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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316662
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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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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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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 …
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020681
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What Drives Export Market Shares? It Depends! An Empirical Analysis Using Bayesian Model Averaging
Osbat, Chiara - 2017
What drives external performance of countries? This is a recurring question in academia and policy. The factors underlying export growth are receiving great attention, as countries struggle to grow out of the crisis by increasing exports and as protectionist discourses take foot again. Despite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950748
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Explaining and Forecasting Euro Area Exports : Which Competitiveness Indicator Performs Best?
Ca’ Zorzi, Michele; Schnatz, Bernd - 2022
From a conceptual point of view there is little consensus of what should be the 'ideal indicator' of international cost and price competitiveness as each of the standard measures typically employed has its own merits and drawbacks. This calls for addressing the question from an empirical angle,...
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