contribution of this research is that we explore the impact of euro introduction on Slovakia, in comparison to the Czech Republic …

We explore the evolution of automotive clusters in Slovakia from the emergence to growth stages of their life cycles … affect firm competitiveness. Our findings suggest that although the clusters have an overall positive impact on … competitiveness of participating firms, it is not the transnational cluster linkages that matter most for the emerging clusters …

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 competitiveness in terms of exchange rate misalignment can be biased …