CHANGING PRODUCT STRUCTURE AND COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE: THE CASE OF HUNGARIAN AGRO-FOOD TRADE

• Authors: Jambor Attila , Lionel J. Hubbard
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

EU accession has changed the agro-food trade of New Member States, including Hungary. The article focuses on analysing the changing structure and comparative advantage of Hungarian agro-food trade by product group and degree of processing. It aims to provide a clearer analysis of the effects of EU accession on Hungarian primary and processed agro-food trade by employing the latest data. Results confirm that revealed comparative advantages have weakened after accession and that the vast majority of products had a revealed comparative disadvantage after 2004. It is clear that accession has radically changed the survival time of agro-food trade, reasons for which are also identified.

Keywords

EN

COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGES; AGRO-FOOD TRADE; EU; HUNGARY

• Publisher: Institute of Slovak and World Economics and Institute for Forecasting, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Ekonomický časopis (Journal of Economics)
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 61
• Issue: 8
• Pages: 846 – 860

Contributors

author

Jambor Attila

• Corvinus University of Budapest, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Fovam ter. 8, 1093 Budapest, Hungary

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Lionel J. Hubbard