NEW APPROACHES TO EXPORT COMPETITIVENESS

Alina Petronela Negrea
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Alina Petronela Negrea: The Bucharest University of Economic Studies

SEA - Practical Application of Science, 2015, issue 7, 415-422

Abstract: The economic literature and the political discourse typically look at international competitiveness mainly by the means of export market shares. However, globalisation, production fragmentation and the growing importance of global value chains (GVCs) increasingly challenge traditional approaches of export competitiveness and call for a more accurate and disaggregated level of analysis. Due to the growing fragmentation of production, a country exports now include a significant amount of imports of intermediate goods which are part of the export value. In this case, a simple analysis of the evolution of exports can distort the international competitive position of a country. The article suggests a new approach based on the value-added content of international trade measured by means of global value chain analysis.

Keywords: International competitiveness; Global value chains; Export performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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