high-tech and ICT manufactures industries in the total value of export versus the Global Competitiveness Index in the …This paper discusses the existing links between changing patterns in the export of goods, broken down by technology …-intensity, versus intrenational competitiveness. The study covers nine Central-East European (CEE) economies: Bulgaria, the Czech …

This paper investigates the nature and pattern of export specialization in Lithuania. The aim of this paper is to … estimate the nature and pattern of Lithuanian export specialization under existing conditions. Seeking to define the nature and … pattern of export specialization, the basic methods of export specialization measurement and the nature and pattern of export …

The present paper is focused on the impact of introducing the common European currency on export performance. There has … which still uses its own national currency. Our findings suggest that the export performance and other export …

Enhancing competitiveness is a popular target in economic policy making - not only at the national, but at the regional … economic performance of its regions. We argue that as firms compete; measuring regional competitiveness should be also based on … their ability to access and penetrate world markets. The key index is export per worker from a region to non-EU destinations …

This paper sheds light on serious methodological difficulties of employing the empiric export equation in order to …

proposed by Finger and Kreinin (1979) with product quality. Quality is measured using unit export prices in the tradition of … the horizontal/vertical intra-industry trade literature. We analyse the EU27 countries' export structures using 1) overall … measures. We find that the similarity of the export structures of the new member countries and the cohesion countries vis …

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 of a nation is associated with a set of characteristics that enable structural adjustment to global … production and exports structure towards specialization based on knowledge and innovation. Thus, in this paper, competitiveness …

importance in international product markets, gives less credence to such assessments. This study evaluates export competitiveness …Several methods are used to evaluate competitiveness, but the non-inclusion of quality measures, despite their … reflected in large standard-scaled trade values, enhances competitiveness: yet compliance capacity must be matched with a …