COMPETITIVENESS OF COUNTRIES IN GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT

This paper aims to determine how globalisation affects the competitiveness of the economy and to verify the assumption that competitiveness increases with the degree of an economy's globalisation. The first part of the paper briefly formulates competitiveness both at the enterprise and at the macroeconomic (national) level. Special attention is paid to the measurement of competitiveness at the macro level using the Global Competitiveness Report and the World Competitiveness Yearbook. Both approaches are validated using the example of the V4 countries. The second part of the paper describes the measurement of globalization using the KOF Index of Globalization. Then, globalization trends are presented on the example of the V4 countries. The assumption that the higher degree of globalisation an economy achieves, the more competitive it becomes has been confirmed only partially.