The experiment was a 2 (Competitive exercise context: Competition vs. No competition) × 2 (Individual competitiveness: High vs. Low) between-subjects design.
He takes power in a country that is crippled with public debt, high unemployment, stuttering growth, decimated industry, low competitiveness, high public spending and the impending doom of the eurozone sovereign debt crisis.
The concern has moved from just bust budgets and broken banks, to a lack of jobs and slow growth.Lost competitiveness, high unemployment and stagnation were always the biggest long-term risks for Europe's single currency.
It is only through working with business of all sizes that it will be able to deliver jobs and growth, investment in people and technology to improve productivity and competitiveness, higher living standards and more exports.
Before coming to Washington in 1993, she was an academic economist with an expertise in trade policy, international competitiveness and high technology.
He provided prominent support for American competitiveness in high technology, including HDTV, and won a role for the department in approving the export of technology with military applications, a function that had been the exclusive province of the State Department.
Mr. Slim, left, who controls Teléfonos de México and América Móvil, the country's dominant fixed-line and mobile phone companies, made the comments one day after Guillermo Ortiz, president of Mexico's central bank, said the two companies hurt the country's competitiveness through high rates.
Because we are import dependent, we also see resources more and more as an important part of cost structure, and the circular economy would help deliver an answer to how we would keep our competitiveness globally high and industrial companies in Europe".
Portugal's slow-growing economy, drastic loss of competitiveness and high public and private indebtedness are all weaknesses that markets might put to greater test.If Portugal comes under intense pressure, contagion might then spread to Ireland, Italy or Spain, the other euro-area countries with some mixture of big budget deficits, poor growth prospects and high debts.
But if the markets decided to put this to the test, chronic low growth, a drastic loss of competitiveness and high public and private indebtedness are all weaknesses which could swiftly undermine the protection that being different is meant to bring.
This is easily interpreted as being a consequence of increased homophily and the reciprocation of appreciation of agents when competitiveness is high and diversity is low.
