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Relationships between Services and Competitiveness: The Case of Spanish Trade

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  • L. Rubalcaba
  • D. Gago

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This article establishes a conceptual framework of the relationships between competitiveness and services, necessarily different from the one existing between competitiveness and manufacturing industry. As a case study, empirical analysis of trade market shares in relation to effective real exchange rate is carried out. This enables us to show how the Kaldor paradox does not have the same importance in services and in manufacturing industry and that it also varies from one branch to another within the service sector. The link between the competitive positions of Spanish services - such as tourism - and cost factors, which partly explain their competitive capacity, does not always correspond to what could be expected.

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  • L. Rubalcaba & D. Gago, 2001. "Relationships between Services and Competitiveness: The Case of Spanish Trade," The Service Industries Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 21(1), pages 35-62, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:servic:v:21:y:2001:i:1:p:35-62
    DOI: 10.1080/714005000
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    1. Hwan-Joo Seo & Young Soo Lee & HanSung Kim, 2010. "The determinants of export market performance in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development service industries," The Service Industries Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 32(8), pages 1343-1354, December.
    2. Andrés Maroto Sanchez & Luis Rubalcaba Bermejo, 2006. "Competitiveness and the Kaldor Paradox: The case of Spanish Service Sector," Working Papers 06/06, Instituto Universitario de Análisis Económico y Social.
    3. Visintin Stefano & Maroto Andres & Di Meglio Gisela & Rubalcaba Luis, 2010. "The Role of Cost Related Factors in the Competitiveness of European Services," Global Economy Journal, De Gruyter, vol. 10(3), pages 1-25, October.
    4. Vítor Domingues Martinho & Maria Del Carmen Sánchez‐Carreira & Paulo Reis Mourão, 2021. "Transnational economic clusters: The case of the Iberian Peninsula," Regional Science Policy & Practice, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 13(5), pages 1442-1459, October.

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