How Much Do Trading Partners Matter for Austria’s Competitiveness and Export Performance?
By: Heimberger, Philipp.
Material type: BookSeries: wiiw Research Reports: 435Publisher: Wien : Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche (wiiw), 2018Description: 27 S., 5 Tables and 6 Figures, 30cm.Subject(s): competitiveness | export performance | exports | trade | Austria | EuropeCountries covered: Albania | Austria | Belgium | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Bulgaria | Croatia | Cyprus | Czechia | Denmark | Estonia | Finland | France | Germany | Greece | Hungary | Ireland | Italy | Latvia | Lithuania | Luxembourg | North Macedonia | Malta | Moldova | Montenegro | Netherlands | Poland | Portugal | Romania | Russia | Serbia | Slovakia | Slovenia | Spain | Sweden | Switzerland | Turkey | Ukraine | United Kindomwiiw Research Areas: Macroeconomic Analysis and PolicyClassification: F14 | L60 | L80 Online resources: Click here to access online Summary: Based on a panel data set for 38 European countries over the period 1995-2014 and by using the definition of ’foundational competitiveness’, which we operationalise as GDP per working-age individual at PPP, this paper analyses how much trading partners matter for the national competitiveness of European countries. Results based on a growth regression framework show that higher growth of trading partners’ competitiveness has a positive impact on the growth of national competitiveness. We find evidence that there are diminishing national returns to increasingly competitive trading partners, but we cannot find strong evidence for a lock-in effect of Austria with the CESEE region. Furthermore, regression results on the determinants of the Austrian bilateral export market shares with European trading partners over 1995-2016 provide evidence that Austria’s export performance is sensitive to changes in its trading partners’ business cycle position, but not more sensitive than that for other selected eurozone countries.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Based on a panel data set for 38 European countries over the period 1995-2014 and by using the definition of ’foundational competitiveness’, which we operationalise as GDP per working-age individual at PPP, this paper analyses how much trading partners matter for the national competitiveness of European countries. Results based on a growth regression framework show that higher growth of trading partners’ competitiveness has a positive impact on the growth of national competitiveness. We find evidence that there are diminishing national returns to increasingly competitive trading partners, but we cannot find strong evidence for a lock-in effect of Austria with the CESEE region. Furthermore, regression results on the determinants of the Austrian bilateral export market shares with European trading partners over 1995-2016 provide evidence that Austria’s export performance is sensitive to changes in its trading partners’ business cycle position, but not more sensitive than that for other selected eurozone countries.