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This article estimates price-cost margins for the Portuguese markets in a context of imperfect competition in the labour market. The database used includes virtually the universe of Portuguese firms for the period 2005-2009. The results strongly reject the hypothesis of perfect competition in...
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prevalent when financial vulnerabilities, excess demand and competitiveness loss remain relatively contained in the boom. In the …
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What determines a country's ability to compete in international markets? What fosters the global competitiveness of its … domestic firms' competitiveness in local and global markets? We address these questions by calibrating and simulating a …, we are able to construct an index of 'revealed competitiveness', which would drive the relative performance of countries …
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competitiveness. We preliminarily use constant market share analysis and gravity estimations to show that the majority of the decline … U.S. market share is not a sufficient statistic for competitiveness. We then derive a computable measure of country …-sector specific real marginal costs (i.e. competitiveness) which, insofar it is inferred from actual trade ows, is referred to as …
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pressures, increase in competitiveness, and higher output. A rational expectation and a learning version of the ECB’s New Multi …
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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 … competitive position. Disentangling market-induced and politics-induced changes in competitiveness is not easy, but strongly …
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competitiveness and the continuous deepening of already existing trade relationships, while cutthroat competition has not materialized …
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In this paper, we analyse export competition between individual EU Member States and China in third-country goods markets. We find that competitive pressure from China is strongest for small and peripheral EU members, especially for the Southern periphery, Ireland and Central, Eastern and...
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database of comparable productivity indicators built by members of the Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet) using a newly … paper provides information on the distribution of firms across several dimensions related to competitiveness, e …
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-level competitiveness in Europe. We differ from standard TFP studies at the firm level as we simultaneously allow for inefficiency, noise … sectors from seven EU15 countries, (i) we document substantial, persistent differences in competitiveness (with Belgium and … firms, (iv) we highlight the role of post-entry growth for competitiveness. …
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