Measuring Competitiveness: Trade in Goods or Tasks?

Measuring Competitiveness: Trade in Goods or Tasks?
ISBN-10
1484381467
ISBN-13
9781484381465
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
22
Language
English
Published
2013-05-08
Publisher
International Monetary Fund
Authors
Mr. Jarkko Turunen, Mr. Tamim Bayoumi, Mika Saito

Description

With global supply chains, any value added or production task can be traded as part of goods. This means that competitiveness can be measured either in terms of “tasks” (Bems and Johnson, 2012), or goods, but with goods prices reflecting the cost of tasks embedded in those goods. We show that when measuring competitiveness in goods, the formula used in computing the real effective exchange rates at the IMF (Bayoumi, Lee, and Jayanthi, 2005) needs to be expressed in terms of the price of value added and needs an additional term, which captures a gain or loss in competitiveness of goods due to outsourcing.

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