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Euro Area Export Performance and Competitiveness

By Jarkko Turunen, Richard T. Harmsen, Tamim Bayoumi

June 1, 2011

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Jarkko Turunen, Richard T. Harmsen, and Tamim Bayoumi. Euro Area Export Performance and Competitiveness, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2011) accessed November 21, 2024
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Summary

Concerns about export growth within the euro area peripheral countries due to a lack of competitiveness within the euro area are a key policy issue. Our analysis suggests that: (i) Long-term price elasticities for intra-euro area exports are at least double those for extra-euro area exports, so traditional real effective exchange rate indexes may overstate the effectiveness of euro depreciation in restoring exports growth in the euro area periphery and; (ii) There are surprisingly wide divergences across alternative relative price measures and even when relative price data suggest a steady loss in intra- (and extra-) euro area competitiveness, the pace of deterioration depends on the measure of relative prices used.

Subject: Competition, Consumer price indexes, Exchange rates, Exports, Financial markets, Foreign exchange, International trade, Prices, Real effective exchange rates

Keywords: Area export, Area trade, Competition, Competitiveness, Consumer price indexes, CPI, CPI price series, Euro, Euro area, Exchange rate, Exchange rates, Export, Export equation, Export volume, Exports, PPI datum, Real effective exchange rates, Trade equations, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    16

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2011/140

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2011140

  • ISBN:

    9781455265459

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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