, Hungary, Poland, Russia and Turkey from May 1998 to December 2007. To account for the importance of market expectations we use …

, based on a panel of four biggest Central European countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) confirm …

Since the mid-2000s price-competitiveness indicators for some euro-area countries have been providing conflicting …)-deflated indicator points to a major competitiveness loss in Italy; we argue that the discrepancy mostly reflects a divergence of ULCM …-based indicators appear to be more appropriate than those based on ULCMs to assess external competitiveness. In Italy ULC …

, conventional indicators of competitiveness based on gross exports become less informative and new measures are needed. In this … better inform the policy debates on competitiveness …

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 …-exporters. However, this productivity premium is rising with the export experience of firms, with permanent exporters being much more …

novel ones developed within the CompNet Competitiveness Research Network. We find that export market share growth is linked … competitiveness does not seem to play a very important role in either set of countries: relative export prices do show correlation … underlying export growth are receiving great attention, as countries struggle to grow out of the crisis by increasing exports and …

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 external competitiveness, a new price competitiveness indicator is introduced, the … explanatory power of export equations. Value added exports' sensitivity towards real exchange rates is up to four times higher …

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 …