The economics behind the world economic forum's global competitiveness index / Xavier Sala-i-Martin -- Competitiveness, economic performance, and structural policies : an OECD perspective / Jean-Philippe Cotis, Alain de Serres, and Romain Duval -- Concepts and measurements of competitiveness : towards an integrated approach / Eckhard Siggel -- Explaining and forecasting Euro area exports : which competitiveness indicator performs best? / Michele Ca' Zorzi and Bernd Schnatz -- An assessment of the trends in international price competitiveness among EMU countries / Christoph Fischer -- Benchmarking the competitiveness of nations : benevolence versus equal treatment / Harry P. Bowen and Wim Moesen -- Business taxes and international competitiveness : understanding how taxes can distort capital ownership and designing a nondistortive international tax system / Michael S. Knoll -- Competitiveness : a comparison of China and Mexico / Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann, Sebastian Vollmer, and Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso.