, maintaining and enhancing competitiveness has evolved into one of the prime concerns in most countries. Following up on previous … and prospects for the competitiveness and trade performance of the euro area and the euro area countries. Starting from an … analysis of most commonly used, traditional competitiveness indicators, the paper largely confirms the findings of previous …

international competitiveness, which would further affect the potential for longer-term real GDP growth. …

This paper examines the role of government wages in ensuring macroeconomic stability and competitiveness in the euro … wage growth and competitiveness losses. These findings underpin the need for prudent public wage policies supported by … competitiveness in Economic and Monetary Union. …

competitiveness. It finds that the euro area was hit particularly hard by the contraction in global demand. Moreover, the collapse in … competitiveness, resulting in further losses in competitiveness compared to our main trading partners, in line with pre-crisis trends …. This view is also confi rmed by evidence from broad-based competitiveness measures, which show that euro area countries …

constructing the real effective exchange rate indices. In addition, it presents evidence on exchange rate and competitiveness … area competitiveness. Overall, euro area competitiveness has improved slightly since the introduction of the single …

and Monetary Union (EMU) and the role of persistent losses in competitiveness. This paper starts by investigating some of … the competitiveness factors which contributed to external imbalances in euro area countries. The evidence suggests … significant heterogeneity across countries in both price/cost and non-price competitiveness in the euro area and that there is no …

Trade in services is a rapidly growing phenomenon. Consequently, the question of individual countries? competitiveness … in trade in services is of increasing importance. In this paper we describe patterns of competitiveness in services …'s competitiveness lies in traditional, yet globally declining sectors such as transport and travel and is weak in industries such as …