EU External Competitiveness: recent developments

Angela Cheptea (1) , Lionel Fontagné (2, 3) , Charlotte Emlinger (2, 3) , Gianluca Orefice (2, 3) , Olga Pindyuk (4) , Robert Stehrer (4)

1 SMART-LERECO - Structures et Marché Agricoles, Ressources et Territoires
2 Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales
3 CIREM - Centre d'Information et de Recherche sur l'Economie Mondiale
4 WIIW - Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche

In a previous report prepared on the basis of data up to 2005, Europe an Union external competitiveness was shown to be resilient to the emergence of new competitors. The explanations for this rather good performance by Europe an industry were the fact that the EU has managed to exploit its advantage in top quality (and to a lesser extent technological) products; and that it has exploited the diversity of its comparative advantage based on low cost producing locations and excellent laboratories in several domains The purpose of the present report is to revisit these issues using more recent data , to take account of new developments in the analysis of Global Value Chains (GVC), and generally to takes of the dramatic macroeconomic counter-performances in Europe since 2008. Our current conclusions differ from those in the previous report

Domaines: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]

Angela Cheptea, Lionel Fontagné, Charlotte Emlinger, Gianluca Orefice, Olga Pindyuk, et al.. EU External Competitiveness: recent developments. [0] specific contract n° SI2.630108, Commission of the European Communities. 2013, 82 p. ⟨hal-01208972⟩