Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/204173 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
wiiw Research Report No. 401
Publisher: 
The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw), Vienna
Abstract: 
This paper uses the World Input-Output Database (WIOD) to analyse changes of Europe's position in global specialisation and location patterns of exporting activity within Europe by means of a number of competitiveness indicators. We consider both manufacturing as well as tradable services. The study analyses the increasing role of services–industry linkages, the differentiation in specialisation and competitiveness patterns amongst groups of EU member countries pointing to the increasing concentration of manufacturing activity in the 'Central European Manufacturing Core' and to competitive weaknesses of some of the EU's core economies as well as of some of the lower- and medium-income economies ('Europe's periphery'). We also undertake an econometric analysis of the determinants of a range of competitiveness indicators, including explanatory variables such as labour productivity, skill composition or labour compensation per employee as highlighted by traditional trade theories as well as domestic and foreign business services linkages or vertical cross-border production integration to account for phenomena which have come to shape the global trade landscape more recently.
Subjects: 
competitiveness
European economy
Europe's periphery
global trade specialisation
international production networks
vertical trade integration
services–manufacturing linkages
JEL: 
F02
F14
F15
Document Type: 
Research Report

Files in This Item:
File
Size





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.