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Methodological development
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01 / 12 / 2025
Transit times and competitiveness
QBIS has developed a specialised methodology to analyse how transit time variability affects exporters' competitiveness. By modelling actual transit time distributions across trade lanes, QBIS estimates the inventory costs, safety stock requirements and potential late-delivery penalties faced by exporters, and quantifies how improvements in transit time reliability translate into measurable competitiveness gains.
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01 / 09 / 2025
Europe's wind energy workforce
QBIS has developed a methodology to quantify the labour input associated with the wind energy sector at high granularity. By modelling annual hours per detailed unit of installed capacity across hundreds of job profiles and the full project lifecycle, QBIS estimates current employment, projects future workforce demand, and identifies the critical skills gaps that threaten sectoral build-out targets.
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01 / 02 / 2025
Detecting undervaluation of imports
QBIS has developed a methodology to detect import undervaluation at industry level across countries and over time. By modelling the distributional patterns of CIF/FOB unit value ratios, QBIS constructs a Trade Fraud Risk Index, ranks countries and industries by their relative fraud risk, and quantifies the associated trade gaps and potential customs revenue loss..