Brazil's Comparative Advantages and Specialization Dynamics in Agri-food Trade

Comparative Advantages and Specialisation of the Visegrad Countries Agri-food Trade

The Visegrad Countries (V4) accession to the European Union in 2004 caused several changes in the field of agriculture. The aim of this paper is to analyse impact of the EU enlargement on V4 agri-food trade, especially considering revealed comparative advantages. Results suggest that intensity of the V4 agri-food trade has increased significantly after the enlargement. There was deterioration i...

Revealed Comparative Advantage and Competitiveness in Hungarian Agri-food Sectors

This paper investigates the competitiveness of Hungarian agriculture in relation to that of the EU employing four indices of revealed comparative advantage, for the period 1992 to 1998. Consistency tests implies that the indices are less satisfactory as cardinal measures, but are useful in identifying whether or not Hungary has a comparative advantage in a particular product group. The results ...

The Dynamics of Agri - Food Trade Patterns - The Accession Countries ’ Case

We describe the evolving pattern of Central European countries’ agri-food trade using recently developed empirical procedures based around the classic Balassa index and its symmetric transformation. The extent of trade specialisation exhibits a declining trend; Central European countries have lost comparative advantage for a number of product groups over time. The indices of specialisation have...

Conceptualization of the dynamics and synergistic partnership between the agri-food production chain and public health veterinarians

Intra-Industry Trade in Horizontally and Vertically Differentiated Agri-Food Products between Hungary and the EU

Intra-industry trade in agri-food products between Hungary and the EU is shown to be low and dominated by vertically rather than horizontally differentiated products, suggesting higher economic adjustment costs. Following recent empirical studies, we then test econometrically for the determinants of this trade using different measures of horizontal and vertical trade, and employing an array of ...