Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet)
Past CompNet events
21-22 April 2016: 12th CompNet conference, jointly organised with the European Central Bank and the Czech National Bank, Prague
25-25 June 2015: CompNet conference “Enhancing competitiveness and fostering sustainable growth: methodological issues and empirical results”, European Central Bank, Frankfurt
26 - 27 March 2015: CompNet Workshop, Banco de Espana, Madrid
Thursday, 26 March 2015
- Keynote speech by Luis Garicano, London School of Economics (LSE) “Can slow IT adoption explain productivity slowdown? Firm size and organizational change” Presentation
Plenary I: Foreign Direct Investment
- “Who owns Europe’s firms? Globalization and foreign investment in Europe”, S. Kalemli-Özcan, V. Korsun, B. Sorensen
- “How does multinational production and competitiveness affect the measurement of competitiveness?”, S. Federico, Presentation
Plenary II: Use of firm-level data for policy analysis
- "Growing like Spain 1995 - 2007", M. García-Santana, E. Moral-Benito, J. Pijoan, Presentation
- “Determinants of corporate investment and the financial crisis exploiting the micro CompNet data in the regression analysis framework”, MH. Felt, H. Chen & A. Ferrando, Presentation
Friday, 27 March 2015
- Keynote speech by Gilbert Cette, Banque de France “Productivity trends from 1890 to 2012 in advanced countries”, Presentation
Plenary III: Trade
- “Determinants of outward internationalisation mode choices of enterprises”, Siedschlag & G. Murphy
- “Crisis severity and international trade network”, M.Endresz & F. Skudelny, Presentation
- “Asymmetric shocks and asymmetric distributions”, F. Di Mauro & C. Vlad, Presentation
General discussion and wrap-up (Final Report Draft)
PresentationWorkstream discussions (Days 1 and 2)
Workstream 1
- “Measuring quality and selling capacity at a country-product level”, Francesco di Comite, Presentation
- “Measuring the effectivenss of price cost competitiveness”, Styliani Christodoulopoulou, Presentation
- “Current account and GDP a VAR approach”, Robert Vermeulen, Presentation
- “Empirical Link between Firm-Level Indicators and Target Variables of Competitiveness: Bayesian Model Averaging Approach”, Benjamin Bluhm, Presentation
- “Domestic demand and export performance in the euro area countries: Does export concentration matter?”, Paulo Soares Esteves, Presentation
Workstream 2
- “Matching CompNet with WDN’s data”, Maddalena Ronchi
- “Assessing the cleansing effect of the Great Recession across European countries”, Bartelsman, Lopez-Garcia and Presidente
- “Financial frictions, misallocation and gains from trade”, Berthou, Manova and Sandoz, Presentation
- “Spanish exporting firms. Stylised facts and recent trends”, González and Martín
- “The cyclical behaviour of mark-ups: composition and changes in pricing strategies”, Lacuesta, Fernández, Montero and Urtasun Presentation
- “Exchange rate movements, firm-level exports and heterogeneity”, Berthou, Demian and Dhyne, Presentation
Workstream 3
- “FDI Impact on the productivity and employment of Spanish manufacturing firms”, Patrocinio Tello (Bank of Spain) and Antonio Rodrigues (Bank of Spain), Presentation
- “FDI flows to advanced economies: to what extent do the structural factors matter?”, Selin Özyurt (ECB) and Guillaume Compeyron (ECB), Presentation
- “Has the crisis changed the DNA of Belgian economy?”, Emmanuel Dhyne (National Bank of Belgium) and Cédric Duprez (National Bank of Belgium)
15 - 16 December 2014: CompNet Workshop, European Central Bank, Frankfurt
Summary
Monday, 15 December 2014
- Keynote speech by E. Bartelsman, “Using micro-based data for research and policy analysis: lessons from 15 years of experience”, download keynote speech
Workstream discussions
Tuesday, 16 December 2014
- Keynote speech by K. Manova: “The global production line position of Chinese firms”, download keynote speech
- Plenary session: U. Cede, B. Chiriacescu, T. Lalinsky, J. Meriküll and Péter Harasztosi, “Export diversification and output volatility: Comparative firm-level evidence”, presentation , discussion
- Conclusions of Advisory Board Meeting, download conclusions
18 – 19 September 2014: CompNet workshop, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon
Thursday, 18 September 2014
- Keynote speech by Fabio Ghironi (University of Washington), "The Monetary Policy Implications of Market Reforms and Trade Integration", presentation
Session I - Monetary Policy and Firm Heterogeneity
Contributed papers:
- Firm Heterogeneity, Access to External Financing and Firm Growth, presented by Iulia Siedschlag (European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies), abstract
- Firm-level Productivity and Exporting: Diagnosing the role of Financial Constraints, presented by Hylke Vandenbussche (European Commission), paper
Session II – Global Value Chains and International Trade (part I)
Contributed papers:
- How Does Foreign Demand Activate Domestic Value Added? A Comparison Among the Major Euro-area Economies, presented by Rita Cappariello (Bancad’Italia), paper
- The Value-added Trade Weighted Unit Labor Cost Indicator (TWULC) - An Alternative For Calculating Real Exchange Rates?, Presented by Maria Silgoner (Oesterreichische Nationalbank), abstract
Session II – Global Value Chains and International Trade (part II)
Contributed papers:
- Firms and Aggregate Trade Performance (Higher moments), presented by Giorgio Barba Navaretti (University of Milan and Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano), abstract paper
- Trade In Value Added And Multinational Groups, Presented by Carlo Altomonte (Bocconi University), presentation
Friday, 19 September 2014
Session III – Monetary Policy, financial Integration and firm/banks heterogeneity
- Keynote speech by Dean Corbae (University of Wisconsin), presentation
Contributed papers:
- The Risk-taking Channel Of Monetary Policy - Exploring All Avenues, Presented by Diana Bonfim (Banco De Portugal), paper
- Competition in the Mexican Banking Industry, Presented by Bernardo Morais, paper
General discussion: CompNet Micro Database – Proposed Indicators and Ongoing Projects presentation
30 June – 01 July 2014: CompNet workshop, ECB, Frankfurt
Monday, 30 June 2014
- K. Benkovskis et al., "Presentation of the CompNet compendium", presentation
- N. Yamano, "Current developments and future expansions of the TiVA", presentation , paper
- E. Dautovic et al., "Intra-industry trade between CESEE countries and the EU15", paper
Tuesday, 1 July 2014
Invited Speaker: Susanto Basu, "TFP: Consumption and investment technical change"
Session: Financial Flows
- A. Hobza, S. Zeugner, "Current Accounts and financial flows in the euro area", presentation
- C. Fons, Rosen et al., "Foreign Ownership, Selection, and Productivity", paper
Session: The new CompNet micro-based database II
- N. Benatti et al, "The financial module I: Firms’ financing constraints, a multivariate approach", presentation
13-14 March 2014: CompNet workshop, Banca d’Italia, Rome
Thursday, 13 March 2014
- Pre-meeting: Individual Workstream sessions | bilateral meetings
- Welcome address by Eugenio Gaiotti (Director General for Economics, Statistics and Research, Banca D’italia)
- Introduction Filippo di Mauro (Chairman CompNet)
- Keynote speech by Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti
Session I: Productivity and reallocation
- Andrews, Criscuolo & Menon, "Do resources flow to innovative firms? Cross-country evidence from firm-level data"
- E. Canton, "Business churn, sectoral performance and economic policy", paper , presentation
- E. Dhyne, C. Fuss & P. Sevestre, "Export markets as Olympic games: It’s not only how high you jump but also whether you jump higher than others", presentation
- Policy discussant: Eric Bartelsman (VU University Amsterdam) presentation
- General discussion
Individual Workstream Sessions: Summary of morning meetings
- P. Lopez-Garcia, V. Demian, I. Schott and N. Benatti Directorate, "The CompNet database 2.0: Some preliminary results", presentation
Friday, 14 March 2014
- Keynote speech by Richard Baldwin presentation
Session II: GVC and FDI
- M. Timmer & de Vries, "Revealed comparative advantage at the task level – A GCV perspective", paper , presentation
- R. Cappariello & A. Felettigh, "How does foreign demand activate domestic value added? A dashboard for the Italian economy", paper
- V. Vicard, "Transfer pricing of multinational companies and aggregate trade"
- Policy Discussion: Carlo Altomonte (Bocconi University) presentation
- General discussion
Individual Workstream sessions
- Pignatti, Pensa: Export competitiveness factors in the Eurozone countries: the Italian case, paper , presentation
- Del Prete, Federico: Trade and finance: Is there more than just trade finance? Evidence from matched bank‐firm data, paper , presentation
- D’Amato, Siangacomo, Tobal: Firms Survival in Export Markets and Credit Constraints ‐ Does foreign financing matter? Evidence from micro data on Argentine firms, paper , presentation
- Verschelde, Dumont, Rayp, Merlevede: European competitiveness: A semipatric stochastic metafrontier analysis at the firm level, paper , presentation
- Dhyne: The Belgian economy in the GVC – A microeconomic perspective, presentation
- Blyde, Molina: Logistics infrastructure and the international location of fragmented production, paper
Session III: External performance determinants: a cross-dimensional approach
- C. Giordano & F. Zollino, "Measuring price competition and the impact on external performance of the largest economies in the euro area", presentation
- M. Bugamelli & G. Barba Navaretti & E. Forlani & G. Ottaviano, "Firms and aggregate trade performance", presentation
- Policy discussant: Fabiano Schivardi presentation
- General discussion
Conclusions
12-13 December 2013: CompNet Workshop, European Central Bank, Frankfurt
Thursday, 12 December 2013
- Introduction Filippo di Mauro (Chairman CompNet)
- Invited Speaker: Anita Wölfl (OECD), "The 2013 OECD Compendium of Productivity Indicators"
Session 1: Indicators for measuring competitiveness
- Christodoulopoulou, S. and Olegs, T. (2013), "Is there any preferred competitiveness indicator in explaining foreign trade in euro area countries?"
- Decramer, S., Fuss, C. and Konings, J. (2013), "How do exporters react to changes in cost competitiveness"
- Dyadkova, M. and Momchilov, G. (2013), "Constant Market Shares Analysis Beyond the Intensive Margin of External Trade"
- Benkovskis et. al. (2013), "CompNet Competitiveness Assessment Toolkit"
- Policy discussant: Melanie Ward-Warmedinger (ECB)
- Summary of Advisory Board Meeting (Eric Bartelsman & Filippo di Mauro)
- Invited Speaker: Federico Ravenna (HEC Montreal) - Heterogeneous workers and firm-worker match productivity
Session 2: Assessing External Imbalances
- di Mauro, F. and Pappadá, F. (2013), "Euro area external imbalances and the burden of adjustment"
- Galuscak, K., Hagemejer, J. and Lalinsky, T. (2013), "Understanding the export dynamics in the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia: Evidence from Firm-Level Data"
- Nagengast, A. J. and Stehrer, R. (2013), "Collateral imbalances in Intra-European trade? Accounting for the differences between gross and value added balances"
- Policy discussant: Peter Gal (OECD)
- Invited Speaker: Zsolt Darvas (Bruegel) - Compositional effects on productivity, labour cost and export adjustments
Presentations within workstreams:
WS1:
Giordano, C. and Zollino, F. (2013), "Understanding the mystery of price-competitiveness indicators: a comparison across the largest economies in the euro area"WS2:
- Bernard, A. B., Massari, R., Reyes, J.-D. and Taglioni, D. (2013), "Exporter Dynamics, Firm Size and Growth, and Partial Year Effects "
- Criscuolo, C., Gal, P. and Menon, C. (2013), "The Dynamics Of Employment Growth: New Evidence From 17 Countries"
- Croux, C. and Fuss, C. (2013), "New measures of competitiveness"
WS3:
Iossifov, P. (2013), "Cross-border production chains and business cycle co-movement across Central and Eastern European Countries and the Euro Area"Friday December 13, 2013
- Invited Speaker: Kalina Manova (Stanford University), "Host Country Financial Development and MNC Activity"
Session 3: Integration into GVCs
19-20 September 2013: CompNet meeting at the Joint Vienna Institute, hosted by Oesterreichische Nationalbank, Vienna
Thursday, 19 September
- Welcome address by Executive Director Peter Mooslechner
- Introduction by Filippo di Mauro
- Keynote speech: Michael Peneder
Session 1: Services trade in CESEE
Session 2: Impact of credit constraints
Friday, 20 September
Session 3: CompNet output from the three work streams
16-18 September 2013: CompNet training activity on Network Economics hosted by Oesterreichische Nationalbank, Vienna
- Giorgio Fagiolo – Economic Networks – Theory and applications – Introduction
- Giorgio Fagiolo – Economic Networks – Theory and applications – Metrics And Distributions
- Giorgio Fagiolo – Economic Networks – Theory and applications – Network Models
- Giorgio Fagiolo – Economic Networks – Theory and applications – Networks and Graphs
- Giorgio Fagiolo – Economic Networks – Theory and empirics
- For more information, please contact giorgio.fagiolo@sssup.it
24-25 June 2013: CompNet meeting at the ECB, Frankfurt am Main
Agenda
Monday 24 June
Session 1: Credit constraints: empirical micro studies
- Albareto, G. and Finaldi Russo, P. (2013), "Financial fragility and growth prospects: credit rationing during the crisis", presentation (slides), paper , paper
- Castagnino, T., D’Amato, L. and Sangiácomo, M. (2013), "How do firms in Argentina get financing to export?", presentation (slides) , paper
- Discussant: Carlo Altomonte, presentation (slides)
- Ferrando, A. and Mulier, K. (2013), "Firms’ financing constraints: do perceptions match the actual situation?" , paper
- Abildgren, K., Askjaer Drejer, P. and Kuchler, A. (2013), "A micro‐econometric analysis of the banks’ loan rejection rates and the creditworthiness of the banks’ corporate customers", presentation (slides) , paper
- Discussant: Andrea Dall’Olio, presentation (slides)
- Keynote speech: Tito Boeri
- Boeri, T., Garibaldi, P. and Moen, E. (2013), "Labor and Finance"
Tuesday, 25 June
- Keynote speech: Eric Bartelsman
- Bartelsman, E. (2013), "Policy Research from Macro to Micro and Back"
Session 2: Trade in services
- Federico, S. and Tosti, E. (2013), "Exporters and importers of services: firm‐level evidence on Italy", presentation (slides) , paper
- Discussant: Daria Taglioni, presentation (slides)
- Gaulier, G., Magris, F. and Mirza, D. (2013), "Missing cross‐border trade in professional services: the nature of the product matters", presentation (slides)
- Ariu, A. (2013), "Crisis‐Proof services: why trade in services did not suffer during the 2008‐2009 crisis", presentation (slides)
- Discussant: Martina Lawless, presentation (slides)
- Halpern, L. (2013), "Mapping European Competitiveness (MAPCOMPETE)"
- Bugamelli, M., Barba Navaretti, G., Castellani, D. and Forlani, E. (2013), "DO.file result: aggregate exports and firms’ productivity distribution"
- Washington conference follow‐up: Giorgio Barba Navaretti, presentation (slides)
Session 3: Global value chains
- Amador, J., Cappariello, R. and Stehrer, R. (2013), "Global value chains: a view from the Euro Area", presentation (slides)
- Fahr, S. and Vanhala, J. (2013), "Offshoring and domestic labour markets: a matching model of outsourcing"
- Discussant: Oliver Gloede, presentation (slides)
- Accetturo, A. and Giunta, A. (2013), "Global value chains and the Great Recession: evidence from Italian and German firms", presentation (slides) , paper
- Meriküll, J. and Rõõm, T. (2013), "Foreign ownership and host country employment volatility", presentation (slides)
- Discussant: Robert Stehrer, presentation (slides)
Individual WS sessions – WS2
Galuščák, K. and Růžička, L. (2013), "Margins of Trade: Evidence from Czech Firm-Level Data", presentation (slides)
16-17 April 2013: Joint CompNet-PIIE-World Bank Event, Washington, D.C.
12-13 March 2013: CompNet meeting at the Central Bank of Ireland, Dublin
Agenda
Tuesday 12 March
Session 1: Macro imbalances and competitiveness
Session 2: Micro foundations of competitiveness
Introduction and presentation of the interim report by Filippo di Mauro, Chairman of CompNet
di Mauro, F. (2013), "CompNet : First-year results", presentation (slides)Wednesday, 13 March
Opening Remarks: Stefan Gerlach, Deputy Governor of Central Bank of IrelandSession 3: Competitiveness and global value chains
Individual WS sessions – WS1
Individual WS sessions – WS2
10-11 December 2012: CompNet meeting at the ECB, Frankfurt am Main
Agenda
Monday, 10 December
di Mauro, F. (2012), "CompNet : the state of play", presentation (slides)Session 1
Session 2
Tuesday, 11 December
Keynote Speech: Salvatore Rossi
Rossi, S. (2012), "Rethinking competitiveness in a mutant world", presentation (slides)Session 3
Individual WS sessions – WS2
Individual WS sessions – WS3
20-21 September 2012: CompNet meeting at the Banque de France, Paris
Agenda
Thursday, 20 September: Research Workshop
Session 1: Microeconomic shocks and aggregate fluctuations
Session 2: Trade and FDI
Keynote speech: John Haltiwanger
Haltiwanger, J. (2012), "Firm Dynamics and Aggregate Fluctuations: (Some) Open Questions", presentation (slides)Session 3: Exporters’ dynamics
Friday, 21 September: CompNet Sessions
Session on services
- Powers, W. (2012), "USITC Staff Research on Barriers to Trade in Services", presentation (slides)
- Schmitz, M. (2012), "Experimental effective exchange rates based on trade in services", presentation (slides)
- D’Amato, L. (2012), "Comment to the paper ‘Experimental Effective Exchange Rates Based on Trade in Services’ by Martin Schmitz", presentation (slides)
- Biewen, E. and Blank, S. (2012), "Margins of Service Trade", presentation (slides)
- Tello, P. (2012), "Discussion of ‘Margins of Service Trade: the German case’", presentation (slides)
- Update on EU Surveillance Exercise: Hylke Vandenbussche (EU Commission) Speech
Individual WS sessions – WS1
Individual WS sessions – WS2
2-3 April 2012: CompNet meeting at the ECB, Frankfurt am Main
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- 18-19 June 2015: Conference on “Structural reforms in the wake of recovery: Where do we stand?”, Banco de España, Madrid more
- 23-25 October 2015 Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data (CAED) Conference , Istanbul, Call for papers
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