HUNGARIAN AND SLOVENIAN AGRO-FOOD TRADE WITH THREE MAIN EUROPEAN UNION PARTNERS

• Authors: Bojnec Štefan , Fertӧ Imre
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper investigates revealed comparative advantages and competitiveness of the Hungarian and Slovenian agro-food trade in the three main European Union markets between 1993 and 2003. The Balassa index indicates that both countries have lost comparative advantage for a number of product groups over time. The results show that in Hungarian two-way agro-food trade the prevalence is on successful price competition and on successful quality competition. In Slovenian two-way agro-food trade the prevalence is on unsuccessful price competition and unsuccessful quality competition. The tests for consistency associations between the revealed comparative advantages and the competitiveness measures confirm similarities and differences in the results.

Keywords

EN

AGRO-FOOD TRADE; COMPETITION; EUROPEAN UNION MARKET; REVEALED COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE

Discipline

• ECONOMICS: ECONOMICS

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak and World Economics and Institute for Forecasting, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Ekonomický časopis (Journal of Economics)
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 55
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 345-358
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Bojnec Štefan

• University of Primorska, Faculty of Management Koper, Cankarjeva 5, I-6104 Koper p.p. 345, Slovenia

author

Fertӧ Imre

• S. Bojnec, Ekonomicky ustav SAV, Sancova 56, 811 05 Bratislava 1, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

07SKAAAA03006160