Is competitiveness in the European union converging?

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.11118/actaun201664061835" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.11118/actaun201664061835</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.11118/actaun201664061835" target="_blank" >10.11118/actaun201664061835</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Is competitiveness in the European union converging?

Original language description

The convergence process has for many decades captured the attention of economists and its importance has especially increased with deepening economic integration. A wide range of indicators is used in the professional literature to establish real and nominal convergence in the European Union, but national competitiveness is usually not among them, despite the fact that national competitiveness has in recent years been an important indicator of economic performance at the national level. Furthermore, converging competitiveness is a necessary precondition for further common development of the European Union. The aim of this contribution is to demonstrate whether the competitiveness of the EU countries is converging or not. Competitiveness is defined as the ability of a country to deliver beyond-GDP goals to its inhabitants and the indicator of outcome competitiveness is used for its evaluation. We apply methods of beta and sigma convergence and the results of both methods show that while the differences in competitiveness among the EU member states decreased in the period 2003-2012, it did so very slowly.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AH - Economics

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis

ISSN

1211-8516

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

64

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

1835-1842

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85008603830