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 … competition drives less productive firms out the market, thereby increasing average productivity as well as reducing average …

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 … competition drives less productive firms out the market, thereby increasing average productivity as well as reducing average …

database, the Export Competitiveness Database, reveals interesting patterns in trade performance. Export performance, stripped … area. An illustrative set of results suggests that the paper's measure of competitiveness correlates to a country's nominal … and real effective exchange rate, factors that are commonly perceived as important determinants of competitiveness …