Measuring competitiveness in Europe- resource allocation, granularity and trade

Carlo Altomonte () and Gábor Békés

in Blueprints from Bruegel

Abstract: Executive summary One of the most important lessons learned during the 2008-09 financial crisis was that the informational toolbox on which policymakers base their decisions about competitiveness became outdated in terms of both data sources and data analysis. The toolbox is particularly outdated when it comes to tapping the potential of micro data for the analysis of competitiveness – a serious problem given that it is firms, rather than countries...

Date: Written 2016-01 Originally published 2016-01.
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (6) Track citations by RSS feed

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.bruegel.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Blueprint-XXIV.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bre:bluprt:12051

Access Statistics for this book

More books in Blueprints from Bruegel Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Bruegel ().