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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788520903321

Autore

Neary J. Peter

Titolo

Measuring Competitiveness / / J. Peter Neary

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

1-4623-5787-3

1-4527-3803-3

1-282-39202-6

9786613820457

1-4519-0922-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (21 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Soggetti

Competition - Econometric models

Index numbers (Economics)

Finance: General

Foreign Exchange

Labor

Macroeconomics

General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data)

Price Level

Inflation

Deflation

Employment

Unemployment

Wages

Intergenerational Income Distribution

Aggregate Human Capital

Aggregate Labor Productivity

Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Macroeconomic Data

Data Access

Finance

Currency

Foreign exchange

Labour

income economics

Competition

Real effective exchange rates

Consumer price indexes



Cost of living

Price indexes

Economic theory

Cost and standard of living

Ireland Economic conditions

Ireland

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"September 2006."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. MEASURING THE COST OF LIVING""; ""III. TRUE REAL EFFECTIVE EXCHANGE RATES""; ""IV. AN APPLICATION: THE IRISH ECONOMY'S EXPOSURE TO STERLING""; ""V. CONCLUSION""; ""Appendix""; ""References""

Sommario/riassunto

This paper reviews alternative approaches to measuring an economy's cost competitiveness and proposes some new measures inspired by the economic theory of index numbers. The indices provide a theoretical benchmark for estimated real effective exchange rates, but differ from standard measures in that they are based on marginal rather than average sectoral shares in GDP or employment. The use of the new indices is illustrated by some simple calculations that highlight the potential exposure of the Irish economy to fluctuations in the euro-sterling exchange rate.