our scale measure relates … are primarily due to mix, not scale. Also, since standard indicators of competition can give inconsistent results, a …. Existing differences in bank prices (EC report) are associated with small differences in competition …
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Deeper, Wider and More Competitive? Monetary Integration, Eastern Enlargement and Competitiveness in the European Union
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P; Taglioni, Daria; di Mauro, Filippo - 2021
competition drives less productive firms out the market, thereby increasing average productivity as well as reducing average …
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The Euro Plus Pact : Cost Competitiveness and External Capital Flows in the EU Countries
Gabrisch, Hubert - 2014
The Euro Plus Pact was approved by 23 EU countries in March 2011 and came into force shortly afterwards. The Pact stipulates a range of quantitative targets meant to strengthen cost competitiveness with the aim of preventing the accumulation of external financial imbalances. This paper uses...
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Bank Bailouts and Competition - Did TARP Distort Competition Among Sound Banks?
Koetter, Michael; Noth, Felix - 2015
This study investigates if the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) distorted price competition in U.S. banking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020652
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Environmental Regulation and Productivity Growth in the Euro Area : Testing the Porter Hypothesis
Benatti, Nicola; Groiss, Martin; Kelly, Petra; … - 2023
This paper analyses the impact of changes in environmental regulations on productivity growth at country- and firm-level. We exploit several data sources and the environmen-tal policy stringency index, to evaluate the Porter hypothesis, according to which firms’ productivity can benefit from...
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How do Exporters React to Changes in Cost Competitiveness?
Decramer, Stefaan - 2014
Policy-making institutions such as the European Commission, the ECB and the OECD often use unit labor costs as a measure of international competitiveness. The goal of this paper is to examine how well this measure is related to international export performance at the firm level. To this end, we...
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Assessing European Competitiveness : The New CompNet Microbased Database
Lopez-Garcia, Paloma - 2015
Drawing from confidential firm-level balance sheets for 17 European countries (13 Euro-Area), the paper documents the newly expanded database of cross-country comparable competitiveness-related indicators built by the Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet). The new database provides...
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Exploring Price and Non-Price Determinants of Trade Flows in the Largest Euro-Area Countries
Giordano, Claire - 2015
Since the mid-2000s price-competitiveness indicators for some euro-area countries have been providing conflicting signals. Against a stability of the producer price (PPI)-based measure, the manufacturing unit labour cost (ULCM)-deflated indicator points to a major competitiveness loss in Italy;...
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Assessing European Firms' Exports and Productivity Distributions : The CompNet Trade Module
Berthou, Antoine - 2015
This paper provides a new cross-country evaluation of competitiveness, focusing on the linkages between productivity and export performance among European economies. We use the information compiled in the Trade module of CompNet to establish new stylized facts regarding the joint distributions...
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