This paper studies the importance of price and cost competitiveness for intra- and extra-euro area trade flows of euro … area countries. A standard error correction framework shows that price competitiveness is a relatively more important … to be more sensitive to relative prices than imports. We consider various measures of competitiveness and conclude that …

export growth, export market shares, extensive and intensive margins and the dynamics in the number of joint trade links … competitiveness and the continuous deepening of already existing trade relationships, while cutthroat competition has not materialized …. While this suggests that the CESEE countries pursue a suitable export strategy, diversification of production toward …

In this paper, we analyse export competition between individual EU Member States and China in third-country goods … extensive margin export growth and on a Dynamic Trade Link Analysis. The latter, a newly developed tool, identifies different …

output volatility. In this vein, our paper investigates whether exporting and export diversification at the firm level have …, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia over the last boom-bust cycle in 2004-2012. The results confirm that exporting is related to … large negative shocks in export markets. In contrast to the literature and empirical findings for large or advanced …

” competitiveness of Chinese products. Without a quantifiable benchmark, however, such claims are difficult to judge. This paper …