The Concept of Competitiveness

John Hawkins

No 2006-02, Treasury Working Papers from The Treasury, Australian Government

Abstract: A number of concepts of 'competitiveness' are applied to national economies, not always clearly or helpfully. This paper suggests a possible taxonomy of these concepts, and applies them to Australian data. Australia performs well on the internal competitiveness of its markets. It also does well in measures of competitiveness based on other fundamental drivers of economic growth. Other indices of competitiveness, comparing prices and costs in Australia with those overseas, suffer from conceptual and measurement problems and are therefore of limited value.

Keywords: Competitiveness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F17 O11 O56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2006-04, Revised 2006-04
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