External Competitiveness of the Romanian Regions and Counties

Nona Mihaela Ckilian
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Nona Mihaela Ckilian: Romanian Academy, National Institute of Economic Forecasting

Journal for Economic Forecasting, 2009, vol. 6, issue 3, 153-166

Abstract: The paper approaches some of the issues regarding the external competitiveness of the Romania regions and counties, by the means of the competitive advantage concept and by providing answers to the questions: (i) Which are the regions and counties that contributemost to the countriy's exports? (ii), Which are the economic sectors/groups of products in which these regions/counties are (eventually) specialized? and (iii) Which are the comprtitive advantages of those regions/counties (if they exist)? The results point out to a significant presence of the analized regions and counties in three groups of manufacturing industries: low skilled, labor-intensive; natural resource-intensive and medium-to-high skilled, more sophisticated ones, and aldo to increased export concentration/specialization in/of certain regions and counties.

Keywords: regional competitiveness; comparative advantage; export specialization; territorial imbalances (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 O18 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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