This is an analysis of the sources of international competitiveness with Greek export data for the period 1987--2007. The framework used in the study incorporates factors that do not only represent cost competitiveness but also shed light on the determinants of economic complexity. Economic...

The main hypothesis tested in the paper is whether technology is a conduit of productivity growth for a country that falls behind the frontier. Although the current analysis focuses on a country growth narrative, the evidence represents a pair of countries (i.e. Greece and Germany) that...

The paper uses price and non-price measures of competitiveness to investigate the determinants of Greek manufacturing export over the period 1988-2005. The conceptual framework bases on the estimation of an export demand function augmented with supply side factors. The findings of the paper...