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Assessing competitiveness using industry unit labor costs : an application to Slovakia
DeBroeck, Mark; Guscina, Anastasia; Mehrez, Gil - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009615299
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Assessing Competitiveness Using Industry Unit Labor Costs : An Application to Slovakia
International Monetary Fund - 2012
Conceptual ambiguities and statistical weaknesses hamper the assessment of external competitiveness. The term competitiveness, while applied extensively, is often imprecisely defined, which can result in analytical errors and mistaken policy advice. Furthermore, aggregate statistical measures of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396613
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Export quality in developing countries
Henn, Christian; Papageorgiou, Chris; Spatafora, Nikola - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009756813
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Exchange Rate Fluctuations and U.K. Manufacturing Exports
Samiei, Hossein - 1994
The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. Almost 300 Working Papers are released each year, covering a wide range of theoretical and analytical topics, including balance of payments, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and...
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Competitiveness and External Trade Performance of the French Manufacturing Industry
Agénor, Pierre-Richard - 1995
years. The second part discusses developments in export market shares. The third part estimates a vector error correction …
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Euro area export performance and competitiveness
Bayoumi, Tamim A.; Harmsen, Richard; Turunen, Jarkko - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009424786
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Export competitiveness : fuel price nexus in developing countries : real or false concern?
Kpodar, Kangni; Fabrizio, Stefania; Eklou, Kodjovi - 2019
This paper investigates the impact of domestic fuel price increases on export growth in a sample of 77 developing … in domestic gasoline or diesel price adversely affects real non-fuel export growth, but only in the short run as the …
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Drivers of Spain's export performance and the role of labor market reforms
Salas, Jorge - 2018
Spain's export performance strengthened after the global financial crisis, and exports now represent more than a third … diversification of destination markets; enhanced export orientation of Spanish firms, partly as a response to lower domestic demand … adopted in 2010 and 2012. Based on cross-country panel regressions linking real export growth to employment protection …
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Export Performance and External Competitiveness in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Gutierrez, Eva - 2006
, structural factors are found to hamper competitiveness. While a more competitive exchange rate might improve short-term export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400272
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What Do We Know About Namibia's Competitiveness
Miyajima, Ken - 2007
This paper evaluates Namibia''s competitiveness using several traditional indicators; it concludes that, while the real effective exchange rate (REER) is in equilibrium at present?suggesting no imminent need for concern?the country may wish to improve its competitiveness by increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400324