DETERMINANTS OF COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE FOR EUROPE’S REGIONS: DIGITAL ECONOMY AT THE START OF THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

• Authors: Zdražil Pavel , Kraftová Ivana
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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The goal of this paper is first to evaluate the development of the digital economy of Europe and its macro-regions over the past decade, then to map how strongly selected factors have influenced these changes. The research based on the revealed comparative advantage (RCA) approach between 2009 and 2018 was primarily conducted at the level of Europe’s main macro-regions. Analysis of three most significant global economic leaders shows that China is overtaking Europe’s position in the digital economy. Europe’s regional aspects are an important negative cause of this development, with these regions exhibiting four different models of how RCA changes. After breaking down RCA development, shift-share analysis revealed that global influences, working as exogenous factors for increasing competitiveness, contribute the most to digital economy competitiveness. In second place, the economies’ competitiveness is influenced endogenously by their institutional framework, which shapes the factor concerning regional characteristics that affect all sectors.

Keywords

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FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION; DIGITAL ECONOMY; EUROPEAN MACRO-REGIONS

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak and World Economics and Institute for Forecasting, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Ekonomický časopis (Journal of Economics)
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 70
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 450 – 471

Contributors

author

Zdražil Pavel

• Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Pardubice, Studentská 95, 532 10 Pardubice, Czech Republic

author

Kraftová Ivana

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/ekoncas.2022.05.04