Country Competitiveness: an Empirical Study

Competitiveness of the Indian Auto Component Industry: An Empirical Study

Skills for Competitiveness Country Report for Canada

Anil Verma skills.oecd: building the right skills and turning them into better jobs and better lives This study conducted an investigation of how regions can move to a higher-skill, higher value-added equilibrium in Canada, drawing on Ontario as a case study example. 1 Given the complexities of measuring such a shift this investigation examined the issue from different perspectives. It examined...

Competitiveness of the Industries Based on the Porter's Diamond Model: an Empirical Study

Michael Porter offered a model that allows examining why some states are more competitive and why some industries within states are more competitive than others are. In this way, Porter‟s diamond model of national competitiveness was detected as a model with which to assess the sources of competitive advantages of an industry in a particular country and it can help realise the competitive statu...

The competitiveness versus the wealth of a country

Politicians world-wide frequently promise a better life for their citizens. We find that the probability that a country will increase its per capita GDP (gdp) rank within a decade follows an exponential distribution with decay constant λ = 0.12. We use the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) and the Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) and find that the distribution of change in CPI (GCI) rank fol...

Price jumps in Visegrad-country stock markets: An empirical analysis

Article history: Received 21 May 2010 Received in revised form 24 January 2012 Accepted 28 January 2012 Available online 10 February 2012 We employ high frequency data to study extreme price changes (i.e., price jumps) in the Prague, Warsaw, Budapest, and Frankfurt stock market indexes from June 2003 to December 2010. We use the price jump index and normalized returns to analyze the distributio...