Competitiveness of Colombian Departments observed from an Economic geography Perspective

Jorge Lotero Contreras (), Héctor Mauricio Posada Duque () and Daniel Valderrama-Gonzalez

No 5519, Borradores Departamento de Economía from Universidad de Antioquia, CIE

Abstract: Summary: In this paper, we analyze the regional competitiveness concept and its measurement using the old and New Trade Theory and the New Economic Geography. The analysis shows that the competitiveness has no sense when is applied to the goods market, while has sense (however, not in all situations) when is applied to the productive factors market. Contrary to most approaches and measurements of the competitiveness of Colombian departments, we show that is possible to obtain simple measures which, in addition to being consistent with the conceptual framework of economic geography, are the product of the combination of a small number of variables

Keywords: Regional competitiveness; New Trade Theory; Economic Geography; Colombian departments; Competitiveness Ranking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R10 R12 R19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 49
Date: 2009-04-22
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