Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to provide a measure of competitiveness of the Spanish autonomous communities from a multidimensional and dynamic perspective for the period 2008-2016.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper adopts a broad definition of competitiveness based on five key environments (productive capital, human capital, social and institutional capital, infrastructure and knowledge) and comprising 53 indicators. The method used to construct the competitiveness index is based on the P-distance proposed by Pena Trapero (1979), which objectively assigns weights to the indicators. There is an important advantage in the methodological proposal of this study, as it allows analyzing the behavior of partial and aggregated indicators from a dynamic perspective, taking the same value as a reference for the entire period. Therefore, not only a classification obtained for each year but also the variation that occurs in terms of the reference period can be analyzed.
Findings
The classification of the autonomous communities is established using common intervals based on the results obtained for the whole period, i.e. 2008-2016. The data point to the unequal situations of the autonomous communities. The results also reveal that the evolution of the regional competitiveness synthetic index is clearly cyclical and the drop recorded in the recessive period is less pronounced than the increase recorded in the growth phase.
Originality/value
The main innovation of the competitiveness index presented here lies in its allowing comparisons over time.
El objetivo de este artículo es el cálculo de los índices de valor unitario del comercio exterior de la Región de Murcia en el periodo 2000-2005 a partir de la metodología y fuentes de información utilizadas en la elaboración de los índices nacionales. Los resultados se presentan desagregados en dos áreas geográficas, estados miembros de la UE y países no-UE, y en función del destino económico. A partir de los resultados obtenidos se realiza una primera aplicación al cálculo de las contribuciones al crecimiento regional de las exportaciones.
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