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Absolute cost advantage and sectoral competitiveness: empirical evidence from NAFTA and the European Union Boundi Chraki, Fahd Perrotini Hernández, Ignacio Following the theory of absolute cost advantage, the present study aims to verify the hypothesis that, dur- ing 20 0 0-2014, the real effective exchange rates of the United States and German manufacturing sectors vis-à-vis their North American and European partners, respectively, have been governed by the relative vertically integrated unit labour costs. To this purpose, the second generation of panel cointegration techniques to control for both cross-sectional dependence and slope heterogeneity is applied in our empirical analysis. The long-run equations are estimated by the mean group, the common correlated effects mean group, and the augmented mean group. The findings suggest that the cost-competitiveness of both the US and German manufacturing sectors is positively associated with the decrease in the relative vertically integrated unit labour costs over the 20 0 0-2014 period. 2026-02-24T08:28:33Z 2026-02-24T08:28:33Z 2021-09-02 journal article Boundi-Chraki, F., & Perrotini-Hernández, I. (2021). Absolute cost advantage and sectoral competitiveness: Empirical evidence from NAFTA and the European Union. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 59, 162-173. 0954-349X 10.1016/j.strueco.2021.08.020 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/132973 1873-6017 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2021.08.020 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0954349X21001144 eng restricted access Elsevier