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Fragmentation, Incomes and Jobs : An Analysis of European Competitiveness

Timmer, Marcel P. - 2013

Increasing fragmentation of production across borders is changing the nature of international competition. As a result, conventional indicators of competitiveness based on gross exports become less informative and new measures are needed. In this paper we propose an ex-post accounting framework...

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Assessing European Firms' Exports and Productivity Distributions : The CompNet Trade Module

Berthou, Antoine - 2015

and export performance among European economies. We use the information compiled in the Trade module of CompNet to …-exporters. However, this productivity premium is rising with the export experience of firms, with permanent exporters being much more …

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What Drives Export Market Shares? It Depends! An Empirical Analysis Using Bayesian Model Averaging

Osbat, Chiara - 2017

underlying export growth are receiving great attention, as countries struggle to grow out of the crisis by increasing exports and … investigate the drivers of export market shares of 25 EU countries, considering a wide range of traditional indicators along with … novel ones developed within the CompNet Competitiveness Research Network. We find that export market share growth is linked …

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Measuring Institutional Competitiveness in Europe

Huemer, Stefan - 2013

While there are many methods to measure the competitiveness of an economy, most of these concepts ignore the fact that competitiveness can change because of market processes like wage negotiation but also because of political decision-making. Governments that compete with others for factors of...

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European Competitiveness - A Semiparametric Stochastic Metafrontier Analysis at the Firm Level

Verschelde, Marijn - 2014

In this paper a semiparametric stochastic metafrontier approach is used to obtain insight into firm-level competitiveness in Europe. We differ from standard TFP studies at the firm level as we simultaneously allow for inefficiency, noise and do not impose a functional form on the input-output...

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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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Trade in Value Added : Do We Need New Measures of Competitiveness?

Lommatzsch, Kirsten - 2016

explanatory power of export equations. Value added exports' sensitivity towards real exchange rates is up to four times higher …

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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

What determines a country's ability to compete in international markets? What fosters the global competitiveness of its firms? And in the European context, have key elements of the EU strategy such as EMU and enlargement helped or hindered domestic firms' competitiveness in local and global...

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Explaining and Forecasting Euro Area Exports : Which Competitiveness Indicator Performs Best?

Ca’ Zorzi, Michele; Schnatz, Bernd - 2022

export developments. This paper constitutes a first attempt to systematically compare the properties of the alternative cost …

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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 operating cost to physical measures of European banking "output", finding large economies. This differs from relating total cost to the value of balance sheet assets (the...

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