Measuring international competitiveness is a highly contested issue in contemporary economics. The emergence of global value chains limits the accuracy of traditional export-based measures and calls for the employment of techniques capable of accounting for value added input of individual...

The paper aims to investigate the competitiveness of V4 economies from a new angle, related to fragmentation of global value chains (GVC). In the paper, a new methodology of analysing competitiveness of economies, developed by Timmer et al. (2012), was employed. Making use of World Input-Output...