Abstract
It has become fashionable in recent times to describe the state of the Western European economies with the word “eurosclerosis”. Is the international competitiveness of these economies really as ailing as this world implies? The following article attempts to answer this question using various methods of measuring international competitiveness.
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Cf. OECD Economic Outlook, No. 42, December 1987, p. 194.
For the data base, cf. UN: Monthly Bulletin of Statistics, Vol. 41, No. 9, September 1987, p. 271.
Arthur Neefs: International trends in productivity and unit labor costs in manufacturing, in: Monthly Labor Review, December 1986, pp. 12–17.
For details on CMSA cf. Hans-Hagen Härtel, Christian Langer: Internationale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und strukturelle Anpassungserfordernisse, Hamburg 1984.
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Koopmann, G., Langer, C. Trends in the international competitiveness of industrial countries. Intereconomics 23, 8–14 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02929961
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