Measuring Country Competitiveness: A Survey of Exporting-based Indexes

Cyrielle Gaglio

No 2015-42, GREDEG Working Papers from Groupe de REcherche en Droit, Economie, Gestion (GREDEG CNRS), Université Côte d'Azur, France

Abstract: In the context of increasing globalization and world trade flows, this survey reviews the most recent literature related to country competitiveness. Although Krugman (1994) maintains that competitiveness at country level is a "dangerous obsession", this concept is becoming more prominent in public debate. However, it lacks a clear definition and confusion between the country and firm levels. This survey focuses on competitiveness from an export perspective because "what you export matters" (Hausmann et al., 2007), and tries to fill the gap between the former understanding and the new theoretical insights/stylized facts. More precisely, this literature review investigates four complementary indexes related to a country's productive and export structure: (i) productive diversification, (ii) export sophistication, (iii) product space, and (iv) economic complexity. It proposes nine building blocks for competitiveness at country level.

Keywords: Country competitiveness; Diversification; Sophistication; Product space; Complexity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F10 F63 O10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2015-10
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