STRUCTURE AND CONVERGENCE OF AGRO-FOOD TRADE OF CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION DURING PRE-ACCESSION

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

Abstracts

EN

The authors analyse agro-food trade structures of Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) with the European Union (EU-15) market to identify the specialisation patterns during the pre-accession using different trade indices. The analyses assess whether these patterns in the CEECs agro-food trade structures indicate convergence of the agro-food trade specialisation. They find that CEECs agro-food export has converged towards greater structural similarity with the EU-15 market, but less in high and very high quality differentiated agro-food products. This implies some of the CEECs pre-accession integration difficulties with higher valued agro-food products on the EU-15 market during adjustments and structural changes of CEECs' agro-food export patterns towards more competitive EU-15 market.

Keywords

EN

AGRO-FOOD TRADE; CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE; EU MARKET; EUROPEAN UNION; TRADE STRUCTURE

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: 2010
• Volume: 58
• Issue: 7
• Pages: 677-689
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Bojnec Štefan

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

author

Fertӧ Imre

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

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11SKAAAA100929