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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 exchang...

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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